Doug Sutherland wrote: > Since the work is done by grants, that is also a way to > keep prices jacked up. As long as they're doing it for money, barter, or any other kind of payment, we'll lose. If businesses had any compassion, they could run off a few special assistive products just for the hell of it, not to make money, but just to be compassionate. It's the people who absolutely have to make a business out of it, profitable or non-profit, that are screwing us. To *stay* in business, they have to inflate the price. We could all convert to communism, but hello, the government is already confiscating the money to pay for our needs anyway. What's the difference? I don't like it, but there's no other choice. Life blows chunks. <laughs> Michael