Well people, I made my emails to all my states big-wigs, and made very strong wording, I will also make calls tomorrow morning. Tell me, will it do any good, are these people even listening to the public? Most of the time it seems they are not listening and are just wrapped up in what "they" think is right, or just do not have enough backbone to say "this is not good for our country. I'm telling you, I sometimes feel like no matter how many times I contact these people, they are just perverbially giving me a "pat" on the head, "oh, isn't that a cute little taxpayer, now little taxpayer, go back to work and make me some money to spend!!". Does it feel this way for most of us? Hey I'm, a pretty optimistic person, but lately it feels that this country is going to "hell in a handbasket" (to quote my late grandmother!). I want things like they used to be here in Oregon "Welcome to Oregon, enjoy your visit and then go home" that's pretty much how one of our governors put it about Californians and developers and such coming in, he wanted Oregon to be Oregon, not to be taken over (I think it was McCall?????) and changed. Well how sad, it has become exactly what he did not want to see. However, its not really our own U.S. citizens moving from other states he should have been worried about, it should have been the illegals. My friend lives in SW Portland, right around the corner from a mosque (you know the one that some people "worshipped" in that were linked to Al'Qaida) and she stated a fact. People focus on the Mexican illegals, but how many of these (Islamics foreigners) have expired visas? Thats scary already considering that mosques history in this city. Hope someone can give me encouraging words that say "yes, you're voice does count".