My only caution with IKEA is that for plumbing items the sizing of connections can be strange because the company is European.

@Daniel Beaulieu haha hey man, if you want to try and convince her otherwise go ahead and be my guest...I don't know how much experience you have dealing with European girls, but maybe you'll be more successful than I've been for the past year lol thank you for the kind words though!

Now if you're thinking about all the Mom and Pop outfits out there trying to eek out a piece of the pie for themselves with antiquated, expensive and very limiting technologies then I couldn't agree more.In the early onset, as with most major growth industries, you will see a growth curve of small start ups cottage industry businesses surfacing and perhaps even sustaining themselves or even evolving into one of the major players. 

Being a real estate lawyer or trial lawer you will make up that money in no time; the banking industry is a yo yo industry, most major banks have had drastic reductions in force and they will continue.

There are those that wish to destroy Western Civilization through the miscegenation of the European Peoples (Kalergi Plan).

There is a great possibility when the European markets recover from the medicine they are taking now, those will be the actractive markets.

What I'm after is challenging your presuppositions that wealth comes from exploitation and radically changing them to the view that wealth comes from freedom of individual pursuit and that as freedom in the US increased as we threw out immoral outdated European/African/Asian concepts like slavery - so did it's wealth.

Blame Bush.As to the thousands of innocent Jews slaughtered...I mean the thousands of innocent Europeans slaugheter...I mean the thousands of southern Vietnamese slaughtered....I mean the thousands of Phillipinos slaughtered...I mean the thousands of innocent Kurds slaughtered.....I mean the thousands of innocent Kuwaitee's slaughtered...you raise an interesting point of what US military action overseas has done for anyone.

Krugman also never mentioned that this “excess spending†help contribute to the collapse of the Cold War and at that time, the debt ratio as a percentage of GDP was still below most western European countries.

And it was from the Nigerians, Ghanaians and the Benins that Europeans were able to buy the African slaves from African slave traders for transport throughout the world.