You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion.
But I was feeling quite down at the time. I was living in L.A., which was kind of weird for me.