I made a similar comment on the Buffet story on the front page, but Atwood's argument is good fodder to extend my argument. Atwood says: If it's core to your b

I made a similar comment on the Buffet story on the front page, but Atwood's argument is good fodder to extend my argument. Atwood says: If it's core to your business, don't go shopping, do the hard work and make it yourself. Buffet says: America's seen worse and prospered in response. Go buy some America today. It's debatable if Atwood's example is core to his business (I think it might be since it's the freakin' user interface for making comments), and the comments provide some helpful follow-up to Buffet's argument. Here's my synthesis of the two: As a patriotic, peace-loving American I want to do the hard work and bring my passion and vision to a business that will make our economy more efficient and save folks money. I'll do that in the area of my expertise, technology. Everywhere else, where I have the money I'll invest in the companies that can and will rebuild America. That's the investment criteria, personal and financial, that I believe Atwood and Buffet are driving at. Of course, it doesn't just apply to Americans, it's probably just more obvious to those folks living outside of our parochial bubble ;)