Our financial chrisis is based on declining home prices and a lack of transparency all over the place.. Braintech has a declining stock price and no transparency either. I have never invested in a company that was unwilling to discuss ANYTHING. I do like the potential of vgr but I fear the worst when our chairman refuses to stand up and be a leader. Rick acts like a putz and I hope he treats his employees a lot better than he does us. If shareholders were important to Rick we would know it by his actions. So I guess we will have to be very lucky. I hope some of you will wake up and smell the coffee...ABB is going to want to keep us around because they have us by the gonads.