And today, thanksto Plan Colombia and thanksto the U.S. and many others, and thanksto you, President Obama, for your permanent support that you have always given us, today we have a very strong democracy that is producing specific results for our people and has been recognized by the world as a whole.
This will almost certainly be the case should Silicon Valley Group be sold to the Netherland's ASML. The latter has made no secret of its desire to eliminate what is today an increasingly formidable competitor -- thankstomany tens of millions of U.S. tax dollars invested in enhancing SVG's ability to bring to market state-of-the art, high-end lithography machines used to mass-produce sophisticated microcircuitry.
At present, Los Angeles is to varying degrees losing residents (and repelling many more) thanksto taxes and regulations (though this reviewer would say U.S. dollar policy is the biggest, yet largely unsung, factor) that tell future Ahmansons that achievement will be penalized by the political class in Sacramento.