Do you feel that if Al Gore was president, the drug plant would not have moved overseas?

Really, I don't know.

What I can tell you, as someone who has personal connections with people of means, and people of no means, over the last two years the people I have noticed who have benefitted from the economic fallout from our current administration's policies have been the ones who don't need it.

The whole situation reminds me of a Betty Walker comic telephone monologue (I remember these from the radio): "The only way that you can get a loan from this rotten bank, it is so rotten here, is if you can prove to this bank, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that you don't need it."

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Just as a picky side point of style and expression, and no criticism meant of you: the word "feel" has been creeping into American English usage as a substitute for "believe" a little too much lately, IMHO.

I believe that the way we use language to express our thoughts fundamentally reflects the way our thinking is organized, and also affects the way our thinking becomes organized, a feedback loop that we can't escape. I further believe that the differing linguistic structures humans have developed both reflect and reinforce the cultures in which they develop and evolve.

Feelings affect our perceptions in an inchoate way, but are not thought processes. We use "feeling" words like "dyspeptic" and "pollyanna" to modify -- to define the symptoms -- to specify the feelings surrounding -- people's thoughts, but feeling is not thinking.

Belief is a form of thought that involves educated guesses. Granted, the "education" can range anywhere from preschool to post-graduate level, but it involves more structure than feeling does. As every good teacher knows, everyone's feelings are equally valid, simply because they exist. It's what one does with them, the way one processes them, and whether one even bothers to subject them to analysis at all, that makes them good or bad, right or wrong. That analysis is thought, and it's fundamentally different from feeling.

We would be fools if we base our opinions on our feelings, but we would be heartless if we refuse to let our feelings influence our thoughts.

So, back to your question: I don't know that I believe Gore as President would have made any difference to the local lab moving abroad. If you want to know how I feel, listen to Betty Walker: "Somewhere, there's a lie going on."