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Bring back American jobs.

Now.

Stop sending Anmerican jobs to China. Bring back American jobs from China.

Balance out our trade.

It’s not complicated. Make stuff in America again.

That will employ people, and decrease the amount of money our government spends, on people who do not work.

People who DID work, before they were laid off, and their jobs were sent to China.

Bring back US jobs. Now.

Absolutely spot on. Bring back American jobs now. The ability to manufacture is the ability to create wealth. America used to be the greatest creditor nation in the world, and we are now the greatest debtor nation. All of our money is now in Chinese banks. My own belief on why it was all exported seems simple. Most Americans used to get their pensions and health benefits through their employers. Corporations saw the boomer generation, 70 million strong, coming at them like an unstoppable freight train, and they wanted out before it was too late. After making zillions of dollars on us, starting with diapers, baby food and hula hoops in the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, they finally decided they needed the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, a.k.a. Nafta and Gatt, in 1994. Word in DC back then was that if Clinton, who had just blown the dems congressional majority after 40 years, went along with Nafta and Gatt, then Corporate America would not not oppose his re-election efforts in ‘96. With the departure of corporations from the US, there's only one entity large enough to fill the pension and health care void, the US government, hence Obamacare. These two treaties hollowed out America's manufacturing base, and sent it all to China. There's some geopolitical nonsense involved here, in that America's elitist and liberal politicians, like the Bush family, believed in bringing Red China in from the isolation of communism, and turn them in our direction by promising them exactly what they have now, i.e., a stranglehold on our economy. Any attempt by Americans to reclaim our manufacturing base can be vetoed by China by simply demanding that we repay our trade deficit, which we cannot do. The Bush family has put us in a terrible position, with virtually no way out, unless we start voting for patriots. God Bless Sarah Palin.