Pasting the entire article made the post look bigger than if you'd have just given us
this link but it didn't make it any more easy to follow. Probably just as well though, the AFL-CIO links just go off to
Tonelson's resume (Princeton BA in History, author of
The Race to the Bottom: Why A Global Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade are Sinking American Living Standards) and from there on in it got really distracting. How about we focus on what you're really trying to say in post
34.
What I'm getting is something about how America's weaker militarily now than we were back in 1997 with Clinton because US manufacturers are not making as many strategic products as before. If that's what you're saying then you probably already know how unconvincing it sounds. If that's not what you're saying, then see if you can state it better, and please take the time to make it brief and without posting another 2,000 word tract.
I gave you the link with the Author's name.
Your inability to focus is why things are distracting for you.