[Paul Ross]

Since NAFTA unemployment in the US has dropped so that it is now around 4.5%.

Not in manufacturing, which appears to have dropped by about 30% at a minimum...based on employment statistics.

And the evidence is that the wages of the dislocated were not in fact improved when they took the service jobs that were all that was available. Manufacturing has a vastly higher "economic multiplier effect" than service jobs.

Further, it isn't really all that important about jobs per se...

IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT THE U.S. RETAIN IT'S INDEPENDENCE. PERIOD.

Our Founder's understood this.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams

[nicmarlo]

Further, it isn't really all that important about jobs per se... IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAT THE U.S. RETAIN IT'S INDEPENDENCE. PERIOD.

Exactly right. Though they lie and spin, and lie and spin about the numbers, thinking we can't understand what's happening with the jobs, we do. Although that is greatly troubling and cause for alarm, losing our sovereignty through backroom deals made by traitors is even of greater concern.