I think you're on the wrong forum.
Lincoln and Roosevelt are prominent big government presidents who had little regard for the constitution. Lincoln destroyed the Constitutional sovereignty of the states and Roosevelt destroyed the constitutional objective of limited government.
The jobs outsourced from the US were not "Our Jobs", just as the large number of jobs, especially in the auto industry, that were insourced to the US are not "Our Jobs".
More government control is not, nor ever has been, the answer
The poster is in the right forum.
I for one welcome the thoughts of a FReeper who has not drank the “free trade” kool-aid.
“The Report on Manufactures is the third report, and magnum opus, of American Founding Father and 1st U.S. Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. It was presented to Congress on December 5, 1791 and recommended economic policies to stimulate the new republic’s economy and ensure the independence won with the conclusion of the Revolutionary War in 1783.
Hamilton’s “Report on Manufactures” laid forth economic principles rooted in both the Mercantilist System of Elizabeth I’s England and the practices of Jean-Baptiste Colbert of France. The principal ideas of the “Report” would later be incorporated into the “American System” program by Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky and his Whig Party. Abraham Lincoln, who called himself a “Henry Clay tariff Whig” during his early years, would later make the principles outlined in the “Report” and furthered by Clay’s “American System” program cornerstones, together with opposition to the institution and expansion of slavery, of the fledgling Republican Party.
Hamilton’s ideas formed the basis for the American School of economics.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report_on_Manufactures