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You know what, I seem to remember a saying in the Bible, I think Jesus said it, "Forgive them Father, they do not understand," as he was being crucified. Well, I'm just starting to study the Bible so please be easy on me. B-) I feel the same with the free-traders here who just can't or won't see what free-trade is doing to us.

Well, the bad thing is that many Republicans do not see the crux of the issue that our jobs are leaving us. People who manufactured things, well yeah, some of it is mind numbing work, but in today's world, it is not, you still have to know some technical skills to run a lot of computerized machinery. Still, what do you do with the people out of work, not every Joe and Jane can program computers or track stocks, (cough), but even if that is the case, we are outsourcing those jobs too, so we are back at Square 1. I've seen the steel mills here in Pittsburgh, I remember them going full blast in the early 1970's before the big crunch. A lot of people were thrown out of work, good people.

I think the Republican Party is in a bad position although they can turn it into a winner if they address this issue but it seems like they won't. If they won't the Democrats and/or a third party will, and the Republicans will lose. I don't want to see that, but I'm afraid they are "cutting their noses off to spite their face." All this does is reinforce the idea that the Republicans are the "rich man's party." We already have handed enough ammo to our enemies, we do not need this, yet there are people out there who fail to see that, worship the false Mammon of the dollar sign where it is "to all, and be all," and are willing to crucify the gains we made on a "Cross of Gold." (With apologies to William Jennings Bryant).

What we see here is the cry of "the I've got mine" club. If it doesn't affect them, who cares? It's like we got a fire out of control on 1st Street but they live on 2nd or 3rd Street so they don't care, but it will spread and consume them along with us. Yeah, they have jobs now, but when people lose their jobs en masse, it will affect them because the economy would lose the money these people would have put into it and the shock wave will reach them eventually. As my father told me, manufacturing built this country and is needed today and "you cannot do business with people with no money."

We are losing this nation ethically, morally, economically, you name it but there are people who cannot see it but we must remain on course to flight it, otherwise the only option is to die. We cannot lose.