[Willie Green]

The Zoellick/Bush administration continues to assault the economic prosperity of the American Middle Class.

[livius]

So? Who wants to work in a factory? Go out and get another job, start your own business, retrain and do something entirely different, go back to school and finish that degree...that's what my family did.

What did yours do? Wait for the government to support them for the rest of their lives?

[groanup]

"The Zoellick/Bush administration continues to assault the economic prosperity of the American Middle Class"

So go vote democRAT. THAT will bring about economic prosperity for sure dude.

[rvoitier]

More like union muscle-head governor Rendell's policies of taxing manufacturers out of prosperity.

[waterstraat]

Unlike past recessions, even the depression, those jobs are not coming back, never coming back. The factories that moved to china will never again employ american workers.

Sooner or later, the chinese and the Indians, will see that they use chinese material, and chinese labor, and chinese factories, and will realize that they dont need american companies getting any profit from it. All american companies in china will eventually be replace by chinese owned and operated factories. At some point in time, Black and Decker, Intel, Lifesavers, etc will be kicked out of china.

[Tacis]

It is never just lower wage rates. Most of the 130,000 jobs in Pennsylvania were union jobes. They are gone but my bet is that very few union officials missed a pay check, any expense account reimbursement, or lost any benefits.

The unions will not spend any of their resources on unemployed members who no longer pay ddues. The large amounts of cash the unions have left will go to support democrap candidates who, if they win, will raise even higher, the cost of doing business in Pennsylvania.

The costs associated with making unions and union officials fat are what drive jobs out of Pennsylvania.

[Proud2BAmerican]

Oh don't worry about it. We're all going to be rich Web designers, so we don't need any of those silly manufacturing jobs.

[q_an_a]

"but is now "hiring like crazy." Willie, I am afraid you are going to get this one wrong...again. We will be making cool advanced products for the next 50 years. During this time we will be selling to third world countries equipment to build the products that build new economies. OLD steel cars are dead as disco, steel and aluminum are going to be a smaller part of lots of things as composits and plastic become the primary building blocks.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

You MUST grasp the concept. Diversity, Tolerance, Love, Equality, The Big Tent, A Place At The Table, Free Trade, Jobs in China, India and Mexico, Mass immigration, Gay Rights, Preferential Admissions to Universities and jobs will solve all. Who needs to work, who needs to eat? Enjoy!