[nicmarlo]

I see you're calling for help again, toad. Why's that? Don't dictate to me what sources I can use to back up my statements. I at least have them, unlike you, who spouts opinions sans documentation, at every turn.

However, to counter your shilling for NAU and NAFTA, as you wear your rose-colored glasses, all Americans know that this economy sucks, that manufacturing jobs are going overseas, every time they have to be retrained for yet another job, all across America, because the good paying job they once had in the manufacturing industry is gone....and that is also having a devastating effect on local economies

[Toddsterpatriot]

I see you're calling for help again, toad. Why's that?

They enjoy laughing at idiots who use far left wing sources and claim to be conservative.

Doofus, you claimed manufacturing production has declined. Prove it.

[expat_panama]

"Overall decline"     "...this economy sucks..."

If you ever feel a need to drop the graph from the Economist, you can always get the whole story going back 70 years from other sources online (BLS data link).

What you said was true, that manufacturing employment is down almost 20% since the Clinton days.  Just the same, total jobs in goods production (construction, mining, etc.) is off only 5%, and both are about equal to their long term averages.

Production is at an all time high like Mase was saying in post 60, thanks to all those $70,000/year engineers (Companies Scramble to Hire Engineers).