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"No, but it is the job of the president to look after the best interest of the citizens of this country and employing chinese and indians is not. Even Alexander Hamilton knew about tariffs and fair and free trade."

Excuse me, but the president can't dictate whom a company hires. Busineses are in business to (gasp!) make a profit. Unfortunately, Americans are pricing themselves out of the market. I don't like it, but that's a fact. We have the government to thank for that, with its overbearing and oppressive laws, as well as the trial lawyers, who have bankrupted entire industries, costing literally hundreds of thousands of direct jobs, and likely twice that number in ancillary jobs. Moreover, the economic "boom" of the Clinton years was based on fictitious wealth (even Alan Greenspan admits that), fueled mostly by the .com companies. The 1990s' economy was based on a wealth that was created -- literally -- mostly out of thin air; there was very little of substance to it; there was little if anything tangible about it. America has ceased to be the great manufacturer and industrial giant it once was, mainly because the Democrats and the liberals have made it difficult or impossible to stay competitive and make a profit. The Dems and the liberals have filled the books with laws that prevent or forbid businesses from doing what they do best: provide a product or a service for a fair price. The unions have a lot of the blame for this, as well (but I repeat myself, since they are overwhelmingly Democrats, at least their leadership is). The enviro laws, the high cost of defensive measures (high insurance rates, processes and programs that do nothing other than try and insulate companies from the greed of voracious lawyers, but to no avail; costs that must necessarily be passed on to consumers), are just a couple examples of what is wrong with American business today. Until we rid ourselves of the scourge of big govvernment, bureaucratic oversight, and the unlimited lust for money that consumes the trial lawyers, we will continue our economic collapse. We either change direction now, or in ten years we will be a socialist republic.

President doesn't have to dictate who hires whom but he can level the playing field much like our founding fathers advised and in the meantime continue to cut out unecessary government.

Excuse me, but the president can't dictate whom a company hires. Busineses are in business to (gasp!) make a profit. Unfortunately, Americans are pricing themselves out of the market.

Really? So what is this "fast track authority" the President takes from Congress to abolish the tariffs established by the Founding Fathers?

We either change direction now, or in ten years we will be a socialist republic.

Yes, people who lost jobs or are underemployed if numerous enough they will vote through the universal health care and other socialist benefits. Unregulated free market will destroy itself.