1. A working poor class has replaced a vast middle class.

2. Unions are still blamed even though 46% of the AFL/CIO are now public workers with only 15% manufacturing private sector workers.

3. We still have miles of main streets in our major cities across the land looking like third world countries compared to what we once enjoyed.
4. More than 4000 former U.S. factories are  in Mexico . Others are across the globe. Now when component parts are shipped to these former U.S. factories, we call them exports shipping parts to what was once our own factories in the U.S.

 
5. Auto manufacturers have been replaced by foreign auto assemblers and all of sudden are described as manufacturers even though the parts come from the wage slave labor markets of the world. Even the parts classified as made in the USA are subcontracted from somewhere else. You
can trace some of these sub contractors to places using wage slave labor.

6. U.S. Taxpayers  have paid out more than a billion dollars to many foreign auto assemblers to come the USA. Ohio "lost" the Honda assembly plant to Indiana. In the end Indiana taxpayers will pay about $150 million dollars for the assembly plant that will hire only 2,000 assembly
workers at half of what the auto manufacturing workers once made. At the same time, 20,000 Indiana auto parts workers have lost their jobs. This is one of the deals Elizabeth Auster would put down as a  success story.

 
7. The PD reported a few years ago, that 47% of all small business people maxed out their credit cards to keep their businesses afloat.Most likely the percentage has now gone down with many going bankrupt.

 
8. Of all the companies that I was a part of in my life, only one out of about 25 are still in business and that one was owned by a foreign government. If I count up the number of people affected, it would add upto about 50,000 at  least, related to just  my own work experience.

9. I can not think of any supplier I used in my computer business  that is still in business. There were about a hundred of these manufacturers. Out of  about a thousand customers, virtually none have survived including Leeds Northrup and other Industrial Computer Manfacturers,
Technicare Cat Scan and General Tire. Comparing this to your presentation it is like the "surge" branding  in Iraq outside the reality of the issues.

10. NAFTA/Free Trade is a delusional parasite orchestrated by dysfunctional Globalists outside the common good and the will of the people. Our local value added economy has been destroyed. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke now practices Free Trade heresy telling  us to buy domestically made products with the economic stimulus money, but these products no longer exist.

NAFTA/Free Trade now has a history of failures since 1956.