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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#8 According to Tax Notes, between  1999 and 2008 employment at the foreign affiliates of </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> parent companies increased an  astounding 30 percent to 101 million. During that exact same time period, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> employment at American  multinational corporations declined 8 percent to 21.1 million.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#9 <span class="GramE">In</span> 1959,  manufacturing represented 28 percent of </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> economic output. In 2008, it  represented 11.5 percent.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#10 Ford Motor <span class="GramE">Company</span> recently announced the closure of a factory that  produces the Ford Ranger in </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">St. Paul</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Minnesota</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">. Approximately 750 good paying  middle class jobs are going to be lost because making Ford Rangers in </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Minnesota</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> does not fit in with Ford's new  "global" manufacturing strategy.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#11 <span class="GramE">As</span> of  the end of 2009, less than 12 million Americans worked in manufacturing.  The  last time less than 12 million Americans were employed in manufacturing was in  1941.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#12 In the United States today,  consumption accounts for 70 percent of GDP. Of this 70 percent, over half is  spent on services.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#13 The United States has lost a  whopping 32 percent of its manufacturing jobs since the year  2000.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#14 <span class="GramE">In</span> 2001, the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">United States</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> ranked fourth in the world in per  capita broadband Internet use.  Today it ranks 15th. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#15 <span class="GramE">Manufacturing</span> employment in the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> computer industry is actually lower  in 2010 than it was in 1975.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#16 Printed circuit boards are used  in tens of thousands of different products. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Asia</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> now produces 84 percent of them  worldwide.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#17 The United States spends  approximately $3.90 on Chinese goods for every $1 that the Chinese spend on  goods from the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">United States</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#18 <span class="GramE">One</span> prominent economist is projecting that the Chinese economy will be three times  larger than the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> economy by the year  2040. </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">#19 The U.S. Census Bureau says that  43.6 million Americans are now living in poverty and according to them that is  the highest number of poor Americans in the 51 years that records have been  kept.</span></span></p>
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