Great American manufacturing conversation on Thom Hartmann Show on Air America Radio

Thom Hartmann spoke this afternoon (March 29, 2010) with Scott N. Paul, executive director of the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
(See AAM's general site at http://www.americanmanufacturing.org/

See their blog at "ManufactureThis.org.")

Paul debunked many trade myths, and he pointed out the heavy devastation that China has done to American manufacturing since 2000.

Go to this AAM site, "The China Job Drain: Millions of U.S. jobs lost in trade with China," for an interactive map on the loss of jobs in the United States, in every state, in every Congressional District.

Great links at AAM site:
e.g.,
At Daily KOS: "China Currency Manipulation Costs U.S. Jobs"
"WJBC News: A new report shows thousands [over 100,000] of IL jobs lost to China"