Republicans for the National Interest recognizes the problem:

• In assessing United States manufacturing, there has been
  • No net output change in machinery since 2000
  • No net output change in motor vehicles and related parts since 1998
  • No net output change in electrical equipment since 1997
  • No net output change in paper since 1988

• The American economy uses more machinery, motor vehicles, electrical equipment, and paper now than before; the differences means that we are increasing imports of items that were once mainstays of a vibrant, growing, nationalist economy - and that offered real opportunities for the American Worker to enter into and remain within a stable middle class.

• In assessing United States manufacturing jobs since 2004, there has been
  • A 1.01% growth in blue collar manufacturing jobs
  • A 7.66% decline in white collar manufacturing jobs

• The paltry growth in blue collar manufacturing jobs is the worst since the Second World War. Even worse, the decline in white collar manufacturing jobs closes off what was once a means for our working class Americans to advance into a stable middle class. The result is a decline in real purchasing power for more families.

• The hemorrhaging of our national manufacturing base is defended by so called free trade advocates in both political parties. It is described as a necessary component of having an open and competitive economic system.

• Nevertheless, there is no real free trade when
  • Europe imposes a 15% value added tax on United States imports and then rebates the same tax on exports to the United States
  • China devalues its currency by as much as 45%, which is did in 1994, and then keeps it devalued artificially, so as to suck factories and jobs out of the United States
  • Japan shelters its market for televisions, automobiles, and steel, while dumping the same into our market

Republicans for the National Interest works for the solution:

• America can compete where there is real free trade, but that means working smartly and proactively for an even playing field, where the capital and labor conditions of our trading partners are compelled over time to rise closer to our standards. Otherwise, the incentive remains for conditions elsewhere to remain backwards, since the lower labor costs associated with backwards conditions provide short term profits and thus greater opportunities for an outsourcing of American opportunities abroad. America must wield her "big stick," not for ill conceived, utopian, nation building schemes, but for demanding real free trade. The "big stick" must be in the service of our national economic prosperity, not faceless, global corporations that have no loyalty to our own families and flag.

• America can compete where there is real, sustained investment in our national infrastructure and cutting edge technologies. Economic performance should be determined by the extent of infrastructure development, growth in cutting edge technologies, and real wages for more working and middle class Americans, not in the "profitability" of hedge funds that merely service our public and consumer debt. The elaborate mechanisms for servicing debt are the illusions of prosperity, as we are seeing now in the credit and mortgage crises.

• America can compete where there are reductions in corporate taxes which are tied to increased capital investment and research and development here at home.

We are not victims of the global economy, the central bankers, the lobbyists, the lawyers, and the politicians, unless we choose to be victims.

We shall succeed in resurrecting an American manufacturing base, that is at the cutting edge of next generation technologies, and that provides for greater job opportunities here. There is no reason why we must descend into being no more than purveyors of public and consumer debt - importing our basic necessities and exporting our best wages and talent.

If you agree with us, then regardless of your party registration we urge you to lend us your hand.

With your help we shall provide regular articles and commentaries about the great prosperity which is within our grasp, when we rebuild our manufacturing base and reinvest in our American Worker. Also, we shall continue to pursue our energetic program of recruiting and electing Republicans who will work for the safeguarding of our national economic interest, not the selfish interests of global corporations.