The American economy is increasingly in hock to foreign governments. China and the OPEC nations are setting up sovereign investment funds to buy up pieces of America. China recently bought a $5 billion stake in Morgan Stanley. Abu Dhabi bought $7.5 billion of Citigroup. Singapore paid $4.4 billion for a part of Merrill Lynch.

Almost half of our trade deficit—$327 billion—is attributable to oil imports. To finance this debt, we must either borrow from countries like China or sell off American assets at the rate of $2 billion every single day.

In 2007, the U.S. trade deficit with China alone hit a record $256 billion, out of the total U.S. trade deficit of $711 billion.

America's trade deficit has nearly doubled during the Bush presidency. The 2007 trade deficit was $711 billion compared to $365 billion in 2001.

The manufacturing sector has been hit hard by current foreign trade policies with 3.4 million jobs—one out of every five manufacturing jobs—shipped overseas over the past seven years. Under the current trade agreements, as many as 40 million more jobs will be at risk over the next 10 to 20 years.

Every year, about 400,000 American jobs are lost because of our foreign trade policy—and that number takes into account employment created by increased exports.

Without legal protections such as the Employee Free Choice Act, workers when trying to organize unions are subject to routine intimidation, harassment, coercion and firings.

Recent findings suggest that more than half of all U.S. workers—nearly 60 million—say they would join a union right now if they could.

The American economy is increasingly in hock to foreign governments. China and the OPEC nations are setting up sovereign investment funds to buy up pieces of America. China recently bought a $5 billion stake in Morgan Stanley. Abu Dhabi bought $7.5 billion of Citigroup. Singapore paid $4.4 billion for a part of Merrill Lynch.

Almost half of our trade deficit—$327 billion—is attributable to oil imports. To finance this debt, we must either borrow from countries like China or sell off American assets at the rate of $2 billion every single day.

In 2007, the U.S. trade deficit with China alone hit a record $256 billion, out of the total U.S. trade deficit of $711 billion.

America's trade deficit has nearly doubled during the Bush presidency. The 2007 trade deficit was $711 billion compared to $365 billion in 2001.

The manufacturing sector has been hit hard by current foreign trade policies with 3.4 million jobs—one out of every five manufacturing jobs—shipped overseas over the past seven years. Under the current trade agreements, as many as 40 million more jobs will be at risk over the next 10 to 20 years.

Every year, about 400,000 American jobs are lost because of our foreign trade policy—and that number takes into account employment created by increased exports.

Without legal protections such as the Employee Free Choice Act, workers when trying to organize unions are subject to routine intimidation, harassment, coercion and firings.

Recent findings suggest that more than half of all U.S. workers—nearly 60 million—say they would join a union right now if they could.