This April 21st, 2007, a headline read: factory jobs: 3 million lost since 2000. And it is not all. Further the article says:

Princeton economist Alan Blinder, who was vice chairman of the Federal Reserve during the Clinton administration, says the number of jobs at risk of being shipped out of the country could reach 40 million over the next 10 to 20 years. That would be one out of every three service sector jobs that could be at risk…. Last year’s deficit was $765.3 billion — that is, the U.S. imported $765.3 billion more in goods and services than it exported. The imbalance with China hit an all-time high for a single country at $232.5 billion…That’s the issue for American workers. Many of their jobs are moving overseas, to Mexico and China and elsewhere….

The day before in the Herald Tribune, the outsourcing threat was too observed:

… a new wave of multinationals poses competitive threat to U.S… “These companies are hiring people from anywhere in the world,” said Peter Williamson, a professor at Insead, the business school, and co-author of “Dragons at Your Door: How Chinese Cost Innovation Is Disrupting Global Competition.” …

In the starpress.com, an entrepreneur complained:

Tonelson said the U.S. Business and Industry Council notes that migration of manufacturing from the United States to Mexico, China and other countries “has been a very vigorous trend” for nearly two decades….”The disparity in wage levels between the U.S. and China can be 15 to 1, easily. Their wage levels are so much lower that the disparity will not be significantly closed or caught up for decades.”

Maybe it is about time for the American people to worry as how they are going to pay their bills including: mortgages, kids’ education, vacation, etc… This is not all, let’s not forget that the Amnesty for illegal immigrants (Lou Dobbs’ favorite topic) still is contemplated. The war on the middle class is very real. There are not so many congressmen and women defending those two issues as you read this.