Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, December 6, 2007

Lou’s new book INDEPENDENTS DAY is now on sale in bookstores
and on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. In Independents Day,
Lou issues a rallying cry to American citizens eager for a
change, focusing particularly on the critical issues and
challenges of the 2008 election.

Tonight: President Bush today announced his plan to freeze
mortgage interest rates in an effort to help millions of
American homeowners from falling into home foreclosure.
Treasury and Housing and Urban Development officials weighed in
as well.

But will the plan work? And is it too little, too late? We’ll
have all the latest details.

This country has seen millions of manufacturing jobs lost to
cheap overseas labor markets and trend is continuing—the Labor
Department says it expects to see over 1.5 million more
manufacturing jobs disappear in years to come. That story,
tonight..

Mexico continues to meddle in U.S. policy and politics. Today
Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan addressed his
country’s foreign policy towards the U.S. We’ll have that
story.

From fake press conferences to failed and delayed projects to
secure our borders, a new report says the Department of
Homeland Security has wasted millions of taxpayers dollars due
to poor management. We’ll have a full report on the DHS
waste—from $178 million lost on the failed Coast Guard
Deepwater program to $1.3 billion lost on the US-Visit program.


And lawmakers in several states are pushing plans to issue
“driving certificatesâ€