How do the candidates plan to replace the millions of U.S. middle-class jobs that have gone overseas, and what will the candidates do about the millions of illegal aliens in our country

Trade Agreements Cost Jobs

- Phyllis Schlafly
Friday, May 13, 2011

The first debate of the 2012 presidential race, with personalized, provocative questions planned by Fox News, was good political entertainment, but somehow didn’t get around to tackling two of the biggest issues. They are: how do the candidates plan to replace the millions of U.S. middle-class jobs that have gone overseas, and what will the candidates do about the millions of illegal aliens in our country.

The unemployment rate has now reached or exceeded 9 percent for the 22nd month. But even that high figure doesn’t paint how bleak the jobs picture really is for men in their prime working years (between ages 25 and 54). Only 80 percent of those men have a job (compared to 95 percent in the 1960s). http://www.economist.com/node/18618613

Even that statistic doesn’t measure the millions of men of that age who are now working for one half, or one quarter, or even one-tenth of the wage of the job they lost. Obama is bragging that the economy added 268,000 new jobs last month, but 62,000 of those were hired by McDonald’s because Obama gave that chain a waiver from ObamaCare.

This month, former trade negotiator and now Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) unveiled what he called a [b]“Senate Republican Jobs Plan,â€