There were some smart free-market thinkers back in the 90’s who warned us about the danger of shipping our jobs overseas to take advantage of extremely cheap labor. (Sir James Goldsmith and Ross Perot)
Notice that when Romney and Obama talk about creating jobs, they are NOT talking about creating good jobs. We are at a turning point in American history. Middle class jobs are on the decline. Unemployment, and underemployment has been at high marks, and aren’t going down. College graduates are unable to get decent jobs. American standard of living is on the decline.
At one point I thought it was fair to ship the jobs overseas because we were creating a middle class and enriching the factory workers overseas. This is not the case. The problem is that these factory works are making something like $2 per day. We will never enrich the poor overseas enough because these factories are in areas where there are millions of poor workers. The factory operators are getting wealthy, but the workers will never get out of poverty.
One more point: We Americans can choose to pay for our social net in one of two ways: 1) keep jobs at home (or in areas that fairly compete) so that we have a strong middle class who can support themselves and provide wealth to the system, or 2) buy cheap crap based on overseas slave labor and pay out more and more in the form of taxes to support the crumbling society outright. In the later case, the whole system eventually collapses.
Two excellent sources of information about this subject:
Dan Carlin’s Common Sense Podcast #236 “Trapped by the Inflexible Mind”
and
From one man who is constantly amazed by indoor plumbing and cheap energy, I support the efforts of Mike Rowe’s project to promote American skilled labor. Check out his recent 
I didn’t have any realistic hope that Ron Paul would emerge from the RNC’s convention as the pick. Romney had overwhelming support. HOWEVER, I did not expect the GOP, under the direction of Romney’s cronies, to break their own rules and avoid the basic system of democratic representation. The Republican party, at the national level, has now guaranteed that the establishment will stay the establishment, pretty much no mater what the people’s wishes are for years to come.
I remember four years ago when I became interested in picking between the two candidates who were running for president. I compared BO and John McCain. BO struck me as an empty suit, who sat in a church that preached hate for 20 years, and who had serious ties to scary-liberal and communist people. McCain was a war hero who seemed like a good Christian. That was where I was at mentally 4 years ago.
