Dave,

Your teacher seems to have a thing about sending American jobs overseas. One wonders why? The world's largest military buildup is in China. Their generals have admitted that their nuclear missiles are aimed at Los Angeles. The recent translation of their book on assymetrical warfare is specifically aimed at America.

Their military corporations continue to market missile and nuclear technology to countires such as Iran, Irag and North Korea.

Their recent purchase of two more Russian missile destroyers with nuclear tipped "Sunburn" antiship missiles specifically designed to destroy American Aircraft carrier groups should give us pause when we go to purchase our next Chinese toy.

Then there's their takeover of both ports controlling the Panama Canal plus moving into Panama of more than 200,000 Chinese. Is there any wonder that the strength of terroists is up dramatically in Columbia and Venezuela. Several Panamainian groups are requesting the return of American troops.

Couple these two Panamanian container ports with the Chinese container port in either Jamaca or The Bahamas (Can't recall which it is.), consider how many medium range missiles, targeted at the U.S., that could be placed inside 40" cargo containers and one has to wonder just how many more dolls and toys we need to buy.

Oh! let's not forget the six cargo containers intercepted in San Francisco, during the Clinton administrations, destined for Mexico and L.A. street gangs loaded with AK-47 and mortars. Customs admitted that they'd missed many of the same company's earlier shipments.

Then there were the chinese journalists being escorted through the U.S. during the 9/11 disaster, in front of their American escorts, they cheered, high fived each other while watching the aircraft smash into the buildings.

Couple these few examples with the lamentable non-performance of our "Intelligence" agencies and the national press reluctance to cover most of these happenings in detail and it would certainly give a person concern.

The world has been lucky in the past in that the nations like Nazi Germany and Japan really didn't have the population base to sustain their early conquest over a long time frame. The world may not be so lucky the next time.

Build jobs and companies here! Insist that the U.S. increase internal oil supplies!

As a fulltime inventor, I can tell you that the technology exists in this country where an individual can develope and manufacture his invention here, easier and cheaper than anywhere else in the world and I enclose the accompanying article as an example. See how two American inventors with only $1,200.00 out of pocket launched their first successful product.

http://home.sprynet.com/~gridge/entrepreneur-com_molded_in_your_image-pg1.htm

I wonder what kind of grade you'd have received if you'd written a paper on why we should limit our trade with China. China isn't going to be a customer, it's going to be the supplier of manufactured goods.

The balance of payments is already negative in respect to us and will only get worse.

Ben