Arm Yourself with the Facts

The American Jobs Alliance encourages everyone to arm themselves - with the facts.

Our strength comes from having the truth on our side.

These writers, from conservatives such as Pat Buchanan to liberals such as Thom Hartmann, provide the facts about so-called “free trade” and corporate globalization crucial to understanding how Washington's current policies threaten our nation, our people and our prosperity.

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Death by China In Death by China authors Greg Autry and Peter Navarro detail the clear and present danger China poses to America’s jobs, health, safety, national security and the world environment, and deliver a relentless and well deserved beating to China's corrupt leaders. Among the parade of horrors are the “Weapons of Job Destruction” China is systematically using to eliminate American industries, one by one and job by job. Documenting how Beijing is well on its way to becoming the most dangerous government on earth, the authors are reminiscent of the few brave souls who warned the world about the perils of Nazism, Communism, and Islamic fundamentalism long before everyone else caught on.

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Free Trade Doesn't Work In this very readable book, Ian Fletcher dissects the theories of free trade and comparative advantage, examines their fallacies and shows how they have contributed to our economic decline. Chapter 6 presents the true economic history of the United States. It explains how George Washington and his successors shunned free trade and used tariffs to build America into the world’s leading industrial power, while Great Britain embraced free trade and declined.

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Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country Insprired by Alexander Hamilton's 11-point Plan for American Manufactures, Thom Hartmann dedicates eleven chapters that touch on critical economic issues including tariffs, taxes, small business, banking, and more. In one chapter, Hartmann correctly and forcefully explains how dozens of industrial countries around the world today including Germany, South Korea and China have raised their standards of living by turning their back on "free trade" theory and actively supporting their home manufacturing industries.

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The Great Betrayal Two-time Republican presidential candidate Pat Buchanan challenges elite economic opinion in his manifesto for economic nationalism: "The economy is not the country; the country comes first." Buchanan says free trade serves the interests of Wall Street, not Main Street. Chapter 10 clearly shows how Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" has been completely misread by free traders and apologists for outsourcing. Buchanan's economic nationalism puts him in the fine American tradition of Washington, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. An eye-opening, forceful polemic by a true conservative and well worth reading.

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Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization for America Pat Choate, an economist who was Ross Perot's running mate in 1996, comes up with devastating facts that give the lie to the globalist logic that has driven American policy-making in recent years and has driven American society off a cliff. He tackles key issues: how Washington has come to be run by lobbyists, particularly lobbyists for foreign governments and industries; the counterproductive U.S. effort to create the World Trade Organization; America's vulnerability to illness spread by contaminated food imports; the Defense Department's inability to keep track of its dependency on foreign suppliers for vital components; and the possibility that a foreign adversary could hide deadly Trojan Horse computer viruses in such components. Choate does a great job explaining the problems of radical globalism.

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Three Billion New Capitalists Reagan administration trade official Clyde Prestowitz criticizes, from firsthand experience, Washington's embrace of free trade and aversion to industrial policy. While China and India focus on trade and industrial policies, America does not have a strategy. Prestowitz argues innovation comes from sound education across the board, heavy investment in research & development, and a co-located manufacturing base that can tinker with R&D and have a back and forth effect. America lacks all three.


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The Selling of "Free Trade:" NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy In researching this book, John MacArthur interviewed many of the key national and international players who helped create NAFTA, uncovering the backroom deals and PR snow-jobs that constitute the real substance of American politics. MacArthur's searing expose documents the kinds of things that citizens should be aware of as they happen, not after the fact. It begins and ends with a tale that shows the human side of the consequences of NAFTA: jobs leaving Queens, NY, and appearing in Nogales, Mexico.


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In Praise of Hard Industries A former editor of Forbes and the Financial Times, Eamonn Fingleton argues that manufacturing, not America's "postindustrial economy" based on services and information technology, is best equipped to deliver high wages, low unemployment and future prosperity. His scathing tour of the U.S. computer, financial services and entertainment industries turns up colossal waste, puny exports, mismanagement and hype. You will probably never understand what is happening to the US economy unless and until you read this book.

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The Case Against the Global Economy The 43 essays in this book add up to a thorough roast of the Corporate State, the Global Economy, GATT, NAFTA, the WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, and the consequences we will suffer at the hands of these institutions. Essays examine, among other things, how GE works to shape the political arena; how "free trade" deals undermine the sovereign authority of elected governments; and how the concerted efforts of big business destroy local, particularly rural, communities. The underlying message is that we must involve ourselves in our communities, strive toward local and national self reliance, and reject bureaucratic centralization, be it governmental, corporate or a global corporate state.

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Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests Ralph Gomory and William Baumol are two heavy-weights from the world of Economics, Industry and Mathematics. Their insightful look into trade in this era of multinational companies, expanded trade and developing countries finds that World Peace through World Trade ain't necessarily so, and not all international trade is mutually beneficial. They present the theoretical framework and analysis that undermines the ideology of unrestricted "free trade."

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The Betrayal of American Prosperity Clyde Prestowitz provides a thoughtful analysis of the economic challenges facing the United States now, and a history of the issues our early founders, particularly Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson, wrestled with in determining the role government should play in helping to foster the economic development of the new nation. The early economic policies and institutions that helped make America the most powerful nation in the history of the world stand in stark contrast to those promoted by political administrations of both parties over the past forty years.

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How Americans Can Buy American Roger Simmermaker's book is a valuable reference tool for those who want to do something patriotic and help keep their jobs at the same time. There are handy lists of American made products and Internet links. "This book is a patriot's guide to shopping. The American worker and small businessman does not have a better friend." Patrick J. Buchanan. "Applying the principles in this book will help save the American middle class by protecting middle-class jobs that pay good, middle-class wages." R. Thomas Buffenbarger, IAM&AW International President.