style="font-size:15px;"> Patrick J. Buchanan, «The Metrics of National Decline», Feb. 17, 2009, msnbc.com (Source: Charles W. McMillion, MBG Information Services).
34
«Fox News Poll: 57 % Think Next Generation Will Be Worse Off», foxnews.com, Apr. 9, 2010.
35
David M. Dickson, «Volcker Blames Recession on Trade Imbalances», Washington Times, Feb. 5, 2009.
36
Buchanan, «The Metrics of National Decline».
37
Mark Drajem, «China’s Trade Gap with U.S. Climbs to Record, Fueling Yuan Tension», bloomberg.com, Oct. 14, 2010.
38
Ibid.
39
Ibid.
40
«Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status: Fiscal Years 1820–2009», Department of Homeland Security, dhs.gov; «Persons Obtaining Legal Permanent Resident Status by Gender, Age, Marital Status and Occupation: Fiscal Year 2009», Department of Homeland Security, dhs.gov.
41
«New Data Shows China Responsible for 78.5 Percent of U.S. Trade Deficit in Manufactured Goods in 2009; Figure Up from 27.3 Percent in 2001», press statement, American Manufacturing Trade Action Coalition, Washington, DC, Aug. 18, 2009.
42
Senator Fritz Hollings, «Fifth Column: The Enemy Within the Trade War», huffingtonpost.com, Oct. 16, 2009.
43
Charles W. McMillion, «Globalization and America’s Lost Decade», MBG Information Services, March 2010, 1, 40; «Lost Manufacturing Jobs in Decade», MBG Information Services, Jan. 2011, mbginfosvcs.com.
44
James R. Hagerty, «U.S. Factories Buck Decline», Wall Street Journal, Jan. 19, 2011.
45
Stephen Moore, «We’ve Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers», Wall Street Journal, Apr. 1, 2011.
46
Warren E. Buffett and Carol Loomis, «America’s Growing Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us. Here’s a Way to Fix the Problem and We Need to Do It Now», Fortune, Nov. 10, 2003, cnnmoney.com.
47
David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, Henry Clay: The Essential American (New York: Random House, 2010), 240.
48
Dan Molinski and John Lyons, «China’s $20 Billion Bolsters Chavez», Wall Street Journal, Apr. 18, 2010.
49
John Pomfret, «More Political Ads Portray China as Benefiting from Weak U.S. Economy», Washington Post, Oct. 28, 2010.
50
Peter Whoriskey, «As Cheaper Chinese Tires Roll In, Obama Faces an Early Trade Test», Washington Post, Sept. 8, 2009.
51
Larry Elder, «The Soft Bigotry of President Bush», Jewish World Review, July 4, 2002.
52
Ibid.
53
Ibid.
54
Betty Liu and Matthew Leising, «U.S. to Lose $400 Billion on Fannie, Freddie, Wallison Says», bloomberg.com, Dec. 31, 2009.
55
John Weicher, «Closing the Gap: The Quiet Success of the Bush Administration’s Push for Minority Homeownership», Weekly Standard, Oct. 11, 2006.
56
Karen Kwiatkowski, «An American Tale», lewrockwell.com, Dec. 16, 2003.
57
«The Coming Debt Panic», Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2009.
58
David M. Walker, Rosenthal Lecture, Institute of Medicine, Nov. 9, 2009, pgpf.org; Dennis Cauchon, «U.S. Owes $62 Trillion», USA Today, June 7, 2011.
59
Ben Pershing, «Democrats Clear Spending Bill in Senate», Washington Post, Dec. 14, 2009.
60
Patrick J. Buchanan, «Fat City», townhall.com, Dec. 15, 2009.
61
Pershing, «Democrats Clear Spending Bill».
62
Jeff Zeleny, «Obama Weighs Quick Undoing of Bush Policy», New York Times, Nov. 9, 2008.
63
«FY10 Omnibus Disclosed Earmark Numbers», Taxpayers for Common Sense, Dec. 10, 2009, taxpayer.net.
64
Andrew G. Biggs and Jason Richwine, «Those Underpaid Government Workers», American Spectator, September 2010, 14.
65
Ibid.
66
Dennis Cauchon, «For Feds, More Get 6-Figure Salaries», USA Today, Dec. 11, 2009.
67
Ibid.
68
Dennis Cauchon, «More Fed Workers Pay Tops $150 K: Number Doubled Under Obama», USA Today, Nov. 10, 2010.
