can turn around or victims of yet more political rhetoric well with me to break it all down is bill fletcher jr he is the a co-author of the book volatility divided the crisis in organized labor and a new path towards social justice and he also chairs the board of directors for the international labor rights form bill thank you so much for joining us. you know it seems to me like almost every single week we see the president visiting some nice factory in the middle of america somewhere where he promises to work really hard to keep those jobs from going overseas but at the same time the facts show that those jobs are going overseas i mean we lost something five point five million manufacturing jobs that's nearly thirty two percent of america's total have gone abroad since two thousand is this rhetoric or are these politicians actually working to change this trend well some are and some aren't i mean first of all this decline in manufacturing is something that you begin to see in the late fifty's actually. reach a crisis point it really is and has been you know increasing ever since the problem .