but most of them look like this camden new jersey has seen one of the worst domino effects in the nation after several factories and a ship building plant shut down leaving much of the city jobless and homeless in america what is made in america is no law. longer the norm in the end we're going to get the color we said we got the clothes we still have everything we need just not celebrated to make it perhaps that's because they are no longer our neighbors or friends instead they live in far away places those cheap flat screen t.v.'s and skinny jeans this recall jeans are nineteen bucks come at the cost of jobs and industry and what was once the foundation of america's future. christine for example are. not politicians love absolutely love to talk about reviving those manufacturing gigs bringing back made in america campaigning on promises to restore an area where this country was once greatest but promises or promises and numbers unfortunately are somewhat grim in two thousand and nine the number of unemployed americans was bigger than the entire number of people working in the manufactu

profits there's no incentive for management to think about ok we're going to look at is rebuilding camden new jersey and what will that take and maybe we will not get the kind of super profits in another ten years so you need it very different approach towards economic development and in the united states this is almost allergic reaction to the idea of planning which is what we really need we need a manufacturing. well i am that looks at not just the currently depressed areas but historically depressed areas the reality is that we are in this race to the bottom so we've refined the cells in a situation where you and i are looking for cheaper goods we which is watch occur but in looking for cheaper goods we're we're looking for goods that are produced in places other than the united states for the most part we're not thinking about what that's going to mean what the ripple effects are for our local economies until it has an effect on us until we lose that auto plant because we're buying cars from somewhere else we lose a textile plant because they've moved to the dominican republic of china and they

host: congressman rod andrews in his 12th term, representing new jersey's first district, including camden served on the on services committee and the budget committee. as get to the fund. helen from the democrats' line, calling from maine. caller: some politicians have discussed the option of rearming the northern alliance as a counterweight against the taliban and helping us to ease our way out of afghanistan. i am wondering if you could discuss the pros and cons of that argument. guest: pecans are that we're never quite sure who is running the northern alliance and whether their goal is justice for all afghans, or advantage for themselves. the pros are that they are rather a debt military organization. over the years, they have been more amenable to u.s. interests certainly than the taliban has. and they have been a lot more humane to the afghan people. it is a strategy i would favor based upon that weighing of the pros and cons. after we have departed militarily, modest military aid to the northern alliance, i think, would make sense. host: in georgia, lindsey, a republican collar. cal