This letter has been circulating by email: Please make your local politicians aware that the attack on American manufacturing and the jobs they create are a big deal. Let them know that you believe it is their duty to protect US factory's and US jobs, which equals US citizens. The US govt. needs to protect the manufacturing jobs, just like it is there duty to protect us from terrorists. I thought this was very accurate and well worded. " 'Free trade' is hurting American jobs and security, we should endorse 'fair trade.' " "The apparent lack of wisdom in our government in everything being made in China, which continually puts businesses and Americans out of work." "As long as our government keeps letting China kill us, we will never do any better." Jim Vincent, chief executive officer of Henderson, Ky., injection molder Vincent Industrial Plastics Inc., wrote, "Ross Perot was right about the giant sucking sound, except he had the wrong country - it's coming from China."