There are rising doubts about President-Elect Obama’s promise to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. Will there be a shift in trade policies or will we see more of the same?

Chrysler and General Motors are about to receive billions of dollars in your taxpayer bailout money. But they still won’t commit to a “buy American” policy for auto parts or end the export of American jobs to cheap overseas labor markets.

There are new demands for tough conditions on any bailout of the auto industry. The critics of a proposed $25 billion bailout want carmakers to stop selling out American workers by outsourcing production to cheap overseas labor markets.

President Bush is nearly a lame duck with less than 100 days in office. But he is still determined to push his so-called free trade agenda on the American people. With the loss of millions of jobs to free trade already, many are asking if anyone is standing up for our nation’s middle class.

As Lou Dobbs Tonight has reported for years, there are big problems with the H-1B visa program.  The latest indication of trouble comes from the government itself.  An audit of the program for the so-called visa for the brightest and best found rampant fraud and abuse.

President Bush announced Friday the addition of seven new countries to the visa waiver program. Under this program, citizens of Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and South Korea will be able to travel to the United States for business or tourism without first obtaining a visa. Click here to learn why critics of the program are outraged over the decision which goes against the 9-11 commission’s recommendations.

Airlines are outsourcing aircraft maintenance more than ever, according to an alarming new report from the Transportation Department. Nine major U.S. airlines sent maintenance work to outside contractors this year, almost twice as much as four years ago. The outsourcing covers more than 70 percent of major repairs and it’s going to cheap outposts in Mexico, Central America, and Asia. Click here for that story.

With a more than $9 trillion national debt, trillions more in unfunded liabilities, soaring consumer debt, and a crumbling infrastructure, this country is in a deep economic crisis. We are beholden to other countries, some hostile to our interests, that own that debt. It’s a frightening situation, and the subject of a new documentary, I.O.U.S.A. The film’s writer and director, Patrick Creadon, and former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker (who appears in the film), joined the program last night. Click here for Lou’s interview.

The faith based “free” trade policies of the Bush administration and its predecessors have failed America. They’ve led to 33 consecutive yeas of massive trade defiicts, 3 million lost jobs, and a collapsing economy. Now John McCain is promisig to extend and expand those policies and Barack Obama isn’t promising anything at all. Have we all just lost our minds Pat Choate, one of htis country’s leading “free” trade experts and the author of “Dangerous Business: The Risks of Gloabalization for America,” joined the program last night. Click here for Lou’s interview.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis will no longer provide details on direct foreign investment in the U.S. The BEA used to distinguish between companies simply adding capactiy in the United States and those buying U.S. assets outright and shipping them overseas. But now the BEA says that’s just too arduous and too expensive of a task. Why should the U.S. labor department care if a transaction involves adding jobs in this country or a wholesale selling out of U.S. workers? The real story is that the Bush administration (and the Clinton administration before) don’t want Americans to know what their economic policies are doing to ordinary Americans. Click here for our report.