More on the economy from Inge: Posted on Mon, Aug. 18, 2003 in the Centre Daily Times by Daniel Sneider "U.S. isn't only one losing jobs to other nations"

" . . . Now Mexico is hearing the "sucking sound," and it is coming from China. In the last 2 1/2 years, nearly 300,000 maquiladora jobs have fled Mexico, most of them headed for China. And sometime later this year, China will likely overtake Mexico as the second largest source of American imports. . . . "