Fuelled by a soaring unemployment rate and tinged with plenty of populism the debate over how the us should respond to the concerns of manufacturers such as mr hickey is again high on the agenda on capitol hill .
As mr hickey points out , a factory that sealed air opened in mexico was expected to be far less productive than one in america , but within four years had caught up .
A bunch of alcoholic outcasts await the arrival of hickey a travelling salesman who periodically turns up and buys them rounds . They await him as if he were a messiah .