manufactured promise? >> scott paul is the president of the alliance for american manufacturing, richard florida senior editor at "the atlantic" and prompt at the university of toronto and nyu. thank you for coming by. scott, the trend of manufacturing jobs has not been good. the economy just lost another 3,000 manufacturing jobs last month. even so, scott, you say you think the president can make that goal of creating 1 million new manufacturing jobs in four years. why are you so optimistic? >> chris tooen, -- christine, i think it's possible. i think it's an economic imperative to do it, to rebuild the middle class. first, there's the business cycle. i think that we should be seeing an upswing with housing starts. there's a lot of folks who need to buy automobiles, who have been putting that off for a long time. what we don't know about is europe and asia and how strong growth potential there is going to be. the other thing are these underlying factors. we do see energy costs quite low for manufacturers in the united states because of the natural gas and oil boom here.