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Our manufacturing labor market. and the jobs were bringing back, you know, there was a great "new york times" story that said, ge is bringing back jobs home. great. the jobs that were there before paid 30 bucks an hour. the new jobs ge brought back home paid $12 to $20 an hour. so, yes, we have to do better in manufacturing and drive the wages up there, too. >> a really good point. scott, let me ask you. do we lose out on innovation if we dont have more manufacturing jobs or bring back more? my ...

We could expect that trend to continue. we can also expect to see rising wages overseas. that makes u.s. manufacturing look a lot more competitive. what we dont know about is christine, is public policy, and i firmly believe that we need the right public policies, both internally and then with our trade policies, to achieve that 1 million jobs goal. i think we can get it done. i think theres public support for it. and i do think its an economic imperative we try to grow manufacturing. regrow man...

>> lets be clear. richard when youre hollowing out at middle, a middle used to be powered by those manufacturing jobs, and you remace it with jobs that dont even pay enough to send the kid to college, let alone buy a house, thats a real problem for the economy. you could have strong manufacturing but a not strong middle. its not something people want to hear. >> so, the first thing we have to do is make those bad jobs better. we cant go anywhere with 60 million crappy low-wage service jobs. my d...