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Everyone is rightly focused on his "low wage foreigners" comment but I'm infuriated by the "we're going to restore dignity to the working class by bringing back manufacturing." NO YOU WON'T. MASS HIGH WAGE FACTORY EMPLOYMENT FOR NON-COLLEGE EDUCATED WORKERS IS NOT COMING BACK. YOU KNOW THIS.

Modern factories do not lucratively employ half the men in the town straight out of high school to work an assembly line on union contracts. That was a weird blip in the 1950's when automation hadn't taken off yet and the US was the only country in the world whose factories weren't blown to shit.

It just makes me so mad because, as much as I loathe talk about 'economic anxiety' I can hardly blame people for expecting mass manufacturing jobs to magically re-appear when POLITICIANS KEEP PROMISING THAT. Makes me so mad I want to write a book. (This book). www.amazon.com/dp/191448711...

A better solution would be to plough money into churning out more knowledge workers, but donors would not be happy.

Caring professions are also just too girly.

As a nurse of 14 years, it doesn't help that many caring professions are not unionized. Unions like SEIU and National Nurses United are doing their best to organize, but hospitals and nursing home owners are vicious, aggressive union busters.

Also, the hospital and nursing home lobby and industry groups are incredibly aggressive and effective at killing state and federal legislation to improve employee and patient safety. For example, only a handful of dates have mandatory safe staffing laws that limit staff:patient ratios.