Comments on: Mayor Bach: Jobs goal is stretch, but possible http://csbj.com/2012/08/22/mayor-bach-jobs-goal-is-stretch-but-possible/ Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David Anderson http://csbj.com/2012/08/22/mayor-bach-jobs-goal-is-stretch-but-possible/comment-page-1/#comment-68905 David Anderson Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:19:37 +0000 http://csbj.com/?p=57731#comment-68905 While 6,000 jobs a year appears to be a stretch goal, with a different set of national trading policies, it is entirely possible to bring manufacturing back to America. Colorado Springs lost nearly 15,000 manufacturing jobs, which translates to something like 60,000 total jobs, in the past ten years. Markets DO work, and with knowledge that Congress would defend American producers and consumers, production work will return to the US.

We need to end the ability of foreign governments and their state-owned enterprises to subsidize production that is the reason why we have exported opportunity and imported unemployment. We need to do this at least in our own markets, and we can. The results will include good jobs and genuine prosperity. These policies affect our security as well, as imported military components have been found to include large numbers of counterfeit material.

6,000 jobs a year for ten years only restores local labor force participation to a level that matches population growth over the past ten years. We can do better, and we must.

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