BY DON PORTOLESE Manufacturing and energy production are two important pillars of our economy. These are what have powered us to prosperity, what this country runs on. However, our engines have begun to sputter. The labor landscape is shifting, and we are losing jobs in these sectors as a result. Republicans blame the loss of manufacturing jobs on trade deals, the loss of energy jobs on overregulation by the EPA. They believe that in order to create jobs we must return to isolationism and our industrial roots. Democrats, on the other hand, are trying to open the U.S. to the world and develop new and environmentally friendly technologies in order to create jobs. These are two clearly different approaches to solving our job problems. The latter will lead us into an uncertain future. The former will certainly lead us into a place far worse.
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