For your > will be a panacea to that which ails the middle class. IIRC, Trump's campaign statement was "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs." Each time I heard him say that, I

For your > will be a panacea to that which ails the middle class. IIRC, Trump's campaign statement was "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs." Each time I heard him say that, I wondered, what kind of jobs, for how much money? All I could think of was that OHSA, unions, various labor laws and inspections, and, then, likely most important of all, lawyers suing companies that have injured workers, would largely determine what kinds of jobs and for how much. On the "how much" part, broadly we will have to continue to use the old forces of supply and demand: Or, with enough new manufacturing jobs, there will be a worker shortage. Then there will be more robots and better trained and paid workers to run the robots. From the figure that the US has 90+ million people who could work not working, I suspect that the US is now essentially digging itself out of a big, black hole that it never should have gotten into in the first place. IMHO, nearly all of Trump's campaign statements are simplistic in the extreme (I make this as something easy to observe and relevant but without a value judgment except that maybe such simplicity can be effective political speech making). But, maybe he is correct about manufacturing: Maybe to dig out of the hole the US needs to have a lot of the 90+ million working in factories. I would hope for better than that. That factory work chews up people is a 100+ years old story. Maybe with enough in robots, good employers, etc. factory work can be made humane. Maybe the situation is better at, say, Boeing or Lockheed. To me, that factories result in lost fingers, limbs, and worse is such an old story that there is little or no excuse for such things now. Lawyers that have laws suits that specify $1 million per finger should get the safety switches installed, the inspections done, the oil leaks fixed, etc. IIRC, there are cases where the CEOs are saying that there are big shortages of well qualified, e.g., trained, workers. Of course, maybe the CEOs just want the taxpayers to pay for the training. Whatever, if training is needed, then it stands to be the case that the workers will be more highly valued by the CEOs. We don't want bad situations. Maybe if nearly all of us are smarter from our educations, jobs, political participation, etc., we can do better. For Bloomberg, both the person and apparently the publication, apparently they don't much like Trump. Mike Bloomberg has given $100+ million to medical research and education at Johns Hopkins University so is a good guy in at least some respects! Maybe he was on balance a good mayor of NYC. Of course, in NYC he was for (A) rules to reduce salt in restaurant food, (B) rules to forbid selling really large sugar sweetened soft drinks, and (C) putting wind turbines on the tops of the buildings in NYC. Gee, Mike, all those wind turbines -- would look like some hideous scene from a Gothic Batman movie! Maybe Mike just wanted the wind turbines only on the tops of Trump's buildings?