i think the president should focus on making bad jobs better or not trying to gain strength in any area that s been declining in jobs. let s be clear. when you re hollowing out a middle, a middle used to be powered by those manufacturing jobs and you replace it with jobs that don t even pay enough to send the kid to college, let alone buy a house, that s a real problem for the economy. you could have strong manufacturing but a not strong middle. it s not something people want to hear. so, the first thing we have to do is make those bad jobs better. we can t go anywhere with 60 million crappy low-wage service jobs. my dad worked at a factory. he started in 1934. took nine people to make a family wage. he kale back from service in world war ii with the unionization, social compact, product tifs was up, he had great job in the manufacturing. we can dot same thing for service today. the other thing is not every manufacturing job is a good job in america. for every aircraft assem bemer