the charlotte observer this morning. first page front page of the charlotte observer this morning. the convention kicks off in at 5:00 p.m. we will go over the schedule in just a few minutes. voters in the second term undeserved, country is worse off. a belief that president obama does not deserve election according to a new poll. voters say that the nation is in worse condition now than it was in 2008. they say that obama does not deserve reelection. that is the top line of this poll. that seems to be a constant theme in this morning s papers. are you better off? that is the question this morning for the first section of of the washington journal. are you better off than you were four years ago? for democrats, 202-737-0001. for republicans, 202-737-0002. for independents, 202-628-0205. please allow 30 days between your calls. you can make a comment on our facebook page. you can make a comment on twitter, twitter.com/c-spanwj. and journal@c-span.org is our e- mail
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was prior to the recession with 6 million fewer workers. that s a very disturbing statistic. is this a trend we re going to see? it looks like a mountain to me. thank you. let s go at this for a bit. that is why we are here. part of that answer is more manufacturing in the country because that addresses not only the domestic market but all of those emerging consumers in other parts of the world. manufactured goods represent a smaller part of the economy than exports and they can create wealth for the country. on one level, the fact we are producing as much as we did before the recession is your workers says we have an increase in productivity. that is never a bad thing. but we need to take those additional resources and put them back to work and manufacturing is a great place to do that. developing markets are a great place to solve u.s. problems. dominic mackenzie came out with that study in conjunction with the president s job council where you looked at the course of a