As any examination of economic downturns in history would show, employment lags the rest of the economic indicators. Wait for it.

And what the heck did you think unions were going to say about it?

You DID note when the manufacturing job decline began, right? July of 2000?

And if the Demcrats want to do something to encourage industry, they might want to stop cutting it off at the knees on almost every front, including taxes, environmental and other regulations, and many other policies based on the apparent proposition that industrial corporations are the most evil thing that ever happened to America and need to be restrained and controlled by force.