Democrats Dont Have an Easy Answer for the Rust Belt

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69. I don't know

I live in Ohio and the so-called unfilled jobs are often low wage jobs...apprenticeships don't always lead to jobs...you have to have a manufacturing industry ...and any 'answer' that doesn't include that will fail. Also, retraining is a dirty word here because when the jobs were moved overseas either because of corporate greed or an attempt to be competitive in a trade environment that is grossly unfair to the US, re-training was offered and thousands have been retrained for jobs that never existed. While the state and some companies paid towards this effort, often, the unemployed person spent money too...and there is a great deal of bitterness...we still need autos, electronics, and lots of other things...we are not talking buggy whips here. Nor is robotics to blame as some claim...jobs were moved overseas to countries that engage in basically slave labor. If a country such as China, Japan, Mexico, Korea and even Europe (in particular France and Germany) do no allow our products to be sold there without demanding a plant in that country to make the goods...then a Tariff is in order.