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OK, but specifically, *what* jobs?

We just cannot compete with China in the cheap labor dept. Our people wouldn’t tolerate that.

We need jobs that make fast, serious money.

How about energy? (I’m talking oil, coal, and natural gas)

We’ve got undeveloped precious metal deposits in the Rockys.

We’ve always led in drug development and medical advancements. Stop subsidizing the overseas socialist programs. (They pay what we pay.)

Sell off ALL of the gov’t land to private investors. (NOT foreign investors) Allow human innovation to thrive.

Reform the tax code to something so simple and fair that we can’t help but thrive. (Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan would do it... without all the subsidies and BS he tried to toss in at the end to get public backing)

Yes. I believe that it really would be that easy to create a massive boom in this country within just one year. Just by passing tax code reform, businesses would be encouraged to expand ASAP. Opening up oil and mining (without the EPA to screw it up) would create great paying jobs within 18 months.

Oh! And get our boys into trade schools. Stop funding kids who don’t have the grades or talent to make it in college. We need plumbers, welders, pipe fitters, electricians, and truck drivers and we should encourage them to do it.

We can easily turn this around if people will reject the Democratic party and reject our intellectual elite.

The easy start is as you note: Energy.

More coal exports, natural gas and oil extraction will produce jobs as they have in North Dakota and Texas. We must stop anti-capitalism in the faux form of environmentalism. The public needs to understand that American environmental movements increase pollution. The bans on fossil fuels move the production to Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, China and Nigeria. The bans have no positive environmental effect— they actually make it worse globally.

That starting point leads to the unthinkable— the return of manufacturing to the Unites States. Energy is potentially so cheap in the US that manufacturing can do better here than in China and Europe.

Lowering corporate tax rates is the easy windfall. America has the highest corporate tax rates in the world. It is amazing we have as large of an economy as we do given the explicitly destructive policies we maintain against business. If tax rates moved GDP growth from 2.2 to 3.5 or even 4.0 then the net effect would be massive increases in government revenue. Lower tax rates would increase revenue as they have in almost every case.

America also has exciting features that China lacks:

1. Americans steal far less intellectual property than China does. China steals literally billions of dollars in intellectual property every year. Businesses are getting fed up with that. Intellectual property can be defended in the US court system. No such thin is possible in china. Business in China is largely organized systems of theft orchestrated by the communist party there.

2. America has breathable air. Sadly, one third of our western air pollution now comes from China but it is vastly diluted compared to the unbreathable air of major chinese cities. Though the UN assures us that China has the best government for fixing environmental problems— it is an unmitigated disaster.

3. We have a sustainable human population. China killed too many of its own people and too many babies. The aging population makes life in China social impossible. There are not enough young people to care for the rapidly tipping society of aging.

All of these factors tip in America’s favor and against alternatives such as Germany, Japan, France, and Russia, None of them can match our energy position.

It will be an American century. We just need to dump the democrats in the senate and the white house.