Part of the myth again - creates jobs? Who will do those jobs? There are fewer than 4% unemployed in the States - why would BMW for example locate a factory in a country where there is a labour shortage? The industries that have gone, steel, mining, cars, have gone because of a lack of competitiveness. The US has let its citizens down in these areas where this work was done - the country isn't full of unemployed people.
With my political leanings I am loathed to type the following but it has to be said that Thatcher effectively got rid of those industries here. It was tough, we have our rust belts our devastated mining towns and demolished car factory but over 30 years we as a nation have come through that and there are jobs in those areas just not in those industries. In the Tyne/Wear valley which includes the metropolitan areas there are now MORE people in work than there were in the heyday of the mining and heavy industries. Its just different work they do - IT, Design, vehicle assembly, train building and so on. Had any UK politician over the last 30 years suggested that the way to "fix" things was to reopen all the closed mines, to start building ships and to revive Rover would have been laughed off the stage. This clown suggests it will happen and he is a saviour. A real politician a real president would pledge to invest in new industries and bring modern high tech high paid jobs to the country - not to put a tariff on Chinese steel and reopen American steel mills and produce steel at uneconomical rates.