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| President Barack Obama speaks to employees Wednesday at the Master Lock Co. in Milwaukee. / M. Spencer Green/AP |
MILWAUKEE - President Barack Obama is using the resurgence of U.S.
manufacturing to make an economic case for his re-election, touring
factory floors and promoting a made-in-America message that seemed to
fit his political campaign like, as it turned out Wednesday, lock and
key.
Most presidents like to surround
themselves with proud workers at factories, but Obama has gone further
by making the rebounding manufacturing a key plank of his election-year
agenda, arguing that the increasingly service-oriented U.S. economy
needs to make things in order to prosper in the long run. He opened a
three-day political trip with a stop in Wisconsin, a state he won
handily in 2008 but is expected to pose more difficulty for him this
year. Obama called
for tax cuts for American manufacturers and higher taxes for companies
that move overseas, pressing what he hopes will be a winning campaign
issue. He also acknowledged that many factories have closed, their jobs
have gone overseas and a lot of them "are not going to come back." Read more about this...
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