The only problem with that assumption is that it has NEVER HAPPENED. And in order for it TO happen, it pre-supposes some new industry(ies) that produce something that can only be made in the US, has a high margin, and will be consumed by virtually every country on the planet. And I can’t even imagine what that would be, but I can tell you for sure it won’t happen next year.

So the math just doesn’t add up. No matter how hard you try, it doesn’t work.

So the Romney “smaller slice of a bigger pie” solution is using a pie in the sky.

Yes, and 162.5 million jobs is easy to accomplish!. If each of them worked three jobs, we’d need only 54.17 million people to fill them all!. Of course, not being able to sleep might impair their job performance somewhat. Maybe they can catch up on the weekends.

I know! Let’s give jobs to illegal immigrants—we are being overrun with them anyway and we can always get more. Or we could repeal the child labor laws (which repeal is probably buried in the Republican platform somewhere) and put the 8-year-olds back to work. And there will be more kids anyway because of the Repugnant’s stance on birth control. You don’t want to spend money on schools for them so put them to work! And eliminate retirement—-you work until you die on the job—-then your body can be sent down to the local (privately owned) power plant and burned along with all that dirty coal to generate electricity (and profits for some plutocrat). Does that sound too much “Nazi-ish” and even offensive? I apologize but it perhaps does so because it’s pointing to the kind of corporate fascism that the Republicans and the rich want to impose on the 99% It will perhaps be more benign that what happened in Germany but will be fascism nonetheless.