The U.S. needs all the jobs it can get, and we’re all for employers bringing factory work back here from China and other foreign locales. We support American manufacturing — period.

But the nation is not going to see the return of loads of jobs that have been lost to outsourcing. The U.S. will prosper by creating jobs, as reflected in Friday’s upbeat national employment report. The economy added 243,000 jobs in January across most sectors of the economy, far more than experts had predicted. To keep the momentum going, the U.S. needs to encourage cutting-edge sectors where this nation holds a competitive advantage…Keep reading