Gallup: Keeping manufacturing best way to create jobs

The White House called the job numbers a sign that
incentives for business to invest were helping grow the economy, adding that it
would look for other ways to invest in areas such as infrastructure, clean energy
and education.  

For their part, Republicans also called the numbers a good
sign, but have also gone on the attack against what they term the excessive
government regulations and high taxes that stifle job creation.

President Obama went on the offensive during last year’s midterm elections against corporations that ship jobs overseas, saying Republicans had sided with
companies over American workers.

Both Republicans and Democrats cited keeping manufacturing
jobs in the United States as the top job creator in the Gallup poll. That idea
also came in first in a November Gallup survey, though it has become seven
percentage points more popular in the last four months.

Republicans ranked lowering taxes and reducing government
regulations and involvement second and third, respectively, in the poll.
Democrats put creating more infrastructure work second and doing more to help
small business third.