Rick Santorum participated in the Republican Presidential Forum on Manufacturing in Pella, Iowa yesterday. As the former Senator from Pennsylvania, Santorum has firsthand knowledge of the benefits of manufacturing jobs:

If there is one thing I hear when I go out across the country it's that we need made in America again, we need to make more things in America again and it's not just that pride of making things but it is the opportunity for those at the bottom end of the income scale to be able to get the jobs and I think the average manufacturing job earns about $20,000 more than non-manufacturing jobs.  That means folks at the bottom end and the middle can move up that income scale and if we create a competitive environment -- I've heard some candidates talk about we need a trade role with China.  No we don't, we need to just beat them.  We need to have to have an environment here that can attract those jobs back from China and the new innovative products to be made here.

Watch the whole video here.