As soon as the job opening was posted on the afternoon of Friday, July 10, the deluge began.

C.R. England, a nationwide trucking company, needed an administrative assistant for its bustling driver training school here. Responsibilities included data entry, assembling paperwork and making copies.

It was a bona-fide opening at a decent wage, making it the rarest of commodities here in northwest Indiana, where steel industry layoffs have helped drive unemployment to about 10 percent.

When Stacey Ross, C. R. England’s head of corporate recruiting, arrived at her desk at the company’s Salt Lake City headquarters the next Monday, she found about 300 applications in the company’s e-mail inbox. Read more about scarce jobs…

The incredibly high rate of unemployment makes it all the more difficult to prevent foreclosures. Clearly, the banks shouldn’t have been bailed out. Consumers should have received the cash infusion. They’re the engine the powers the American economy.

One incredibly effective solution to the high rate of unemployment would be to require American companies to manufacture their products in the United States. They could be given tax cuts as an incentive.

The President should remember one thing: There will be no economic recovery without jobs.

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