Posted on 06/24/2011 9:41:47 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
President Obama took his jobs pitch to Pittsburgh Friday, announcing a manufacturing partnership aimed at reviving a key sector of the American economy.
The Advanced Manufacturing Partnership is designed to team government, industry and higher education together to fund new technologies. Obama's plan calls for an initial $500 million down payment toward that effort.
Speaking at Carnegie Mellon University, Obama said the Steel City is a living example of how manufacturing helped build the middle class in America, and said the country must continue investing in new technologies to sustain it.
"Here and across America's industrial heartland, millions clocked in each day at foundries and on assembly lines to make things. And the stuff we made -- steel, cars, planes -- was the stuff that made America what it is," he said.
But evolving technology and globalization mean the U.S. must continue to invest to compete, Obama said.
"We have not run out of stuff to make; we've just got to reinvigorate our manufacturing sector so that it leads the world the way it always has, from paper and steel and cars to new products that we haven't even dreamed up yet. That's how we're going to strengthen existing industries; that's how we're going to spark new ones," he said.
With Republicans in Congress unwilling to consider any new stimulus measures, Obama has been holding events like Friday's to send the signal to voters he is still taking steps to revive the sputtering economy.
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I see the standard “progressive” solution...give govt money.
I’d like to see a standard intelligent person’s solution... get Obama and his clown show crew’stupid butts out of private enterprise and let those of us who can actually think and make things get on with digging us out of the democratic cesspool.
If those quotes were his actual words, why do they think this guy is such a genius? It doesn’t read like something a real genius would say verbally.................... If he was an editor of the school newspaper, it doesn’t say much for the school.
the only thing he could do that would help business is to resign
Unreal. They really think we're stupid.
What do you get when you cross an insomniac, a dyslexic and an agnostic?
Someone who stays awake all night wondering if there really is a dog.
On another note....
Hey! Obama made a speech about creating jobs to make STUFF!
Let's all go out and start up a business!
Another pointless program where the liberals show that they still think throwing money at a problem will make it go away... Meanwhile, the back of those of us who make our living in the manufacturing industry already are breaking under the weight of Obamacare, and depressed wages.
Exactly. These idiots have no real clue as to what’s really going on and why...
I read that Boeing’s debt to equity ratio is 292%. That is on the verge of bankruptcy and the NLRB won’t let them move out of Seattle?
STOP IT, just stop it, dammit - I can't take it any more!!!!
but, isn’t building more robots just going to compound the problems with unemployment that were created by ATM’s?
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