Posted on 07/24/2013 11:25:27 AM PDT by xzins
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Let me give you a quick preview of what I’ll be fighting for and why.
The first cornerstone of a strong and growing middle class has to be an economy that generates more good jobs in durable, growing industries. Over the past four years, for the first time since the 1990s, the number of American manufacturing jobs hasn’t gone down; they’ve gone up. But we can do more. So I’ll push new initiatives to help more manufacturers bring more jobs back to America. We’ll continue to focus on strategies to create good jobs in wind, solar, and natural gas that are lowering energy costs and dangerous carbon pollution. And I’ll push to open more manufacturing innovation institutes that turn regions left behind by global competition into global centers of cutting-edge jobs. Let’s tell the world that America is open for business – including an old site right here in Galesburg, over on Monmouth Boulevard.
Tomorrow, I’ll also visit the port of Jacksonville, Florida to offer new ideas for doing what America has always done best: building things. We’ve got ports that aren’t ready for the new supertankers that will begin passing through the new Panama Canal in two years’ time. We’ve got more than 100,000 bridges that are old enough to qualify for Medicare. Businesses depend on our transportation systems, our power grids, our communications networks – and rebuilding them creates good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced. And yet, as a share of our economy, we invest less in our infrastructure than we did two decades ago. That’s inefficient at a time when it’s as cheap as it’s been since the 1950s. It’s inexcusable at a time when so many of the workers who do this for a living sit idle. The longer we put this off, the more expensive it will be, and the less competitive we will be. The businesses of tomorrow won’t locate near old roads and outdated ports; they’ll relocate to places with high-speed internet; high-tech schools; systems that move air and auto traffic faster, not to mention get parents home to their kids faster. We can watch that happen in other countries, or we can choose to make it happen right here, in America.
In an age when jobs know no borders, companies will also seek out the country that boasts the most talented citizens, and reward them with good pay. The days when the wages for a worker with a high-school degree could keep pace with the earnings of someone who got some higher education are over. Technology and global competition aren’t going away. So we can either throw up our hands and resign ourselves to diminished living standards, or we can do what America has always done: adapt, pull together, fight back and win.
Which brings me to the second cornerstone of a strong middle class: an education that prepares our children and our workers for the global competition they’ll face.
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Everybody knows they chose Alabama because of their football program!
When you’re raising oxen for the line, they don’t need no steenkin’ roads. Makes ‘em strong to pull through the mud.
Just love all these new ideas. Are the people smart enough to recognize that these are the same programs that have failed in the past just wrapped up in a few different words?
There were wild cheers from the audience at this line. Obama is telegraphing his intention to go around Congress, once again.
Typical Baraq. Five personal pronouns in the snip alone.
Really? Welfare Warriors?
Who needs a job when there are these idiots influencimg policies?
Look out Jacksonville. the Anti-Midas Obama is coming to town. You will have lost most of your "building" jobs by this time next year.
How long has he stayed in DC for since he took office? It seems like once or twice a week he is in CA than FL or something like that.
along with Mercedes Benz, Hyundai also in Alabama, and Kia just over the border in Georgia...yep, gotta be the roads...
Wow that might be the only pic of zero at a podium without at least one or two black or Hispanics sitting behind him. Could that be deliberate?
Although I hate what Obama stands for politically I have to give him credit for being smart enough to go to the American people, like Reagan did. (It’s probably the Socialist/Marxist way when you can’t have an outright military coup.) Would that we had a legion of Reagans who had the inclination and intelligence to take their case to the American people and replace the Socialists.
The only person I see today matching Obmaa's smart political sense of connecting with the American people is Sarah Palin. Why don't we have more Palins and Reagans?
This is probably why: becasue you have to be a true believer. Obama is a true believer. What he believes takes priority over political hand-wringing. Same with Reagan, same with Palin. The Right needs more true believers on the national scene and less political hand-wringing nonsense. As has been said, the Right needs more Pattons and less patent leather.
Commie Obama’s talking points are smokescreen distractions for the products of Obama’s first 4 years in office:
* Refusal to close US Southern Border to Mexican illegal alien invaders
* No known un-forged records of Citizenship, or Scholarship
* Benghazi Massacre
* Cover up of Benghazi Massacre
* Destruction of Seal Team Six
* IRS-Obama’care” Commune Death Grip on Wealth and Health
* NSA-Gestapo Death Grip
* Destruction of the US Coal Industry
* Refusal to permit XL Pipeline construction
* Trillion Dollar a year Federal Overspending
* Monthly violations of the US Constitution by Obama
BTW, the best indicator of a PHONY ADMINISTRATION is the number of its REAL SCANDALS.
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