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Q Hi, Mr. President. I was actually recently laid off of a position working at our local community college, helping dislocated workers get back and get retrained. But the position was funded on workforce investment dollars and the funding ended. As I look for a new position in social services, one of my concerns is I’m having trouble finding a position that pays enough...
Well, listen, what I just want to say to the reporters who are here: You’ve got three small businesses who are outstanding examples of American entrepreneurship, whether it’s food services, retail, construction. All across the country, you’re seeing examples of folks who have confidence in the economy and have confidence in America,and it’s their inge...
THE PRESIDENT: As many of you are aware, earlier today a number of people were shot in Tucson, Arizona, including several who were meeting at a supermarket with their congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords. We are still assembling all the facts, but we know that Representative Giffords was one of the victims. She is currently at a hospital in the area, and she is battling for her...
Q Good afternoon, Mr. President, your excellencies（阁下） . I am from Somalia. I came all the way here with one question, and that is, living in conflict in a country that has confused the whole world, and being part of the diaspora（离散的犹太人） that went back to risk our lives in order to make Somalia a better place, especially with what we’re going through right ...
So it’s no wonder that the amount student borrowers owe has risen almost 25 percent just over the last five years. Think about that. Just in the last five years, the debt of students has done up 25 percent. And this isn’t some abstract policy for me. I understand this personally, because Michelle and I, we had big loans to pay off when we graduated. I remember wh...
Hi everybody. On Wednesday, I spoke about what we need to do as a country to build a better bargain for the middle class, to make sure everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead in the 21st century economy. You see, over the past four and a half years, America has fought its way back from the worst recession of our lifetimes. We saved the auto industry, took on a brok...
Now, as a country, we have a responsibility to encourage American innovation. I talked about this quite a bit at my State of the Union. Companies like yours have always driven the discovery of new products and new ideas. You do it better than anybody. But what you also know is that it’s not always profitable to — in the short-term, at least — for you to inv...
Laura Meckler. Q Thank you. Mr. President, in your opening statement you referred to the fact that the British government has been taking some very tough steps towards — to get their budget in order, and you said you had committed to cut the deficit in half. Could you talk about whether you think that those decisions are going to be — the decisions that they&rsqu...
Now, as any scientist will tell you, it’s often a challenge to commercialize research. You come up with a great idea, but moving that new discovery from theory to practice or from the lab to the marketplace, that’s a challenge. So that’s why today, here at Penn State, I’m announcing what we’re calling the Better Buildings Initiative, and it&rsqu...
All right, I’ve got time for one more question. I’m going to call on this young lady right here. Q I’m really nervous. Thank you, Mr. President, for being here. There’s a lot of people sending you a lot of good energy, one being my 82-year-old aunt. She wanted me to make sure I told you that. THE PRESIDENT: Tell her I said hi. Q Okay. I’m a mass...
I’ve also proposed a three-year freeze on all non-security discretionary（任意的，自由决定的） spending — a step that would bring that spending to its lowest level as a share of the economy in 50 years. And we’ve brought unprecedented（空前的） transparency to federal spending by placing all of it online at USAspending.gov and Recovery.gov, so Americans can...
Hello from the Country Corner Farm in Alpha, Illinois! For the past few days, I’ve been traveling to small towns and farm towns here in the heartland of this country. I sat down with small business owners in Gutenberg, Iowa; and ranchers（牧场主） and farmers in Peosta. I had lunch with veterans in Cannon Falls, Minnesota; and talked to plant workers at a seed distribu...
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. It is good to be here at Ernest Maier Block. I just had a chance to take a quick tour, a look around with Brendan Quinn, President and CEO of Ernest Maier, and it’s a remarkable story. Brendan came here initially（最初，首先） to help a family business, turn it around; it was experiencing losses. He ended up purchasing the compan...
Hi everybody. Today, I’m at Del Sol High School, in Las Vegas, to talk with students and families about immigration. We are a nation of immigrants. It has always given America a big advantage over other nations. It keeps our country young, dynamic, and entrepreneurial. But today, our immigration system is broken, and everybody knows it. That’s why, nearly two yea...
Thank you, Chuck, for that very kind introduction. Chuck is a proud police officer, he’s the proud parent of a police officer, and he has dedicated his life to law enforcement and their families.So I want to thank him for his extraordinary service. I want to recognize the entire Fraternal Order of Police and its leadership, including Jim Pasco, for all your work on beh...
All right, let me close by saying this. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit — not a few weeks ago, just a few days ago — I had the opportunity to visit a Chrysler plant in Detroit. This is a place obviously that’s been harder hit than just about anywhere, not just during this financial crisis but for a couple of decades now. The auto industry alo...
Hi everybody. The story of America is a story of progress. It’s written by ordinary people who put their shoulders to the wheel of history to make sure that the promise of our founding applies not just to some of us – but to all of us. Farmers and blacksmiths who chose revolution over tyranny. Immigrants who crossed oceans and the Rio Grande. Women who reached fo...
Hi everybody. This weekend, we'll dedicate the newest American icon on our National Mall – the National Museum of African American History and Culture. It's a beautiful building, five stories high and some 70 feet below the ground, situated just across the street from the Washington Monument. And this museum tells a story of America that hasn't always taken...
Now, two years later, though, we’re in a different place. In part because of the economic plan that my recovery board helped shape, the economy is now growing again. Over the last year, businesses have added more than a million jobs. The pace of hiring and growth is picking up, and that’s encouraging news. But at the same time, while businesses are adding jobs, m...
All right. Gentleman right here.Q Hi, Mr. President. First off, thank you very much on behalf of everyone here for coming today. It really means a lot to us.THE PRESIDENT: You bet.Q My name is Alan Berchel (ph). I’m a Canadian. I just moved here about a year ago. And my question for you today is in reference to the Canadian tar sands. Now, we’ve heard you speak t...