Reiterating his administration’s commitment to stay way ahead of the global race in clean energy, US President Barack Obama has said he does not want to have new technological breakthroughs and manufacturing taking place in India and China.
“We’re in a competition all around the world, and other countries — Germany, China, South Korea — they know that clean energy technology is what is going to help spur job creation and economic growth for years to come,” Obama said in his address to the workers at an Allison Transmission plant in Indiana.
“That’s why we’ve got to make sure that we win that competition.
“I don’t want the new breakthrough technologies and the new manufacturing taking place in China and India,” asserted the US President, adding he wants all those new jobs in the United States of America, with American workers, American know-how, American ingenuity.
“We’re going to have a lot of jobs in the service sector because we’re a mature economy, but America’s economy is always going to rely on outstanding manufacturing, where we make stuff, where we’re not just buying stuff overseas but we’re making stuff here, and we’re selling it to somebody else,” he said.
“This is also where a clean energy economy is being built.
“This is the kind of company that will make sure that America remains the most prosperous nation in the world,” Obama said.
Job well done
Saluting the commandos who eliminated Osama bin Laden for a “job well done”, President Barack Obama has declared the US had “cut off” al-Qaeda’s head with the killing of its chief and would ultimately crush the terror outfit.
“We have cut off their head and we will ultimately defeat them,” he said last evening after meeting privately with members of the assault team that killed bin Laden in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad on Monday.
“We’re making progress in our major goal, our central goal in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and that is disrupting and dismantling and...ultimately defeating al-Qaeda,” Obama said at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where had gone to address American troops on their return from active duty in Afghanistan.
