For the 104th time since taking office, President Barack Obama has vowed to focus like a laser beam on the economy. Channeling his inner Edison, he said "We're going to build stuff and invent stuff". I wonder if that means we can throw out those environmentally unsafe, and mercury-laden, dim compact florescent light bulbs and start buying those Thomas Edison incandescent lights again?
Obama vows to shift economy into overdrive
SCHENECTADY, New York (AFP) – President Barack Obama claimed the role of champion of US businesses Friday, vowing to slip the economy into "overdrive" and enlisting corporate America in his crusade to create jobs.Obama named General Electric CEO and Chairman Jeffrey Immelt to head a new Council on Jobs and Competitiveness in his latest conciliatory gesture to the business sector following a Republican mid-term election rout.
"The past two years were about pulling our economy back from the brink," Obama said after touring a GE plant in upstate New York, which manufactures hardware for solar, steam and wind power energy industries.
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