President Barack Obama claimed the role of champion of U.S. businesses on Jan. 21, vowing to slip the economy into "overdrive" and enlisting corporate America in his crusade to create jobs.
"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. "The next two years, our job now, is putting our economy into overdrive," Obama said, in a thematic shift for his presidency ahead of next week's State of the Union address.
"For America to compete around the world, we need to export more goods around the world," he said, in a city where Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, founded the precursor to GE.
"We're going back to Thomas Edison's principles. We're going to build stuff and invent stuff," Obama said, arguing that specific administration policies had helped to spur small businesses and job growth.
And they say Obama has a way with words, "build stuff and invent stuff"
Too bad they have banned the light bulb Thomas Edison had invented; we are forced to use compact fluorescent bulbs, which are more expensive and which contain toxic mercury.
"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. "The next two years, our job now, is putting our economy into overdrive," Obama said, in a thematic shift for his presidency ahead of next week's State of the Union address.
"For America to compete around the world, we need to export more goods around the world," he said, in a city where Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, founded the precursor to GE.
"We're going back to Thomas Edison's principles. We're going to build stuff and invent stuff," Obama said, arguing that specific administration policies had helped to spur small businesses and job growth.
And they say Obama has a way with words, "build stuff and invent stuff"

Too bad they have banned the light bulb Thomas Edison had invented; we are forced to use compact fluorescent bulbs, which are more expensive and which contain toxic mercury.