Today, Barack Obama and Joe Biden traveled to the western edge of Lake Erie in Ohio and held a discussion on the economy on the roof of the Lucas County Public Library in Toledo.Attending the meeting was a small, diverse crowd of guests, all of whom were intent on hearing about new solutions.The folks here in Toledo are hurting. Their jobs have been shipped overseas, and they want to know why.Joe Biden had this to say:
Why is a company going stay in Toledo if the roads aren’t as good, access to the ports aren’t as good, the airports aren’t as good, or why in Delaware, why in New York or why anywhere? Why are they going to do that when you can invest in a country, where you can get your goods out -- not just labor cheaper -- but you get your goods out cheaper?One of the ways to keep America’s corporations here, and Barack has been talking about it for three years, and I’ve been talking about it as well -- the way is to invest in the infrastructure.And, by the way, if we invest just twenty billion dollars a year or ten billion dollars a year in the United States of America, in infrastructure towards airports, roads, sewer systems, guess what? You are creating jobs where the average pay, even for laborers, is fifty thousand dollars a year. There’s two ways of dealing with it – you’ll cover both ends.
Barack discussed another idea on how an Obama-Biden administration would offer more jobs to Americans and improve the quality of their lives:
Start building highspeed rail. I mean there’s no reason why not -- especially these days. You want to take a flight, you know, you gotta drive there, take off your shoes, you get delayed for an hour…. you don’t even get peanuts on the plane, you know? Then they lose your bags at the other end!Why not build high speed light rail like every other advanced nation? That would save us on energy costs, save people time and put people back to work. That makes sense.
Later, Barack was asked what he and his administration would do to improve our cities. Here is what he had to say:
Peter RubiAugust 31th, 2008 Hamilton, Indiana
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