Obama in Virginia: ‘I want to make stuff here’
Source: Wash. Post
PETERSBURG, Va. — President Obama spoke encouragingly Friday about the improving economy, including the tentative revival of the manufacturing sector, as he touted his record on a factory floor in this battleground for his re-election campaign.
Speaking to workers at an aircraft-parts manufacturing plant, Obama outlined progress made on his watch in the auto industry and other parts of the economy, holding up a February jobs report that White House officials called encouraging as evidence.
But he also hammered Congress, chiding lawmakers for moving slowly on what he said were important initiatives to improve the economy and educate the future workforce.
“America thrives when we build things better than the rest of the world,” he told a friendly audience of nearly 1,500 people here at the Rolls-Royce Crosspointe plant, set among stands of pines in the flatlands outside Richmond. “I want to make stuff here and sell it over there.”
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