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On the recordOctober 12, 2008
We'll create another 2 million jobs by fixing our crumbling roads and schools and bridges, our infrastructure. And if people ask you how are we going to pay for that? You just tell them, if we can afford to spend $10 billion a month rebuilding Iraq, we can spend some time rebuilding Ohio.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Obama emphasizes the need for infrastructure investment to create jobs.

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