The goal at the heart of this plan is to create jobs. Not just any jobs but jobs doing the work America needs done. Repairing our infrastructure, modernizing our schools and our hospitals, promoting the clean, alternative energy sources that will help us finally declare our independence from foreign oil.
Barack Obama: “The goal at the heart of this plan is to create jobs. Not just any jobs but jobs doing the work America needs done.…”
On the recordFebruary 12, 2009
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Obama discusses the objectives of a job creation plan focused on infrastructure and energy independence.
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