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On the recordJanuary 28, 2013
We're giving them all the skills they need to figure that out, but then we're going to turn around and tell them to start that business and create those jobs in China or India or Mexico or someplace else.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Remarks at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas

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