Buildings, and et cetera. so, there has to be a transition, and we are not going to suddenly get all of the energy from wind or all of the energy from sun, because we just don t have the technology to do it. but what we should be doing is planning over the next 20 or 30 years to move in that direction. that is what countries like china are doing. that is what countries like france are doing. that is what countries all across europe are doing, and asia are doing. we don t want to be left behind. we are the only ones who have kind of missed the boat, so we are still using 20th century technologies and everybody else is producing 21st century technologies. look at what happened with the car. we started getting our clock cleaned when consumers decided they wanted a cleaner car, and suddenly, everybody was buying their cars from japan or south korea now. and we wanted the make sure that that does not happen when it comes to wind turbines or solar energy, et cetera.
That last year we weren t paying any attention to jobs, that we were just kind of i don t know what we were doing, harry, i guess we were just sort of sitting around. the truth is, is that everything we did last year was designed around how do we break the back of the recession and move the economic recovery forward in order to promote job growth. you can t have job growth if the economy s contracting by 6%. because businesses look and they say, nobody s spending money, we got no customers, we can t hire. so, the first thing we had to do was to make sure companies weyi starting to make a profit and growing again. we are now in that position because of the work that harry did and a lot of these these two outstanding members of congress did, congresswoman berkley and titus. the economy is now growing again. but here s here s the challenge that we ve got. the challenge we have is that
Timeliness of toyota s big recall and the company s handling of safety complaints. upset on the ice at the olympics. u.s. olympic skater evan lysacek becomes the first man to take a cold since brian boitano in calgary. he won over evgeni plushenko. and the astronauts of the international space station are ready to come home sunday. right now we have their boss, charles bowdin who is a retired major general, and a pleasure to have you here, sir. thank you for being here. ali, it is quite a pleasure to be with you, and i m admiring all that you have been doing. thank you, sir. we are a miring what is going on at the international space station and for people who are