i think he does mean business. i think when all the talk shows my wife and i were getting ready to watch the cleveland browns football game on sunday. before that, we were watching some of these shows. you heard all these conservative republicans and conservative politicians in washington say the president s committing class warfare. and when the president didn t back down when they accused him of this this is a group that s committed class warfare for the last to years. they re committing the class warfare. the president is standing strong, he s driving forward. he means it. there are a lot of rural people in appalacia, ohio, that are interested in this. going to ohio on thursday to begin to put people to work on that bridge. we have that all over our state. rural areas, urban areas, people wanting to go to work. that s what the president is fighting for.
America. everything from railroads in d appalacia to a new passenger terminal in new orleans and these projects will put hundreds of thousands of americans to work and in many cases they already have and, that is part of the reason chuck is here today. he is the president of a construction company in pennsylvania, and the recovery act will fund about a third of the work his paving company will do this year. that has allowed him to hire two engineers and 100 employees. so in case people are wondering, whether or not the recovery act created jobs and opportunity for businesses, talk to chuck. the new equipment e ordehe orde will save an additional 40 jobs on an assembly line in california and these are well-paying, long lasting, private sector jobs that would not be possible without the recovery act. they ll be doing the work that america needs done, for the to stay competitive in the global economy. no area is this more important