President obama traveled to elkhart indiana, where he talked about the 2016 campaign and the economy at a speech economy in a speech at concorde high school. [applause] president obama hello everybody. [applause] hello, hello. Can everybody please give kelly a big round of applause for that great introduction . [applause] it is good to be back in elkhart. [applause] great to be back at concord high school. Go minutemen. I brought a couple of friends with me. Your senator, joe donnelly, is here. Mayor tim neese, is here. I want to congratulate them for everyoneulate graduating tomorrow. I met a couple of the valedictorians, who seem like Outstanding Young ladies. My older daughter graduates next week. , ithere are any parents here hope you can give me some not to cry too much at the ceremony and embarrass her. If you have a chair, sit down, i have some stuff to say here. [applause] im not going to talk about the fact that my daughter leaving me is breaking my heart. Im not here to talk
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If you disagree. You can also participate via social media. Cspanwj is our twitter handle and you can join the live the conversation on facebook. Com cspan. Here is the oped in the Washington Post for may 20. We must read out the ignorant americans from we must weed out the ignorant americans from the election. Survey theed only ongoing president ial race to comprehend that the most pressing problem facing the nation is not big business, big labor, big media or even big money in politics, it is you, the American Voter. Out millions of irresponsible voters who cannot be bothered to learn the rudimentary workings of the constitution or the preferred proposals or their history, we may be able to mitigate the recklessness of the electorate. No, we should not direct physical barriers to ballot access. Lets purchase more voting machines, higher dish in a poll workers, streamlined registration process, may allow more ballots for seniors and produce more rock the boat ads, employing apathetic
Ive been in office just three we wereen i came here. Just a few months in what turned to be what was the worst economic crisis in our life times. Our businesses were loses 800,000 jobs a month and our Auto Industry was about to go and our families were losing their savings and their Health Insurance and as kelly were in danger of losing their homes and was hit harder that most. Here would peak at 19. 6 . Five people here were out of work. Was going then that i to have your back and we were going to work hard to bring this economy back. Whats happened since then . Has loyment in elkhart 4 . En to around at the peak of the crisis nearly one in ten homeowners in the of indiana were either behind on their mortgages or in for closer. Today its 130. Back then only 75 of your kids from high school and tomorrow 90 of them will. Auto industry just had its year ever and the capital of the world is going to ship 40,000 rvs which is an record. So thats progress and its hanks to you, to the hard wo
Worst. Unemployment peaked at 20 shortly after my visit. Nearly one in five people were out of work. This week, i returned to elkhart. Unemployment there has now fallen to around 4 . More families are on sturdy ground. More are covered by health insurance. More kids are graduating from high school. It is no accident. It is because people worked hard and sacrificed and looked out for each other. But its also because we made a series of smart decisions early in my presidency, to rescue the auto industry, to help families refinance their homes, to invest in things like hightech manufacturing, clean energy, and the infrastructure that creates good new jobs. Not to mention job training that helps folks learn new skills to fill those jobs. The results are clear. Americas businesses have created 14. 5 million new jobs over 75 straight months. We have seen the first sustained manufacturing growth since the 1990s. We cut and employment by more than half. Another 20 million americans have insura