my administration has launched two hubs for high-tech manufacturing in raliegh, north carolina and youngstown, ohio where we ve connected businesses to research universities where we can help america lead the world in technologies. tonight i m announcing we ll launch six more this year. bipartisan bills in both houses could double the number of these hubs and the jobs they create. so get those bills to my desk. put more americans back to work. let s do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in america. over the past five years my administration has made more loans to small business owners than any other. and when 98% of our exporters are small businesses, new trade
my administration has launched two hubs for high-tech manufacturing in raliegh, north carolina and youngstown, ohio where we ve connected businesses to research universities where we can help america lead the world in technologies. tonight i m announcing we ll launch six more this year. bipartisan bills in both houses could double the number of these hubs and the jobs they create. so get those bills to my desk. put more americans back to work. let s do more to help the entrepreneurs and small business owners who create most new jobs in america. over the past five years my administration has made more loans to small business owners than any other. and when 98% of our exporters are small businesses, new trade
families can rebuild a little bit of security. we have to make sure this recovery which is real leaves nobody behind. that s going to be my focus throughout the year. this is a year of action. that s what the people expect and they are ready and willing to pitch in and help. this is a job for everybody. working people are looking for the kind of stable secure jobs that too often went overseas in the past couple of decades. i will join companies and colleges and take action to boost high tech manufacturing that attracts good jobs and grow the middle class. business owners are ready to hire more workers. that s not once, but twice to lay out steps to help more workers to earn the skills they need for today s new jobs and
get it was to beat the president of the united states in november. the president fought back almost a year ago. he announced the message of the reelection campaign. the same place where teddy roosevelt gave birth to progressivism. we have to ask ourselves, do we want to make the investments we need in things like education and research and high-tech manufacturing, all those things that help make us an economic super power, or do we want to keep in place the tax breaks for the the wealthiest americans in our country? because we can t afford to do both. that s not politics. that s just math. this message was no secret. the president campaigned on raising the the top tax rate throughout the past year. but i also want to make sure we re asking the wealthiest households to pay a slightly higher tax on incomes over $250,000. we have to do it in a balanced way. asking the wealthy to pay a little more.
we have so much more to do given the hole we were in. the president s vision which is an economy based on the middle class, high tech manufacturing, more math and science, really investing in our infrastructure to help our businesses and create jobs. yes, they re looking at where am i right now? where is the economy right now but they re looking at where we ve been and where they want to go and i think if you put that all together we re confident that enough of the american people will choose the president s direction tonight. david, what s the message the voters are sending if they re-elect a republic wran house and they re-elect your boss? what s that message? my sense is voters are going to be making individual decisions in their own congressional districts. post redes triistricting, it go challenging. most believe democrats will pick