Barack Obama TOWN HALL MEETING in Fairless Hills, PA-Part 7

Barack Obama spoke to hundreds today at a town hall meeting in Fairless Hills, PA. Below is a press release regarding the success of the event.

March 11, 2008
Filmed by: Chris Barrett

Part 7

Obama Vows to Change Washington, Strengthen Middle Class

FAIRLESS HILLS, PA—Senator Barack Obama today toured Gamesa Energy USA, a wind turbine manufacturer in Fairless Hills, and held a town hall meeting with workers where he pledged to end the special interest influence in Washington and strengthen the middle class.

"We need real change -- the kind of change that's about more than switching the party in the White House," Obama said. "We need a change in our politics -- a leader who can end the division in Washington so we can stop just talking about our challenges and start solving them; who doesn't defend lobbyists as part of the system, but sees them as part of the problem; who actually says what he means and means what he says; and who will be a voice for middle class Americans every day for the next four years. And that's the kind of President I intend to be."

At the meeting, Obama discussed his plans to invest $150 billion over 10 years to build a green energy sector that would create up to 5 million new jobs for workers in Pennsylvania and across the country. He also stressed his opposition to unfair trade deals like NAFTA and vowed to end tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, while rewarding those that keep good jobs with decent wages here at home.

Obama has also announced plans to provide a $1,000 tax credit for working families, cut health care costs for the typical American family by up to $2,500 per year and eliminate income taxes altogether for seniors with an annual income of less than $50,000.

His commitment to make a real difference in the lives of working families like those in Bucks County began nearly 25 years ago when he worked as an organizer to provide job training and set up after-school programs in a Southside Chicago community devastated by steel plant closings.

Bucks County, once home to a US Steel plant that employed nearly 10,000 workers at its peak, faced similar challenges when the company closed the bulk of its operations in the area by the early 1990s. The Gamesa plant now sits at the site of that former US Steel facility and has already begun to employ hundreds of Pennsylvanians in secure, higher-paying jobs that are part of the emerging green economy in the area. Gamesa is the world's second-largest wind energy turbine manufacturer and the world's fourth-largest energy developer.

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[mandy26lez]

bring your eggs and tomatoes to the obama townhall meetings! barry still thinks he is doing a great job the people need to tell him otherwise!

[raoulhery]

obama is done!! he failed to bring changes time to punish him this november

[GalwayRose1]

@Rich1598 . Nasty! Post his three College transcripts, i.e, if you can read?? Only added that remark because you did. Sorry.

Dr..........................

[mrbeaverman08]

Barry just doesn't get it.

[Rich1598]

@GalwayRose1 His records are not sealed but can you read?

[GalwayRose1]

Why do you sweet talk to this lovely lady. When you went to College, you will not open your records WHY ARE THEY SEALED?? MR. PRESIDENT OPEN THEM.

[IronLion27]

I didn't ask why there shouldn't be a Jewish state in the middle east. I asked why you think there shouldn't be one in general. And believe me We don't own all the money and the media in the world. I live in a pretty poor neigborhood.

[oldjoe5]

muslims on the planet will not sit there and watch Israel take over all the oil fields in the Middle East. Hence, the existence of Israel = WWIII = the end of mankind.

So no, I don't think there should be a Jewish State.

[oldjoe5]

occupy the US congress. No "viable" US candidate for Congress of President can ever speak ill of Israel or try to stop the billions of US taxpayer dollars given in gifts to that country very single year.

So Israel is in control of the world's only militayrrsuperpower and uses this leverage to engage in her blood lust hatred of all things arag and muslim. She is an insane nation that does not knwo when to stop. This will eventually lead to WWIII as China, Russia, India and the billion

[oldjoe5]

there should not be a Jewish State because there has been nothing but trouble on the Middle East for the USA since the creation of Israel. Israel has been an aggressive, imperialist, militarist nation from day one that has spents its history attacking, occupying, oppressing, and settling its neighbors. Israel has managed to take control of the US political system via the loyalty of elite "American" Jews, who have taken over virtually all of the mass media and used money and threats to