Barack Obama TOWN HALL MEETING in Fairless Hills, PA-Part 3

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 3

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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[lulustive]

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired. Hope is more powerful than fear and Love is greater then hate! That is why Obama will bring back a government of the people, by the people, and FOR the people. He will bring honesty and integrity back to the Whitehouse.

[vveaponx]

I want to thank you again for posting this. This man is the only bright light amongst darkness in which we dwell in.

[YankyerNoodle]

You Kool Aid drinkers are flat out hilarious!!! Your intellectual dishonesty is repulsive! The fact this clown complains about the very Bush tax cuts, HE JUST EXTENDED, and then complains about Iraq...where Bush actually built a consensus and got approval from Congress..AND the U.N....all on the heels of spear heading the effort in Lybia...without congressional consensus, puts your intellectual dishonesty and vapid reasoning and blatant ideology over substance on full display! Puke,gag, gross!

[manulasat]

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[barsense]

Has done more than I thought he would be able to do to date. So I am satisfied.

Just like all candidates none of them can do everything that they want to do. But at least this one has been smart enough to get so far 122 promises thru Congress. Considering how congress works that is quite an accomplishment. And it is not over till it is over. People getting impatient and wanting everything instantly and listening to oppositions vicious attacks will stop some of it from being passed.

[lycanthropy2010]

OBAMA'S PLAN = When in debt, use a credit card.

[lycanthropy2010]

@lulustive Sure he will! And he plans on doing it by enlarging the Federal Government! My hero!

[pd18750]

From now until the next 22 years or so, this is now the "Americans' Revolution"...keyword: AmericanS'

[pd18750]

Fact of the matter is this: There is a revolutionary spirit that's just beginning, the likes of which hasn't been seen or felt since 1776 with the American Revolution. The time is NOW for this to happen, and by God, let it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET IT!!!

[pigmanobvious]

you are correct! there is enough about that man for true Americans to oppose without making stuff up. If you are so smart answer me this; he because of past associations(Ayerers, Wright and so on) would not pass a background check to enter the secret service to protect the president and yet he can become the president?

[MASSHOLEvids]

wy do people have to come up with stupid reasons to hate obama like he is the messiah or the anti christ,why can't you guys just opose him on the issues instead of making up stupid bulls@#t.