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The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release 专科

December 06, 2010

Remarks by the President on the Economy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina Forsyth Technical Community College -- West Campus, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

12:28 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much. Thank you, everybody. (Applause.) Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Please, everybody have a seat, have a seat. It is good to be back in North Carolina. (Applause.) Love North Carolina. Although, I have to say, I came down here for slightly warmer weather. (Laughter.) What’s snow doing on the ground in North Carolina? (Laughter.) Come on, now. Anyway, it is a great honor to be with you here at Forsyth Technical Community College.

There are a few people I want to acknowledge who are just doing outstanding work. First of all, your incredibly impressive college president, Gary Green, is here. (Applause.) Your wonderful governor, Bev Perdue, is in the house. (Applause.) Your senators -- Richard Burr -- (applause) -- and the better-looking one, Kay Hagan. (Applause.) Two hardworking Congressmen, Mel Watt and Brad Miller are here. (Applause.) We've got Secretary of State Elaine Marshall in the house. (Applause.) And Mayor Allen Joines is here. (Applause.)

Well, it’s been about a month now since the midterm elections. And in Washington, at least, much of the chatter is still about the political implications of those elections -– what the results mean for Democrats, what they mean for Republicans, and already, we're hearing what this means for the next election. And I have to tell you I came to Winston-Salem because I believe that right now there are bigger issues at stake for our country than politics. (Applause.) And these issues call on us to respond not as partisans, but as Americans.

At this moment, we are still emerging from a once-in-a-lifetime recession that has taken a terrible toll on millions of families -– many here in North Carolina who have lost their jobs or their businesses, and their sense of security.

Now, fortunately, we’ve seen some encouraging signs that a recovery is beginning to take hold. An economy that had been shrinking for nearly a year is now growing. After nearly two years of job loss, our economy has added over one million private sector jobs in 2010. (Applause.)

I was just talking to Bev and she was mentioning that here in North Carolina we've seen 50,000 new jobs here in North Carolina. (Applause.) And after teetering on the brink of liquidation not two years ago, our auto industry is posting healthy gains. (Applause.) So we're seeing progress across the country.

But as we also saw in November’s jobs report, the recovery is simply not happening fast enough. Plenty of Americans are still without work. Plenty of Americans are still hurting. And our challenge now is to do whatever it takes to accelerate job creation and economic growth.

Now, in the short-term, that means preventing the middle-class tax increase that’s currently scheduled for January 1st. Right now, Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working through some differences to try to get this done. And there are some serious debates that are still taking place. Republicans want to make permanent the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. I have argued that we can't afford it right now. (Applause.) But what I've also said is we've got to find consensus here -- because a middle-class tax hike would be very tough not only on working families, it would also be a drag on our economy at this moment.

So I believe we should keep in place tax cuts for workers and small businesses that are set to expire. We've got to make sure that we're coming up with a solution, even if it’s not a hundred percent of what I want or what the Republicans want. There’s no reason that ordinary Americans should see their taxes go up next year. (Applause.)

We should also extend unemployment insurance for workers who’ve lost their jobs through no fault of their own. That is a priority. (Applause.) And I should mention that’s not only the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do -– because if millions of Americans who aren't getting unemployment benefits stop spending money, that slows down businesses. That slows down hiring. It slows down our recovery.

Now, even if we take these and other steps to boost our recovery in the short term, we're also going to have to make some serious decisions about our economy in the long run. We’ve got to look ahead –- not just to the next year but to the next 10 years, the next 20 years. We’ve got to ask ourselves where will the new jobs come from? What will it take to get them? And what will it take to keep the American Dream alive for our children and our grandchildren?

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