Video of President Obama – 6/11 Weekly Address – Partnering with the Private Sector to Spur Hiring

President Obama outlines how the government is partnering with the private sector to ensure workers have the skills they need to be competitive and grow the economy. “We’ve just come through the worst recession since The Great Depression” … “Too many folks are struggling to get on their feet” … “I wish that I could tell you that there is a quick fix to our economic problems, but the truth is that we didn’t get in this mess over night” … Watch this video of President Obama as he explains how job creation and economic growth is dependent on the private sector and how goverment will partner with private sector to train people to “get the necessary skills for the jobs they are applying for”. He says that it will be possible for 500,000 community college students to get a “manufacturing credential that has the industry stamp of approval” … New college graduates “will have a leg up” in the job market … the goal is to “give people good jobs that will support a middle class lifestyle” and “make it a goal to have the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020″. President Obama explains that “more and more jobs are being created in the clean energy sector”, therefore it is in his plans to become more eco-friendly (investing in wind power, solar power, bio fuesl that make us less dependent on foreign oil), clean up the planet. Basically, this is a video of his plans for improvement and how it is not the responsibility of the government to create jobs, but that responsibility of the private sector and how the government plans to help business owners and citizens recover with the skills and career focuses needed through proper training, environmental changes and government support, so that people can pay their bills and move forward with a plan for recreating a middle class lifestyle. “Steps to make changes for years to come” … to give our kids a better life.