Saturday, March 2, 2013

Obama SOTU Jobs Rhetorical Analysis

Every day we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills they need to get those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living? (1) (1)By whose standards?


(2) CCC?  Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reductions necessary to fund the AJA.
  13:53 President Obama A year and a half ago, I put forward an American Jobs Act (2) that independent economists said would create more than 1 million new jobs. And I thank the last Congress for passing some of that agenda. I urge this Congress to pass the rest.(3) But tonight, I'll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let me repeat: Nothing I'm proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. (6)  It is not a bigger government we need,(5) but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth. (4) That's what we should be looking for.
(5) He increased his cabinet – made K-jobs in government.  Gov. cannot create private sector jobs. 
(3) Not humorous point.
(4) Obama agenda
(6) Three times in the past, he has said the same thing, only to spend  $$
  14:50 Manufacturing 14:50 President Obama
Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs in manufacturing. After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three. (2) Caterpillar is bringing jobs back from Japan.(1) Ford is bringing jobs back from Mexico. (3)  And this year, Apple will start making Macs in America again. (4)

(1) Not identified on caterpillar web site

(3) 1500 jobs
(2) Union jobs –2011-TX, CA, PA; 2012 – WA, NM, TX, FL, AZ, ND; 2013 – TX, UT, VA, NC, ND
(4) Not in place, BUT CEO AGREES IT IS POSSIBLE.
15:18 President Obama
There are things we can do, right now, to accelerate this trend. Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio.(2) A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the-art lab where new workers are mastering the 3-D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There's no reason this can't happen in other towns. (1)
(1)This was an open, competitive government selected process. Wonder what Ohio had to give to receive this funding?
(2) Voice change, but it could happen in DC too
 
15:43 President Obama
So tonight, I'm announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs,(1) where businesses will partner with the Department of Defense and Energy (2) to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs.
(1)Where are they located?  You can talk all you want about possibilities, but people want results.  Sounds like the military base closure selection committee.  Politics at its best.
(2)$30M = DOD, DOE, NASA & NSF
  15:56 President Obama
And I ask this Congress to help create a network of 15 of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is made right here in America. We can get that done.
Gov. subsidizes
 
  16:21 President Obama
Now, if we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas.(1) Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy — every dollar (2). Today our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's. They're developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs (3), devising new materials to make batteries 10 times more powerful (4). Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the space race.(5) We need to make those investments. (6) 
(1) Gov. or private? Decided by whom?
(2) DNA
(3) R&D is science projects, not mfg. jobs
(4) Green energy paid from DOE grants & Ford
(5) Obama admin killed STS Program
(6) Gov. funds into private business … (GOF)?
 
17:15 President Obama
Today no area holds more promise than our investments in American energy.(1) After years of talking about it, we're finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years.(2) We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas (3) and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar,(4) with tens of thousand of good American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than ever before (6), and nearly everyone's energy bill is lower because of it.(5)
(1) There are oil pumps locked all across the US due to regulations and the price of oil on the open market.
(2) If so, then why is the price of vehicle fuels so high?  Heating oil is higher priced too.
(3) Vehicle MPG has been monopolized by industry and oil companies.  30 MPG was available in the 70’s on foreign vehicles and a prototype escaped from Cadillac and was recovered from a private owner in Utah.  It got over 30 MPG.  The owner went to the dealer and that is how it was discovered.  I personally knew the owner.
(4) Of the 33 Green businesses government funds spent, only 14 are still operating today.
(5) Where in the US has the cost of energy decreased? The companies just keep raising costs and energy regulation boards approve the increases.
(6) Regulations have been lifted, but what are the actual percentages?
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