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    Obama visiting US plant to tout manufacturing

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is kicking off a three-day trip with a stop in Milwaukee, where he will discuss efforts to help manufacturers bring jobs back to the U.S.

    Obama is visiting Master Lock, a padlock manufacturer that the president cited during his State of the Union address. The company has brought about 100 jobs back to the United States from China since mid-2010 in response to higher labor and logistical costs in Asia.

    Obama has promoted tax incentives for manufacturers that bring back jobs located overseas.

    Most of the trip will be devoted to fundraising. The president is holding eight fundraisers for his re-election campaign in the Los Angeles area, San Francisco and Seattle.

     

    18 comments

    • out the park  •  2 mths ago
      If Master Lock is his hope and crowning glory, his re-election is doomed. Obama thinks he's got the election sewed up. " I got 5 more years" Show this interloper the door America!!
    • Independent Voter  •  Newark, New Jersey  •  2 mths ago
      This is an old article, have you noticed how Yahoo keeps running the same old articles over and over again. Must not have much to report.
    • rumormater  •  Chicago, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      Outsource Obama!!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  2 mths ago
      I start puking when I see obummer in the news ..internet ,,t.v. news paper ......He use to be comical ..now he;s disgusting ....cant wait to be rid of the pimp this fall
    • A Yahoo! User  •  2 mths ago
      obummer to visit plant ...but mostly its a campaign trip ???so he is really campaining ..why doesnt the article state obummer on campain trip ..plans to stop by plant ....geez ...
    • David  •  Denver, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      His drive and desire to be known as the insourcing President is laughable. He's been famous and far from hidden for his support for insourcing foreign workers since early in his economically challenged Administration. The term received its first widespread use with the movie Swing Vote, starring Kevin Costner. Insourcing then, and in the Y!A Community, has always meant job loss from within our country to foreign workers, legal and otherwise. Since it was coined in response to the term outsourcing, which refers to replacing American workers with foreign workers in manufacturing, as well as service (CS) jobs overseas, the replacement of millions of citizen workers with less expensive foreign workers right here in our Country is perfectly described by "insourcing".

      That this President and some on the left don't recognize how the term has been used for several years now maybe shouldn't surprise. He's shown himself to be clueless about the economy and his support for illegals is famous, in part, because two recognizable family members in the Country are illegals, themselves.

      I hope everyone gets the relationship between 3.3 million H1B visas having been issued to legal immigrants authorized to work in the U.S. during Obama's three years in office, so far. The halting, sporadic job growth that started to occur by mid-2010 is now considered to have added close to 3 million jobs back into the economy. Of course, since H1B visas are only issued upon employers verifying a need and promising employment, how many of the 3 million restored jobs do Americans think went to 3.3 million H1B authorized immigrants?

      How many jobs out of the 5.5 to 6 million shown to have been slashed from the economy under Obama by the summer of 2010 do most of you believe have been restored to needy American workers? I'll throw in a source for stunning statistics more need to be aware of. The Digest of Education Statistics shows upward of 3 million college graduates annually and another 1.2 million-plus students from high schools and trade schools enter the economy every year to find work. Those totals indicate more than 13 million youth ready and wanting to move into a new phase of adulthood with jobs and viable income have been infused into an economy that has seen what media continues to refer to as a "jobless recovery". Of course it's that. For every American citizen who's found work over the past three years, another has been displaced and is desperately searching for how to survive. With nearly 20 million Americans easily identifiable for their desire and drive to find work, how again is growing the economy over a year-and-a-half's time by 3 million workers doing anything to restore America? It's obviously providing for a legitimate group of foreign workers who've gone through what are considered to be honorable and legal channels to enter the country.

      Is there any mistake over who this President serves? It's clearly not real American citizens. But his expressed desire to be regarded as the "insourcing President" was accomplished long ago for most of us. Obviously, American citizens should just go SUCK EGGS...well, really, they can grab the survival gruel that Food Stamps (yes, EBT) provides for 47 million American citizens who can no longer provide for themselves. The relationship between the hike in Food Stamp numbers and unemployed in our economy is unmistakable and in math terms is recognizable for a direct correspondence.

      Yes, this President has been insourcing to a frightening extent across three years in office, and of course, he wants to expand the insourcing to be regarded as the "insourcing President". Economy and increasing millions of American citizens be damned!
      • Josh H♥OTx 3 mths ago
        The Fraud-in-Chief has definitely earned his stripes as the insourcing President. Many of us would be pleased to see him in state issued stripes when the DOJ is restored as a legitimate law-enforcement Branch under a duly elected replacement to the Office of President beginning 2013.

        The Digest of Education Statistics information was great. Is it any wonder the numbers and percentages of 20-somethings who've been forced back into living with family? As a group, they've taken quite the hit under Obama. The election later this year is likely to be historic for the lack of support for progressives and liberal Democrats from an age group they've always been able to count on in significant numbers.

        The President has infuriated Catholics and put critical support in jeopardy from that constituency. Do you think there's anything he could do to alienate the black vote. That would surely be something to see.

        Gotta think he's toast!
      • GAB305 3 mths ago
        Your post rings with more truth than some Americans have been willing admit. This President has been far from good for the Country. I really liked the following when I came across it earlier:

        Spelling Lesson: The last four letters in American..........I Can
        The last four letters in Republican.......I Can
        The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats
        End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2012
      • Rosa 3 mths ago
        Thanks for your comment and valuable information the national media should be reporting on. 13 million graduates trying to find their way into an economy that's not hiring anyone but, perhaps, H1B workers is a telling statistic. Those who lost jobs during 2009 and 2010 haven't had much opportunity to return to work, have they? No one in their 20's or in college at this point should even think about voting for this failure for another term!
    • EaglesNest  •  3 mths ago
      Well, how about that. This inept president will do anything to reverse the Novermber pending outcome of his one term failures in office. He must think the American voter have the word "Schmucks" printed on our foreheads. All the Kings men will be unable to put Humpty (Obama) back together again......November could not come any sooner......God help us all.
      • Alexis 3 mths ago
        So, how about the polls which says that none of the republican candidates has a chance of beating obama due largely to the improvements of the economy? Do you have any thing to support your prediction other than hatred?
      • RONALD B 3 mths ago
        yeah and number 2, the republicans did block every bill that he put in front of them H.B. all you republidouchbags don't want him to succeed you waged war on him right from the get go
      • EaglesNest 3 mths ago
        There is no hatred, just concern for the man's ideology and where he wants to take this country to. As for the polls, if you think that "Media Matters" the organization who is bent on destroying the free press as we know it in this country, will not put out fictitous poll numbers, than you are one that if presented a sale of the Brooklyn Bridge to you at a very resonable price just for you, you'll bite. This inept president from the very beginning has made promises of change for the better and we have yet to see the "Change of the better" that he campaigned on. Instead, we still have some 13 million Americans out of work and never mind those that stop looking for work unable to find work. We have a president who recently killed a proposed project that would have made some 20 thousand plus jobs available by simply approving the Keystone Pipe line project. What does this inept president do, he followed the advise of his crooked environmentalist people and killed the project. Yet, he went out of his way to promote Solindra the solar energy company with over $580 million of taxpayer money only to have the company go belly up two months after the approval of funds leaving the tax payer holding the bill. The fiasco with the "Fast and Furious" involving another inept czar his phony attorney general Eric Holder who couldn't find his way out of a paper bag as in the murder of one of our border agents, and yet he claims that he knew nothing of it. Now the investigation to that event seems to lead to, guess who smarty, the White House. So with that said, yes, we will be looking to make this inept president a one term president. As with Jimmy Carter, he can than go home and ask himself "where did I go wrong?. Moving America forward by means of ridding this inept president.
    • Steve  •  3 mths ago
      Masterlock should be doing a booming business with all of the houses being pad locked do to bankruptcys
    • razor  •  West Jordan, Utah  •  3 mths ago
      Withdraw the Obama care pkg. and everyone who wants to work will have a job within 6 months, That is the one biggest obstacle killing the jobs! Employers don't know what is involved in the pkg and are hesitant to go forward till that problem is cleared up! Very Complicated mess!
      • Alexis 3 mths ago
        You are an idiot to believe that. Obviously, the obama care package did not exist during the bush years yet lots of people were jobless at that time. Worst, the economy tanked. Get your facts straight you republican ignoramus.
      • RONALD B 3 mths ago
        lol that #$%$ don't know anything way to set him straight
    • Dr.Evil  •  3 mths ago
      obama is so evil it even scares me
    • football fan  •  3 mths ago
      Is this a taxpayer paid campaign trip or a see america while I still can vacation?
    • UnHappy  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      ABORT OBAMA IN NOVEMBER!!
    • razor  •  West Jordan, Utah  •  3 mths ago
      So long master lock, It seems as how Obama's visits are a kiss of death. Remember solyndra?
    • Obamadouchebag  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Instead of insourcing, he should make labor laws less restrictive and propose new incentives for doing business in the U.S. That would help recruit more international companies to set up shop and increase job opportunities.
    • Mark  •  Greensboro, North Carolina  •  3 mths ago
      This man has not revived anything except for angering people.
    • Steve  •  Salt Lake City, Utah  •  3 mths ago
      Well played! Union Town Center Milwaukee Wisconsin. Phony!
    • H B  •  3 mths ago
      Obama is trying to take credit for the economy looking better (which is highly questionable itself), yet he has been crying for the past two years that the republicans have been blocking everything he tries to do -- such as blocking the jobs bill last year that Obama said we had to pass right away or else dire consequences would result. If that is true, then the economy is actually getting better without any of Obama's proposals being enacted. In that case, I think the republicans should get credit for proving that the economy was able to correct itself without WASTING the hundreds of billions of dollars that Obama wanted to spend on stimulus programs. Obama can't have it both ways.
    • Roger  •  Mt Hamilton, California  •  3 mths ago
      Barack Obama: The next Mount Rushmore President
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