President Obama On Infrastructure: "Lincoln Was All About Building Stuff"
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Tomorrow, I’ll also visit the port of Jacksonville, Florida, to offer new ideas for doing what America has always done best, which is building things. Pat and I were talking before I came backstage, Pat Quinn. He was talking about how he came over to the Don Moffat Bridge, you know, the, uh. We've got work to do all over the country. We’ve got ports that aren’t ready for the new supertankers that will begin passing through the new Panama Canal in two years’ time. If we don't get that done, those tankers are going to someplace else. We’ve got more than 100,000 bridges that are old enough to qualify for Medicare.
Businesses depend on our transportation systems, our power grids, our communications networks – and rebuilding them creates good-paying jobs that can’t be outsourced. And yet, as a share of our economy, we invest less in our infrastructure than we did two decades ago. And by the way, this isn't a Democratic idea. Republicans built a lot of stuff. This is the land of Lincoln! Lincoln was all about building stuff. First Republican president. And yet, as a share of our economy, we invest less in our infrastructure than we did two decades ago.
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