Thursday, February 10, 2011
Connecting every corner of America to the digital age
Posted by Linda H on 11:57:00 AM
Please use this video and text in blog posts, share them on Facebook and twitter, send them as email and link to them from comments you make on website.
Go to this URL and then select the "Share" button, you will see code that helps you share on Facebook, send as an email, embed the code, or list the URL.
President's Remarks
In Ten Sleep, Wyoming -- I love the name of that town, Ten Sleep -- it’s a town in Wyoming of 300 people. A fiber-optic network allowed a company to employ several hundred teachers who teach English to students in Asia over the Internet, 24 hours a day. You’ve all heard about outsourcing. Well, this is “insourcing” -- where overseas work is done right here in the United States of America. (Applause.)
So we want to multiply these stories -- we want to multiply your story -- all over the country. We want to invest in the next generation of high-speed wireless coverage for 98 percent of Americans.
This isn’t just about faster Internet or being able to find a friend on Facebook. It’s about connecting every corner of America to the digital age. It’s about a rural community in Iowa or Alabama where farmers can monitor weather across the state and market across the globe. It’s about an entrepreneur on Main Street with a great idea she hopes to sell to the big city. It’s about every young person who no longer has to leave his hometown to seek new opportunity -- because opportunity is right there at his or her fingertips. (Applause.)
So to make this happen, we’re going to invest in research and development of emerging technologies and applications. We’re going to accelerate breakthroughs in health and education and transportation, and deploy a new nationwide, interoperable wireless network for first responders -– making sure they’ve got the funding and the frequencies that they were promised and that they need to keep us safe. (Applause.) It’s important. By selling private companies the rights to these airwaves, we won’t just encourage private investment and expand wireless access; we’re actually going to bring in revenues that lower our deficits.
Now, access to high-speed Internet by itself won’t make a business more successful, or a student smarter, or a citizen more informed. That takes hard work. It takes those late nights. It takes hustle. It takes that quintessentially American drive to be the best. That’s what’s the most important ingredient for our success.
But we’ve always believed that we have a responsibility to guarantee all our people every tool necessary for them to meet their full potential. So if they’re willing to work hard, they can succeed. And in a 21st-century economy, that has never been more important. Every American deserves access to the world’s information. Every American deserves access to the global economy. We have promised this for 15 years. It’s time we delivered on that promise. (Applause.) It’s time we delivered on that promise.
Help for Unemployed Homeowners
Posted by Linda H on 10:08:00 AM
"Voices of Reform in Egypt" : Imam
Posted by Linda H on 9:00:00 AM
Imam Shabe, 30, wore a knit sweater that had all the colors of a dozen Easter eggs. She has volunteered for the past eight days with others protesting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "Where is the freedom now? Where is the freedom now?" she asked, pleading to President Barack Obama to urge her leader and his regime to step down. "There is no education. No culture. No freedom. No medicine. No food. No work," Imam said. "Everything is 'No' in Egypt."
Apple Needs to Make it in America
