"We now live in a world where technology has made it possible for companies to take their business anywhere."
President Obama needs to give his jobs speech again. This time he should start in the middle.
To addressing the American people's concerns and to win in 2012, the President needs a narrative--a story that explains how and why we got into this mess, what he has done to help so far, and how his latest proposals might help get the economy out of a ditch.
The good news: Thursday's jobs speech contained the beginnings of a powerful story about the need to restore U.S. competitiveness. As Obama said:
"We now live in a world where technology has made it possible for companies to take their business anywhere. If we want them to start here and stay here and hire here, we have to be able to out-build, and out-educate, and out-innovate every other country on Earth."
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