President Obama: Threats To Security, Economy Are Worldwide (radio address)

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Source: Associated Press

'Global Coordination' Needed, President Says

From terrorism to the economic meltdown, problems menacing the United States' security and economy also threaten an increasingly interconnected world, President Barack Obama said Saturday.

"In this new century, we live in a world that has grown smaller and more interconnected than at any time in history," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, taped during his first presidential trip to Europe. "Threats to our nation's security and economy can no longer be kept at bay by oceans or by borders drawn on maps."

Because no one nation can handle such threats alone, it is valuable for a president to make such trips "to strengthen and protect our nation," he said.

Economic problems overseas mean people in those countries cannot buy the goods produced in the United States, which means more lost jobs, he said.

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Weekly Address: The Challenges of Our Time

[EFerrari]

1. Cool. Now, explain your Cuba policy again.

:)

[Deja Q]

2. Apart from plastic cups and batteries, what does the US produce? Plus our ballooning trade deficit.

We import just about everything else, or so I keep hearing...


Oh, a trade deficit that's been ballooning for *decades*. Freepers whined and bleated over Clinton's tenure but then seemed to be blissfully quiet while it skyrocketed under Bush II's administration. Lemme guess - they will be back to hound Obama too. And given this quaint article, assuming it is the unmitigated truth, we'll be stuck with a trade imbalance forever.

[OhioChick]

4. We don't produce jack shit anymore. n/t

[BelgianMadCow]

3. of course

of course threats to security are global - the US has been providing breeding grounds for terrorism everywhere.
of course the threats to the economy are global - you sold it to everyone, under a triple A guise.

I'm sorry, the above is what came to mind first. There are several rebuttals I can come up with myself, but I'm just gonna let it stand and see what you all think.

And the reason why I let it stand, is my dislike of the (PNAC) unipolar world with a lone superpower (insert defense budget comparison) being supported by american exceptionalism.

Before you flame away, I do think the elite screwing us are global - and the suffering by workers is equally global, but unfortunately less organized. Last thing I want to do is alienate fellow progressives.