President outlines priorities in State of the Union address

On Tuesday January 24^th, President Obama outlined his 2012 agenda during the State of the Union Address.  The President’s address centered  primarily on domestic policy, with a focus on building a foundation for economic sustainability and job creation. Keys to this will include job training and partnerships with community colleges, clean energy jobs and further research and development in this area, incentives for maintaining jobs in the United States, and tax code simplification. Savings from the end of foreign wars will contribute resources to this effort.

Indiana Republican Governor Mitch Daniels countered President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address with a Republican response that accused the president of hurting rather than helping the recovery of the U.S. economy during his last three years as president.

The full text of the President’s address can be found here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/24/remarks-president-state-union-address

 

The Mayors Automotive Coalition, an organization of elected officials from automotive communities run by TFG, released a press release applauding the President for proposing new incentives to revitalize our domestic manufacturing industry.  The press release is available here:

http://www.thefergusongroup.com/sites/default/files/funding-opportunity-attachments/MAC%20press%20release%20Jan%202012%20SOTU.pdf