U.S “gotten a little soft”, says Obama in a recent interview

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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In the face of one of the worst economic crises the United States of America has seen in a while, President Obama is trying his best to change the curve of events. Its common knowledge that unemployment rate has risen and the President is facing a tough time in the acceptance of his latest jobs plan. Recently in an interview, President Obama gave a statement that the country “had gotten a little soft” in the years before he took office, and needs to regain its “competitive edge” in the global economy.

In the interview the President not only stated his promise to bring America back to being the land of opportunities but critics also state that his interview has been a part of his re-election campaign as well.

“Even before the financial crisis hit, one of the reasons that I ran for president was that wages, incomes, had flat-lined at the same time that costs were going up,” Mr. Obama said, adding “I think people felt that opportunities were becoming more constricted for the next generation.”

“And that’s why, making sure that we’re revamping our education system, making sure we’ve got world class infrastructure, investing in basic science and research and technology, making sure that we are moving manufacturing back to the United States, and that we are being tough with our trading partners — making sure that they’re not taking advantage of us,” Mr. Obama told the interviewer.

“There are a lot of things we can do,” Mr. Obama added, “the way I think about it is, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track.”

Still, the president said he would not trade the position of the United States for any other country in the world.

“We still have the best universities, the best scientists, and best workers in the world,” Mr. Obama said, “we still have the most dynamic economic system in the world. So we just need to bring all those things together.”

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