2009
Obama pointed to Spain, Germany and Japan, where, he said “they’re making real investments in renewable energy” and “surging ahead of us, poised to take the lead in these new industries.”
“This isn’t because they’re smarter than us, or work harder than us, or are more innovative than we are,” he said. “It’s because their governments have harnessed their people’s hard work and ingenuity with bold investments – investments that are paying off in good, high-wage jobs – jobs they won’t lose to other countries.”
Obama Visits Ohio Factory to Boost Clean Energy Economy
Four years later :
Thousands of Spaniards in the depressed southern region of Andalusia are queueing up to play the role of slaves in film-maker Ridley Scott’s Biblical epic “Exodus”, hoping for a way out of unemployment.
In a region with unemployment at 35 percent, the prospect of work as an extra with a daily wage of 80 euros ($107) has sparked a rush in Almeria where casting is being held for the story of Moses and the Jewish exodus to the promised land.
“Half of Almeria and half of Spain has come,” said one of the casting organisers, Nerea Herrero.
Jobless Spaniards flood in for slave wages in ‘Exodus’ – FRANCE 24
Humans don’t get any more clueless than the wanker-in-chief who flies his dog in its own helicopter – at taxpayer expense.