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Feel like the rules have been changed in the middle of the game they are right. the rules have changed. in a single generation, revolutions in technology have transformed the way we live, work and do business. steel mills that once needed 1,000 workers can now do the same work with 100. today just about any company can set up shop, hire workers and sell their products wherever theres an internet connection. meanwhile, nations like china and india realized that with changes of their own they coul...

[ applause ] >> the president: we want to reward good teachers and stop making excuses for bad ones. [ applause ] >> the president: over the next 10 years with so many baby boomers retiring, we want to prepare 100,000 new teachers in the fields of science and technology and engineering and math. [ applause ] >> the president: in fact, every young person, listening tonight who is contemplating their career choice, if you want to make a difference in the life of our nation, if you want to make a d...

Research. information technology. especially clean energy technology. [ applause ]pd4gñ >> the president: an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet and create countless new jobs. already we are seeing the promise of renewable energy. robert and gary allen, brothers who run a small michigan roofing company. after september 11th, they volunteered their best to help half of their factory went unused and the recession hit them hard. today, with the help of a government loa...

Research. information technology. especially clean energy technology. [ applause ]pd4gñ >> the president: an investment that will strengthen our security, protect our planet and create countless new jobs. already we are seeing the promise of renewable energy. robert and gary allen, brothers who run a small michigan roofing company. after september 11th, they volunteered their best to help half of their factory went unused and the recession hit them hard. today, with the help of a government loa...

>> the president: that dream, that american dream... is what drove the allen brothers to re-invent their roofing company for a new era. its what drove those students at forsyth tech to learn a new skill and work towards the future. and that dream is a story of a small business owner named brandon fisher. brandon started a company in berlin, pennsylvania, that specializes in a new kind of drilling technology. and one day last summer, he saw the news that halfway across the world 33 men were trapp...

[ applause ] that dream, that american dream is what drove the allen brothers to reinvent their roofing company for a new era. its what drove those students at forsythe tech to learn a new skill and work toward the future. and that dream is the story of a small business owner named brandon fisher. brandon started a company in berlin, pennsylvania, that specializes in a new kind of drilling technology. and one day last summer, he saw the news that halfway across the world 33 men were trapped in a...

Professor leonard barr. his blog, gulfcoast.com that features those pictures. does there seem to be a little wiggle room in the interview we heard with governorç jindal? are the photographs up to the interpretation he seems to imply? >> i think theres a lot of wiggle room. you know, we all support -- we really want to see this problem go away. were all excited about the possible capping of the flow. but, you know, the technology that you all just heard about in terms of the drilling technology...

Office for 18 years until governor jindal asked him to retire in 2008. his blog, gulfcoast.com that features the photos of the sand berm. thanks for your time, sir. >> nice to see you, keith. >> does there seem to be a little wiggle room, equivocation in the interview we just heard with governor jindal and nbc news this afternoon? are the photographs up to the interpretation he seems to imply? >> i think theres a lot of wiggle room. you know, we all support -- we really want to see this problem ...

Huge leaps in technology in terms of being able to drill deeper and farther and in deeper water, but theres been almost no growth or no money spent in safety systems and recovery from large oil spills. were doing the same thing we were doing 30 years ago. >> is there concern within the industry about that, or is this just raw incentives that the incentives are not there in terms of regulatory structure and legal liability to push the industry in that direction? >> the problem with the oil and ga...

Learned about over the past couple of months, as weve all learned to read the permit applications and the filings with the government is that the oil industry predicted the chances of a blowout like what happened at the deep water horizon, they predicted that the chances of a blowout there were essentially zero. i wanted to ask you if your insight from inside the industry, did they actually believe that the chance of a blowout is zero or are they conscious thats what they have to say in order to...