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Was there a competition? how do you allocate that money? >> i think a lot of it will probably be through competition and government programs and allocations that really focus on specific ideas such as the president mentioned today, taking plastics and painting them everywhere to make solar electricity for the future. >> scott, a couple of things i want to show to you that seem to be real headwinds to investment. the first is the actual shift in how in the way we manufacture by virtue of robots, changing times. if you look at u.s. manufacturing output levels relative to jobs going back to janua...

The world trade system. and we have no response. we have no strategy. i do think that it will take more federal investment to create a single job, precisely because of this automation and technology. we shouldn't try to stand in the way of. this i think it's just the reality. the return on investment that you're going to get at the federal level for manufacturing in terms of jobs is going to be smaller than it once was which means we have an even bigger job to do in leveling the playing field and in providing other very reasonable incentives to make things here in this country, to encourage co...