In the midst of its worst recession in decades, President Barack Obama says it would be better to create new jobs that can’t be outsourced instead of bringing back such low paying jobs from other countries.
"Not all of these jobs are going to come back," he told a questioner during an "Online Townhall" from the White House who asked when would jobs outsourced to other countries come back and be made available to the unemployed workers in the US
Obama said a lot of the outsourcing has to do with the fact that "our economy – if it’s dependent on low-wage, low-skill labour, it’s very hard to hang on to those jobs because there’s always a country out there that pays lower wages than the US.
The president also asked Americans "to be patient and persistent about job creation because I don’t think that we’ve lost all the jobs we’re going to lose in this recession."
"I don’t want people to think that in one or two months suddenly we’re going to see net job increases," he said striking a note of caution. "It’s going to take some time for the steps that we’ve taken to filter in."
Other questions – some of which came from the live audience – focused primarily on health care, job loss, mortgage payments and energy.
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