【正文】 Force One is more crowded when we39。ve got some wonderful leaders here, and I just want to acknowledge them very Dina Titus is here(applause)doing a great Nevada’s Secretary of State, Ross Miller, is here.(Applause.) Smatresk is here, and his they’re doing a great job on behalf of UNLV.(Applause.)And all of you are here.(Applause.)And I am thrilled to see I’m especially here to be with my friend and your Senator, Harry Reid.(Applause.)One of the first stories I heard about Harry was that he was a boxer back in the day here in I was mentioning lastshe’s laughing, she’soh, I can39。t know that because he’s so ’s all “well, I39。s what Nevada needs right now.(Applause.)That39。re going through tough times, Harry Reid has been knows what it feels like to be scraping and scrimping, and struggle to make ends so when his home state is having a tough time, when the country is having a tough time, he knows that he’s got to be fighting on behalf of not those who are powerful, but on behalf of those who need help the , let me tell you, when we first took office, amidst the worst economy since the Great Depression, we needed Harry’s fighting spiritbecause we had lost nearly three million jobs during the last six months of month I was sworn in, January 2009, we lost 750,000 jobs in that month following month we lost 600,000 these were all the consequence of a decade of misguided economic policiesa decade of stagnant wages, a decade of declining ines, a decade of spiraling our first mission was to break the momentum of the deepest and most vicious recession since the Great had to stop the freefall and get the economy and jobs growing digging out of this mess required us taking some tough decisions, and sometimes those decisions were not Harry knew they weren’t knew they weren’t they were the right thing to Harry was willing to lead those fights because he knew that we had to change course。it’s going to take more time than any of us would like to climb out of the question is, number one, are we on the right track? And the answer is, number two, how do we accelerate the process? How do we get the recovery to pick up more steam? How do we fill this hole faster?There’s a big debate in Washington right now about the role that government should play in all I said in the campaignand as I’ve repeated many times as Presidentthe greatest generator of jobs in America is our private ’s not ’s our entrepreneurs and innovators who are willing to take a chance on a good ’s our businesses, large and small, who are making payroll and working with suppliers and distributing goods and services across the country and now across the private sector, not government, is, was, and always will be the source of America’s economic ’s our strength, the dynamism of our that’s why one of the first things Harry Reid did, one of the first things we did, was cut dozens of taxesnot raise them, cut themfor middle class and small business we extended loan programs to put capital in the hands of we worked to reduce the cost of health care for small right now, Harry is fighting to pass additional tax breaks and loan authority to help small businesses grow and hire all across the he has also tried to look out specifically for understands, for example, that tourism is so enormous an aspect of our economy, and so helped to move our trade promotion act that is going to be helping to do exactly what it sayspromote tourismand bring folks here to enjoy the incredible point is, our role in government, especially in difficult times like these, is to break down barriers that are standing in the way of innovation。to give an impetus to businesses to grow and ’s not some abstract ’ve seen the ’ve seen what we can do to catalyze job growth in the private one of the places we’ve seen it most is in the clean energy sectoran industry that will not only produce jobs of the future but help free America from our dependence on foreign oil in the process, clean up our environment in the process, improve our national security in the let me give you an yesterday, I took a tour of Smith Electric Vehicles in Kansas City, Missouri, on the way is a pany that just hired its 50th worker, it’s on the way to hiring 50 more, and is aiming to produce 500 electric vehicles at that plant alone.(Applause.)And these are spiffylooking mean, they areand they’re used by Fortune 500 panies for distributionPepsiCo, ’re also used for the United States military –electric trucks with a lot ofthey’re very strong, great the reason for their success is their entrepreneurial it’s also partly because of a grant that we’re offering panies that manufacture electric vehicles and the batteries that power of these grants, we’re going to be going from only having 2 percent of the global capacity to make advanced batteries that go in trucks and cars, run on electricitywe’re going to go from 2 percent of advanced battery market share to 40 percent just in the next five yearsjust in the next five years.(Applause.)And that will create thousands of jobs across the countrythousands of jobs across the country, not just this year, not just next year, but for decades to it’s a powerful example of how we can generate jobs and promote robust economic growth here in Nevada and all across the country by incentivizing private sector ’s what we’re working to do with the clean energy manufacturing tax credits that we enacted last year, thanks to Harry’s to Harry’s leadership.(Applause.)Some people know these tax credits by the name 48c, which refers to their section in the tax here’s how these credits said to clean energy panies, if you’re willing to put up 70 percent of the capital for a worthy project, a clean energy project, we’ll put up the remaining 30 put it another way, for every dollar we invest, we leverage two more private sector ’re betting on the ingenuity and talent of American businesses.(Applause.)Now, these manufacturing tax credits are alrea