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Obama Wars Title: Obama Calls for $5B in Clean Energy Tax Credits to Create 40,000 Jobs Obama Calls for $5B in Clean Energy Tax Credits to Create 40,000 Jobs Published July 09, 2010 | Associated Press Print Email Share Comments (234) Text Size President Obama points into the crowd after a campaign rally for Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev., Thursday, July 8, 2010 at Aria in Las Vegas. (AP) President Obama is calling on Congress to expand a tax credit for clean energy manufacturing that he says would be a jobs generator for the U.S. In prepared remarks ahead of a speech scheduled later Thursday in Las Vegas, Obama says a $5 billion investment would create nearly 40,000 jobs. He praises both Democrats and Republicans for supporting the initiative, saying similar bipartisan support has been absent from many of the other efforts he has promoted. Obama is wrapping up a two-day swing through Missouri and Nevada, where he campaigned for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who is facing a tough re-election campaign. Solar projects that Reid has been promoting heavily in Nevada would be eligible for the tax credits Obama is advocating. Obama was to speak to an audience at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, along with officials from a solar panel manufacturer called Amonix that's opening a new facility in Las Vegas with help from the tax credits. Hours before Obama arrived in the Nevada on Thursday to hold a fundraiser for Reid, the Departments of Energy and Interior joined Reid in announcing a new "Solar Demonstration Zone" in Nevada where new solar technologies can be tested and developed. The developments combined to underscore Reid's influence in bringing jobs and benefits to his state, a central theme of the Democratic leader's re-election campaign that's been undercut by Nevada's highest-in-the-nation unemployment figures. At Thursday night's fundraiser at the Aria casino on the Las Vegas Strip, Obama gave voters some other reasons to elect Reid to a fifth term, saying he needed the senator's help in Washington. The president cast the upcoming elections as a choice between the party he said caused the economic meltdown and the one that's fixing it, seizing on a populist, sharply partisan theme for the critical November midterms. "This is a choice between the policies that led us into the mess or the policies that are leading us out of the mess," Obama said. "It's a choice between falling backward and moving forward." Obama also went on the attack against Reid's GOP opponent, tea party favorite Sharron Angle, dismissing her views as extremist and ridiculing some of her comments -- though without ever mentioning her by name. Earlier Thursday, at fundraisers for Missouri Democratic Senate hopeful Robin Carnahan, Reid delivered the same message, warning voters that electing Republicans would set back the economic recovery that's just starting to emerge. Obama also toured an electric truck manufacturer in Kansas City. Such pairing of official presidential events with campaign appearances lets the White House bill the candidates' campaigns for far less of the president's travel costs, otherwise covered by taxpayers.
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Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
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