from my seat at general electra, i can do a lot to improve our country, but i need your help.ust get back to doing the things that give us our competitive advantage like making innovative products -- business and labour must make a serious commitment to u.s. manufacturing. many assume this country can transition from being a technology-based export- oriented economic powerhouse to at consumption desk -- consumption-led powerhouse think there don't is anything inevitable about america's decline if we are prepared and determined to reverse it. we have dramatically changed our own company in the last decade. we invested in technology. we wanted to make sure we were good at making things. we have been sourced production and employment in our infrastructure businesses have grown and we announced 16,000 manufacturing jobs in the united states and high-tech services and manufacturing. second, everybody in this room, no matter what your profession, is going to have to learn to live in a global marketplace. 95% of the population lives outside the united states. so we can only grow as a