President Obama Visits Argonne: Live Updates from Patch
Obama speaks about American energy policy Friday at Argonne National Laboratory. Here's what he has to say.
President Barack Obama will visit Argonne National Laboratory on Friday afternoon to discuss "American energy policy."
The visit is especially interesting for friends and employees of Batavia's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory because the president's comments are likely to affect folks at Fermilab.
Obama is scheduled to arrive at O'Hare International Airport around 11:25 a.m. on Air Force One. He will then travel to Argonne's Center for Nanoscale Materials, where he will address credentialed media at 1:30 p.m.
The White House Press Office said the visit will focus on American energy, but did not elaborate on the context of the president's remarks.
Obama's trip marks the first time a president has appeared at Argonne since former President George W. Bush, who visited in July 2002. Bush used his speech to push for the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, according to CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller.
This is the president’s first trip to the Chicago area since speaking at Hyde Park Academy on Feb. 15; First Lady Michelle Obama visited McCormick Place on Feb. 28 to promote her physical-fitness campaign “Let’s Move.”
The event is closed to the public, but Lemont Patch Editor Amanda Luevano will be providing live updates from Argonne throughout the day, beginning at 10 a.m.
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Jill Tippel
3:01 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
this really bothers me. If I am reading right, and forgive me if I'm wrong, this is about helping fund new forms of transportation. So if the government is too broke to take care of it's Federal Employees and War Fighters, we have a pretty good possibility of going to war with the angry, unforgiving North Koreans; then everywhere around us is fear and chaos, and whether people believe it or not most Federal Employees do not make boatloads of money. This Furlough will cause me to lose my home, and next year we will probably get riffed. So I want to know, it may be a handful of new jobs, but not anyone close to the amount of people who will be in dire straits because the Government can't manage their money and all fight like their two years old, they don't give a crap about the people of United States as long as their pocketbooks are full. Who really cares about these cars. Look at the big picture. We won't be driving them anyway after we go to war with North Korea, we will be lucky to be alive. Our country will be totally bankrupt when one more disaster happens-ALL OF US WILL SUFFER- and we will be stealing just to get a loaf of bread. WE are in sad shape and we all are to blame because of our greed in America. We really need to get on our face and pray and ask God for mercy, get rid of all our "stuff" and realize we are in for some hard times and be willing to make the change. It's scary and it isn't going away! So each of us, please, we have to make tremendous changes.
Jill Tippel
3:24 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013
To quote Alexander Fraser Tyler - Cycle of Democracy (1770)
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over lousy fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; from faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to selfishness; from selfishness to Complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependency back again to bondage.
History does repeat itself!
John F Kennedy
5:34 pm on Saturday, March 16, 2013
What one generation tolerates the next accepts
gospeltambulashi
12:13 pm on Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Why don't we wipe both Iran and Israel off the map both are corrupt