Obama: ‘Important for the Business Community’ to Rebut GOP, Celebrate U.S. Economy

 “This whole argument, I’m just going to go on a quick rant here for a second, this whole notion that somehow, you know, we're getting out-competed, out-dealt, out-this, out-that, we're losing, we're in terrible -- nobody outside the United States understands what we're talking about. I mean, we've got problems. We’ve got issues. Our biggest problem is gridlock in Washington and us just not making some sensible policies, but overall our cards are so much better than everybody else's. Our pool of quality businesses and talent and the – our institutions and our rule of law and how we manage and adapt to new and changing circumstances and our dominance in knowledge-based industries, nobody matches us, and we attract the best talent around the world still wants to come here if we just let them come. So I think it's important for business voices to point out every once in a while, America’s in the driver's seat, if we make some smart decisions. And that's not a partisan comment. That is just the facts. There’s not a country out there right now, including China, that wouldn't look at us with envy right now. And so our problem's not that China's going to out-negotiate us, or that Mr. Putin is sort of out-strategizing us. Anybody taken a look at the Russian economy lately? That’s not our problem. Our problem is us, typically. We are the -- we engage in -- I’m being generous when I say ‘we,’ but we engage in self-inflicted wounds like this potential government shutdown. It’s unnecessary. All right.”