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PRESIDENT OBAMA CAMPAIGNING IN FLORIDA -- AND FOCUSING ON ISSUES KEY TO RESIDENTS OF THE SUNSHINE STATE -- MEDICARE, AND INVESTMENT IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY.
THE PRESIDENT BLASTING THE ROMNEY - RYAN MEDICARE VOUCHER PLAN AT A RALLY IN MELBOURNE ON FLORIDA'S SPACE COAST.
MISTER OBAMA PLEDGING TO KEEP THE STATE'S SPACE INDUSTRY THRIVING WITH CONTINUED GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT IN NASA AND U-S SPACE EXPLORATION.
OBAMA says: "After a decade of decline, this country has actually created more than half a million new manufacturing jobs in the last two and a half years. We reinvented a dying auto industry that's back on the top of the world. Here on the space coast we've started a new era of American exploration that is creating good jobs right here, in this county. We've begun an ambitious new direction for NASA by laying the ground work for twenty-first century space flight and innovation, and just last month we witnessed an incredible achievement that speaks to the nation's sense of wonder and our can-do spirit, the United States of America landing curiosity on mars."

OBAMA says: "Now, I've already strengthened medicare. We've already added years to the life of medicare by getting rid of tax payer subsidies to insurance companies that weren't making people any healthier, and in fact were making things more expensive for everybody. So, we used part of those savings to help lower the costs of prescription drugs and offer free preventive care for seniors. I thought that was a good idea."

OBAMA says: "In fact, one report just said that by the end of the next decade, our opponents plan would mean as much as sixteen to twenty-six billion dollars in new profits for insurance companies. So basically, your costs would rise by the thousands so their profits could rise by the billions. So, here's the bottom line. Their voucher plan for medicare would bankrupt medicare. Our plan strengthens medicare. No american should have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. The should retire with the dignity and the respect and the care that they have earned."
PRESIDENT OBAMA DID GET SOME BOOS FROM THE OTHERWISE CHEERING CROWD -- WHEN THE FOOTBALL FAN IN CHIEF TALKED ABOUT HIS HOME-TOWN CHICAGO BEARS.