Barack Obama is alarmed! Because of you, Bangalore children.
President Obama, who is leading the attack on outsourcing to save US jobs, took a break to teach Philadelphia schoolchildren a lesson on competence but couldn’t help himself in stopping the word ‘Bangalore’ cross his lips.
He warned them to be wary of their counterparts in Bangalore.
“At a time when other countries are competing with us like never before, when students around the world in Bangalore or Beijing are working harder than ever, and doing better than ever, your success in school is not just going to determine your success, it’s going to determine America’s success in the 21st century,” Obama said.
Obama exhorted American students to toil harder, saying their success would determine the country’s leadership in a world where children in Bangalore were raring to race ahead.
“The farther you go in school, the farther you’re going to go in life,” he told students at a school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Last year, while announcing an end of tax incentives to US companies which created jobs overseas, Obama had launched the ‘Say no to Bangalore and yes to Buffalo’, slogan. Since then, he had time and again mentioned the competition coming in from developing countries like India while asking Americans to rise to the challenge.
Asking the students to seek out new challenges, he said his call was directed at all Americans alike.
—With PTI inputs
