(The President speaking....) And I won’t be satisfied as long as even one person who needs a job, and wants to work, can’t find one. But what I’m absolutely clear about, and what this plant will prove, is that we are headed in the right direction, and that the surest way out of the storms we’ve been in is to keep moving forward, and not go backwards.

Fast forward 27 months and $150 million later, and the Compact Power plant has begun furloughing workers for which Obama claimed credit. Not only that, but all of those batteries stamped “Made in America” turned out not to here … but in South Korea