Update 4:35 p.m. Here’s the complete video of today’s Obama appearance in Mountain View, hosted by LinkedIn:
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Here’s one interesting exchange at today’s LinkedIn town hall with President Obama today…
A man says, “I don’t have a job but that’s because I’ve been lucky enough to live in Silicon Valley for awhile and work for a small startup down the street here that did quite well. so I’m unemployed by choice. My question is: Would you please raise my taxes? … I would like very much to have the country invest in things like Pell grants and infrastructure and job-training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am. It kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cuts that have been benefiting so many of us for so long. I think that needs to change and I hope you’ll stay strong in doing that.”
“What was the start-up by the way?” Obama asks. “You want to give me a little hint?”
“It’s a search engine,” the man says, pseudo-cryptically.