President Obama brings jobs plan to Silicon Valley

President Barack Obama carried his job-creation crusade into the heart of Silicon Valley, a corner of the country that has done pretty well at job creation on its own.

At a town-hall meeting with social-media powerhouse LinkedIn dubbed "Putting America Back to Work," the President was relaxed and often jovial, using the event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View as a bully pulpit for his $447 billion plan to create 1.9 million jobs renovating the nation's roads, airports and railways. President Obama fielded a half-dozen questions, some from the live audience and others submitted online. At times, he spent as much as 10 minutes on a single answer, particularly those on the need to make America's education system more globally competitive. His message was clear: put people back to work now, but in coming years do what's necessary to ensure that America stays competitive. After stressing the need to get more teachers back into the classroom, Obama made another push for improving the nation's infrastructure, "putting people to work rebuilding our roads, and also making sure we're providing small businesses the kinds of tax incentives that will allow them to succeed."