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20.Obama Tells Ohio, ‘Our Economy Is Growing Again’ YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — President Obama came Tuesday to this area long synonymous with economic distress to take a few strides on a victory lap for the policies he credits with helping create jobs and to knock Republicans for standing in the way. “Despite all the naysayers in Washington, who are always looking for the cloud in every silver lining, the fact is our economy is growing again,” Mr. Obama told an audience of several hundred workers in a cavernous — and expanding — pipe-making plant, citing four months of job growth. The president mocked Republicans in Congress who voted in near unanimity against his economic stimulus plan but at home participate in ribbon-cuttings for the job-creating projects it has helped finance. “If the ‘just say no’ crowd had won out,” he said, “if we had done things the way they wanted to go, we’d be in a deeper world of hurt than we are right now.” Mr. Obama’s expressions of confidence in the economy and his political swipes at the opposition have both become more pronounced lately. Last year, even amid early signs of recovery, the president tempered his boasts because jobs continued to be lost, though in decreasing numbers. He has stepped up his attacks on Republicans as they have continued to dig in against his agenda, and as the midterm elections grow closer. Mr. Obama has been trying to get out of Washington at least once a week to call attention to the effects of his economic policies. His visit on Tuesday was to VM Star, which boasts of being North America’s leading producer of seamless pipe for the oil and gas industry. The trip had the unintended effect of calling to mind the moratorium he recently approved, since the gulf oil spill, on his proposal earlier this year to open more coastal waters to drilling. Donning a hard hat and a flame-retardant jacket, Mr. Obama toured the plant, chatting with company and state officials amid the roar, sparks and heat of an 85-ton bla