President Obama tells lawmakers ‘we’ve got to do more’ to boost job growth
Source: The Hill
President Obama touted the signing of a $105 billion transportation bill and called on GOP lawmakers to take up additional measures he said would help speed up job creation, in his weekly address.
Speaking from Ohio, where Obama was wrapping up a two-day bus tour, the president pushed back against a weak June jobs report, telling Congress we've got to do more."
Our mission isnt just to put people back to work its to rebuild an economy where that work pays; an economy in which everyone who works hard has the chance to get ahead, said the president.
(snip)
For months, Ive been pushing Congress to pass several common-sense ideas that will help us do that. And on Friday, I signed into law a bill that will do two things for the American people, he said.
Read more: http://thehill.com/video/administration/236535-obama-tells-lawmakers-weve-got-to-do-more-to-boost-job-growth
WEEKLY ADDRESS: Pushing Congress to Create Jobs, Keep College in Reach for Middle Class
In this weeks address, President Obama spoke to the American people from Ohio about a bill signed on Friday that does two important things: it keeps thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and it stops interest rates on federal loans from doubling this year for more than seven million students. The President urges Congress to do more to help our economic recovery and create jobs, including taking half the money were no longer spending on war and using it to build roads, bridges and wireless networks at home, and expanding financial aid to two million students while giving them the opportunity to learn the skills that businesses need right now. Its time for our elected officials to come together to help strengthen the middle class.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/weekly-address-pushing-congress-create-jobs-keep-college-reach-middle-cl
Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Jobs for the unemployed are secondary. Fixing our crumbling infrastructure is secondary. Everything is secondary to the goal of making Obama a one-term POTUS.
That has been their ONLY goal from day one of his administration. They want power for the sake of power.
Mayflower1
(100 posts)geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)Not like it's news.
They have continued the bUsh policy of raping the country and giving it to the rich. Despite their efforts the country has had positive job growth and a slowly improving economy since president Obama took office. Imagine what would happen if everyone that worked in congress had the same goal - helping the country.
:not-sarcasm:
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)In a meeting Frank Luntz conducted with Republican leaders on January 20, 2009. It could best be summarized as "Republicans determined to strike inside the US" as it called for obstructing every piece of legislation Obama proposed. We saw it in practice less than one month after the President came into office on the stimulus bill. Obama's first proposal was hit by a Republican filibuster in the Senate, forcing Obama to restructure it with generous tax cut that finally won over Spector, Snowe and Collins. The traditional honeymoon ended on January 20, 2009.
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)in down town D,C. This is where McConnell stood up and said that the party's (R) number one priority should be making President Obama a one term president. There noncooperation started immediately. Even so, President Obama's accomplishments. Stick with Democrats.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)The headline might as well read "President Pisses Into Wind Again."
(Sub-headline: "GOP Fears Trickledown During Obama's Term"
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uwep
(108 posts)Why is there no mention of the Republicans killing all of the President's job bills? This Republican minority in the senate and the majority in the house has derailed all of the bills that the President presented. Do you remember the party of "NO" and how they ran the car in the ditch. Tell me that, that did not have something to do with the unemployment rate being so HIGH. The CBO said that if the latest job bill presented by the President had passed that there would have been up to 4 million jobs. I do not believe this cannot be repeated enough. Every post should remind the American public who killed their jobs, from outsourcing to killing bills that would have created more jobs. There is only one word "REPUBLICANS!!!!!!"
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)but I think you're right, the house tabled the American Jobs Act which is the centerpiece of the Presidents jobs initiatives.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Call them out each by name to their face and tell the American people exactly what they have been doing to destroy America.
alp227
(32,027 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)He needs to power point the ratio of federal taxes collected per state to federal dollars collected by individual states. Then he could correlate red blue.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)"free-trade" agreements.
There are wealthy Senators who approved of the following job-transferring "free-trade" agreements:
1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
2001 - Jordan United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Chile - United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Singapore United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Bahrain United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Morocco - United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Oman United States Free Trade Agreement
2007 - Peru United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2005 - Dominican RepublicCentral America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA; incl. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic)
2011 - Panama - United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2011 - Colombia - United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2011 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) - United States Free Trade Agreement
Of course, if President Obama is in favor of "free-trade" agreements, shouldn't we overlook the job-transferring aspect of this and also be in favor of such "free-trade" agreements?
Shouldn't we be in favor of the pending one as well? Rmoney is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html
Kyad06
(127 posts)I'm really surprised the Highway bill and student Loan bill got passed. What were the trade offs ?
may3rd
(593 posts)On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law a federal highway bill with a section that redefines tobacco manufacturers to include any business with a roll-your-own cigarette machine and taxes those products at the same rate as packaged smokes.....
http://www.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/13589276-417/roll-your-own-cigarette-stores-going-up-in-smoke.html
New Law Blamed For Closing Smoke Shop
YANKTON, SD -
A Yankton businessman blames a new law going into effect Sunday for forcing him to close the doors of his roll-your-own cigarette shop.
John Muilenburg's dream of owning his own roll-your-own cigarette shop has gone up in smoke in less than nine months.
" I'm) devastated, you know? It's our last day. We don't know what to do. We're done. They just took our livelihood away," Muilenburg said.
He's closing Mullies Cigarette Shop one day before a new state law classifies the business as a cigarette manufacturer, taxing customers more than $15 per box.
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http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=133827
It could easily be argued this is a tax on the poor and a victory for the tobacco lobby
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)I dunno, it's a duzer.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)the all in one Guns, Liquor and Topless bar.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)and lobbyists and put it towards a CCC type program.
What, we don't have bridges, power plants, dams, roads, and so on that need to be built or maintained?
Igel
(35,317 posts)TARP's still in the hole, though, for two reasons.
Not all banks and financial orgs that were bailed out returned to profitability. They've paid interest but haven't repaid capital. Those are in the minority.
After money came back into TARP it was loaned out for purposes that the law didn't say were okay. A lot of those extra-legal loans are still outstanding.
So, for the most part, you don't need to go in a time machine. All you have to do is take the money--finding authority for using it in other ways--and spend it. Of course, if you do that you increase the deficit for previous years because the repayment wasn't counted as income (it shouldn't have been) but as reimbursement. That's one reason that the 2009 deficit isn't larger than the CBO says.
Progressive dog
(6,904 posts)Herlong
(649 posts)Last edited Thu Jul 12, 2012, 12:33 AM - Edit history (1)
Most of our current problems are the result of Bush and republican policies.
lib2DaBone
(8,124 posts)David Brooks just on TV saying American workers are not smart enough or dont work hard wnough to compete with China.
Our elected leaders make sure the playing field is always skewed (against American workers ) as the flow of cheap-Chinese-Junk into the U.S continues.
These major corporations will continue to make sure they get HUGE tax breaks while they cut all benefits and punish Senior Citizens.
Republicans call this "Good Business".
xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Neither does his buddy ...Kraphammer
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...Any effort to hold Republicans accountable. Taxes remain at historic lows. Government spending has shrunk. Yet, the corporate media still pushes right wing talking points about how we need more of the same.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)been signed so far:
1994 - North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
2001 - Jordan United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Chile - United States Free Trade Agreement
2004 - Singapore United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Bahrain United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Morocco - United States Free Trade Agreement
2006 - Oman United States Free Trade Agreement
2007 - Peru United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2005 - Dominican RepublicCentral America Free Trade Agreement (DR-CAFTA; incl. Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic)
2011 - Panama - United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2011 - Colombia - United States Trade Promotion Agreement
2011 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) - United States Free Trade Agreement
I wonder how many American jobs have been transferred to foreign countries as a result.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Rmoney is in favor of the pending wage-lowering, anti-union, let's-send-even-more-jobs-to-foreign-countries "free-trade" agreement.
If we want more jobs in this country, shouldn't we be opposed to that? Shouldn't Obama be opposed to that?
Yet, here's Rmoney's position as well as the Chamber of Commerce.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html
If there is a better way to benefit wealthy stockholders and ruin what is left of the American middle-class, what is it?
Yet how many are going to agree with Rmoney, the Chamber of Commerce, and Republicans who want to benefit wealthy stockholders?
Skittles
(153,169 posts)there will be no job growth