Obama Says GOP Must Back U.S. First, Create Jobs

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    Obama Says GOP Must Back US First, Create Jobs

    By Darlene Superville | Associated Press | Sept. 5, 2011

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    DETROIT (AP) – “President Barack Obama said Monday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs as he used a boisterous Labor Day rally to aim a partisan barb at the GOP.

    In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them.

    Citing massive federal budget deficits, Republicans have expressed opposition to spending vast new sums on jobs programs. But Obama said that with widespread suffering, "the time for Washington games is over" and lawmakers must move quickly to create jobs.

    "But we're not going to wait for them," he said at an annual event sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. "We're going to see if we've got some straight shooters in Congress. We're going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party."

    Obama's remarks came as he has been under heavy criticism from the GOP for presiding over a persistently weak economy and high unemployment. Last Friday's dismal jobs report showed a net job change of zero in August, and the unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent.

    Congress returns from its summer recess this week, with the faltering economy and job market promising to be a dominant theme of the session.

    The economy is all but certain to also be the top issue of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

    Throughout the speech, the union crowd kept chanting "four more years."

    Obama also said lawmakers should extend the temporary reduction in the payroll tax that workers pay, a cut that will otherwise expire on Jan. 1. Many Republicans have opposed renewing the payroll tax cut, saying it would increase federal red ink and do little to create jobs.

    "You say you're the party of tax cuts," Obama said of the GOP argument.
    "Well, then prove you'll fight just as hard for tax cuts for middle class families as you do oil companies and the most affluent Americans. Show us what you've got."

    In the speech to Congress, Obama is expected to call for a mix of individual and business tax credits and public works spending. He will also press lawmakers for swift action on those proposals.

    Underscoring the political dueling on the economy under way, Obama plans to visit Richmond, Va., the day after his address to Congress as the first of several trips he will make to encourage support for his job creation plan. Part of Richmond is represented by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., one of the president's fiercest critics.

    The president's broader goal is to make a sweeping appeal for bipartisan action on the economy, speaking not only to the members of Congress who will assemble before him, but to the larger American public. In that sense, the speech will mark a pivot point from a fall and summer spent dealing with long-term deficit reduction to a fall campaign devoted to boosting a foot-dragging recovery.

    Aides say Obama will mount a campaign throughout the fall centered on the economy, unveiling different elements of his agenda heading into 2012. If Republicans reject his ideas, the president and his aides want to enlist the public as an ally, essentially using the megaphone of his presidency to pressure Congress and make the case for his re-election.

    "People will see a president who will be laying very significant proposals throughout the fall leading up this next State of the Union," Gene Sperling, director of Obama's National Economic Council, said in an interview with the Associated Press.

    Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Monday that both political parties should get behind Obama's efforts to improve the hiring picture.

    "We do need everyone to be on board," she said on NBC's "Today" show.
    Solis said Obama "is very mindful of what the needs and concerns are of those individuals who have been out of work for so long." But she also said the jobless have a responsibility to seek training in new skills, if necessary, to better prepare themselves for the kinds of jobs available in today's economy.”

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    This is what all America has been waiting for…For President Obama to put on his boxing gloves and fight the GOP on its own level. The GOP have been whining, posturing, preening, obstructing Obama’s every move, doing absolutely nothing to help America loosen itself from the severe recession we find ourselves in due to the previous administration’s graft, corruption, and un-American actions and leaving us with a gigantic deficit, outsourcing of jobs, two Bush Wars, and a bankrupt nation.

    This to me is unpatriotic, treasonous activity by the GOP and their corrosive style of hostage legislating must stop. The gloves are finally out. The GOP has shown itself, and now President Obama will show his presidential authority in the forthcoming months, carrying the ball to the GOP. We will see the republican/T-bagger scuttle away into their little holes as the day of reckoning approaches.
     
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    Barrack Obama's got a lot of nerve talking like this, considering how he blames all of his shortcomings on the other party rather than taking accountability for the crappy economy based on his own policies, namely ObamaCare and the stimulus package. Nobody wants to invest in anything anymore because they don't know what the economy is going to do because of those two things alone. Those are strictly Obama's babies, nothing more, nothing less.
     
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    Well, we do need to fix our infrastructure before it fails again like in New Orleans or the random bridge collapses over the years, but talk is cheap and Obama has a long way to go to convince me, and probably most of the political left, that he's serious and not going sell out fully to the Republicans again.

    Payroll taxes? I know small-businesses need it but unless they can pay their bills they won't hire new people this year (at least not uneducated people, and lack of higher-education skills in America is another problem isn't it?). We're in a death-spiral with no demand, and no jobs to meet or create it, and a brain-drained population (which ruins the skilled labor supply).

    I know that Obama is a centrist, and this is a crazy time, but if this were any other time Obama would be considered a right-wing neoconservative!

    At least his heart is in the right place... And, since I suggested once in another topic that Obama should help small business rather than international companies (I in fact contacted the Whitehouse about listening to small business), I can hardly be mad at Obama for this move. This will help some people (business owners and construction workers) and maybe it's enough to get wealth trickling again. Maybe.
     
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    What a pompos a**hole.

    The Republicans and the Tea Party are putting the country first.

    They know that if Obama is allowed to blow another trillion that we don't have America will someday owe more money than we can possibly repay and the Chinese will foreclose on us.

    Just because Obama is too stupid to see that doesn't mean that we have to go along with his wild borrowing and spending.
     
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    Is this what all the fuss was concerning the gas tax? How will redistributing tax revenue help in the long run? That's simply recycling money.
     
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    I don't see much of a problem with that as long as Obama and the Democrats will vote for a balanced budget ammendment.
     
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    Can you name a single jobs bill created by the GOP since January?
     
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    Cut, Cap and Balance.
     
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    That is a budget bill, not a jobs bill.
     
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    What is this "jobs bill" crap?

    The "jobs bill" is called GET OFF THE BACKS OF BUSINESS AND LEAVE THEM ALONE. THAT IS THE "JOBS BILL".

    The liberal idea of "jobs bill" is to hand out another trillion dollars to corporate cronies like Solyndra and GE, hand out more money to the most corrupt organizations in America like SEIU and AFL-CIO, hand out 20 million dollars in Seattle so that 14 people can split it amongst themselves while creating 4 jobs in total!

    Stimulus was a giant, wasteful porkfest and Obama just wants to toss another trillion to his political cronies and ideological buddies regardless of any economic viability.

    When Obama says "I want a jobs bill" Conservatives only have to ask "Why? So we can fund for Solyndras?"
     
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    What is a "jobs" bill ?
     
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    Pure projection.

    For over 75 years, every political move, every entitlement/dependency policy, every word of class warfare rhetoric democrat frauds engage in...

    is done for the sole purpose of aquiring and maintaining the party power necessary to advance their big government, collectivist agenda.
     
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    As long as the money goes to actual jobs and not the unions or to bridges to nowhere, the GOP will have no problems with spending money.
     
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    What? We shown ourselves as conservative WHO HATE YOUR IDEOLOGY AND WOULD RATHER DIE THAN COOPERATE WITH YOU.

    YOU are not America.. WE ARE. We're the Conservative movement, the old one, the movement that was here "first". We don't want your progress, we don't want your crony capitalism, we don't want your constant intellectual arrogance and we most certainly as hell do not want another centrally planned pork party for failures like Solyndra and that outfit in Seattle that robbed us of 20 million dollars without a single charge being filed.

    I want someone to investigate Obama's administration for corruption and fraud.

    You hate the war, fine, but a war at least has a tangible benefit for the USA in some form either imperialistically or not.

    What benefit was there to America to literally give a way 500 million dollars to Solyndra and get -1,100 jobs?

    What is the benefit of the 20 million to Seattle that was split 14 ways?

    You want the GOP to get out of the way of your TAXPAYER FRAUD. That is what you want.

    I voted for the GOP to obstruct, obstruct, obstruct and they better (*)(*)(*)(*) well keep obstructing and if 2012 comes and the American People decide they like (*)(*)(*)(*)ed up quasi-socialism over libertarian freedom, then I'll know that my nation is lost and I can leave it with a free conscience and seek my fortune elsewhere.

    America is going to remain the American *I* grew up in or I will assist in its destruction and leave liberal scumbags a smoking wreck as some measure of revenge for taking my freedom away from me.
     
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    The Economic Development Administration Re-authorization Act was an example of a jobs bill. It was blocked by the GOP in June.
     
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    I fear he means like Obama's economic "stimulus" bill. You know, something where you get congress to appropriate hundreds of billions of dollars and then you just throw the money up in the air hoping it will produce jobs...it has not. It certainly hasn't met Obama's own goals and promises.
     
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    Obama only gets one bite at that apple.

    The last trillion we gave him did not go to shovel ready jobs as he promised.

    But he spent it on drunken prostitutes in China and teaching African men how to clean their penis.

    Like the man says "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
     
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    That's delusional. I love the part about "the gloves are finally out". If you had a sense of humor I'd assume you were joking. President Obama as a candidate encouraged his supportes to "get in their face." He has used the SEIU and the Purple Shirts as his street thugs. He has threatened to bankrupt American industries and has taken steps to do just that.

    President Obama hates the U.S. and I'm sure you envision the "day of reckoning" as including lovely purges.

    I'm sure you're quite normal but you sound mad.
     
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    Up until August we had 18 straight months of job growth in the private sector. So yes, the stimulus and other programs put forth by the administration has produced jobs. The problem is that while the private sector has been hiring a low amount of people, the GOP has engaged in programs that have actively cut jobs in the public sector, thus hampering total job growth numbers throughout the president's term.
     
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    If you mean government jobs we have too many of them already.

    Government cannot create private sector jobs.

    Fix the wrecked Obama economy and private companies will hire again.
     
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    So again, what jobs bill has the GOP put forth since they took over the House of Representatives in January?
     
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    Um, every major jobs bill put forth in the last two years is also directed at private companies. For example, the Stimulus that you loathe so much included tax breaks for small businesses, and the secondary stimulus passed in December made it easier for small business to get loans on top of MORE tax breaks.

    Educate yourself please.
     
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    Barack Obamas idea of back America is follow Europe's failed policies. But then his entire agenda is to destroy America so his marxist dream of a one world government can come true
     
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    ..and up until Obamacare we were doing WAY better. We really were on the road to recovery but Obamacare scared businessmen so bad, and when you couple that with all the business haterism going on from Obama, his cabinet, his vice president, Union thugs out shooting innocent business owners..

    Business owners are on strike, Atlas is shrugging and you can't win this fight. You can either get with the establishment and support more mainstream policies or you can watch America tumble into the ashbin of History. One thing is for sure, I'm making a personal liferaft I'm not going down in your (*)(*)(*)(*)hole titanic.
     

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