Posted on 12/03/2009 12:15:27 PM PST by winstonwolf33
President Obama said at a much-anticipated jobs summit Thursday that chronic unemployment isn't merely academic and is "a struggle that cuts deep and touches people across the nation."
Chronic unemployment isn't merely academic and is "a struggle that cuts deep and touches people across the nation," President Obama said at a much-anticipated jobs summit Thursday.
The president claimed progress toward an economic recovery while saying much more work needs to be done -- even as the left wing of his party accused his administration of not doing enough to increase employment.
Obama sought fresh ideas from the 130 corporate executives, small business owners and labor leaders who attended the jobs forum. The president said the leading question of the day is "how do we get businesses to start hiring again."
The pressures come from all sides -- businesses would like the White House to focus on free trade, Democrats on Capitol Hill on a jobs bill and many in the American public are narrowing in on deficit spending.
But the jobless figure, a whopping 10.2 percent and expected to rise, is causing a lot of anxiety for Democratic lawmakers up for re-election in 2010, who realize that if it doesn't turn around, they too could be out of a job.
Those lawmakers, including members of the Congressional Black Caucus, are beginning to voice their complaints about the administration's pace of efforts tackling the unemployment rate.
The CBC, in particular, says Obama officials have not done enough to address the severe economic problems in the black community. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif, reportedly issued a warning Wednesday that the 43 members of the caucus are planning to vote with the GOP to derail a number of Democratic bills if it isn't addressed.
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This can be the perfect opportunity for the GOP to show independent-minded black voters that the Republican Party is the party that knows about the proper way to grow the economy and increase jobs...or am I being too optimistic?
Growth? Were even mindless RATS like Waters thinking this guy cared one iota about free market growth, and the economy, in America....even as they watch him destroy it?? How STUPID can they get??
As long as DIMs equate government spending with job growth, they will never solve this problem, only make it worse. That’s their biggest genetic flaw, it seems to be impossible for liberals to understand that government doesn’t ‘create’ jobs. When the government stop interfering in the free market and stops stripping businesses and individuals of their money, the jobs will return.
The reality is that the ‘progressive’ agenda is in full swing. This is the result.
The command and control policies from DC don’t hold any promises of growth, only survival of the fittest.
Businesses know that their taxes are going up. The cost of doing business is increasing because everyone else’s taxes are going up. There is little discretionary income for purchases (The top 32% account for the discretionary spending, the rest spend on necessitites such as food, shelter, transportation)
There is no mathematical way to stop the coming inflation. Anyone with any common sense is hunkering down. This isn’t going to end well.
Do you really want to put your trust in someone like Maxine Waters? This is just a ploy to get more money from the taxpayers. I don’t take anything she says seriously.
Did they really use the same quote, verbatim, one line apart from one another? Where the hell are the editors these days? This article is awful!
What they do want is for the Government to create a large number of make-work union jobs paid for by taxes collected from people who do actual work for private businesses.
The only thing more bankrupt than the US treasury is Obama’s brain. Our only chance for real economic growth will come in 2012 when Zero will join the ranks of the unemployed soon thereafter.
What was it Obamao said, something about how we are making progress? There you have it. Someone is giving him bad information. No progress has been made since he has been in office. Now we hear about slow growth. Don’t let Obamao hear that. He’ll have a bad information overload. We are experiencing no growth, decline. That little bump in the road that bounced us around was the edge of the cliff. Americans forgot to ask if Obamao could drive before putting him in the driver’s seat. ...What’s that old joke about putting your head between your legs, and.... We got so used to having it good, we started thinking we were invincible, even an idiot couldn’t wreck us.
It is a good time to fire a lefty.
A lefty has hurt the company by voting for socialism and getting rid of them is good for the company and the country
‘a struggle that cuts deep’
He isn’t talking about jobs, people.
You're being too optimistic. Next question?
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