Posted on 09/06/2010 12:10:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MILWAUKEE – A combative President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Monday that will exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans' hard economic times.
GOP leaders instantly assailed Obama's proposal, which is also likely to be met with reluctance by many Democrats to approve additional spending and higher federal deficits just weeks before elections that will determine control of Congress.
That means the plan has low odds of becoming law this year. Administration officials said that even quick congressional approval would not produce jobs until sometime next year, raising questions about what, if any, pre-election impact it would have beyond showing job-hungry voters that the White House is trying to ease unemployment.
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Don't know why OBummer went to Wisconsin to announce this roads program, half of freaking Wisconsin's roads are already under construction! Try driving up I-94 out of Illinois to I-43 in Wisconsin sometime and you'll see what I mean!
Our last trip up to the summer cottage took almost 8 hours (normally it's 5 1/2) because of all the damn' construction!
This is of course, yet ANOTHER union payout from Obama, and Taxpayers know it!
The little white girl has a look on her face which says,
“Why did my mamma vote for this jerk?”
My bad he is scream preaching lies in Wisconsin. At a labor rally.
Obama bashing republicans and saying they put our economy in the ditch and he is the guy to get us out of the ditch.
He used the REPUBLICANS want to REVERSE the car the DEMOCRATS want to DRIVE tired mantra of BS.
He closed the speech sounding like he was campaigning.
Yeah I heard that. He said the republicans are just standing their (LAUGHTER LAUGHTER) drinking slurpees while the democrats cleaned things up. The people in the background were applauding this crap. Go figure!
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But there are some folks in Washington who see things differently. When it comes to just about everything we’ve done to strengthen the middle class and rebuild our economy, almost every Republican in Congress said no. Even where we usually agree, they say no. They think it’s better to score political points before an election than actually solve problems. So they said no to help for small businesses. No to middle-class tax cuts. No to unemployment insurance. No to clean energy jobs. No to making college affordable. No to reforming Wall Street. Even as we speak, these guys are saying no to cutting more taxes for small business owners. I mean, come on! Remember when our campaign slogan was “Yes We Can?” These guys are running on “No, We Can’t,” and proud of it. Really inspiring, huh?
To steal a line from our old friend, Ted Kennedy: what is it about working men and women that they find so offensive?
When we passed a bill earlier this summer to help states save the jobs of hundreds of thousands of teachers, nurses, police officers and firefighters that were about to be laid off, they said “no” to that, too. In fact, the Republican who’s already planning to take over as Speaker of the House dismissed them as “government jobs” that weren’t worth saving. Not worth saving? These are the people who teach our kids. Who keep our streets safe. Who put their lives on the line for our own. I don’t know about you, but I think those jobs are worth saving.
We made sure that bill wouldn’t add to the deficit, either. We paid for it by finally closing a ridiculous tax loophole that actually rewarded corporations for shipping jobs and profits overseas. It let them write off the taxes they pay foreign governments – even when they don’t pay taxes here. How do you like that – middle class families footing tax breaks for corporations that create jobs somewhere else! Even a lot of America’s biggest corporations agreed the loophole should be closed, that it wasn’t fair – but the man with the plan to be Speaker is already aiming to open it up again.
Bottom line is, these guys refuse to give up on the economic philosophy they peddled for most of the last decade. You know that philosophy: you cut taxes for millionaires and billionaires; you cut rules for special interests; you cut working folks like you loose to fend for yourselves. They called it the ownership society. What it really boiled down to was: if you couldn’t find a job, or afford college, or got dropped by your insurance company – you’re on your own.
Well, that philosophy didn’t work out so well for working folks. It didn’t work out so well for our country. All it did was rack up record deficits and result in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
I’m not bringing this up to re-litigate the past; I’m bringing it up because I don’t want to re-live the past. It would be one thing if Republicans in Washington had new ideas or policies to offer; if they said, you know, we’ve learned from our mistakes. We’ll do things differently this time. But that’s not what they’re doing. When the leader of their campaign committee was asked on national television what Republicans would do if they took over Congress, he actually said they’d follow “the exact same agenda” as they did before I took office. The exact same agenda.
So basically, they’re betting that between now and November, you’ll come down with a case of amnesia. They think you’ll forget what their agenda did to this country. They think you’ll just believe that they’ve changed. These are the folks whose policies helped devastate our middle class and drive our economy into a ditch. And now they’re asking you for the keys back.
Do you want to give them the keys back? Me neither. And do you know why? Because they don’t know how to drive! At a time when we’re just getting out of the ditch, they’d pop it in reverse, let the special interests ride shotgun, and hit the gas, careening right back into that ditch.
Well, I refuse to go backwards, Milwaukee. And that’s the choice America faces this fall. Do we go back to the policies of the past? Or do we move forward? I say we move forward. America always moves forward. And we are going to keep moving forward today.”
The people in the background were applauding this crap. Go figure!
Disgusting Useful Idiots.
Holy crap how did you get that off off the long legged mack daddy’s, the one we have not been waiting for,anti-Christian’s, teleprompter?
Brainwashed union mob thugs.
If he says 50 billion to rebuild all this crap, you can rest assured it will be at least 5 times that much.
He just said in that campaign sickening speech that they used money to pay for some crap... from loopholes HE STOPPED in the taxes for the rich the republicans put there.
Look for the Union Label.
Brainwashed union mob thugs.
Exactly right. They could care less about the country or anything else. Selfish bastards.
I do. And if I find it I don’t buy it.
“how did you get that”
If you had read my profile, you would have realized that I am thinking/living in the near future! Well,,,, actually, his prepared remarks were at this Time link;
http://thepage.time.com/obamas-labor-day-remarks-in-milwaukee/
It shows Americans what terrible stewardship Hussein and the Dems are engaging in. Actually the timing could not be better. Hussein the Divider is showing his true underbelly, trying to turn America in against itself.
FUBO
Not all small businesses need R & D. She is a good scrounger of free software for herself and her customers, and barters her services for things like car repair.
yes and we tried the Carter policies and they failed, Bush came in and it got better, the rats took over the house and congress and it got out of control.
he spent most of his time attacking the GOP instead of laying out his plans.
Maybe I think too much for the far left kooks, obama cult and groupies form the media but why is it that the far left cannot understand that the Dem party always tries to get an enemy to shift attention away from their own mess ups and screw ups, failed policies etc.
Can’t all these groupies actually say , what is your plan for this mess you are putting us into to?
Obama begs and bribes for relevance, that he will never bring back to life.
I recently caught a live weasel in a trap. It had been killing my chickens. It snarled, screamed, clawed, bit at the cage and ran around in circles. With a little help, that weasel is no longer in the game... it can no longer kill the innocent and destroy the producers.
Obama is in a weasel trap of his own making. I chuckle as he bites at the cage, screams and runs around in circles.
Obama’s relevancy is nearly dead..... fitting for such a weasel.
I do! And, when I see it, I put the object down and look for "Made in China"!
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