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Obama: could add 1 million new U.S. jobs
Reuters ^ | Aug 30, 2011 | Reuters

Posted on 08/30/2011 4:06:41 PM PDT by mdittmar

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday there were a range of policy options available that could create up to a million new U.S. jobs, in remarks ahead of a major economic speech that he will deliver next week.

Obama must boost growth and bring down unemployment to be confident of winning another White House term in the November 2012 general election. Economists are skeptical he will get Congress to agree to significant new spending on jobs.

"We don't have magic bullets, but what we do have, I think, is the capacity to do some things right now that would make a big difference," Obama said in a interview with popular radio talkshow host Tom Joyner.

The White House says details of the job creation proposals Obama will unveil next week are still being worked out and it has yet to announce an exact date or location for his speech, although Obama hinted at some of the ideas he would put forth.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: couldashoudawouda; jobs; magicbullet; magicnegro; obama; unemployment
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To: mdittmar
"We've got to do it, unfortunately, at a time when money is tight. George Bush left us (a) $1 trillion deficit," he said

My God. He really, actually said that?

41 posted on 08/30/2011 4:40:06 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: The Antiyuppie

And my aunt COULD be my uncle — if she had a penis.


42 posted on 08/30/2011 4:43:58 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("I know that God's tomorrow will be better than today!" A. H. Ackley)
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To: mdittmar
Its that time of year folks.

The Dog Days of August are just about over and Obama plans to hoodwink the people, again, with the promise of jobs jobs jobs...

FUBO!

43 posted on 08/30/2011 4:44:21 PM PDT by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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To: Repeal The 17th

HEY! Take Alaska with you, they can have Hawaii.


44 posted on 08/30/2011 4:45:16 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: All

This is not a plan to create jobs. This is another tax and spend - or just spend - project that will last a year or two and end with no increase in the GNP.

There will be no permanent jobs, only some temporary busy work that will come crashing down on every one for whom the government will have spent $1 million per temp. Another boondoggle.

It is absolutely obvious that the O administration is opposed to private sector growth. That is the only source of permanent growth. These socialist fascists will destroy the private sector given enough time.


45 posted on 08/30/2011 4:46:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (O assumes the trappings of the presidency, not its mantle. He is not presidential.)
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To: mdittmar

Blaming Bush again.

What a jerk.


46 posted on 08/30/2011 4:46:09 PM PDT by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: dfwgator

I would much rather envision being kidnapped by 9 skantily clad , bronze skinned, melon breasted gorgeous brunette aliens in a space ship for a week.

Its all a more positive dream , but, equally low probability.


47 posted on 08/30/2011 4:48:23 PM PDT by himno hero (Obamas theme...Death to America...The crusaders will pay!)
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To: mc5cents
If wishes were horses

beggars would ride.

48 posted on 08/30/2011 4:49:32 PM PDT by spokeshave (Obamas approval ratings are so low, Kenyans are accusing him of being born in the USA.)
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To: mdittmar
all hat... no cattle... etc.

49 posted on 08/30/2011 4:53:00 PM PDT by glock rocks ( I like Palin, but < insert PDS here >. Wait, what?)
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To: spokeshave

If wishes were fishes,
we’d all have a fry.
If horse turds were biscuits,
we’d eat ‘till we die.


50 posted on 08/30/2011 4:54:38 PM PDT by glock rocks ( I like Palin, but < insert PDS here >. Wait, what?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Hey, go easy on him — he didn’t say the jobs would be in the US, or if they were, for US citizens. Thanks mdittmar.


51 posted on 08/30/2011 4:55:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Winstons Julia

Lemme guess..he got the figures straight from his ass. The same method Algore got his “facts” about global warming.


52 posted on 08/30/2011 4:56:01 PM PDT by max americana (FUBO NATION 2012 FK BARAK)
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To: mdittmar
So the whole plan was to plan on talking about a plan to talk?

My god, this mans brain is a pebble.

53 posted on 08/30/2011 4:57:20 PM PDT by MaxMax
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To: mdittmar

[We don’t have magic bullets, but what we do have, I think, is the capacity to do some things right now that would make a big difference,” Obama said ]

Translation:

“We don’t have magic bullets, but what we do have is magic bullets”


54 posted on 08/30/2011 4:59:48 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown (HARRY: Money Mob & Influence (See my Expose on Reid on amazon.com written by me!))
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To: max americana

Lemme tellya...

If I could totally spend money I don’t have ... I could build this widget plant. And I would employ people at like, 12 bucks an hour to make widgets ... but getting people for management positions for my bullfly widget company is going to be expensive... PLUS ... what’s a widget?


55 posted on 08/30/2011 5:00:15 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: MaxMax

"I will create one miiiillllion jobs!!!"

56 posted on 08/30/2011 5:01:03 PM PDT by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: mdittmar

“YOU LIE!”


57 posted on 08/30/2011 5:02:47 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: mdittmar

Obama WOULD crate a million jobs instantly if he resigned


58 posted on 08/30/2011 5:02:57 PM PDT by PMAS
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To: mdittmar

Bush asked for TARP that is true, and yes it was 800 billion added to the deficit for FY 2009 however, half was left to Obama to spend which he bailed out the Auto industry with and it was all supposedly paid back so the question to Obama is what happened to the TARP money? If it got paid back how can that be part of the deficit?

Obama LIES...


59 posted on 08/30/2011 5:06:28 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey (Ask a liberal to explain how tax increases create jobs in America)
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To: mdittmar
President DumbA$$, as a Senator, YOU WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BUSH BUDGET when you voted to pass TARP and the "Pelosie/Bush" budget.

THE TRILLION DOLLAR DEFICITS ARE YOURS AS PRESIDENT....CONSIDERING THAT THE SENATE DID NOT PASS A BUDGETS FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS....CONSIDERING THAT THE SENATE VOTED AGAINST YOUR MOST RECENT HYPER TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET BY 97-0. JUST BECAUSE YOUR DEMOCRAT BASE IS STUPID DOES NOT MEAN WE ARE. WE KNOW THE PURSE STRINGS BEGAN WITH PELOSIE, BEGINNING 2007 AND ENDING 2011.

YUCK FOU.

60 posted on 08/30/2011 5:09:39 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
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