Posted on 09/15/2013 10:19:33 PM PDT by kingattax
The White House said Saturday U.S. President Barack Obama will speak next week about economic growth following the worst recession since the Great Depression.
In a statement, the White House said the president will speak Monday in the Rose Garden to discuss "the progress we have made to grow the economy and create 7.5 million private sector jobs, and highlight the work we still need to do to strengthen the middle class and those fighting to get into it."
The statement said Obama will "highlight his better bargain for the middle class, and warn against more self-inflicted wounds from Washington."
The president will be joined at the White House by people the statement said "have benefited from his economic recovery proposals over the last five years including small business owners, construction workers, homeowners, consumers and tax cut recipients."
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He’s going to tell all the money and job deprived people that they aren’t money and job deprived, and they’re going to not listen.
But they will hear the spin on comedy shows, reality shows, and sitcoms. And they will accept that this is prosperity.
The socialists desperately need an older generation that knows better, that knows this is poverty, to die off. Then they can make everybody think that everyone always has been a serf.
Will Putin get equal time?
At this time in 2008, there were 145 million people in this country who had jobs. Today, there are 144 million people who have jobs. So after 56 months in office and trillions of dollars in so-called 'stimulus' spent, we have one million less people employed. That's quite the legacy.
This jerk simply cannot stop campaigning.
Six million people who WERE in the workforce have dropped out of the workforce. They can’t find jobs and eventually gave up trying. I don’t know how you arrive at your number of only one million fewer working than in ‘08.
Obama to America: Drop dead!
WHY?
And why is this is Breaking News? He's already done this a billion times. This is trite, old news. There's nothing new on the economy he'll share with us.
Labor Force - 154.7 million
Employment - 145.3 million
Labor Force - 155.5 million
Employment - 144.2 million
The hit to his poll numbers from the Syria bungling must be more serious than we’ve been told.
Is Clown Prince nobama going to apologize, resign immediately and put him self in prison for his many crimes against Free Americans and the Constitution?
The labor force is 800K larger now too. Based on those numbers alone any fool can see the unemployment rate has gone up. Note, you should also look at underemployment...
On these numbers alone, darned near 2 million MORE people are out of work that are in the labor force.
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