Posted on 07/02/2009 9:46:34 AM PDT by frogjerk
US layoffs still too high, too many families worried, Obama says in AP interview
WASHINGTON (AP) -- With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too many families are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffer economically.
In a White House interview with The Associated Press, Obama said that since he took office, "we have successfully stabilized the financial markets," and "started to see some stabilization on housing."
"But what we are still seeing is too many jobs lost," said Obama, commenting after new government figures showed the unemployment rate had risen to 9.5 percent last month.
On an important international subject, Obama is scheduled to travel to Russia next week, and he said the agenda includes talks on a new treaty to curtail long-range nuclear missiles. Asked why he intends to meet with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the former president, Obama said he "still has a lot of sway." Putin now is nominally the second-in-command in the Kremlin.
Obama also is to meet with the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev.
It is important that both Medvedev and Putin hear the same message from the U.S., said Obama, who added that he believes Putin "has one foot in the old ways of doing business and one foot in the new."
Obama praised Russia for its cooperation in attempting to persuade North Korea and Iran to abandon their nuclear development programs. The United Nations recently approved "the most robust sanction regime that we've ever seen with respect to North Korea," he said.
Asked if he was resigned to Iran's possession of nuclear weapons, he said, "I'm not reconciled with that, and I don't think the international community is reconciled with that."
Obama spoke sympathetically of white firefighters in
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Yea, the Presidental Sock Puppet speaks.
Hussein is to blame. Period.
Can’t blame Bush anymore!
Can’t blame Bush anymore because that’s like milking a dead cow.
Can’t blame Bush anymore because that’s like milking a dead cow.
Obama & Hillary (and other lying Democrats) are “deeply concerned” about everything. They just don’t have a damn clue what to do about it!
Oh they have a clue alright but in order to do what they need to do the things that would actually help the country, they would have to jettison their entire agenda and pjilosophy and do a one eighty and espouse true conservative values and principles such as low taxes, smaller government and decrease/eliminate government spending.
Yeah but just think of how many more jobs would be lost if Obamessiah wasn’t out there saving a whole bunch of them............\s
It's "common public knowledge" to folks like you and me, and most others here at FR, but not generally to the average person on the street, especially if they're 30 or younger, but especially if they're under 25.
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