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.
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Maybe the dam leftists and “progressives” could find another country to mess up.
Maybe he will subsidize shovel manufacturing for those shovel ready jobs he promised.
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.........
The Democrats knock and drag scampaign is going to need foot soldiers in 2012.
Hey, Dick Obama, I “could” add 50 million jobs.
Hell, he aint even got a hat!........
If granny had wheels she’d be a bike
If granny had wheels she’d be a bike
Biden’s already named it “The Fall of Recovery.”
Yeah - they are the same things that would have made a difference 6, 9, 12, 18, 24 months ago. The first of which is certainty in what an employee is going to cost tomorrow. Currently doesn't exist and won't until obamacare is repealed or really really fixed.
The second is certainty regarding how returns on investments will be punished tomorrow. The rich and big corporations get pilloried for sitting on cash though they know damn well taking risks with their money bring that inherent risk up front, and why take that risk if your profits will be taxed to oblivion on the back end. Might as well take 2% safe.
That looks just fine to me.
Missouri technically never surrendered after the Civil War. Just saying.
Obama COULD be a PRESIDENT -- if she had a penis.
Obama: could add 1 million new U.S. jobs
Right. And monkeys could fly out my ***
ROTFL!!! A standup comedian with teleprompters.
Heck, we SHOULD have added way, way more than 1 million jobs after pumping 2+ TRILLION ( close to 4 trillion after this year) dollars of borrowed money into the economy over the last two and a half years.
You really have to pursue every single counter productive, dead end economic policy and intentionally pound as much money as possible down as many rat holes to get the kind of economy we have now after helicoptering that much into the economy for several years. Given the massive spending, we should be seeing 5%+ economic growth and significant inflation. Instead we see nothing in the way of economic or job growth
Nobody has spent more to get less economic growth in the history of the world. Seriously.
The simple truth is Obama has offset massive economic stimulus with even more massive job killing, economic growth killing programs and policies
I suppose he also could shoot flames out of his bung hole to light his cigarets with also.
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