Posted on 09/19/2011 8:40:22 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Everybody remembers the urgency of President Obama's attitude toward the awful jobs situation.
Back in early August, Obama said the jobs situation was so urgent that he was going to give another speech about it -- in a month or so, in September after his vacation on Martha's Vineyard.
And then in September the president announced he would give his major jobs speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7. But he neglected to check with congressional leaders first. And they suggested the 8th. So, since it was their House, the 8th it was.
"Tonight," the president said in the first 34 of his 4,021 words to a national television audience that night, "we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that has made things worse."
The speech got panned as another political campaign one with Obama announcing, in effect, that.... ...since the first stimulus spending plan of $787 billion hadn't really worked, maybe another $447 billion stimulus spending plan would.
This is the kind of thinking that can make sense within Washington. But since "stimulus" has become a laugh line, he didn't use that word anymore.
And, hey, the debt ceiling had been raised to $16 trillion. (Speaking of which the president speaks on the debt this morning in another speech because he's a Real Good Talker.) So why not spend a half-trillion more to look like he's doing something about the terrible jobs situation with 14+ million unemployed?
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The president was in such a hurry to get this new spending going, everyone remembers, that during that address he said the phrase "right now" seven times. ..
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
And pull the plug on Michelle’s million dollar vacations every few months. Gets back from one and immediately starts planning the next big boondoggle at the taxpayers expense. Apparently she’s a big follower of “make hay while the sun shines.”
Is he ever without those %@#$ prompters?
Where’s he going this time?
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