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Posted on 02/10/2013 1:15:09 PM PST by YankeeReb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will describe his plan for spurring the economy in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, offering proposals for investments in infrastructure, manufacturing, clean energy and education, a senior administration official said on Saturday.
In the annual presidential address to Congress, Obama plans to show he has not lost sight of the economic woes of middle-class Americans - issues that dominated the 2012 election campaign but have been overshadowed recently by efforts to cut the deficit, overhaul immigration laws and curb gun violence.
"The potential success of his second term is hugely dependent on the rate at which the economy grows," said Ruy Teixeira, a political scientist with the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.
"There's no problem the Democrats have that can't be solved with faster growth. Conversely, there's not much they'll be able to do if growth stays slow."
Obama previewed his economic growth plan in a speech to House of Representatives Democrats this week, telling them he would stress the importance of education, development of clean energy, and infrastructure.
There were no details on the new initiatives for infrastructure, manufacturing, clean energy and education, elements first reported by the New York Times.
But any new spending will face tough opposition from Republicans in Congress who are focused on cutting spending and reducing the deficit.
Obama has urged Congress to take steps to postpone harsh government spending cuts slated to take effect on March 1, and the White House took pains on Friday to describe how the cuts would affect ordinary Americans' lives.
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You pretty much summed it up
Bush, Bush, Bush, and oh, it’s Bush’s fault. But, I’m going to focus like a laser on jobs. LOLOLOLOL!
What a joke..
Again?
More 'UNION worker' buzzwords like 'education, schools, rail, transportation, highways, roads, bridges, etc'???
Infrastructure: Unions
Manufacturing: Unions
Clean Energy: Failed and failed big (Solyndra)
Education: Unions
Paybacks and blackholes to fleece the American tax payer.
He and his leftist handlers are laughing at us all, here in America. And thanks to their anti-American policies....it (his administration) has become a very unfunny joke.
The ONLY thing that will help America’s “state” is getting rid of the Obama leftists. But it looks like that ain’t gonna happen now. So they will continue to laugh on....
at our expense.
Just 4 years ago I stood on the precipiece of economic collapse, I am not the first president to blame the outgoing administration no, don’t you all remember how George W. Bush stood on that firetruck at ground zero shortly after 911 and instead of bringing the country together he went on and on about how he inherited the security situation that allowed that attack to happen. So I am the new change, Bush was a terrible guy for pouring water up the terrorists noses I won’t waste our energy with that I intend to strike them dead where they stand with drones and even intend to target American citizens and my base will cheer for me. I intend to destroy the Republican party and fox news so that only my media will be available to the people and they will have to go outside of the USA to get the truth. I will ensure that corrupt Democrats are only read about in the National Enquirer, stories never to be repeated by any legitimate news organization. So don’t believe all this hype on debt, the rich can afford it, just apply for your EBT, WIC, Foodstamps, Obamacare, Obamaphone, Obamaloan, Obamahome and let us worry about ensuring equality for people of all sexual beliefs, we will make sure when your young daughter needs an abortion that the Catholics pay their fair share for her healthcare and never you mind about that pesky Constitution, I haven’t been paying much attention to it and if it gets too burdensome we can change that too just keep voting for Democrats and destroy the Republicans at every step along the way.
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I hear he is going to focus like a laser on jobs.
The families of his victims in Ben Ghazi wish he had done that when their loved ones were being killed.
There two nasty realities that disrupt the “Progressives” and their Socialist dream of Nirvana: Economics and the U.S. Constitution.
Why not just play the last one over again. Same stuff with likely the same negative results, except worse.
Is this a joke thread?
[It would never happen. The funds will be eaten up in salaries, kickbacks and “studies”. The usual......]
Yeah but, as long as the folks benefiting (either directly or politically) from those salaries, kickbacks, and “studies” wear a Purple/Pink shirt on Thursdays and admire the craftsmanship of the Emperor’s new underwear by explicitly not asking how much this infrastructure will cost and/or how it will be funded - that’s ok, and per the NewsSpeak Dictionary 2013 Workplace edition, “not” political. /s
Or, is it?
http://www.tlnt.com/2012/07/25/political-speech-in-the-workplace-employers-beware/
The State Of The Union is “laid to rest”.
Sadly, they'll instead pop hernias jumping up again and again to applaud Obama.
Yeah. There's no way I'm going to watch that.
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