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Obama urges support to fix roads, dredge ports,create job
Reuters ^
| Nov 8, 2013
| Mark Felsenthal
Posted on 11/08/2013 1:12:03 PM PST by mdittmar
Reuters) - President Barack Obama made a pitch on Friday to create jobs by fixing roads, dredging ports and modernizing the air traffic control system, urging Congress to focus on these investments as it tries to work out a budget deal by a January deadline.
The visit the Port of New Orleans was an opportunity for Obama to focus on the economy and take attention away from the controversy around the launch of his signature healthcare insurance program, widely known as Obamacare.
Obama pledged, however, to fix the malfunctioning Healthcare.gov website, and took a veiled jab at Louisiana's Republican Governor Bobby Jindal, who was in the audience, for failing to support a key plank of Obamacare.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: employment; jobs; medicaidexpansion; medicaidtour; obamacare; obamajobs; obamalies; unioncare
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To: mdittmar
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:27:39 PM PST
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: Patriot Babe; Daffynition
We'll probably wind up with more pot holes with this crap.
To: Zuben Elgenubi
Detroit is the second busiest freight crossing on the continent and its bottlenecked across an 80 year old bridge.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:28:28 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: mdittmar
He needs to shovel sh!t again... aka “shovel ready jobs”. **** obama and robert reichhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:28:43 PM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
--What did he do with that $800B stimulus package? Not one bridge fixed if I remember correctly.-- There are still lots of 'shovel ready' union thug pockets to fill.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:30:25 PM PST
by
JPG
(Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
To: mdittmar
“Obama pledged” more shovel ready jobs.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:32:37 PM PST
by
Gator113
( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:33:14 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: DJ MacWoW
Obamacare not shovel ready ....
To: mdittmar
They collect road tax to do that. How about spending the money from the road tax on roads? Why not spend the social security monies on social security like promised? Give the $13.7T back to social security and many problems will be cured.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:39:39 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: mdittmar
Knowing how this group of thugs think, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a test balloon for federal chain gangs formed from those in non-compliance with obamacare.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:41:13 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: mdittmar
Where did the trillion dollars for “shovel-ready projects” go? Show me the projects completed - or even started.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:41:22 PM PST
by
Paine in the Neck
(Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
To: mountainlion
Uhhhhh? Maybe Clown Prince nobama should return some of the so-called “stimulus” money he and his commie cronies stole a few years back. Several hundred million “evaporated”. Criminals!
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:42:00 PM PST
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: mdittmar
Democrats - Doubling down on stupid for 200 years.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:42:43 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(If we here in TN can't get rid of the worthless Lamar, it's over.)
To: hal ogen
KFK broke the SS piggy bank and the thieves in government turned it into pork. They were just pikers next to 0.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:47:58 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: cripplecreek
Well, I guess Detroit might want to raise taxes and build a new one .... leave the rest of us out of it.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:53:51 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(An Administration of communists, incompetents, and the corrupt ...reminds one of FDR's brain trust.)
To: RetiredTexasVet
I clearly stated that Canada is paying for it.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:55:50 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: mdittmar
Good Lord, this good-for-nothing commie has the brain of a flea.
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posted on
11/08/2013 1:58:29 PM PST
by
St_Thomas_Aquinas
( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
To: mdittmar
It's infrastructure season! Happy Infrastructure, everyone! I'm getting my house shovel-ready for the festivities :-)
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posted on
11/08/2013 2:01:45 PM PST
by
liberalh8ter
(The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
To: mdittmar
If Obama keeps proposing more government solutions, he’s going to be made an honorary Bush brother along with the impeached, disbarred and disgraced Bill Clinton.
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posted on
11/08/2013 2:08:03 PM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Zuben Elgenubi
What did he do with that $800B stimulus package? Probably built a couple of websites saying how great the stimulus was.
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posted on
11/08/2013 2:17:15 PM PST
by
JennysCool
(My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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