Obama urges support to fix roads, dredge ports,create job

Reuters ^ | Nov 8, 2013 | Mark Felsenthal

[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.

[BfloGuy]

Is he starting his playbook all over again?

Yeah, I think it's his 32nd attempt at a laser-like focus on jobs.

[The Antiyuppie]

Hey, a squirrel!

[bassmaner]

Zero could create jobs tomorrow with the stroke of a pen ... that authorizes the Keystone XL pipeline, lifts restrictions on offshore drilling, ends the War on Coal, etc.

Yeah, right, like that would ever happen.

[thouworm]

This is part of Obama’s ObamaCare Medicaid-Expansion Tour. He just did the same thing in Texas.

From the article:

“Then he took a veiled jab at Jindal for failing to support a key plank of the healthcare law.

Louisiana is one of 24 states that has refused federal funds to expand Medicaid to more low-income people,”

[knarf]

build the pipeline, asshole !

[knarf]

GREAT picture

[gitmo]

I thought Obama promised a web site for porkulus. He said if we saw a project not getting done we should tell him.

I guess it has a spinning circle on it like the obamaCAIR site.

[gitmo]

I remember a lot of the money went to non-existant counties in several states.

[philled]

Awesome! I can hardly wait for Slow Joe Biden to proclaim it is “Recovery Summer” again...

[Lazamataz]

I thought Obama promised a web site for this

Psssst... don't mention websites around this Obama guy. He loses it.

[Venturer]

Right: Shovel ready jobs.

This man insults our intelligence every day.

[Grams A]

He needs to approve the Keystone Pipeline and roll back all the government mandates enacted during the last ten years. Then he and Congress should go on vacation somewhere until the end of 2016 and let us get the U.S. working again.

[newbie 10-21-00]

Create job? As in singular?? That’s setting the bar pretty low.

[Daffynition]

[trebb]

Zero has been dumping so much $h.. on the People that he now thinks that there might be some “shovel-ready” jobs to be created.