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Subscribe to RSSJust a day after the nation’s first primary, President Obama held an “insourcing jobs forum” on Wednesday aimed at creating and bringing additional jobs to America, NBC’s Kristen Welker reports. Similarly, the day after last week’s Iowa caucuses, the president announced the recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Welker adds that both events are seemingly aimed at painting the president as a protector of the middle class and at striking strong contrasts with the Republican field.
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"painting the President" as a protector of the middle class??
President Barack Obama is all that is standing between us and the right wing overlording of ordinary Americans. This President is working hard to move our country forward, and with no help from Me-Me-Me-GOP-Koch brigade and its maladjusted candidates.
Hence the creative and impressive We Can't Wait stream of proposals coming from the WH.
No paint on it required.
Obombo is not only for the middle class he's not for the sick and poor like
all liberals and socialist say it's all about big government and power!
where's the jobs?
GoodvsEvil===Perhaps you should be asking the Republicans/Tea Party that very question. Where are the jobs?
hey they put up bills in congress and your president and demos
didn't even vote on them and they passed healthcare, stimulus,
big union bailouts, GE, Wall street, Fannie and Freddie, soylandra
and regulations shutting down energy and jobs lost so he could
push his fairytale green agenda! get off your liberal BS!
FACTS:
Over the last 22 months, we have added 3.2 million private sector jobs.
Nearly 2 million private sector jobs were added in 2011 alone.
That is why we must extend the payroll tax cut and keep the recovery going.
General Motors is now Number One in the world for Auto sales, thanks to the President fighting to keep it alive.
nb. Romney wanted to let General Motors die and let the thousands of US jobs & related industries go down with it.
GoodvsEvil, tax cuts for the wealthy are not jobs bills. That is all the House has sent to the Senate.
The President tries to create private sector jobs (infrastructure rebuilding, etc.) but he can't do it by himself. Are you helping?
But Backhouse,
Isn't it a fact also that we must add a minimum of 300,000 new jobs a month just to stay even with the new entries into the work force??
And. if you do the math, that comes out to 6.6 million new jobs for the 22 months you mentioned. So Obama is short by 3.4 million jobs needed just to stay even. That means we are sliding backwards. Losing ground. That is not progress at all.
Short of what? Sliding back from what?
We are recovering from the most catastrophic economy since the 1930's thanks to this President.
And no thanks to Leader McConnell et al., who swore they'd do everything they could to block that recovery....
and block the President who has been working double time to fix the sorry mess without their help.
Tumtitum.
I think we're all sick of the rhetoric coming from the White House these days! It is clear obama doesn't have a clue how to create 'non-government jobs"! What he can do well is to ignore the Constitution to further his agenda! These recent obama 'appointments' is evidence of that! The Democrats have got to be worried! Romney 2012!
Sorry Mark from Lake Tahoe, your year long tea people GOP republican talking points aren't resonating with the informed voter. Try some reality based post for a change.
You're exactly right Mark, the democrats are listing to port and in danger of sinking! There was an article yesterday about Michelle Obama 'the angry black woman'. I'd be angry too if I was married to such a weak guy! Biden is twice the man, twice the leader Obama has been. The guy was elected on the rhetoric of Hope and Change, but will lose his job because he couldn't deliver those promises!
Obama won't get reelected because of these important points:
We can't afford another 4 years of failure to understand this!
I'm with you....Go Romney!!!!! I have seen the light, I am now a Republican all the way!
what a fing joke? this guy does nothing until he has to pretend to be doing
something cause he knows his numbers are sinking! what has he been doing
but killing jobs with regulations and forcing big union healthcare soylandra
on america! now he wants to create jobs after 3 1/2 years in office! what
a bunch of BS! how much pressure or threats did he put on those companies
who defended him yesterday! i bet they are big union and obomob supporters!
this guy is a fing joke anybody believes a word out of his mouth is either just
a moron or progressive socialist liberal like him who is anti-american!
Anger doesn't solve anything GoodvsEvil. Take a deep breath exhale and just except the fact the tea people GOP republicans are going to lose the house senate and white house, that's what's got you so angry and there's nothing you can do about it.
I notice a measurable increase in Tea Party anger lately - even following the success in 2010 and seemingly a Presidential year when they ought to succeed if they're ever going to. My guess is that much of the anger is actually that they have proved so inept that they'll be stuck w/ the very not tea partyish Mitt Romney.
President Obama has been fighting to save and create jobs since he was elected - while Republicans criticized him for bailing out the American auto industry and sending stimulus to the states to keep teachers, cops and firefighters employed.
I'm excited for the President's second term. I feel we are on our way to regaining our manufacturing base, and cracking down on the dubious financial practices that sent us into the financial crisis of 2007.
While Republican presidential candidates are full of hot air and making promises that have been made before by the likes of W. that are impossible to keep. And while Ccongress is still asleep on the job, our President is doing everything he can to create jobs. Thank you Mr. President! Obama 2012.
Banana put back on your peel and get back on the tree cause
you ain't ripe yet!
Anything intelligent to say GoodvsEvil or just diatribe?
GoodvsEvil doesn't have anything to say period AnaBanana. HE/She is just an angry person.
Amy, you are very wrong! Obama has been promoting Class Warfare, not job creation! As a fighter, he has proven he couldn't punch his way out of a wet paper bag! Just what has obama accomplished regarding job creation?
He has increased the Fed by 13%, but that's just an example of defict creation, isn't it....? Those 30,000 IRS agent positions he created are merely to enforce his extremely expensive socialized health care we fondly call obamacare! No, you can't say obama's been successful, even marginally, in creating jobs....
I disagree, Sally.
When President Obama took the oath of office, our economy had already shed 1.9 million jobs, the largest job loss since 1945. We were headed towards another Great Depression.
Thanks to the fact the President bailed out the American automobile industry (now all three companies are profitable for the first time since 2004), and sent stimulus money to the states to keep teachers, firefighters and cops employed, not to mention improving infrastructure, a Depression was averted, and we are now on the road to recovery.
And what's your beef with "Obamacares?" If trying to get everyone covered by health insurance is so bad, why are the Republicans nominating former Massachsetts governor Romney, whose health care plan was used as a model for the Democrats' Affordable Healthcare Act?
Obama's little stunt with all these union hacks at the White House the day after New Hampshire primary is nothing more than an abuse of office.
Isn't it enough that he's been out their campaigning on the tax payers dime for the last 8 months? But this goes beyond the pale. Congress should take a strong look at this.
Hey Mr. President try campaigning on your own time and with your own money!
Seems that congress is on vacation Rob.