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CEDAR RAPIDS, IA -- President Obama began his post-State of the Union trip with a stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Wednesday to reinforce his call to bolster American manufacturing.
The initiative, one of four pillars in the White House's "blueprint for an economy built to last," is just one of the new efforts the president will push in his travels throughout the U.S. this week.
After touring Conveyor Engineering and Manufacturing, a plant of about 65 workers that makes very large screws, the president gave a speech focused on reforming the tax code to benefit manufacturers. According to the White House, Conveyor would be eligible to receive an increased manufacturing tax credit if the president’s tax reform proposals were able to get through Congress.
Obama referred to employees of the business when he said, “Jeff and Greg told me that if we passed tax reforms like these, they’d be able to buy more equipment for their facility. So let’s do it. Today, my administration is laying out several concrete actions we can take right now to discourage outsourcing and encouraging investing.”
He continued, “Tell Congress to send me this tax reform plan. I will sign it right away.”
The speech was a mixture of last night’s State of the Union combined with other messaging events where the president has asked the audience to “tell Congress” to do any number of things. And while Iowa’s Republican governor, Terry Brandstad, was in attendance, the Republican National Committee’s prebuttal to the President’s first stop was political and partisan.
“Obviously, the President’s State of the Union address last night and now, as always, his taxpayer funded campaign stop in Iowa, makes it just absolutely clear that President Obama has given up governing,” RNC chairman Reince Priebus said in a conference call with reporters.
The White House continues to insist that the purpose of this three-day, five-state trip is to expand on last night’s speech but the election year implications of visiting the battleground states of Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan are difficult to divorce for the storyline.
After the President speaks about manufacturing at an Intel facility in Phoenix, AZ he will travel on to Las Vegas, Denver and Ann Arbor, MI.
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The only way to encourage GREEDY investment in the U.S. is to reward them for doing so, and penalize them for failure to invest!
The U.S. has always been known around the world as the only party willing to abide by the rules they create.
China does what they do in order to benefit their country, even if it means stealing.
Capitalism only works when it is regulated properly.
"On the road again, I just can't wait to get on the road again",
selling garbage to my friends, I just c-a-a-n-t wait to get on the road again.
It took Obama less than 24 hours to prove WHAT HE REALLY IS CONCERNED ABOUT... getting re-elected ! The Campaigner-in-Chief is at it again .... elect me, elect me, elect meeeeeeeee !
There you go again jim-1455434.
You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about Rule of Reason warfare. When you have a Party encouraging the idea of dividing America based on bigotry, lies, and fear—and you have those people who are low-information voters who will believe every word of it—you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God. The American people, I believe in the final analysis, will reject it.
Throw the Do Nothing obstructionist Teapublicans out. Obama/Biden - 2012!
@TuePatriot #1.2,
So, you borrow a line from Ronald Reagan, eh ? How ORIGINAL of you !
The content of your post, however, is filled with hypocrisy. You "libbies" continue to talk about "bigotry" which is merely a form of playing the race card because you lack the cognitive ability to understand why we oppose "redistribution of wealth, government takover of health care (and don't lie about that because the length of regulations alone proves otherwise), and rapidly increasing, massive debts which seriously endanger the financial stability of our country's future.
Then, you sneak in the liberal mantra when you refer to those disagreeing with you as "low information voters". This is merely the haughty arrogance of leftards like yourself who thinks Obama and you self-proclaimed "progressives"can create a utopian society through more overnment legislation, growth and power.
One more thing, many Republicans were elected in November of 2010 for a reason ..... to stop the massive power kick of Obama's uncontrolled lust for power. The cram through of Obamacare was opposed by about 60%+ of all American citizens and its passage proved the Democrats could not be trusted.
When Obama does something worthy of Republican support and that of common-sense U.S. citizens, Republicans will, indeed, support it. WE'RE STILL WAITING !!!!!!!!!
You know, every president takes the state of the union address on the road. Why the big deal? Don't the folks on the right and left have enough bs to argue over? Sheesh
I challenge you to prove your first sentence. I don't think you can do it.
How about right after GWB gave the state of the union and wanted to privatize SSI? On the road. That's my first example without going through the hassle of googling and getting sites to prove it. Bottom line is the children on the right hate this president and do nothing but whine and cry. Just like the children on the left will and did about Bush. I can't remember where, but I know Clinton did the same and George Sr. So, just stop it. Grow up. You have a serious political agenda, talk to me about facts and plans, not this garbage both sides spew out daily.
This is why I am registered NPA. Both parties are just worn out and full of children. And I am tired of the left acting like President Obama is the second coming of the Messiah and the right acting like he is the antichrist. He is no Messiah and no antichrist.
So, you are now doing the "crawdad" move, basically admitting to the "puffery" of your broad-based and unsupportable generalizations ?
I am a registered CPA, and since I understand financial matters, I can see that this President understands very little about the DEEP financial peril he is getting our country into. He continues to "sell" one pipe dream after another when our country is having serious financial issues handling its obligations now.
We oppose this President's failed leadership and if you callously choose to call that "childish", then I suggest you at least take a course in basic accounting. "Selling it" and "Paying for it" are entirely different.
Well hell, why didn't you tell us this before? If we had known... it changes everything. Obviously you are far more qualified then the rest of us about public policy, foreign policy, macro economics, and heck you should run for POTUS and leader of the freakin free world.
We now understand why jim-1455434 is against closing loopholes!
A simple tax code would put ole jimbo out of work.
Am I right or Am I right?
Every man has his own price.
@ Disabled,
Epic fail on your part ! I work full-time in private industry and do only a few returns which includes my company's 1120 Corporate Income Tax Return .... so NO genius, it would not put me out of work ! You are WRONG !! I do, however, maintain my annual hours of Continuing Education annually.
By the way, since you opened your mouth real wide and inserted your foot into it, can you define "loopholes" for me ?? Can you give me some specific, concrete examples of loopholes ??? I must ask this because most of those blathering about loopholes don't seem to know what in the hell they are talking about. It's a "buzzword that all libbies seem more than willing to talk about, but few are smart enough or have enough knowledge to actually define one. That would probably include True Patriot.
Can you give some examples of specific "loopholes" and why those particular loopholes were created ?
If Obama has done the truly wonderful job as President that he wants us to believe, then why is he CONSTANTLY trying to sell it ?
Oh, that's right .... he hasn't done the job. Unemployment is still very high with millions out of work or underemployed. In his first three years of office, the national debt has deepened rapidly. He has sued states over illegal immigration issues instead of assisting their plight. He has squandered U.S. taxpayers money on failed "investments" like Chrysler (now foreign owned), Solyndra and other "green companies". But worst of all, he has sought to divide American citizens through class warfare, pitting the "haves" versus the "have-nots" as part of his re-election strategy. Then there is government-mandated Obamacare .... putting Uncle Sam between health care providers and patients.
Growing government at every opportunity is his liberal mindset.
JimBo
Actually Obama has shrunk the size of goverment. But dont let the facts get in the way of your rants.
Here's
The TRUTH About The Growing Federal Workforce Under Obama - Business Insider
Obviously, you have not studied the Obamacare legislation to see the massive increase in government agencies, bureaus and departments that are being created under that mammoth expansion of government.