red states rule
01-09-2010, 09:05 AM
Recovering from my surgery, I am bored enough to watch the liberal media on TV and watch Obama's PR staff at MSNBC work full time to try and convince their viewers that Obama actually knows what the hell he is doing as President
Yesterday was something to behold
The day before, all I heard was how the US econmy was going to end the streak of lost jobs, and how Obama's economic policies were finally going to start paying off
Well, the US economy lost 84,000 jobs and those same "reporters" were trying NOT to talk about another month of failure brought to you by Pres Obama and the Democrats
Well, when Obama came out to talk about the unemployment picture, I was hoping he wuld talk about across the board tax cuts, and reductions in government spending
I know, dumb me
No, the solution to lost jobs in America is adding green jobs and spending billions more in taxpayer money we do not have
and it lets him get away from talking about those pesky terrorists who insist on trying to kill Americans
Obama refocuses on jobs after weak labor report
By TOM RAUM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- His agenda altered by the Christmas bombing attempt, President Barack Obama pivoted back to the domestic economy on Friday, promoting new U.S. spending to create tens of thousands of clean-technology jobs.
He outlined the initiative after a weak government jobs report raised new questions about the sustainability of the recovery.
"It's clear why such an effort is so important. Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future, jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced," Obama said in late-afternoon economic comments at the White House.
Obama spoke after the Labor Department said the U.S. jobless rate was unchanged at 10 percent in December, following a decline the previous month. But the government's broader measure of unemployment - which includes people who have stopped looking for work or can't find full-time jobs - ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 17.3 percent.
That, plus the larger-than-expected loss of 85,000 jobs in December, put new pressure on the administration to step up job creation.
"The road to recovery is never straight," Obama said, although he added that the trend is pointing toward an improving jobs picture.
Riveted for the past two weeks on terrorism, the White House has been eager for a subject change. And Friday's remarks were an attempt to return national attention to Obama's domestic agenda, particularly jobs.
As long as the focus remains on terrorism, Obama is vulnerable to criticism that he isn't aggressively addressing the jobs crisis - potentially damaging politically for Democrats in this year's midterm elections. Polls show that jobs are the No. 1 concern of Americans.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ECONOMY_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-08-21-59-34
Yesterday was something to behold
The day before, all I heard was how the US econmy was going to end the streak of lost jobs, and how Obama's economic policies were finally going to start paying off
Well, the US economy lost 84,000 jobs and those same "reporters" were trying NOT to talk about another month of failure brought to you by Pres Obama and the Democrats
Well, when Obama came out to talk about the unemployment picture, I was hoping he wuld talk about across the board tax cuts, and reductions in government spending
I know, dumb me
No, the solution to lost jobs in America is adding green jobs and spending billions more in taxpayer money we do not have
and it lets him get away from talking about those pesky terrorists who insist on trying to kill Americans
Obama refocuses on jobs after weak labor report
By TOM RAUM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- His agenda altered by the Christmas bombing attempt, President Barack Obama pivoted back to the domestic economy on Friday, promoting new U.S. spending to create tens of thousands of clean-technology jobs.
He outlined the initiative after a weak government jobs report raised new questions about the sustainability of the recovery.
"It's clear why such an effort is so important. Building a robust clean energy sector is how we will create the jobs of the future, jobs that pay well and can't be outsourced," Obama said in late-afternoon economic comments at the White House.
Obama spoke after the Labor Department said the U.S. jobless rate was unchanged at 10 percent in December, following a decline the previous month. But the government's broader measure of unemployment - which includes people who have stopped looking for work or can't find full-time jobs - ticked up 0.1 percentage point to 17.3 percent.
That, plus the larger-than-expected loss of 85,000 jobs in December, put new pressure on the administration to step up job creation.
"The road to recovery is never straight," Obama said, although he added that the trend is pointing toward an improving jobs picture.
Riveted for the past two weeks on terrorism, the White House has been eager for a subject change. And Friday's remarks were an attempt to return national attention to Obama's domestic agenda, particularly jobs.
As long as the focus remains on terrorism, Obama is vulnerable to criticism that he isn't aggressively addressing the jobs crisis - potentially damaging politically for Democrats in this year's midterm elections. Polls show that jobs are the No. 1 concern of Americans.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ECONOMY_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-01-08-21-59-34