This week, Speaker Boehner flat-out rejected President Obama's request to unveil his new jobs plan at a joint session of Congress this coming Wednesday, saying Thursday would be better. Forget actually taking action on the unemployment crisis -- they can't even agree on the date for a speech about the unemployment crisis! A few days later, the Labor Department released the worst jobs report in 11 months. So here's the official tally: debates about the scheduling of a jobs speech, 1; jobs created in the last quarter, 0. Meanwhile, with promises from its author of "heads exploding all over Washington," Dick Cheney's memoir was published. Revelations included his desire to bomb Syria, and his dreams of living in an Italian villa -- come si dice "enhanced interrogation techniques"? I was going to end by wishing everyone a happy Labor Day, but John Boehner has decided to move it to later in the month.
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Obama could GIVE THAT SPEECH TONIGHT if he wanted to. HE should have put those "emergency" jobs plans through 2.5 years ago. But congress must bow down and pass them "right away" and if they don't they are "partisan"? After he takes almost three years to finally get real about jobs????
I've got news for KING OBAMA. Congress LEGISLATES not him. And if his bills are as bad as most of them he's tried to pass, his bills wont pass.
Lets not forget this is the president who only THIS YEAR put forward a big spending budget so bad that DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE REFUSED TO PASS IT.
Obama has nothing but a lot of fear that he's going to lose an election. And his supporters give him a pass on three years of failure and now want to blame other people for the community organizers inability to help create real jobs.
If the man even had a jobs plan, why on earth did he wait so long to unveil it? In fact, if it only took 10 days to dream one up, he could have done that on any number of his vacations. . . like one of his vacations to Hawaii. The man just went on a three day bus tour and not once mentioned any hint of how to put America back to work. Why?
Californian continues to hemorrhage jobs to states that have better control of their budgets and are more friendly towards business.
Limit the terms for all of them, get rid of the old crud and lobby-run members.
Get a new house
Oh, you mean he only now got around to making a plan? Well if it's as good as his other plans, I think we can wait the extra 24 hours and even then most of us will NOT turn him on the TV. We know how the Obama speeches go.
The run up to "the plan" has been so partisan we can pretty much know his plan is very partisan as well.
so you cant really say NO NEW JOBS NOW
Did you see today's report on the U.S Postal Service? They are billions in debt and at risk of shutting down completely unless they're infused with billions just to pay the retirement system. 85% of their expenditure is a benefits program that's better than any other federal workers, a retirement system that pays out for life with annual cost of living raises, and a pay system that's better than anything you could even dream of finding in the civilian sector, all of it negotiated by powerful unions under collective bargaining that could shut down the postal service if their demands are not met.
I wonder, which side of the aisle you fall on?
Are you on the side that says we must protect workers pay, retirement, and entitlements even if it means collapse of the system?
Or, are you on the side that says we must cut back those entitlements, limit the ability to strike, and make them pay something into their own retirement funds?
Either way makes you a villain.
Welcome to the volleyball game.
Sentence 2) In the case of Obama, the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate for the first 2 years, giving them the ability to pass 'whatever they want’. A majority of America didn't want Obamacare and not one single Republican voted for it, but oddly enough, it passed. I guess the Dems were able to "make whatever happen".
Sentence 3) It's not surprising, the GOP told everyone that the Stimulus wouldn't work, and that Obamacare and Frank-n-Dodd regulations would kill any recovery.
Sentence 4) There are 3 branches of government, and you would think a Constitutional lawyer would know that, but for some reason Obama seems to be having trouble with that whole "executive branch upholds the laws that the legislative branch passes" thingy. Can't pass the Dream act, I'll just enact new DHS and DOL policies. Can't pass Cap and Trade, we'll just pass new EPA regulations. Yep, it's "almost" like we have 3 branches.
Obama is too much like the GOP. that's the problem,
Reaganomics has destroyed the republic. Or the Beast as you conservative vilify it.
So now the rich own us, and that makes you happy?
This group is so PETTY its beyond belief. Bravo should shoot a reality show called "the Real Legislators of thr United States". It could consist of a never-ending catfight.
Where are our jobs?
The jobs are mainly IN CHINA.
We must promote a level playing field on import tariffs and currency .
We must promote advanced manufacturing.
We must tax US companies on profits abroad and give them incentives to repatriate and invest profits here.
The "reverse multiplying effect" of lost manufacturing jobs over the last 30 years has hollowed out our economy. Why can't the economists/ politicians/ so called experts see this?
It is time to stop pretending to be blind and for us all to see "The Emperor's Jobs" and take action!
Syria probably used the money given by Cheney made from torturing innocent civilians to fund Iraqi terrorist groups that killed US soldiers, which worked to Cheney's advantage because Cheney could use the Syrian funded terror groups as a reason to keep Halliburton collecting anti-capitalistic, and war profiteering no-bid contracts.
I can't help but think Cheney giggled like a school girl on 9-11 at the opportunity to install his right wing ideology of pampering elitists and oppressing the masses using "national security" as an excuse. Nobody got their meal-ticket punched like Dick Cheney as a result of 9-11, not even Osama Bin Laden. Big wonder that Cheney and his GOP commrades were against helping out 9-11 first responders with medical conditions due to the toxic debris from 9-11, yet another example of "compassionate" conservatism.
The have to do some real work, and others are catching up to them.