And we say a special thanks for the sacrifices those men and women in uniform are making for our safety and freedom
I’ve always wondered what a “special thanks” sounds like. Is it more impactful than just your regular thanks?
Many have lost jobs in this recession – the worst in generations.
And many have lost jobs in the recovery plan you signed into law.
But as I said when I took office, job recovery from this crisis would not come easily or quickly.
But you said that after you said it needs to happen right now, right away. It was after the fact that you changed and said the jobs wouldn’t come soon.
As we emerge from the worst recession in generations, there is nothing more important than to do everything we can to get our economy moving again and put Americans back to work,
We are emerging but we aren’t moving yet? This seems to be a contradiction. I don’t believe any American who isn’t the CEO of a company or working for a big bank/Wall Street feel this recession is over.
We made progress with China and Russia in sending a unified message to Iran and North Korea that they must live up to their international obligations and either forsake nuclear weapons or face the consequences.
Progress? Iran and North Korea are behaving as they always have. The progress you are claiming has done nothing.
As the two largest consumers and producers of energy, we developed a host of new clean energy initiatives with China, and our two nations agreed to work toward a successful outcome at the upcoming climate summit in Copenhagen
Put simply: they only agreed on words. The action to achieve this will never happen.
This recession has taught us that we can’t return to a situation where America’s economic growth is fueled by consumers who take on more and more debt.
This sentence is incredible. President Obama says we cannot return to a economy fueled by more and more debt…Does he not see what his agenda has done to the national debt?
I think I understand. The Obama administration doesn’t want the American people to have personal debt in order for us to take care of the national debt they thrust upon us.
we need to spend less, save more
Yes. Yes we/you do.
It is important that we do not make any ill-considered decisions
Read this as any decisions made by anyone not part of the Democrat party.
I will not let up until businesses start hiring again, unemployed Americans start working again, and we rebuild this economy stronger and more prosperous than it was before
If that’s the case, then, Mr. President, you will never let up.
As of January 2010 I will no longer be employed by this company.
This company I have been trying to leave for some time. (if you’ve read the older posts, you’d see)
And I’m pretty fine with it. I wish I had more than a couple months to find employment, and I wish people were hiring.
Perhaps what I need to do is go to my government and look up all the thousand of jobs they’re creating because as far as I’ve seen, there is nothing that will provide the kind of income I need for a family.
Everyone is looking for part-time and no benefits.
Is it time to start pushing for Congress to act? People (Conservatives) are up in arms against this Health Care Reform but I’d like to hear them and what they have to say if they ever lose their coverage or are unable to afford it.
Over and over again. We’re hearing the same mumbo-jumbo from a different President. The difference: Bush was war on terror; Obama is war on health care. All these Presidents do is repeat and repeat and repeat.
What’s that saying if you say something loud enough and long enough, you’ll start to believe it?
When I took office eight months ago, our nation was in the midst of an economic crisis unlike any we’d seen in generations.
The President cannot shake this anti-Bush mentality. This is your administration mucking things up now sir. Don’t give us this trash about what you inherited eight years ago. We’re sick of hearing you bemoan President Bush.
But yesterday’s report on September job losses was a sobering reminder that progress comes in fits and starts, and that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step.
Backpedaling after promising the people that recovery would happen quickly once your plan was in place. This is the second thing we’re sick of hearing repeated.
And I won’t let up until those who seek jobs can find them; until businesses that seek capital and credit can thrive; and until all responsible homeowners can stay in their homes.
This is different, he used to say he wouldn’t rest until the jobs come back. And yet he has time to play Oliver and beg the Olympic Commission to send them to Chicago. (Which failed horribly) But I saw that trial as our President attempting to bring in the big bucks which ties into him finding the resources.
Rising health care costs are undermining our businesses, exploding our deficits, and costing our nation more jobs with each passing month.
Once this reform passes through Congress (and we all know it will) what will be the next thing that is undermining this country that President Obama will save us from? I can guarantee there will be something we will “have to be afraid of”.
This has become the administration of the 21st Century – Pop Culture edition.
Georgia Democrat,Representative Hank Johnson claims that Representative Joe Wilson’s, “you lie” comment during President Obama’s speech to Congress was racially motivated and could bring back the power of the Klu Klux Klan!
Is he serious?!?
When did calling someone a liar become a racist comment?
Johnson said,
His outburst was a carefully calculated appeal to a particular constituency who question the legitimacy of Barack Obama’s presidency. The symbolism of his act, which violated the rules of the House and attacked the dignity of the president’s office, emboldened and validated those who believe that President Obama, despite having been lawfully elected, is an illegitimate occupant of the White House.
It may have been calculated but I don’t believe he was questioning the legitimacy of Obama’s presidency. Not like the Democrats bemoaning the legitimacy of President Bush’s. And then Johnson has the nerve to say his outburst violated House rules and attacked the dignity of the office.
Let’s go back to when President Bush, before Congress, made comments about Social Security going bankrupt and the Democrats heckled and “booed” him. Talk about attacking the dignity of the office!
Just days ago, the Speaker made tearful remarks about how words can have damaging effects in the political scene. (She said this in an attack against Republican voters and those not aligned with President Obama’s Health Care Reform) We have her words and then we get exactly what she speaks against by her own party.
Let me explain to you what is really happening here: Our federal government has learned to rule by fear. The Republicans used fear of terrorist attacks (remember the color coded levels?) to keep the people in line. The Democrats are using fear of the economy, and when that strategy didn’t work out, fear of violence against elected officials.
I will promise you that as long as President Obama and the current Representatives are in office, we will hear nothing but “be afraid” in order to keep our minds glued to them as our saviors.
The first meeting of the G-20 nations in April came at the height of the global financial crisis – a crisis that required unprecedented international cooperation to jumpstart the world’s economies and help break the downward spiral that enveloped all our nations.
Jumpstart the largest banks and Wall Street – the main culprits of this fiasco.
in effect, a five-month checkup to review the steps each nation has taken – separately and together – to break the back of this economic crisis.
So there will be a lot of accusations flying around about who isn’t doing enough.
In February, we enacted a Recovery Act, providing relief to Americans who need it, preventing layoffs, and putting Americans back to work.
From my view, the only Americans who were provided relief were the ones who caused this mess. And as far as putting Americans back to work, I’m losing my job!
And we’ve challenged other nations to join us
Like China; we’ve asked them to pretty much own our sorry excuse for a federal government.
we can now say that we have stopped our economic freefall.
Yet unemployment is at an all-time high and spending is out of this world.
Not surprisingly, lobbyists for big Wall Street banks are hard at work trying to stop reforms that would hold them accountable and they want to keep things just the way they are.
Yet you bend over backwards to give them the money they never should have gotten in the first place.
Yesterday, we received a report showing that job losses have slowed dramatically compared to just a few months ago.
And yet the jobless rate is the highest it has ever been. How do those two numbers rectify?
and that many of the banks that borrowed money at the height of the financial crisis are now returning it to taxpayers with interest.
Oh really? I’m afraid I haven’t seen any returns. Sounds like President Obama is channeling President Bush with this Pie-in-the-sky pep talk…
That’s why it is so important that we remain focused on speeding our economic recovery.
And what is the President’s definition of “speeding our economic recovery”? Is there a measurable limit?
we certainly cannot go back to an economy based on inflated profits and maxed-out credit cards; the cycles of speculative booms and painful busts; a system that put the interests of the short-term ahead of the needs of long-term.
Dare I think to even write out the “S” word?
We have to revive this economy and rebuild it stronger than before.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the million-dollar economy. Actually it’s more like multi-trillion dollar, right?
I’ve been moaning and complaining about this job ever since I began this blog. I was hoping I would have moved on by now – both physically and emotionally.
But here I am; in the same location, doing the same thing. But here’s the catch! They’re cutting my hours and salary in half and wanting me to do the same amount of work.
I want out of this place!
I thought I would be working with a new company and new faces…I don’t get it.
To top it off, my spouse’s job is going away. Well that’s not exactly true – they’re taking away the salary.
So here we are Mr. President Obama. You promised us recovery! You promised jobs! You promised a better America and all that you have to show for your promises is higher debt and higher unemployment.
Can you imagine what the outcry would’ve been like if this had happened under President Bush?!?! As it is, we’re seeing your approval ratings plummet. You’re finally seeing how people cannot stomach promises that aren’t kept.
You’re dragging this country under with your recovery plan and you actually think things are getting better.
You’re insulting to the American people – correction, the American people who are wise enough to see a fraud.
Harsh words for a President? Maybe but until I see the results you promised, I’ll be on your back like a crack cocaine monkey. When those results do come in, I’ll be more than happy to eat crow and spend however long apologizing.
Here we go with another Weekly Address that you can read here.
Today, I’d like to talk with you about a subject that I know is on everyone’s mind, and that’s the state of our economy.
As opposed to every other weekly address right?
The report showed that in the first few months of this year, the recession we faced when I took office was even deeper than anyone thought at the time.
He’s setting himself up as the savior of the recession…here it comes…
the economy has done measurably better than expected. And many economists suggest that part of this progress is directly attributable to the Recovery Act.
Tada! Our hero.
putting people back to work rebuilding and renovating roads, bridges, schools, and hospitals.
I may be wrong, but I haven’t seen anyone doing this kind of work in my state.
when we receive our monthly job report next week, it is likely to show that we are continuing to lose far too many jobs in this country.
What? Does this mean your plan has failed? You were supposed to save our jobs.
And I won’t rest until every American who wants a job can find one.
There’s your quote. President Obama will not get any sleep for the four to eight years he is in office.
eventually, businesses will start growing and hiring again.
I want to speak with you about the stakes of this debate, for our people and for the future of our nation.
Already we’re getting prepped for the “fear and trembling” politics which President Obama panned as a candidate.
Every worker afraid of losing health insurance if they lose their job, or change jobs. Everyone who’s worried that they may not be able to get insurance or change insurance if someone in their family has a pre-existing condition.
This includes me – so I’m listening. Calm my fears Mr President.
let me take a moment to answer a few of [the special interest group's] arguments.
The problem with letting this President answer a few of the arguments is we are beginning not to believe him. His poll numbers are slipping because people, real-people, the kind of people he was supposed to run for, aren’t seeing the solutions to their problems that he promised.
First, the same folks who controlled the White House and Congress for the past eight years as we ran up record deficits will argue – believe it or not – that health reform will lead to record deficits.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Stop looking in the past! You can not lead with your head turned around. Stop blaming and pointing fingers to President Bush and his administration. This is your era, President Obama. We want to hear your thoughts that don’t include blaming someone you could never run against.
Our proposals cut hundreds of billions of dollars in unnecessary spending and unwarranted giveaways to insurance companies in Medicare and Medicaid. They change incentives so providers will give patients the best care, not just the most expensive care, which will mean big savings over time.
When I see President Obama spin this by saying, “give patients the best care, not just the most expensive care” I think of someone who needs that expensive care but won’t get it because they need to keep costs down.
And will these proposals cut the number of dollars just like your Recovery package cut how much money from the federal deficit? Yeah, we aren’t buying it Mr President.
I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.
And yet, that is exactly what this reform will do. It will add costs which the tax payer will dole out.
Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won’t get to choose your doctor – that some bureaucrat will choose for you.
Now this I don’t think is true.
no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
This sounds good. If you like what you currently have, keep it. According to President Obama, your premiums will only get lower to compete with the government plan.
We shall see.
opponents of health reform warn that this is all some big plot for socialized medicine or government-run health care with long lines and rationed care.
Because we’ve seen it in Canada and Europe. But there has to be another side to it right? Not all socialized goverment-run health care is evil.
I don’t believe that government can or should run health care.
You also don’t believe government should run a car company – how’s that coming along?
