President Obama to Pitch More Job Creation Proposals on Tuesday
EmailOn Tuesday, President Obama will give a speech in Washington, DC – likely from the Brookings Institute – in which he will talk about what he wants to see from Capitol Hill to help create jobs.
White House sources say the president will talk about proposals in three main areas: energy, small businesses, and infrastructure.
In energy, the president will likely push green jobs — especially for the weatherization of businesses and homes.
As he said during a working group yesterday, "not to tip our hand too much, but one of the things I would be surprised if we don't end up moving forward on is an aggressive agenda for energy efficiency and weatherization."
The president's economic team is also discussing various incentives for small businesses — possibly for hiring, and/or for expansion.
Third, the president will propose more infrastructure spending — particularly roads and bridges, building on the spending in the stimulus on those projects. The president wants to make sure future money is more directly targeted at projects ready to go now.
As he said yesterday, "the term ‘shovel ready' is not always, doesn't always live up to its billing."
The speech and proposals are still being worked out, so parts of this may change over the weekend.
After months of preoccupation with Afghanistan and health care reform, the president and his team are doing as much as they can to make it clear that he is focusing on the economy.
Today he held an event at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Allentown, Penn.
"We need to grow jobs and get America back to work as quickly as we can," Obama said. "On Tuesday, I'm going to speak in greater detail about the ideas I'll be sending to Congress to help jump-start private sector hiring and get Americans back to work."
He also spent 20 minutes at a career and counseling center, Pennsylvania Career Link of Lehigh Valley, where he told about three dozen unemployed citizens, "I just want you to know I'm thinking about you every day."
He spoke to one woman who was downsized out of her hotel industry job, acknowledging that it had been a rough year, but pledging to her "It's going to start picking up."
- jpt
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Obama should give his speech at the American Enterprise Institute so Chris Matthews can refer to it as an “enemy camp”.
Posted by: Krakatoa | December 4, 2009, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm
Posted by: Krakatoa | Dec 4, 2009 4:56:50 PM
Hey, the stock market is up, the GDP is up, job losses are WAY down and (with blessings) the economy is beginning to turn around – time for you to stop whining and start contributing something positive.
Is that all the right wing is capable of – whining?
Posted by: tierra | December 4, 2009, 5:08 pm 5:08 pm
Barak Obama pitching on job creation is akin to a city-slicker describing how milk ends up in his grocer’s dairy case: He knows what milk looks and tastes like, and knows it comes from cows, but that’s about it.
Posted by: tjp612 | December 4, 2009, 5:22 pm 5:22 pm
Posted by: tierra | Dec 4, 2009 5:08:29 PM
Let’s ignore:
- The $1,420,000,000,000 budget deficit
- Double-digit unemployment projected to continue through 2010
- Continued net job losses
- Takeover of automotive companies (BTW – Anyone notice the CEO of GM resigned yesterday?)
- Trillion-dollar-plus health care and cap-and-trade bills that if enacted will increase taxes and costs of goods and services
- A Fascist-leaning president who believes in re-distribution of wealth
Yeah, all is going great…future looks bright.
Posted by: tjp612 | December 4, 2009, 5:32 pm 5:32 pm
Let’s ignore:
- The $1,420,000,000,000 budget deficit
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tjp – I’m surprised you know so little about government budgeting. The government fiscal year (2009) runs October 2008 – October 2009. The budget for the 2009 fiscal year was set BEFORE the beginning of that fiscal year – ie. before October 2008. That budget was established before Obama was even elected. It is estimated the deficit in that budget was already at $1.2 Trillion dollars BEFORE Obama took office.
Posted by: tierra | December 4, 2009, 5:34 pm 5:34 pm
Shed the “Bush did it!” excuse. We get it – You don’t like Bush…
Time to move on.
Posted by: tjp612 | Dec 4, 2009 5:55:59 PM
This canard. Actually, I like Bush enough. I just think he was a disaster as a President. Very incompetent. That’s different, and I think it’s unwise to let that go because some dude or chicka on the internet is tired of it.
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The Republicans and the right would like nothing better than to forget Bush, Cheney and that Republican crowd ever existed. Tough luck – we remember.
Posted by: tierra | December 4, 2009, 6:07 pm 6:07 pm
Posted by: tierra | Dec 4, 2009 6:07:57 PM
Sorry, tierra. The “Bush did it!” excuse is fading fast. The expiration date has past and the American public has moved on. If Bush were truly to blame for all of our woes, Obama’s job approval and policy approval ratings would be above 50%. They are not.
BTW – I found it amusing (actually sad) that during Obama’s speech at West Point (aka “enemy camp” according to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews) that Obama implied Bush was to blame for the state of the war and then in the very next sentence he called for the end of partisanship. Does he really think people didn’t catch this? More credibility lost.
BTW – Say what you want about Bush, but he was a wartime president, a Commander-in-Chief. Obama showed himself at West Point to be not a C-in-C, but rather a nuanced politician, trying to split-the-middle.
Posted by: tjp612 | December 4, 2009, 6:31 pm 6:31 pm
Sorry, tierra. The “Bush did it!” excuse is fading fast. The expiration date has past and the American public has moved on.
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The Republicans and the right would like nothing better than to forget Bush, Cheney and that Republican crowd ever existed. Tough luck – we remember.
Posted by: tierra | December 4, 2009, 6:40 pm 6:40 pm
Posted by: Helene | Dec 4, 2009 6:57:52 PM
Sorry, Helene. Obama came off as a politian at West Point who was attempting to split-the-middle. He also came off as defensive and was completely uninspiring.
Bush is gone. Whatever good or bad that he is done has now been passed to Obama. He is our president for better or worse and will receive the criticism and praise in direct proportion to his success and conditions on the ground.
There are those that will oppose Obama regardless of conditions, just as there are those who can find nothing good in what Bush did during his watch. But most of us are in the middle – We don’t hold Obama accountable for the economic conditions on 1/21/09, nor is he responsible for everything that has transpired since. We do hold him accountable for his actions. Example: With regards to the economy, we do hold him accountable for the trillion dollar “stimulus” package that has thus far not measured up the the promises provided by the administration. Again, this isn’t about criticizing Obama for partisan reasons. It’s about his policies, which thus far have delivered unimpressive results.
Posted by: tjp612 | December 4, 2009, 7:13 pm 7:13 pm
With regards to the economy, we do hold him accountable for the trillion dollar “stimulus” package that has thus far not measured up the the promises provided by the administration. Again, this isn’t about criticizing Obama for partisan reasons. It’s about his policies, which thus far have delivered unimpressive results.
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The Recovery and Reinvestment plan is still coming on stream – it seems like we’ll know more about its effects through 2010.
All of the world economies have been badly hit by this economic meltdown. Not a single country has discovered a magic solution – but all seem to have incorporated a combination of tax relief, stimulus funding and deficit funding. Countries are slowly starting to recover – including the United States.
Nobody’s out of the mire yet.
Posted by: tierra | December 4, 2009, 9:07 pm 9:07 pm
Advice from Unions? To spur the economy? More Obama comedy. What’s wrong with his cabinet of Community Organizers, Campaign Managers, Lobbyists, and Marxists? Haven’t they run a business before? Duh, No.
Posted by: John A | December 5, 2009, 10:45 am 10:45 am
Love the heading: The Pitchman Cometh! It is his forte – pitch it, sell it. He just can’t deliver it. Don’t be fooled by false government-induced economic numbers. Unemployment is still way out of control. Look through the spin, folks.
Posted by: John A | December 5, 2009, 10:55 am 10:55 am
JOB CREATION?
A strong national goal and policy to quickly fix the ballast water problem from the obvious carbon foot prints and polluted water trail left by old ships as they deliver fossil fuels and foreign consumer goods would be slowed dramatically and create jobs for the long term future of our country. New green technology geared toward energy independence should become more cost effective to develop. The political will may not be in Congress to protect America because this is not a republican, democrat issue. This is oil and consumer goods being internationally and domestically transported by ships and an American issue of security and freedom, unfortunately the money lobby can remain silent as they are on the same side. Maybe if we were not dependent on China to buy our treasury notes, or Saudi Arabia really wanted their waters kept clean we could afford the strong protections the Coast Guards needs for the ability to complete this mission. The impact that implementation of a strong policy, with a fast time line for cleaned water disposal only, will have on shipping, will change the economic dynamics of world trade and also protect our countries environment and health for future generations.
New technologies required for environmental shipping should cost those wishing to bring goods into our country more money (making American manufacturing cost effective), not those who wish to protect our country from ecological destruction and disease resulting from economic globalization to help foreign economies. Unfortunately legislation crafted in 2008 by the House of Representatives was not considered by the Senate because of worries that it would over ride the stricter time line of the state of California’s regulations, so now better than a year later we have nothing. Now the military, (Coast Guard) who is directed by the President (commander and chief) are purposing a couple decades plus plan. It will take a President who cares more about the world’s long term health, environment, American freedom, independence and quality of life, more than the economic globalization of our country with foreign economies.
Posted by: Don Mitchel | December 6, 2009, 8:55 am 8:55 am
tierra,
So 10% unemployment is way down to you? Or, worse, the 17.5% real numbers is a big low?
You might mention that to the 15.4 Million people out of work – they will feel a lot better once they realize that the numbers are way low now.
In the name of good whining seems to me that when the numbers are forecasted to come in around 125K and they come in at 11K (your basic factor of 10) and the President is on this big employment push this week – well – let’s just say it smells real funny. Throw in the mix that this President is now promoting a second stimulus because the first one has no demonstrable results it makes the results of this week seem even more slanted. WAIT – its not a second stimulus it is keeping the unused and repaid TARP money in play for the little guys. Wonder why with the President feels he has to do this when the unemployment numbers way low and all?
Sounds to me like we are all back in business here and the economy is all better and the President’s plan saved us from the abyss and we are off to economic prosperity pure and simple.
Don’t mention that to those pesky 15.4 Million people out of work though. I’m thinking they will all start whining again.
Posted by: Lone Star Rules | December 6, 2009, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm