With Jobless Rate Rising, Obama Pledges to “Keep Working”

With Jobless Rate Rising, Obama Pledges to “Keep Working” – ABC News
Sunlen, you forgot the other things Obama pledged to keep doing.
Keep listening to the same economic advisors
Keep taking vacations
Keep spinning the facts to produce “positive” propaganda
Keep suing Americans and States that don’t fit his agenda
Keep the Democrat Party in a downward spiral
The man is tenacious, he never gives up.
The Repubs are thankful for that.

Of course he is busy working… on his vacation…
What is it with President’s going on vacation when the nation is in crisis.
Bush before 911, now Obama after the economy tanks?
THIS is action and behavior that we should award… Really???
Bailouts for bankers, but NOTHING for you. We actually have homeless people and tent cities, with families living in cars… And all Obama can do is make speeches off of teleprompters… And have his enablers and supporters call you a racist.
Well, I guess according to the latest poll, 67% of America is racist now. Including a sizeable portion who voted for this bum…
Can we nominate Hillary in ’12 NOW!?!

It’s truly amazing that people so easily forget that we were *this close* to falling off the cliff into an economic depression, thanks to our last pres. The last time that happened, we actually took the plunge and it took TEN YEARS and a WORLD WAR to correct our economy. Now, people start complaining after one-and-a-half years of obviously sincere efforts to re-build the economy. This truly is a time full of “I WANT IT NOW!” babies.

Ah, yes. It was all Bush’s fault — he’s the reason for the financial collapse. This just shows you have absolutely no grasp of the complexities of the CRA, Fannie Mae, and mortgage-backed securities. Congress screwed the pooch. The SEC let the financial industry tell them how to regulate. For that, fine, you can blame Bush. But just throw a little bit of blame towards Dodd and Frank, considering they’re the ones who were in charge of their committees when this happened. Frank, who so famously said he wanted to continue to “roll the dice” on more home mortgages, now finally understands that it was his policies that helped contribute to the collapse.

converse gives the standard Democrat response-excuses.”Those that can,do. Those that can’t make excuses.”I can’t believe how much the MSM tried to spin yesterday’s awful numbers as anything but disasterous-then again,they are running out of time to try to sway what undecided voters are out there.Dave, are you guys going to elect that alcoholic schizophrenic governor? And no converse-that isn’t name-calling.

Amazing. The guy who has never worked a day in his life on his way to another vacation.

Wow, insults and name calling on top of ineptitude… Are Democrats even TRYING to get reelected, or have they given up… Just like the nation has given up on Obama… Er, sorry… Jimmy Carter II

Romer: ‘We gave it our best shot.”Reminds me of Richard Widmark at the end of “The Bedford Incident”.So this is the “best and brightest” the Obama administration has to offer?Superficial,incompetent academics with no real world experience joined by political hacks without exposure to the business world “led” by an affirmative action phony without a clue. No wonder they can’t get something as elementary as a quote right and then permanently put it on a rug for all the world (and educated) to see.What is this mediocrity going to do when he won’t have Congressional Democrats carrying his water?Wait, I know! V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!I would be willing to bet that half of his staff will be gone by Jan. 2012 looking for for real jobs.

Recovery Summer … WOOOO HOOOO!

Keep working?
When did he start?
Oh I forgot, the Republicans force him to take vacations and insult September 11 victims.

How quick people forget and how good the Republicans are at driving a non-stop charater bashing of Obama. Did the Republican sheeple forget that it was the Republican veto proof congress in 1998 who repealed the Glass-Stegall Act that allowed for the Wall Street banks to basically rape the American people drying up our 401K’s so that the majority of us will never be able to retire. Wow, during the Bush Administration I lost three quarters of my 401K in 2006, so after working for over thirty years I will still have to work until I die. Did the Republican sheeple forget that it was the Bush unfunded Iraq war, the unfunded tax break for the wealthiest 2% and the unfunded Medicaid Part D that drove us over the edge to a recession. The Republican Congress’ of the 1990′s and early 2000′s that made i very easy to tale American jobs overseas.
Ameicans will get these jobs back when we are willing to work for low wages and no partial employer funded medical insurance. Let’s face it jobs went to Mexico and Bangladesh because there they work for a litte as 20 cents a day and these American companies don’t have to pay anything towards health care therefore increasing their bottom line and keeping their investors happy and dividend checks flowing. So you Republican sheeple and Independents go right ahead and vote in people who will take us backwards, unfortunately we will all have to suffer. Plan on privatized Social Security and no Medicare. Hopefully, everyone has been saving to purchase their our health insurance because under the Republicans, its coming and then you will see “death panels” because many will not be able to afford health insurance and have to do without and god forbide that for-profit health institutions help someone who is not covered because it would diminish their bottom line and most importantly there would be no regulation requiring them to give medical assistance to those who do not have health insurance.

I know it won’t be easy given Obama’s already busy vacation schedule – but, if we could just increase Obama’s vacation time from the current 60% to 100% of the time we might finally see some improvement in our economy.
Maybe Michelle, the first grifter, can take one of her pattented million dollar vacations to some place IN AMERICA!!!!! Stimulus summer for everyone….

We need to cut the federal government by nearly 40% just to get our spending in line with our tax receipts. Until that happens those evil mean rich guys (IE: business owners and investors) will continue to spend their money in other countries. This is something that the democats and their anti-business supporters just do not understand or are unwilling to admit because it doesn’t support their delusional views.
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I disagree with your cliched old school take on democrats– the party is a big tent– but let’s say what you say is entirely true about Democrats. How are Republicans any different?? At all? If you think Republicans understand it, you’re the one with delusions. Check their record.
The problem the far right wing’s ideology faces is that once you elect someone to become part of the establishment, they lose their anti-establishment, anti-government cred over time. They ARE the government and you can’t trust them.
Moreover once you give business all the power, and they form monopolies with no check, you have corporate tyranny.
Best to be pragmatic, progressive, both liberal and liberterian, and apply common sense.

He should have pledged to “START” working.

Re: “American corporations didn’t decided to leave in a vacuum – they were forced out by high taxation…”
That’s nonsense. They are leaving for third world countries with cheap labor, no taxes, and no environmental laws. All of these are made possible by trade agreements. All the tax cuts in the world will not enable any American business to compete with businesses whose workers make one dollar a day.
I wish our leaders would be honest with the American people and stop pretending that these corporate jobs are coming back. The governemnt needs to fund small businesses that will create new jobs to replace the old ones. That’s what we used to do in this country. Investing in infrastructure would be a start.

To show that he is serious the President should commit to a moratorium on “vacations”, “golfing”, “White House parties” or “Concerts” until unemployment has dropped below 6%. He should tell the nation that until this goal is reached he will not be seen or heard from!

To show that he is serious the President should commit to a moratorium on “vacations”, “golfing”, ” . . . parties” or “Concerts” until unemployment has dropped below 6%.
Posted by: Voice_Reason | Sep 5, 2010 5:07:50 PM
If all of the people able to do these thing quit doing them, the economy would suffer hugely.
Spending by those who are well to do is essential to the economy.

Creating more jobs: the health insurance issue is a big one. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have health insurance are still paying enormous prices because we, in essence, are paying for those who don’t. My husband went to the emergency room and was charged a co-pay of $250 and he has insurance through Duke Medical Center where he works. Why so high? There were at least 25 people in the ER waiting to see a doctor but have no insurance, no Primary Care physician. The ER doctor is the PC. Our bill was so high because out of that $250 we were paying for their ER visit. While we were leaving we saw a group of people bringing balloons, stuff animals, and presents into the ER. Why? There had been a birth in their family–in the ER! Could someone please explain to me like I was 6 years old, why it would not benefit the economy to pass the health care bill. It does not have to give the best insurance coverage in the world but it could at least cover doctor visits, OBGYN, and pediatric care. It would then lower our costs, more health care employees would be hired, fewer babies would be born with birth defects because of better prenatal care meaning less expensive neonatal care. New jobs?–More insurance agents, medical supplies, docs, nurses, med. secretaries, health care teachers, schools, etc. More jobs-more money in the economy.

bjoy: We’re voting in November…that’s what we’re doing.
See Paul Ryans plan for economic recovery for the conservatives policy approach to this disaster.
And in the meantime, we will be the “party of NO” to minimize the damage Barry and nancy are trying to do on all of us.
Does that answer your question?

It’s easy to criticize someone else but what are you doing about it?
Posted by: BJoy10 | Sep 5, 2010 8:18:44 PM
Here is some ‘unfavorable ‘ news about Obama’s spending programs:
1. In spite of large government subsidy, John Deere has sold its Renewable energy subsidiay which produces nearly 900 megawatt of wind power. Many clean energy manufacturers such as fuel cell are currently unprofitable or in red.
2. Some cities are rejecting the government offer to build high speed railroad, because they don’t want to spend 20% of the total cost of the programs required by Fed government.
3. The teacher layoff rescue program distributes Fed government money to states, then down to the cities with amount to only a few percent of the total annul school budget. This assistance only delays the layoff of teachers for a short while .

“every Republican in Congress voted against middle class tax cuts and job creation.”
That is because their concern is getting back into power, now the plight of Americans.
And the worse the economic outlook, the better the GOP’s chances.