At Ohio Rally, Obama Says Jobs Plan ‘Isn’t About Giving Me a Win’

One of the most common traits of a narcissist is to claim something is not about them when everyone knows it is.

Yeah, right. Enough with the straw men, Mr. President. I want to see an actual quote from an elected Republican at the national level– congressperson or senator— who actually said anything remotely resembling the nonsense the president claims. Not talking heads or candidates or analysts or pollsters, but actual republican elected officials. Don’t think you’ll find such a quote. But I await being persuaded otherwise.

Barack’s $500 billion jobs project is simply a funnel of your federal dollars to his crooked Patrons. The DNC accepts cash graft in exchange for this bogus social welfare programme. Congress should impeach Barack on charges of corruption and favoritism with your money.

“What’s the right wing plan, cut taxes and give more money to the wealthy?”

Posted by: Justuspofolks | September 13, 2011, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm

Not at all. The 51% of Americans who currently don’t pay any federal income tax need to start doing so. I’m tired of subsidizing them. Everybody uses highways. Everybody must pay something to use them. No freeloaders.

Let’s begin by setting your personal federal income tax rate to a minimum 60% and eliminating all of your exemptions and deductions. We can’t pay off a $14 trillion debt with Hope and Change, you know.

“Everybody has got to make some sacrifices, everybody’s gotta take a haircut.” – President Barack Obama, April 5, 2011

Did you hear that? Everybody. That includes you.

Who’s there to say that you have any chance to win? Who wants to jump on the band-wagon with wheels falling off?

Clueless and delusional, period.

Funny how the Republicans still also haven’t put out a jobs plan either and made a big stink about the deficit instead of trying to create economic stability. Just a reminder: Republicans got voted in during the last election claiming they would fix it, yet employment is still above 9%. Great job, Republican congresspeople…

Why are people so blind? Get the bill passed! This bill is a partisan bill. What do you people think that he sat around and wrote this bill by himself??? Then the Republicans sit around and say that he won’t listen to your ideas…WRONG…you just want him to listen to ALL your ideas. There are experts that helped him write this bill. Stop this my way or the highway mentality and compromise!

–“Everybody has got to make some sacrifices, everybody’s gotta take a haircut.” – President Barack Obama, April 5, 2011–

Haircuts are for the little people.

Moderate: “Put simply, McConnell concluded, this plan is “not serious” and is “more of a re-election plan than a jobs plan.” So much for your “straw man” dismissal, eh?

This is the worst Congress ever… How productive have the Republicans been in Congress?

““As we get into this conversation with the president about how we help our economy, I hope he’ll listen to our ideas,” Boehner said,..” *** According to the President his plan is filled with those ideas.

@puppyfeet…Tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% does not create jobs…it’s not working! Somebody that can afford to pay taxes needs to pay. Pretty soon no one is going to have the money to go out and buy their goods and services then what????

Jack if you know so little about the bills passed to stimulate jobs under this administration, you’d be better off not commenting. Seriously, look into it.”

Nothing says job stimulation like 9.1%.

The 51% of Americans who currently don’t pay any federal income tax need to start doing so.

Posted by: Chuck | September 13, 2011, 5:24 pm 5:24 pm

You could take half of EVERYTHING that 51% owns and it would amount to less than putting a 2% tax on the wealthiest of us.

That is half of everything they own!

Also, those people are liable for payroll taxes, gasoline taxes, tobacco and alcohol taxes, sales taxes, state taxes – your attempt to frame them as ‘non tax payers’ is as bogus as your whole argument.

The top 1% of wealthy Americans own more than the entire wealth of the bottom 90% combined! Most of that wealth built on capital earning capital, lots of it inherited – like with the Bush family.

Do people still come to Obama rallies?? The picture looks like a lot of dummies lined up behind him.

Good ole Republican’ts — ooooooh, noooooo, look Obama is just doing’ politics. (We can’t help him. We can’t help the country because it might help him. We can’t do that!! ).

Did they NOT take an oath to the American People when they took office? Each and ever one of them should be charged with TREASON and IMPEACHED FROM OFFICE!! How DARE they let politics get in the way of creating jobs for Americans and getting us out this mess THEY CREATED!!

The problem is “How are we going to pay for it Obama?”

Republicans… Democrats… Teabaggers… right-wing/left-wing… ALL OF YOU, I’m freakin’ sick and tired of EVERY last one of you!! Nothing is getting done and every last one of you is worse than a group of toddlers who can’t get along in the schoolyard sandbox. My vote in 2012?? It’s going to be a write-in vote, and it’s going to be for… Meryl Streep. That woman could play ANY role that’s handed to her and end up winning an award for it when all is said and done. So, let’s get her in The White House, and at the very least she can PLAY the role of a strong, intelligent, unifying and decisive leader. Then maybe something will finally be accomplished. And what a refreshing change that would be from the last 10 years or so.

“Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?” said one senior House Republican aide who requested anonymity to discuss the matter freely. (Washington Post, NY Times, Huffington Post, UP, AP, many others)

This is the quote which began running right after the President’s speech. This isn’t a game, it isn’t a boxing match, it’s MY life and yours. The Republicans and Tea Party have got to go. This isn’t about re-election campaigns. It’s about JOBS. And the Republicans and Tea Party don’t care about jobs. All they care about is not doing a single thing that might help the economy for the reason stated above. They might help the President. They have to keep the economy busted to achieve their ONLY political end, getting President Obama out of office. And they are willing to drive us into a depression to do it.

He continues to demgogue this issue. It’s just another stimulus that won’t work. Many parts of his plan have been tried and failed again and again. The sad part is that the Democrats including Barack obama thinks whatever you or I makes and earns is really the governments to take. Is that the kind of government you want? The so called rich he talks about are investors and business people who risk there resources to build and create in this economy. So i guess the left doesn’t want a viable private sector.

Reading the message board comments, clearly, we are all doomed.

The sheople have lost their shepherd and have no interest in finding him. Perhaps, when the flock has died of starvation due to their own hubris, will they see the error of their ways.

“Yesterday, there were some Republicans quoted in Washington saying that even if they agree with the proposals in the American Jobs Act they shouldn’t pass it because it would give me a ‘win,’”

That’s been the Republican tactic from the beginning. It’s no wonder a majority of Americans disapprove of the Republican party.

Moderate,

the president said, as quote above, “Yesterday, there were some Republicans quoted in Washington saying that even if they agree with the proposals in the American Jobs Act they shouldn’t pass it because it would give me a ‘win,’”

You change the parameters and say, “Enough with the straw men, Mr. President. I want to see an actual quote from an elected Republican at the national level– congressperson or senator— who actually said anything remotely resembling the nonsense the president claims. ”

Why change the parameters? To rant at the president and pretend he was wrong when you know very well that Politico reported and many others repeated the quote of a GOP aide:”“Obama is on the ropes; why do we appear ready to hand him a win?” said one senior House Republican aide who requested anonymity…”— there’s one Republican, but in the article titled “GOP grumbles about jobs plan” Marin Cogan and Jake Sherman specifically mention Republicans, more than one. And their not the first to mention the cynical political scorched earth tactics of the GOP. Have you read Mike Lofgren’s piece called, “Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult”?

“A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner….A deeply cynical tactic, to be sure, but a psychologically insightful one that plays on the weaknesses both of the voting public and the news media. “

Justayreal74, what are you trying to take up with me for? Take your argument to someone who’s in this for a fight. I was replying directly to Moderate’s request for a quote, but now he has quite suddenly changed what it was he was asking for. Uh-huh, moving the goal posts. Quelle surpise!

Posted by: green.goddess | September 13, 2011, 6:50 pm 6:50 pm

I’m very disappointed your post didn’t contain any references to dead philosophers. Have you created any family wage jobs yet?

“The top 1% of wealthy Americans own more than the entire wealth of the bottom 90% combined!”

Posted by: Andy | September 13, 2011, 5:59 pm 5:59 pm

That’s a myth, tierra. It’s substantially less than that. You can also accumulate a lot more wealth if you actually worked.

“@Chuck, all due respect to you but if you think that President Obama is a multi millionare ( which he is not)…”

Posted by: Tina M Tompkins | September 13, 2011, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm

According to Wikipedia, the Obamas earned a combined $1,795,314 in 2010. The latest estimated net worth for Obama is $10.1 million. Google “List of heads of state and government by net worth.” It’s much easier to become a multi-millionaire when you you don’t have to pay for your luxury lifestyle.

Honestly, I prefer the Republican “jobs” plan that they had when they controlled the White House, Senate and House between January 2001 and January 2007, because that Republican jobs plan created a lot of housekeeping and waiter jobs… LOL!…

(Note: All data is from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics)

‘MADE IN AMERICA’ MANUFACTURING SECTOR:
Start, January 2001 = 17,114,000 jobs
End, January 2007 = 14,009,000 jobs
NET LOSS in ‘MADE IN AMERICA’ manufacturing sector jobs when Republicans controlled the White House, Senate and House = – 3.1 million in 6 years.

LEISURE AND HOSPITALITY SECTOR:
Start, January 2001 = 11,977,000
End, January 2007 = 13,322,000
NET GAIN in Leisure and Hospitality sector jobs when Republicans controlled the White House, Senate and House = +1.3 million in 6 years.

History already shows us what a Republican “jobs plan” can do for the country….. LOL! … Manufacturing jobs go away, and housekeeping and waiting table jobs increase.

@georgie_bushie

I’ve decided I will contribute one dollar to a republican every time you post.

Posted by: Chuck | September 13, 2011, 9:38 pm 9:38 pm

Regardless of the many great accomplishments you boast of, you don’t know the difference between the truth and a lie. Or you don’t care. Neither is admirable nor to be set up as an example for others. It’s a major character flaw. You don’t impress me one bit.

Posted by: foggy | September 13, 2011, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm

Foggy, you win the coveted Post-o-da-Day Award™ for September 13th 2011.
When logic and common sense don’t work, you inspire us all by using something substantial such as money to counter stupid.

For people saying 51% don’t pay taxes. RICH PEOPLE ARE PART OF THAT 51%! It’s not all poor people. And poor people can’t afford to pay more, that’s why they don’t pay more than they do. On the other hand, the rich that don’t pay CAN AFFORD TO PAY, BUT DON’T.

Fred: what an interesting comment. The party that has been lying to America about “higher taxes kill jobs” for over a year and that caused the biggest tax increase we will ever see through their intransigence in the debt limit negotiations, which caused the rating downgrade that will result in hundreds of billions of dollars in increased interest, which will require higher taxes to be paid by everybody, citizens and corporations. It was the Republicans who caused uncertainty in the minds of the S&P analysts, not the president, who often was the only adult in the room. “My way or the highway”, callow Freshmen who are so dumb they don’t know that compromise has been central to all of the laws passed by Congress since the days of the Continental Congress, and that compromise was involved in the drafting of the three most important documents ever produced by our government: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation. In the words of the immortal Bugs Bunny, “what a bunch of maroons” .

I’ll paraphrase Obama’s (CAMPAIGN) speeches……. “Even though I chose to pursue Obamacare and Dodd-Frank instead of making this speech two years ago, I want you to pass my bill RIGHT NOW!! Even though my “stimulus” plans of the past have failed… I think if I word this right… you will forget the failures and think it sounds like a good idea… especially if I use the tested phrases “billionaires”… and “teachers”! My re-election is hinging on “infrastructure” ideas that will take years to plan and complete (no shovel-ready this time), but I need to sound Presidential… so if I raise my voice and sound “urgent”.. the people will forget my dismal record for the last three years! —— Please let your memories fail for me!!”

No it isn’t, because it will not happen.

However, it IS about squandering 1/2 a trillion tax dollars, to make Obama look like he is helping people, so he can influence the 2012 campaign. He is campaigning, and not much else.

However, the waste is great, the benefits insignificant, and the plan doomed before it was ever put on paper………..which was just yesterday.

Obama is a fraud……..an actor, playing a role. He has no idea how to create a single job in this country. He absolutely has not a single idea of how to reverse the off shoring of American jobs, which is precisely what our problem is.

Neither party will admit the truth……our government has allowed our jobs to be sent off shore, without ANY penalty to business. None. That’s the real problem, and Obama is totally inept, when it comes to ding anything about that.

Obama’s only focus is welfare.

Hope is desire or want. Embracing change means embracing insecurity.Some of you want to denie reality and replace it with Hokeness and pocket change. the trickle down theory does work I can here the pants unzipping now. your social Darwinism will not restore the long lost conquerer indentities of the past. Many people work 70 hrs a week and are not rich. Do not have health care.The policies of the previous renegade Bush administration set the fondation of our current economic failure. What you will not provide will be taken by the poor. By any means necessary!

Cut, cap and balance is an anti-stimulus that would lower GDP and employment in the short term. It’s not a good idea with the prospect of a double dip recession looming. It would hurl us straight into it. It isn’t a realistic proposal until the economy is stronger and less stagnant and more people are employed.

The credit rating downgrade was related to GOP brinkmanship and game playing, and the GOP’s pledge not to raise tax revenues.

“The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America’s governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. The statutory debt ceiling and the threat of default have become political bargaining chips in the debate over fiscal policy. ” — S & P

“S&P senior director Joydeep Mukherji said the stability and effectiveness of American political institutions were undermined by the fact that “people in the political arena were even talking about a potential default,” Mukherji said. “That a country even has such voices, albeit a minority, is something notable.”

Why doesn’t he just say the truth. That he wants to put $500 billion on our children’s credit card to buy votes with and to give to those who will give to him. At least he’ll be honest if he says that. So he plans to create/save 1 million jobs. That’s $500,000 a piece. How efficient. Are we really that stupid? With that amount of money you should be able to create several millions of jobs, the fact of the matter is that most of it will be stolen from us- just like the first trillion was.

Kimberly 10:22 am ——- Please be rational!! — The S&P reference to “brinksmanship” did NOT specify the “party” responsible (your assumption)….. You cannot deny that the GOP “Cut, Cap, and Balance” was the ONLY PLAN to pass either chamber of Congress that exceeded the S&P threshold!! —- Too bad the Dems rejected it… and too bad they did not come up with a plan of their own that met the S&P threshold!! —– As a result…. it was a DEMOCRAT downgrade!!!

“REPUBLICANS ARE SO ENTERTAINING AND TRANSPARENT! They don’t care about this country… they lie, they cheat. It should be no surprise to anyone that the Repubs would not pass the jobs bill… they just don’t care about anything other than getting Obama out of office, not because of his leadership, but because he is a democrat and a black man!”

Posted by: Lorrie | September 14, 2011, 10:39 am 10:39 am

Yawn.

This really gets me ######. First the Republicans and Tea heads criticize, and lie… saying that Obama has no job plan… then when he presents one, they tear it to shreds! They all should be fired… what kind of bigots do we have working for us??? and….. they want to have a Republican in the White House? We will have no more, social security, medicare or even homes to live in if they make it. God, please watch over us!

His plan will not work. Temporary Tax Credits for Permanent Raises and Jobs shows
lack of business Knowledge. You lose money. Obama must think business are run like
government, at a loss. I also encourage Senior citizens to call your Senators and
Representatives to vote against this bill, as it for the second year in a row it robs
social security of funds to the program,in favor of tax cuts that will not make a difference as this past year has shown us.

“The main focus for these selfish people is not their grandchildren and what they will have to pay for, it’s not their so called beloved country.”

Posted by: minds12 | September 14, 2011, 11:36 am 11:36 am

Speaking of selfish, your current share of the national debt is $131,318. Let us know how you plan to pay it off. Hope and Change isn’t legal tender. We’ll need your cash.

Let us know how you plan to pay it off.

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I know how Republicans plan to pay it off….by putting the burden squarely on the shoulders of working class Americans.

“Some people don’t care about ‘facts’ or ‘truth’”

Posted by: Charlie | September 14, 2011, 2:43 pm 2:43 pm

It’s a fact that sockpuppets always agree with other sockpuppets.

CHUCK
Interest rates are down to almost nothing. The debt goes up and down with the economy. Americans aren’t loosing sleep at night about the debt, they are about whether they are going to have a job tomorrow. The “do nothing ‘republicans are using the debt as an excuse to keep this economy in a funk just so the president is not re-elected. They had a change to reduce the deficit by 4 trillion dollars but choose to reduce it by 1.7 trillion because of their political gamesmanship.