Obama to Send Congress “The American Jobs Act”
EmailThis evening, President Obama will do more than call for job creation, he will announce he is sending legislation to Congress for quick action.
“The president will unveil tonight The American Jobs Act, a plan of bipartisan ideas to create jobs right now and is fully paid for,” Communications director Dan Pfeiffer told ABC News.
The final price tag is still being calculated but it could reach $400 billion, paid for by savings elsewhere in government.
And it is crafted to appeal to Republicans who have control of the House, where all money bills must begin their legislative track.
White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley said on “Good Morning America” the specifics “will create jobs. They’ll get teachers back to work. First responders back to work. Construction workers, it will get money into small businesses. And the American people will see a tax cut with a payroll extension.”
Daley adds special emphasis will be on tax breaks for smaller companies which hire: ”It will help the long-term unemployed and help small businesses hire veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan at a time where there is a growing unemployment rate among veterans.”
The president will send The American Jobs Act to Congress in a few days.
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From the Daily Caller (9/8/11):
Union members could cost Obama Pennsylvania in 2012
“New polling shows reliably blue Pennsylvania, a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1988, could be up for grabs in 2012. And in a wisdom-bending development, organized labor could help the state trend red.
A new poll from the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. shows 52 percent of Pennsylvanians want someone other than Barack Obama elected president in 2012. Just 41 percent say he deserves another term.
But most telling in the Franklin & Marshall poll is remarkably high dissatisfaction with Obama in households where rank-and-file union members live.
Although 61 percent of all Democrats polled said they want to see Obama re-elected, 59 percent of union households told the pollsters they wanted to see someone else in the White House.”
Posted by: Mary | September 8, 2011, 9:04 am 9:04 am
I’m skeptical but I’ll still take a look at it.
Is it going to be posted on line for a week so that everyone can read it?
As far as getting “teachers back to work. First responders back to work. Construction workers”, I hope that is a small part of it. We don’t need more government service jobs or union kickbacks. Those things really just keep the economy weak and kicks the can farther down the road.
Posted by: Noz | September 8, 2011, 9:21 am 9:21 am
ABC News: “The final price tag is still being calculated but it could reach $400 billion, paid for by savings elsewhere in government.”
It’s funny how quick liberals can come up with ‘savings’ in government to fund their new political initiatives, but have trouble when it comes to staying below our legal debt limit.
Since government spends the people’s money at a loss based on artificial political priorities that create short-term gains at the expense of long-term stability, it would do our economy much better to give the money back to the people who earned it to spend as they see fit based on real supply and demand conditions in the market.
The Obama Stimulus has already been tried and has failed. It’s time to once again rely on the time-tested principles of our free market to grow our economy, rather than know-better central-planners who predictably only see solutions that involve massive waste of the people’s hard work via massive government spending.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 8, 2011, 9:38 am 9:38 am
“The final price tag is still being calculated but it could reach $400 billion, paid for by savings elsewhere in government.”
Yeah, savings elsewhere. Which means some fuzzy math is done by the administration to claim savings which will never happen.
Without cuts, this is not paid for, period.
Can’t wait to see the bi-partisan spirit showcases by Obama!!
Posted by: J.R. | September 8, 2011, 10:23 am 10:23 am
$400 billion to put people back to work.
teachers – unions
firefighters – unions
construction workers – working union jobs
Appears this $400 billion is a payoff for Hoffa’s speech a few days ago.
Posted by: Cindy | September 8, 2011, 10:30 am 10:30 am
BILL DALEY: “It will help the long-term unemployed and help small businesses hire veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan at a time where there is a growing unemployment rate among veterans.”
You know what gets more veterans and more of everyone back to work? Tax cuts for all businesses. Unfortunately, Obama is more concerned with growing government than growing our economy.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 8, 2011, 10:42 am 10:42 am
Stimulus 2, green job bankruptcy plan, stealing more money from social security, Union dues to democratic campaign fund swap. The Obama Road construction
campaign sign, this is what his plan can be called.
Posted by: deadwrestler | September 8, 2011, 10:42 am 10:42 am
“teachers – unions
firefighters – unions
construction workers – working union jobs
Appears this $400 billion is a payoff for Hoffa’s speech a few days ago.”
Posted by: Cindy | September 8, 2011, 10:30 am 10:30 am
Don’t forget cops. Also union jobs. I sense a pattern.
Posted by: Mary | September 8, 2011, 11:28 am 11:28 am
total non starter. And barry knows it. Let the lies of the left fly.
Posted by: foggy | September 8, 2011, 11:35 am 11:35 am
AP reports:
“Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.
Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.
No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.”
NO MORE UNION THUG MONEY!
Posted by: wheresmymoney | September 8, 2011, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
Posted by: wheresmymoney | September 8, 2011, 12:55 pm 12:55 pm
But, but, Kimberly insists it’s the Tea Partiers who are violent. Then again, I can’t recall any Tea Party rally where Tea Partiers destroyed property and took security guards hostage. In fact, Tea Party members always leave their venues cleaner than when they arrived. You know, it’s almost as if the left is being phony and hypocritical and lying about them.
Posted by: Susan | September 8, 2011, 2:23 pm 2:23 pm
“teachers – unions
firefighters – unions
construction workers – working union jobs
Appears this $400 billion is a payoff for Hoffa’s speech a few days ago.”
Posted by: Cindy | September 8, 2011, 10:30 am 10:30 am
Don’t forget cops. Also union jobs. I sense a pattern.
Posted by: Mary | September 8, 2011, 11:28 am 11:28 am
Yeah, it would be better if they were fighting to get Mcdonald’s workers back to work.
Posted by: Tom | September 8, 2011, 2:28 pm 2:28 pm
I find it hard to believe that anyone could object to police, firemen, or first-responders gaining back lost jobs. What, is public safety a non-issue? Will the far-right’s desire to attack the middle-class continue to override the knowledge that they, too, may need timely help in an emergency ?
And will the far-right really complain about the bill encouraging hiring Veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan? Should their sacrifice really be that thankless?
This negative attitude of the far-right seems to be channeling the character Mr. Potter from “It’s a Wonderful Life”. To not see that the public servants like firemen, police, first responders and veterans are directly responsible for much of our quality of life in the U.S. is very short-sighted.
Posted by: Lydia | September 8, 2011, 3:05 pm 3:05 pm
Obviously the Longshoremen were encouraged to resort to violence by the Union official Hoffa-talk about inciting a riot. Obama has a chance to repudiate this violence tonight-if he has any decency he must stop this hooliganism.
Posted by: Nephron | September 8, 2011, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Posted by: Nephron | September 8, 2011, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm
Violence on picket lines is not uncommon. It goes like this; management brings in scab replacement labor, violence occurs.
Posted by: Sean | September 8, 2011, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
LYDIA: “I find it hard to believe that anyone could object to police, firemen, or first-responders gaining back lost jobs.”
Those jobs should be funded at the local level by the people who use the services, not by the federal government. Is there anything liberals think the federal government shouldn’t fund?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 8, 2011, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm
Those jobs should be funded at the local level by the people who use the services, not by the federal government. Is there anything liberals think the federal government shouldn’t fund?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 8, 2011, 5:48 pm 5:48 pm
Not really. Clinton brought in money to increase the number of police on American streets and we saw a the expected corresponding drop in the crime rate. The federal government has been providing state funding (which then provides municipal funding) for decades now. It’s not just liberals who have supported this.
Posted by: Jim | September 8, 2011, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
I am a teacher and I had to move to another city just to get a job. Also, teachers union is a joke. You pay a lot for them, you don’t get much of anything out of them. They give you a $250 tax break for school supplies, I must spend almost $1000 on school supplies, I am required to be at work 9.5 hours a day and I have only 3 hours a week for parent calling, grading, and writing curriculum for a 4th year science course that does not have a book. . . needless to say I spend my Saturdays grading papers and writing curriculum while I am at the laundromat. This act is exactly what we need. There are 45 students in some classes, and those same teachers have had their off periods taken away, and maybe I could move back to the city I used to live in, so when I’m stretched beyond thin I at least have my friends and family to turn to! Even now, I’m watching the Obama speech and grading papers.
Posted by: robin elizabeth | September 8, 2011, 7:26 pm 7:26 pm
I guess oBama’s boss Trumka was present at the speech to make sure that the appropriate payoff money was allocated to the unions to be cycled back into DEMOCRAT campaign coffers.
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | September 8, 2011, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | September 8, 2011, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
Any proof of this or are you just going the regular knee-jerk schtick?
Posted by: Paul | September 8, 2011, 11:17 pm 11:17 pm
paul wrote:”Any proof of this or are you just going the regular knee-jerk schtick?”
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They’ll get teachers back to work…. union…. check
First responders back to work….. union…. check
Construction workers….. union…. check
Gulf shrimpers….non-union…. tough luck
Offshore oil rig workers….non-union…. tough luck
There is a pattern that everyone except the extreme lefties can see.
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | September 8, 2011, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | September 8, 2011, 11:27 pm 11:27 pm
You could just state the facts rather than projecting your narrow-minded biases.
Actually Michelle, the American Jobs Act says something more along the lines of . . .
1) $250 billion in tax breaks for small business employers and workers (any worker not just union workers),
2) $50 billion in infrastructure
3) $10 billion for an infrastructure bank to help leverage private capital
4) $30 billion for school modernization and repairs
5) $35 billion in aid to states and municipalities for the purposes of rehiring and retaining teachers and first responders
etc
I have a feeling the states involved (and most citizens) are going to be very happy to have the teachers, police and firefighters at work – much as you might complain.
Posted by: Paul | September 9, 2011, 12:15 am 12:15 am
I agree Paul, these union jobs are good for our country and the tax breaks are for small business and corporation to create jobs and will boost the economy. In turn creating jobs for McDonald’s workers as well, you have to have people spending to create unskilled labor jobs as well. Doesn’t matter what he says or does the Right Wing will find fault, yet it is they who took us from a zero deficit 10 years ago to where we are NOW.
Posted by: Michele | September 9, 2011, 6:24 am 6:24 am
“Violence on picket lines is not uncommon. It goes like this; management brings in scab replacement labor, violence occurs.”
Posted by: Sean | September 8, 2011, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
In this case, the replacement labor was a competing UNION. And nothing justifies violence and hostage-taking.
Posted by: Chuck | September 9, 2011, 7:57 am 7:57 am
So, he unveiled it at his “PASS THIS BILL NOW” speech. Great. Can anybody (please!) provide a link to the full text of the bill. I”ve been searching for the last 20 minutes. Help!
Posted by: Stosh | September 9, 2011, 12:58 pm 12:58 pm
stosh wrote:”I”ve been searching for the last 20 minutes. Help!”
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LOL… the CBO says the same thing… they are tired of trying to score a speech.
Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | September 9, 2011, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
ANONYMOUS: “Those jobs should be funded at the local level by the people who use the services, not by the federal government. Is there anything liberals think the federal government shouldn’t fund?”
JIM: “Clinton brought in money to increase the number of police on American streets and we saw a the expected corresponding drop in the crime rate.”
I don’t know if you can say federal funding reduces the crime rate. Even if you could, the jobs should still be paid for by the people who benefit from them. This helps cut down on waste and causes local government to not depend on federal funding for services they find important.
JIM: “It’s not just liberals who have supported this.”
Wealth redistribution certainly isn’t a conservative trait.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 9, 2011, 7:46 pm 7:46 pm