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Obama says GOP must back US first, create jobs
Associated Press ^ | Sept. 5, 2011 | DARLENE SUPERVILLE

Posted on 09/05/2011 12:32:16 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

DETROIT (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Monday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs as he used a boisterous Labor Day rally to aim a partisan barb at the GOP.

In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them.

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To: Free ThinkerNY

Government can’t create jobs except by taking resources from those who would otherwise do so, and far more efficiently. Get the hell out of America’s way, Obama. And stop blaming us for your failure.


21 posted on 09/05/2011 12:44:05 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: Son House

It’ll be a “Construction Winter”.


22 posted on 09/05/2011 12:44:12 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ken21

Obama had 2 years of a veto proof Dem Congress to push through a jobs program without interference from Republicans.
Instead he wasted his time on Obamacare and a stimulus program that was more pork than stimulus. Now the Republicans control only one house for only 8 months and he is already assigning blame to them as for his and his party’s abject failure. Polls are reflecting people are no longer listening excuses for his failure.


23 posted on 09/05/2011 12:45:21 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Free ThinkerNY
When was the last time you heard a Republican President specifically complain about the Democrat Party in a public speech?

Low brow, low class, low expectations.

24 posted on 09/05/2011 12:46:44 PM PDT by The Duke
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them.

So, federal infrastructure jobs is this guy's great plan?

"Good news everybody! Grab a shovel! We've all got jobs filling potholes!"

25 posted on 09/05/2011 12:47:40 PM PDT by Drew68 (Perry/Rubio 2012)
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To: RightInEastLansing
Thank goodness all construction workers are fully interchangeable. The roofer and finish carpenter can just as easily build concrete roads and bridges! Genius!

Don't forget the luthiers at Gibson. They can build roads too!

26 posted on 09/05/2011 12:49:25 PM PDT by Drew68 (Perry/Rubio 2012)
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To: The Duke

Republicans and Greeks and Japanese Tsunami and European banks and, of course, George Bush ate his homework while he was playing the 18th hole.


27 posted on 09/05/2011 12:49:41 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: Free ThinkerNY
MR. PRESIDENT! You tried spending trillions of dollars to create jobs, but as you admitted, "Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected.". That's because by borrowing and spending trillions, you masked the problem with temporary questionable growth, but you didn't fix the problems.
28 posted on 09/05/2011 12:50:32 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Compassionate Conservatism? Promoting self reliance is compassionate. Promoting dependency is not.)
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To: chuckee

0bama puts out a false premise here.

He says that the GOP has to put the country first, which in his mind means that they have to pass whatever his version of a jobs program is.

I reject that premise, because it insinuates that that you are not putting your country first if you don’t agree with 0bama’s plans and policies. The 2 parties almost always disagree on what our policies should be, and what the goals of legislation and policy should be. That’s just politics.

This logic doesn’t fly with me, though it may fly with traditional Democrat constituencies. 0bama likes to demonize Republicans, send them to the back of the bus, etc.

I don’t like this about 0bama. I think he spends more time and teleprompter reading by bashing Republicans and conservatives, rather than persuading us of why his policies and proposals are better. He spends way too much time telling us what is wrong with Republicans, rather than telling us what is right with Democrats and his policies.


29 posted on 09/05/2011 12:52:20 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Divisive, lying jackass.


30 posted on 09/05/2011 12:53:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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To: Paladin2

“now is the winter of our greatest cement”


31 posted on 09/05/2011 12:56:15 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Obama says GOP must back US first, create jobs”

The job-destroyer-in-chief saying that is like the man who hit a pedestrian, knocking him out into field. The judge fined the pedestrian for leaving the scene of an accident.


32 posted on 09/05/2011 12:56:29 PM PDT by RoadTest (Organized religion is no substitute for the relationship the living God wants with you.)
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To: mylife

You need some good cement to make concrete in the winter that’s worth a spit.


33 posted on 09/05/2011 12:58:22 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Another Obama lecture. I don't know why the Republicans tolerate it.

-PJ

34 posted on 09/05/2011 12:58:45 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: Drew68
"Don't forget the luthiers at Gibson. They can build roads too! "

Actually, quite a few of them likely could.

35 posted on 09/05/2011 12:59:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Winstons Julia

Just proves he is insane. “Definition of Insanity - doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.”


36 posted on 09/05/2011 12:59:39 PM PDT by fremont_steve
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To: The Duke

This POS jerk does not belong in the oval office. I am beyond tired of his divisive politics, the politics of envy, the politics of class warfare, the politics of racial divide and the politics of hate. He is nothing but a low class carney barker and the moral equalivent of a worm. If he shows up on Thursday evening and begins some commentary like this deriding the GOP or Tea party, the Speaker should order the Sergeant at Arms to remove him bodily from the house floor and send him cartwheeling down Penn Ave or better still, into the Anacosta River...good luck to bad garbage I say.


37 posted on 09/05/2011 1:01:50 PM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: fremont_steve

I keep seeing people say that we need to bring back the WPA. Apparently that, and NOT a world war got us out of the Great Depression.


38 posted on 09/05/2011 1:03:08 PM PDT by Winstons Julia (when liberals rant, it's called free speech; when conservatives vent, it's called hate speech.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them.

Obama said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed UNION construction workers who are available to build them.

There. Fixed it.

39 posted on 09/05/2011 1:03:09 PM PDT by Walmartian
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To: Winstons Julia
Different time...

And very different circumstances.

40 posted on 09/05/2011 1:06:37 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Marine Sniper - "You can run, but you'll just die tired!")
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