Posted on 07/25/2013 4:26:01 AM PDT by onyx
President Obama will push for new infrastructure projects and investments as he hits the road again Thursday, traveling this time to Jacksonville, Fla., for his third consecutive speech on the economy.
The event at the city's port comes fresh on the heels of the president's much-hyped economic address Wednesday in Illinois, where he claimed credit for the economic recovery and argued that his progressive economic policies would benefit the middle class.
He also challenged congressional Republicans, daring them to propose alternative solutions to aid in the recovery and accusing them of obsessing over "phony scandals" for short-term political gain.
Obama will continue to target the GOP in his speech Thursday, according to a White House official.
"While in Jacksonville, the president will continue to talk about the cornerstones of middle-class security and discuss specifically how the House Republican budget approach poses a risk to the progress we’ve made in each area, including jobs, education, housing, and healthcare," the official said.
The White House chose the port as the site of the speech because it is home to two projects — a container terminal and a rail yard — that the administration expedited last year as part of a broader infrastructure push.
"Expediting permitting projects through executive action is just one example of how the president can and will act through his own authority to promote our economic progress, while still pushing Congress to pass legislation to grow the economy and create jobs," the White House official said.
In his speech in Illinois on Wednesday, Obama said his remarks would "offer new ideas for doing what America has always done best, which is building things."
"We’ve got ports that aren’t ready for the new supertankers that are going to begin passing through the new Panama Canal in two years’ time," Obama said. "If we don’t get that done, those tankers are going to go someplace else."
The president made a similar visit to the Port of Miami in March, when he touted a series of tax breaks and loans designed to stimulate private investment in infrastructure. He also called on Congress to fund a $10 billion infrastructure bank to aid in those efforts.
At the time, House Republicans said they also wanted to upgrade the nation's roads and bridges — if the costs were offset in other parts of the federal budget.
“It’s easy to go out there and be Santa Claus and talk about all the things you want to give away,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said. “But at some point, somebody has to pay the bill.”
Before speaking in Jacksonville, the president and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will tour the container terminal that was expedited under executive order.
If you saw this museum you no doubt know that the National Road was the subject of the first big Congressional slugfest about the proper role of Government.
Many in the Congress felt that building roads was NOT a proper function of the Federal Government. And they nearly prevailed. Some of us wish perhaps that they had.
Only, for the most part, the roads are just as crappy as they were before the signs were erected. I guess the irony is lost on these nimrods.
yep
Neither have most of his sycophants. As long as their EBT cards are loaded and their ObamaPhones keep flowing, they never will.
It is amazing the length of time he’s been able to spin this same tired schtick for. We must be getting stupider by the day.
Reeling from his over 4 year failure to achieve his stated goal of “Fundamentally changing the United States of America,” Communist Tyrant B. Hussein Obama has embarked on another expensive road trip to try to sell his Commune-Style power grab of 1/6 th of the US economy by promoting the idea that increased Federal debt is the best way of salvation for the over-taxed Middle Class.
The problem is not with loyal Communist Obama, as he is just doing what his Communist trainers have taught him to do.
The problem lies with the sorry House RINOs who keep John Boehner on as their useless, Commie Obama enabler Speaker.
Nothing is going to help Commie Obama more than to keep John Boehner on as Speaker of the House.
Boehner has repeatedly stated his baseless fear that “If the Republicians stand up and oppose Obama we might be blamed by the Liberals for __________________(Fill in the blank).”
It is time for the House RINOs to step up to the plate and fight FOR The Republic, and not wallow in the baseless fears of losing the fake prasie of Liberals when a “Bi-Partisan Cave-In” is finally agreed to.
The reality is that WE would cheer “Shutting down the Government,” and it’s ‘non-essential’ Federal expenditures, or “playing politics” with Commie Obama’s “phony scandals” such as the Obama coverup of the Benghazi Massacre, or the NSA, or IRS, etc., etc., etc.
Rather than taking the fight TO the enemy, in this case the inexorable attempt to turn our Republic into a Communist State, Boehner has consistently shown that he is not a fighter.
It is time during Commie Obama’s con-artist tour of the remaining Liberal bastions in America for us to demand from our sorry House RINOs that they depose scardy-cat Boehner as Speaker, and install a FIGHTER worthy of our trust in his/her record of defeating Communist Con-Artists such as B. Hussein Obama.
What say all of you?
Good, bout time he pried some of the Trillions he took to build the infrastructure back from his Mafia friends and spent it on the road work he promised the first and second time.
What does it matter what we say? Boehner is not elected by national vote, but by a small district. It’s not up to us.
Not really a surprise that Obama thinks that MORE spending is the answer for deep debt.
It is as if the trillion dollar “stimulus” never happened.
Many could be started tomorrow if the EPA would quit worrying about snail darters, etc.
What say all of you?
I say The Fix is in; Boehner, Cantor, McCain, and Rubio are clearly collaborators and Traitors who are Trojan Horse Democrats, Statists, and globalists.
The question is whether there are enough Patriots in High Places who CAN make a difference...those who ARE willing to make such a commitment as the Founders' had: On this page of the Declaration of Independence, before the ink of the signatures, there is a single poignant line that many people often skim past. It reads:
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
In fact, of the fifty-six that signed, five were captured and tortured by the British – twelve had their homes destroyed – seventeen lost their fortunes – the sons of two of the men were killed and others were captured – and nine lost their lives in the war.
The problem lies with the sorry House RINOs who keep John Boehner on as their useless, Commie Obama enabler Speaker.
The bigger problem: Fake "Leadership" and collaborators like Boehner and Cantor fail to represent their conservative constituency, ergo they do not concern themselves with Constitutional ideology and principle.
Until the globalist/statist Boehners and McCains of the GOP are called out and removed, 0bama's scheduled utter destruction of the Republic will continue.
Boehner's power exponentially transcends his local election in a "small district" in Ohio; He is Speaker of the House; Is #3 in the line of Presidential succession; assigns committee-ships, and (in theory) "leads the loyal opposition". In theory he is also responsible for helping establish the Republican House strategy and agenda.
The potential power of Boehner to affect and address 0bama's agenda and scandals within a Republican majority is great. Instead he's been a disgrace -- he's wielded his "Leadership" role in the House of Representative as a hammer to help 0bama evade justice while both destroy the Republic.
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