Posted on 08/22/2011 1:13:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
VINEYARD HAVEN, Massachusetts (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has taken heat for taking a vacation when the U.S. economy is struggling, but aides are striving to make clear he is not neglecting the country's finances during his break.
On Monday, Obama met with a top economic adviser and spoke to investor Warren Buffett and Ford Motor Co. chief executive Alan Mulally about the economy, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
Earnest also announced that Obama will travel to Detroit in two weeks to discuss the economy on the U.S. Labor Day holiday on September 5, setting up a major address on jobs he is to deliver later in the month.
The date of that address has not been set.
Obama will spend part of the day with workers and then make remarks to the Metro Detroit Central Labor Council, Earnest said.
With Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, Obama discussed the overall U.S. economic outlook and "reaction to the headwinds we've experienced over the last couple of months," Earnest told reporters in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where Obama is staying with his family.
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Some critics from the rival Republican party had questioned whether it was appropriate for Obama to take his annual break given the country's economic problems, including an unemployment rate stuck above 9 percent and weak growth in the first half of 2011.
TRYING TO JUMP-START THE ECONOMY
Although his schedule includes family outings, golf games and receptions, Obama is expected to spend much of his nine days on the resort island working on a program meant to jump-start the economy and find budget savings that surpass the $1.5 trillion goal of a new congressional deficit-cutting committee.
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did the White House explain why he skipped a hole while playing golf the other day? (snicker)
Going to Detroit...
Detroit, prime example of the deterioration and destruction of a major US city by unions, one-party government (RATS), welfare, the breakdown and destruction of the black middle class family, local political malfeasance.
Go ahead Obama, give your Labor Day speech on a pile of rubble and garbage on the corner of Brush and John R Streets. Detroit, a Turd world city, coming soon to a location close to you.
FUBO and the UAW too
Detroit Denby, Class of 67
What squat.
He's already sleeping with Jeff Immelt, who I understand gets jealous easily.
did the White House explain why he skipped a hole while playing golf the other day?
No. The media gave him a Mulligan is my best guess. Go figure.
Barry is now playing 36 holes a day. He’s really working hard on this economy thing . . . I guess . . . well, maybe . . . or NOT.
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