Obama says GOP must back US first, create jobs

Throughout the speech, the union crowd kept chanting "four more years."

Four more years of spending?Four more years of lying?Four more years with no jobs?Four more years of listening to people cry because Obama isn't doing good enough?I say HELL NO!

What Obama isn't telling is that government can not create jobs they can lower taxes on businesses so that they can create jobs. My question Mr. President, has anyone ever gotten a job from a poor person they can't own abusiness because they can not afford to own one. Give businesses a tax break and you will create jobs plus you will bring in more money federal by the people that just got the jobs it is a win win. It is to easy for your pea brain to understand.

What a nice day!

ISN'T HE THE ONES ON THE SPOT

Dec 17,1992 San Antonio T.X. U.S Pres. H.W. Bush , Canadian Prim. Min. & the Mex. Pres. signed the Nafta treaty for-runner to what is current U.S. trade policy .

U.S. Pres. Clinton didn't just sign this bill into law ,he expaned to China & India .Remember Hillary was an Wal-Mart exect..... & you guy's want her replace Obama ?

Then U.S. W. Bush gave tax-breaks & substidies to Inter. Nat. Corps. who send alot of U.S. jobs overseas ..hell they are sending U.S. JOBS OVERSEAS AS WE SPEAK !

Today U.S.Pres. Obama continues to give these busted bailed-out billionaires the same tax-breaks & substi even if he has cover his nose , because it stinks to high heaven . Because these billionaires that were bailed-out on the taxpayer's dime , love cheap foreign slave labor .

" a poor person never give me a job " yeah right...? / " When we hang the last capitalist ,we will hang him with the rope he sold us " Mao Si-Tung or, Zedong ..The Great Wal-Mart Prophet .

You guy's hate this Pres.because of your ignorance & delusional sence of superiority & privilege that you rather see this Great Nation & future generations properity disappear because you , " hope this administration fails "- pigman oxycotin or flush limbaugh .
Very Patriotic !

Some of you white folks are a trip. All you guys do is blame the Obama administration for this country's ills. What's keeping this country from prospering is the wars we're currently tied up in that's not going to benefit ALL Americans, only a very select few. It is not the president's fault that the private sector isn't hiring. I truly believe they're intentionally not hiring for 2 reasons. 1. to embarrass Obama's Presidency and 2. because they've been shown they can get more with less. When some of the working class decided to take pay cuts to keep a fellow worker from being laid off or fired that gave businesses no incentive to hire any new employees. It's really ashame there seems to be a hidden agenda to ensure our President fails. Some white Americans are really showing their true colors because I just don't believe if Barack Obama were a white man he'd be dealing with this backlash wether folks agree with his policies or not. Personally, I hope you all get what you so desparately want, to "take" America back which anyone with a lick of common sense know what you're really saying. When you get your country back it WILL fail because white folks aren't willing to compromise. Everything had better be the way you they want or else. If you've paid close attention to Obama's Presidency EVERYTHING has been personal with the Republican regime, EVERYTHING. John Bone-head is trying to tell the world Obama may be the President but I'M in charge. Rush the pill addict has openly stated he wants the President to fail and my question to you all is how patriotic is that? Wishing ill will towards our leader because if he fails millions of fellow Americans suffer and this is what you want? What a shame.

"Show us what you've got," Obama says, relying yet again on the discredited debating tactic of exaggerating or intentionally misstating his opponents' actions. For three years there have been Republican proposals and predictable responses from Obama:

1) A plan to reduce health care costs to individuals and employers by allowing individuals to purchase health care insurance nationwide, with the amount of coverage determined by the individual instead of the state. - Rejected.

2) A plan to reduce the costs of health care, consumer products, and business operation by reforming personal injury lawsuits to conform to results obtained by the legal systems of all other developed countries of the world, preventing outsized and unpredictable windfall judgments, while significantly reducing insurance rates and business costs. - Rejected

3) A plan to balance the budget, reform the tax code, and lower corporate taxes (currently the highest in the developed world), thus encouraging small and medium-size business growth while maintaining revenues by eliminating special exemptions, tax credits, and loopholes used by large corporations to avoid taxes. - Rejected.

4) A plan to cut, cap, balance the budget, and keep it balanced so we don't fall into the same budgetary trap again, while simultaneously strengthening the dollar and encouraging continued foreign investment. - Ignored.

5) A plan to increase U.S. exports and reduce trade imbalances by new free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama, negotiated by the Bush administration (Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, the EU, and other nations are in the process of signing or have already concluded their own free trade agreements with the same nations, resulting in U.S. loss of market share of exports to those countries). - No action possible, bills remain at White House in unreported status for the last 3.5 years.

6) A plan to open more territory to coastal oil and gas exploration, to support use of domestic oil and natural gas, and to improve the glacial pace of issuing drilling permits to oil companies to prevent oil rigs from continuing to leave the Gulf, resulting in additional domestic oil and LNG production, the saving of 10,000 existing high-paying jobs, and the creation of 250,000 - 530,000 new jobs. - Rejected.

7) A plan to reverse or revise new and proposed federal regulations with a total compliance cost of $1.75 trillion annually, enough money for businesses to provide 17.5 million private sector jobs with an average salary of $100,000. - Agreed to drop proposed EPA ozone regulation, but plans to institute 212 other new regulatory actions, with an estimated cost to the U.S. economy of more than $100 million for each new regulation.

The reality is that there have been plenty of plans/proposals from the Republicans. However, because Obama, unlike President Clinton, refuses to sacrifice ideology for practicality, there will be little or no movement on job proposals until Obama leaves office.

Do RepubliCONS think that they are really going to win on destroying Medicare/Medicade, and Social Security while destroying America to preserve tax cuts for the rich? How stupid are these people? They may be, but the American people are not. Keep you hands off grandma's SS you fccuuking evil azz RepubliCONS.

well at least i didn't vote for the jacka**

There is a new reality in the economic world. Bush I called it the New World Order but did not tell us what that really meant.

In essence, between NAFTA and other trade agreements, the internet, international transit and the improving living standards in places such as India, China, Europe and Russia, American workers are irrelevant to world economics. No matter how cheaply we will work nor how much we allow the capitalists to foul our air and water, there will always be people who will work for less. At the same time, American businesses no longer need to rely upon American consumers for their profits. There is far more money to be made off of the rest of the world.

Old ecomonic rules no longer apply. American businesses will only hire the Americans they need to hire - either because the work needs to be done here (such as providing services in America) or because we have the cheapest qualified people (which is rarely going to be the case). No matter how much we lower taxes or find other less-obvious means of providing corporate welfare (lowering EPA standards, jobs stimulus programs, etc.) it will not change the fact that the work of a large percentage of Americans is simply not needed (and certainly not at a living wage) and that unemployment will undercut the market and drive down the salaries and benefits received by other Americans.

Changes within the context of our current economic paradigm are merely window dressing and will not work for the long-term. We need to entertain a new paradigm. Let's see if any candidates present one.

it's going to come back up. this is just the media setting us up for a dogfight. i drive a truck for a living. trucking companies are hurting because there's alot of freight. there's alot of freight because people are buying stuff. don't take my word for it. check out the truck trailer doors and you'll see almost all of them sporting drivers wanted. some of them even offering sign on bonuses; something they had done away with 5 years ago

If you're wondering what the ignorant masses think....read some of Bill D's nonsense.

I’m tired of people complaining about how businesses are “sitting on trillions of dollars” they won’t invest in hiring. That’s a direct result of the Frank-Dodd “reform.” That law says any company that engages in “financing activity” must reduce “risk” and maintain “solvency” or risk seizure by the Treasury Dept. It never defines financing activity, risk, or solvency. Advisors tell you never to invest 100% of your 401(k) into growth stocks. That’s because growth is risky. So by legislating against risk, Frank-Dodd legislated against growth too. And our economy NEEDS growth.

Financing activity: Almost every business can be said to engage in this. All manufacturers and many service providers use a “Net 30” invoicing procedure. That is, they get a percentage up front and the balance must be paid in 30 days; that’s financing activity So, rather than just banks, the Frank-Dodd “reform” makes every business vulnerable to seizure by the Treasury or requires them to have more than enough cash to pay immediately.

Risk: Hiring and expanding involve risk. The Frank-Dodd “reform” says businesses can not take “too much risk,” but NEVER gives even a hint what “too much” risk means. Or even what “risk” should be avoided. Therefore, especially in a weak economy, every hire is a risk that must be evaluated against the risk of seizure by the Treasury.

Solvency: That’s cash. But Frank-Dodd never addresses how much is enough. In order to hire you need to spend cash, but in order to remain solvent you need to sit on cash. At what point does solvency offset risk? Since the Treasury can seize them for not being “solvent enough,” of course they’re going to make sure they have more than enough cash.

Creating jobs means allowing risk. By “protecting” us from risk, all they have really done is protect our economy form growth. This is exactly the kind of pseudo-logical, economically illiterate, cause and effect disconnect that sounds good for election, but thoroughly screws us for years after.

Enogh of hollow patriotism and lip service. Let's get down to real sacrifice. I would like to request every American who has job and very business to donate two days salary/ two days profit to an special account which could be created by President or congress especially dedicated to create jobs. Then I would like to ask the president and congress ; Do have the willingness to work in bipartisan manner to resove the problem of unemployment honestly ?Country needs sacrifice at this stage not lip service.Mr. president I would like to be the first one to contribute to this cause

let him repeal Obama care if he wants help besides where is his plan with so call smartness I hope he saved some of that money he was giving those unions and big bale out banks those in the country and those with out this country ,and he still threatening to give amnesty to the illegals so it probably won't be enough .

And I challenge OBAMA to place the country's interests above all else and work to create jobs and put the economy back on a path toward growth instead of pushing budget breaking programs like Obama Care. What if all that wasted thought had gone into producing jobs from day one of his presidency? Looks like OBAMA is tired of showing us what he has and is now turning over responsibility to Republicans. People better be getting ready because the executive and legislative branches of this country are sending the country to hell in a handbasket.

Private unions are fine but the government unions rape the nation.

Every state requires a balanced budget why not the nation? Just don't spend what you don't have. Pay the debt down before you compound it Mr. O. Duh

All nations will have debt. It cost money to run a state or nation. But you don't incur a debt when you have a massive debt. PAY DOWN THE DEBT incurred then spend. Cap spending on Washington.

If you want a job in South Carolina or any right to work state, run the pitbull unions out. They are just dictators. Ask bankrupt Vallejo CA where the unions could care less and continue to take the city to court.