Weekly Address: A Path Towards a Thriving Middle Class
Source: White House
In this weeks address, the President described the progress our economy has made, laying a foundation for a future that prioritizes middle-class economics.
This week, the President will send a budget to Congress centered on the idea that everyone who works hard should have the chance to get ahead. His plan will reverse harmful sequestration cuts and instead make paychecks go further, create good jobs here in the United States, and prepare hardworking Americans to earn higher wages. The President made the case for his budget, and affirmed his commitment to doing everything he can to ensure more Americans can get ahead in this new economy.
Read more: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/01/31/weekly-address-path-towards-thriving-middle-class
Hi, everybody. At a moment when our economy is growing, our businesses are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s, and wages are starting to rise again, we have to make some choices about the kind of country we want to be.
Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?
That was the focus of my State of the Union Address middle-class economics. The idea that this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
This week, I will send a budget to Congress thats built on those values.
Well help working families paychecks go farther by treating things like paid leave and child care like the economic priorities that they are. Well offer Americans of every age the chance to upgrade their skills so they can earn higher wages, with plans like making two years of community college free for every responsible student. And well keep building the worlds most attractive economy for high-wage jobs, with new investments in research, infrastructure, manufacturing, and expanded access to faster internet and new markets.
We can afford to make these investments. Since I took office, weve cut our deficits by about two-thirds the fastest sustained deficit reduction since just after the end of World War II. We just have to be smarter about how we pay for our priorities, and thats what my budget does. It proposes getting rid of special interest loopholes in our tax code, and using those savings to cut taxes for middle-class families and reward businesses that invest in America. It refuses to play politics with our homeland security, and funds our national security priorities at home and abroad. And it undoes the arbitrary, across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester for our domestic priorities, and matches those investments dollar-for-dollar in resources our troops need to get the job done.
Now, I know that there are Republicans in Congress who disagree with my approach. And like I said in my State of the Union Address, if they have ideas that will help middle-class families feel some economic security, Im all in to work with them. But I will keep doing everything I can to help more working families make ends meet and get ahead. Not just because we want everyone to share in Americas success but because we want everyone to contribute to Americas success.
Thats the way the middle class thrived in the last century and thats how it will thrive again.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/01/30/weekly-address-path-towards-thriving-middle-class
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,096 posts)Did listen again this morning. He was here in Philly Thursday evening addressing the same points at a Democratic congressional leader retreat, and in a very fiery style. Let's hope the rest of the party goes out there and barnstorms with the message.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)White House, Congress, Justice department, regulatory agencies, and politics in general.
cut their strings!
fasttense
(17,301 posts)That's how we're going to create a thriving middle class?
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)why doesn't The Left understand that?
Skittles
(153,169 posts)that is what the delusional DUers ACTUALLY THINK