Weekly Address: Everyone Who Works Hard Should Get Ahead
Source: White House
In this weeks address, President Obama highlighted the progress our economy has made, with more than 3.1 million jobs created in 2014 the best year for job growth since the late 1990s. America has come a long way, and with the right policies, we can continue to grow our economy into one where those who work hard can get ahead.
Thats why earlier this week the President released a budget proposal focused on middle-class economics the idea that this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, does their fair share, and plays by the same set of rules. The President said he looks forward to working with anyone, Republican or Democrat, who is willing to fight for commonsense policies that will help the middle class succeed.
Read more: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/02/07/weekly-address-everyone-who-works-hard-should-get-ahead
transcript
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/02/06/weekly-address-everyone-who-works-hard-should-get-ahead
(snip)
This week, we got news that confirms what we already know -- that our businesses continue to create jobs for hardworking folks all across the country. Last month, Americas businesses added another 267,000 jobs. In 2014, our economy created more than 3.1 million jobs in all -- the best year for job growth since the late 1990s. All told, over the past 59 months, the private sector has added 11.8 million new jobsthe longest streak on record. And in the single most hopeful sign for middle class families, wages are rising again.
America is poised for another good year as long as Washington works to keep this progress going. We have to choose -- 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 can get ahead?
Because while weve come a long way, weve got more work to do to make sure that our recovery reaches more Americans, not just those at the top. Thats what middle-class economics is all about -- the idea that this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
This week, I sent Congress a budget built on middle-class economics. It helps families afford childcare, health care, college, paid leave at work, homeownership, and saving for retirement, and it could put thousands of dollars back into the pockets of a working family each year. It helps more Americans learn new skills to earn higher wages, including by making two years of community college free for responsible students all across the country. It invests in the research and infrastructure our businesses need to compete and create high-paying jobs. And it pays for this with smart spending cuts and by fixing a tax code thats riddled with special-interest loopholes for folks who dont need them, allowing us to offer tax breaks to students and families who do need them.
I believe this is where we need to go to give working families more security in a time of constant economic change. And Ill work with anyoneRepublican or Democratwho wants to get to yes on these issues. We wont agree on everything, and thats natural -- but we should stop refighting old battles, and start working together to help you succeed in the new economy.
Thats what you elected us to do -- not to turn everything into another Washington food fight, but to have debates that are worthy of this country, and to build an economy not just where everyone can share in Americas success, but where everyone can contribute to Americas success.
merrily
(45,251 posts)KG
(28,752 posts)Facilitating the viability, or even survival of the working class is weaving: Pushing another corporate crafted trade agreement ( TPP ) is unraveling what was knit.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,321 posts)My local station apparently didn't have it ready to air this morning even though it was announced at the top of the hour (they usually run it at 6:08 or 6:09 am ET), which resulted in me yelling and cursing at the radio and frantically searching whitehouse.gov & youtube (and it wasn't there either). As a side note, when Bush did his, it was aired on this same station at 10:10 am ET during his 8 years, when most people were up.
cal04
(41,505 posts)I had a strange experience with the White House website this morning.
When I clicked on the link to the transcript, this is what I got. I've never seen that on the WH site before.
Maybe that's why it wasn't up when it should have been.
The certificate for this website is invalid. You might be connecting to a website that is pretending to be URL, which could put your confidential information at risk. Would you like to connect to the website anyway?
BumRushDaShow
(129,321 posts)The title of the address had been correct on the main whitehouse.gov page at the very top, where there was the image from the video, but when you clicked on it to go to the Weekly Address page/blog, it was going to a video of the one of the foreign trips, and the older Weekly Addresses were below.
I think it could be that they have the site cached on several servers to handle a particular load (e.g., utilizing a company such as Akamai, which a number of government sites use or used in the past) and one (or more) of the servers in the cluster didn't have the updated info, so you might hit a stale server one time, and an updated one another time.... I see this phenomena all the time on more active sites.
randome
(34,845 posts)Cool.
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MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)@$!#.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)We shall see how far he pushes this issue or not. Social Security and good schools are the core elements of a fair deal for the American middle class.