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Related: About this forumObama: Employment numbers would be better if Congress acted (LA Times)
Obama: Employment numbers would be better if Congress actedBy Christi Parsons
September 7, 2012, 12:03 p.m.
President Obama said Friday that the job growth reflected in the latest employment report is not good enough but suggested things would get better quicker if Congress would cooperate.
We need to fill the hole left by this recession faster, Obama said, and theres a lot more that we can do.
The country would see more job growth if Congress would pass the jobs bill he sent them last year, Obama told a crowd in Portsmouth, N.H.
It would also help middle-class families feel more secure if lawmakers would vote to extend tax cuts for them, he said, and save the fight over tax cuts for the wealthy for later on.
The midday event was the first campaign rally since Obama closed the Democratic National Convention with a speech accepting the partys nomination for president.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-obama-jobs-report-20120907,0,327742.story
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Obama: Employment numbers would be better if Congress acted (LA Times) (Original Post)
pinto
Sep 2012
OP
Thrill
(19,178 posts)1. Thats the way to do it.
Campaign against the Do nothing Congress
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)2. Yup
There is stuff that could be done to help. Hearing this, Republicans?
Blue Idaho
(4,988 posts)3. President Obama - 4.5 million new jobs, The republican congress - Z E - R O!
Hammer republicans with the consequences of their actions!
pinto
(106,886 posts)4. Yep. Zero. Obstructionism doesn't create jobs.
Have we a long slog to go? Yep. Who's in the trenches / who's digging more trenches? This is the voters' choice, imo.