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Posted on YouTube: September 09, 2011
By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT
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Posted on DU: September 09, 2011
By DU Member: thomhartmann
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President Obama just presented his jobs plan - a $447 billion plan - to put millions of American back to work - and he dared the Republicans to oppose it. The President's speech couldn't come any sooner - because a year of spending cuts brought to us by the Republican Party - in many cases through hostage scenarios - are killing our economy. And now is the time to ditch austerity - and go after ACTUAL job creation - and to fight for it. President Obama gets it - and so does the United Nations. This week - the UN issued a new report pleading with Europe, Japan and the United States to ditch the austerity agendas - warning that continuing down the road of spending CUTS will push the global economy to the brink of disaster. Instead - the United Nations urged governments to adopt policies that increase workers wages - as in - put more money in the pockets of people who will spend it and get the economy working again. As the report read, “Given the lack of growth in employment and wages in Europe, Japan and the United States, their policies should aim at continued stimulation of their economies instead of trying to regain the confidence of the financial markets’ by prematurely cutting government spending.” In other words - stop trying to please the banksters -and start trying to help workers.
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