President Obama tells lawmakers ‘we’ve got to do more’ to boost job growth
Source: The Hill
President Obama touted the signing of a $105 billion transportation bill and called on GOP lawmakers to take up additional measures he said would help speed up job creation, in his weekly address.
Speaking from Ohio, where Obama was wrapping up a two-day bus tour, the president pushed back against a weak June jobs report, telling Congress ”we've got to do more."
“Our mission isn’t just to put people back to work – it’s to rebuild an economy where that work pays; an economy in which everyone who works hard has the chance to get ahead,” said the president.
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“For months, I’ve been pushing Congress to pass several common-sense ideas that will help us do that. And on Friday, I signed into law a bill that will do two things for the American people,” he said.
Read more: http://thehill.com/video/administration/236535-obama-tells-lawmakers-weve-got-to-do-more-to-boost-job-growth
WEEKLY ADDRESS: Pushing Congress to Create Jobs, Keep College in Reach for Middle Class
In this week’s address, President Obama spoke to the American people from Ohio about a bill signed on Friday that does two important things: it keeps thousands of construction workers on the job rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and it stops interest rates on federal loans from doubling this year for more than seven million students. The President urges Congress to do more to help our economic recovery and create jobs, including taking half the money we’re no longer spending on war and using it to build roads, bridges and wireless networks at home, and expanding financial aid to two million students while giving them the opportunity to learn the skills that businesses need right now. It’s time for our elected officials to come together to help strengthen the middle class.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/weekly-address-pushing-congress-create-jobs-keep-college-reach-middle-cl
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Jobs for the unemployed are secondary. Fixing our crumbling infrastructure is secondary. Everything is secondary to the goal of making Obama a one-term POTUS.
That has been their ONLY goal from day one of his administration. They want power for the sake of power.
in down town D,C. This is where McConnell stood up and said that the party's (R) number one priority should be making President Obama a one term president. There noncooperation started immediately. Even so, President Obama's accomplishments. Stick with Democrats.
The headline might as well read "President Pisses Into Wind Again."
(Sub-headline: "GOP Fears Trickledown During Obama's Term"
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On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law a federal highway bill with a section that redefines tobacco manufacturers to include any business with a roll-your-own cigarette machine and taxes those products at the same rate as packaged smokes.....
http://www.suntimes.com/photos/galleries/13589276-417/roll-your-own-cigarette-stores-going-up-in-smoke.html
New Law Blamed For Closing Smoke Shop
YANKTON, SD -
A Yankton businessman blames a new law going into effect Sunday for forcing him to close the doors of his roll-your-own cigarette shop.
John Muilenburg's dream of owning his own roll-your-own cigarette shop has gone up in smoke in less than nine months.
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I'm) devastated, you know? It's our last day. We don't know what to do. We're done. They just took our livelihood away," Muilenburg said.
He's closing Mullies Cigarette Shop one day before a new state law classifies the business as a cigarette manufacturer, taxing customers more than $15 per box.
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http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=133827
It could easily be argued this is a tax on the poor and a victory for the tobacco lobby
