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Obama Super Bowl Interview Calls Out Wall Street And The Super Rich
Obama Super Bowl Interview Calls Out Wall Street And The Super Rich
President Obama used his Super Bowl interview to call on taxes to be raised on the wealthy, and more regulations on Wall Street.
After the president explained why he thought he deserved a second term, I deserve a second term, but were not done. Look when you and I sat down, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. In fact we had found out just a few days before we sat down, that we had lost that month 750,000 jobs. Now, we are creating 250,000. We created 3.7 million jobs in the last 23 months. Weve created the most jobs since 2005, the most manufacturing jobs since 1990, but were not finished, and weve got to not only boost up American manufacturing so not just the auto industry, but all American manufacturing is building again and selling overseas. Weve got to make sure that were pushing American energy, and that includes not just oil and gas, but clean energy.
The president closed out his remarks with a reference to raising taxes on the wealthy, and a direct call for more regulations on Wall Street, Weve got to make sure that the skills of American workers are the best in the world, and were making progress on that front, and weve got to return to old fashioned American values. Everybody getting a fair shot, everybody doing their fair share, everybody playing by the same rules, and that means for example regulations to make sure that Wall Street is following the same rules that Main Streets doing, but weve made progress and the key right now is just make sure we dont start turning in a new direction that could throw that progress off.
If the Mitt Romneys and Wall Streets robbers thought that they were going to be able to enjoy Super Bowl Sunday, think again. Obamas specific call out of Wall Street was a surprising bit of political strategy designed not only to appeal to the millions of Americans who were watching the pregame show, but it is also a bit of bait on the hook for Mitt Romney.
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Interview video and rest of article here: http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-super-bowl
After the president explained why he thought he deserved a second term, I deserve a second term, but were not done. Look when you and I sat down, we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. In fact we had found out just a few days before we sat down, that we had lost that month 750,000 jobs. Now, we are creating 250,000. We created 3.7 million jobs in the last 23 months. Weve created the most jobs since 2005, the most manufacturing jobs since 1990, but were not finished, and weve got to not only boost up American manufacturing so not just the auto industry, but all American manufacturing is building again and selling overseas. Weve got to make sure that were pushing American energy, and that includes not just oil and gas, but clean energy.
The president closed out his remarks with a reference to raising taxes on the wealthy, and a direct call for more regulations on Wall Street, Weve got to make sure that the skills of American workers are the best in the world, and were making progress on that front, and weve got to return to old fashioned American values. Everybody getting a fair shot, everybody doing their fair share, everybody playing by the same rules, and that means for example regulations to make sure that Wall Street is following the same rules that Main Streets doing, but weve made progress and the key right now is just make sure we dont start turning in a new direction that could throw that progress off.
If the Mitt Romneys and Wall Streets robbers thought that they were going to be able to enjoy Super Bowl Sunday, think again. Obamas specific call out of Wall Street was a surprising bit of political strategy designed not only to appeal to the millions of Americans who were watching the pregame show, but it is also a bit of bait on the hook for Mitt Romney.
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Interview video and rest of article here: http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-super-bowl
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Obama Super Bowl Interview Calls Out Wall Street And The Super Rich (Original Post)
Tx4obama
Feb 2012
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(153,169 posts)1. a heart for you Tx4obama
I admire your tireless energy
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)2. What a nice surprise to wake up to :)
Thank you very much for the 'heart' and your kind words