Obama admin continues to push jobs offensive

[babylonsister]

But is anyone listening?


Obama launches campaign recess with shots at GOP agenda
By J. Taylor Rushing - 10/02/10 06:00 AM ET


The Obama administration on Saturday continued to push a jobs offensive, portraying the February 2009 stimulus vote as a progressive move and arguing regressive movements would move the country backwards.

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“Families have been held hostage to spikes in gas prices. Good manufacturing jobs have gone overseas. And we’ve seen companies produce new energy technologies and high-skilled jobs not in America, but in countries like China, India and Germany,” Obama said.

“It is essential – for our economy, our security, and our planet – that we finally tackle this challenge. That is why, since we took office, my administration has made an historic commitment to promote clean energy technology. This will mean hundreds of thousands of new American jobs by 2012," the president said.

"Jobs for contractors to install energy-saving windows and insulation. Jobs for factory workers to build high-tech vehicle batteries, electric cars, and hybrid trucks. Jobs for engineers and construction crews to create wind farms and solar plants that are going to double the renewable energy we can generate in this country. These are jobs building the future.”

Obama has been in a jobs-growing spate with the Senate for several months, starting with a bill several months ago that countered the Republican “Pledge To America.” That “Pledge,” Obama said, doesn’t put the country on a sustainable, foreign oil-free future.

“The Republican leadership is promising to scrap all the incentives for clean energy projects, including those currently underway – even with all the jobs and potential that they hold,” Obama said. “This doesn’t make sense for our economy. It doesn’t make sense for Americans who are looking for jobs. And it doesn’t make sense for our future.

"To go backwards and scrap these plans means handing the competitive edge to China and other nations. It means that we’ll grow even more dependent on foreign oil," the president said. "And, at a time of economic hardship, it means forgoing jobs we desperately need. In fact, shutting down just this one project would cost about a thousand jobs."

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http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/122201-obama-launches-campaign-recess-with-shots-at-republican-jobs-plans

[DemocraticPilgrim]

1. Brilliant that he's getting things done now while the attention level is hiigh win, lose or draw ...

this will pay off good for 2012.

[Kdillard]

2. Good he needs to hit them hard. Hopefully people

will start to see the results from the effprts he has put forth.