President Obama to Republicans: On Jobs, What Are You for and Against?

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Source: ABC News

In his weekly address, President Obama pressed Republicans in Congress to justify their opposition to his $447 billion jobs bill and reiterated his plea for them to “pass this jobs bill.”

“Some Republicans in Congress have said that they agree with certain parts of this jobs bill.” Obama said. “If so, it’s time for them to tell me what those proposals are. And if they’re opposed to this jobs bill, I’d like to know what exactly they’re against. Are they against putting teachers and police officers and firefighters back on the job? Are they against hiring construction workers to rebuild our roads and bridges and schools? Are they against giving tax cuts to virtually every worker and small business in America?”

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To make his case, Obama highlighted letters he has received from Americans struggling in this economy, including a small business owner, a young woman eager to go to college and a mom who worries about driving her children across a decaying bridge on their daily ride to school.

“These are the people who need a win, and I will be fighting for this jobs bill every day on their behalf,” he said. “It is time for the politics to end. Let’s pass this jobs bill.”

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[Kalidurga]

1. It's pretty simple really...

if Obama is for it they are against it...

[Suprk]

2. Could not had said it any better

[Frank Cannon]

3. And tax cuts.

Don't forget those job-creating tax cuts.

[Cool Logic]

4. "Durbin added that the president’s bill would need bipartisan support because there are senators...

both on the left and the right opposed to aspects of it."

An estimate form the R & the L: Doug Holtz-Eakin, who was a top economic adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign, argued that if the bill costs $450 billion (it's actually now $477 billion), and creates 1.2 million jobs,...that works out to an outlay of $350,000 per job--not a great rate of return. Jared Bernstein, a former top economic aide to the Obama White House, said it's more like $100,000 a job..."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/184713-durbin-says-democrats-dont-currently-have-the-votes-for-obama-jobs-bill?utm_campaign=briefingroom&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterfeed

The truth probably resides between those two estimates, or $225,000/job.

It is abundantly clear why those on both the left and the right are opposed to it.

[still_one]

5. Are they including the tax breaks to the middle class in figuring the cost because they shouldn't.

The cost for creating the job should only involve the salery and any material cost, such as for roads or bridges if it is a construction job

That could amount to 100k per job which is not out of line

Frankly unless we get a real majority in congress, made up of progressives, nothing will happen

[cstanleytech]

6. At this point I would settle for moderates because the crop

of republicans (there isnt a real tea party) who have the majority still havent managed to pull their heads out of their ass.

[still_one]

8. I hear ya /nt

[thesquanderer]

10. Cost per job is a misleading metric

Saying that the jobs package costs $100k, $350k, or something in between per job created misses a big part of the picture. The government isn't merely giving out this money to create jobs... it's also getting things out of it, like bridges, for example.

That is, it's one thing to say, "I'm giving my friend Joe the car salesman $25,000 because he needs the money." It's another thing to say, "I'm giving my friend Joe the car salesman $25,000 and I'm getting a Honda out of it." The people who are saying the bill costs x dollars per job are looking at it the first way, and ignoring the fact that there are many tangible and often lasting benefits to spending the money, apart from just giving people employment.

[ET Awful]

7. Republicans to President Obama - "we're for whatever you're against and against whatever you're for"

n/t

[NikRik]

9. Two Words

NEW DEAL

[and-justice-for-all]

11. Who gives a shit what the repukes are for or against....

leave those bastards in a ditch somewhere and do what needs to be done.

[blueclown]

12. How do you do that with a Repuke House, exactly?

[saras]

14. We're not allowed to say on DU, but we wouldn't be allowed to organize Occupy Wall Street either

[Hubert Flottz]

13. "Some Republicans in Congress have said"

There's the problem...will Obama ever figure out that anything a republican says is a fucking bald faced lie. You can't make deals with terrorists, because they don't tell the truth.

They told you the truth one time, that I can remember Mr. President. They want you to fail at everything you try to do. So that they can "Win"...it looks like their prize, might not be worth fighting over much longer at this rate.

People who haven't had a job for years are getting poorer and more pissed off every day...that's reality. I wonder if those Diebold devices can be hacked by torches and pitchforks?(I'm betting we might soon find out)