President Obama: The Nation We Need To Build Is Our Own.

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from the President's weekly address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/10/22/weekly-address-bringing-home-our-troops#transcript


. . . As we remove the last of our troops from Iraq, we’re beginning to bring our troops home from Afghanistan.

To put this in perspective, when I took office, roughly 180,000 troops were deployed in these wars. By the end of this year that number will be cut in half, and an increasing number of our troops will continue to come home.

As we end these wars, we’re focusing on our greatest challenge as a nation—rebuilding our economy and renewing our strength at home. Over the past decade, we spent a trillion dollars on war, borrowed heavily from overseas and invested too little in the greatest source of our national strength—our own people. Now, the nation we need to build is our own.

We have to tackle this challenge with the same urgency and unity that our troops brought to their fight. That’s why we have to do everything in our power to get our economy moving again. That’s why I’m calling on Congress to pass the American Jobs Act, so we can rebuild our country – our schools, our roads, our bridges – and put our veterans, construction workers, teachers, cops and firefighters back to work. And that’s why I hope all of us can draw strength from the example of our men and women in uniform.

They’ve met their responsibilities to America. Now it’s time to meet ours . . .




read (watch) full address: http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2011/10/22/weekly-address-bringing-home-our-troops#transcript

[spartan61]

1. Right on, Mr. President!!!

[HappyMe]

2. !

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[RoseMead]

3. Amen! n/t

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[Itchinjim]

5. +!

[HappyMe]

6. kick

[LadyInAZ]

7. I like his approach...

I hope we started to do this... we the ppl need action... not words... that the solution...

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8. .

[deacon]

9. He should now force a vote on employment for the returning vets and let the GOP do their NO vote.n/t

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12. it's interesting and sad

The House is sitting on a veterans jobs bill and the Senate has passed one, as well. Differences between the bills shelved them, since June, I think. Pulling those out of the mothballs would be a start.

[Scurrilous]

10. K & R

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[yoyossarian]

11. No shit, Sherlock!

Now let's see if Holmey goes after Moriarty, or gets stuck working with Scotland Yard for the next 15 months on the Case of the Duchess' Purloined Underpants.

K&R for the thin sliver of hope I still have remaining.