"...That's not how Obama has been operating over the past year. He has instead looked for elusive common ground with Republicans, putting forward ideas that square with Republicans' economic doctrine."
Elusive common ground: Health Care Reform, Financial System Reform, Climate Change Regulations, Foreign Wars, Debt Crisis Solutions... the players did not meet on common ground. These issues were made more confusing to people with President Obama's compromises and each is or will be a disaster.
Now we are going to discuss jobs?
"You want to get rid of the deficit? Put 25 million people back to work and you won't have a deficit problem." - Richard Trumlka, AFL-CIO President
TV pundits and billionaire corporate executives love your compromises, Mr. Obama, but they are not going to vote for you in 2012, no matter what you give them.
So how do you get the rest of us to vote for you?
"...Trumka laid out a six-point jobs plan of his own that goes far beyond what Obama has endorsed to date. His proposal includes rebuilding schools, roads, ports and energy systems; reviving the manufacturing sector and stopping the flow of jobs overseas; preventing layoffs in state and local governments; and stepping up measures to avoid home foreclosures.
It seems doubtful Obama will come out with something on so dramatic a scale. Take infrastructure. The American Society of Civil Engineers estimated that in 2009 the nation needed to invest $2.2 trillion in levees, bridges, roads, railways and schools. Overall, the society gave the nation's infrastructure a grade of "D-."
Trumka would invest $400 billion a year over 10 years on public works projects. Thus far, Obama has called for an infrastructure "bank” that would use $30 billion to help restore the nation's network of roads, bridges, tunnels and ports.
For those worried about the deficit, Trumka insists that job creation and deficit reduction go hand in hand..."
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