l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 1 我坚信，垂汪当总统都比它爸强。
虽然，垂汪可能把economy打得满脸是血。
Obama Focuses on Economy, Vowing to Help Middle Class
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
Obama Speaks in Illinois: The president spoke about the country’s economic
progress and his vision for the rest of his presidency.
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and PETER BAKER
Published: July 24, 2013 612 Comments
WARRENSBURG, Mo. — President Obama tried to move past months of debate over
guns, surveillance and scandal on Wednesday and reorient his administration
behind a program to lift a middling economy and help middle-class Americans
who are stuck with stagnant incomes and shrinking horizons.
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“Our focus has to be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you,
” President Obama said Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill.
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In speeches in two small college towns in the Midwest, Mr. Obama lamented
that typical Americans had been left behind by globalization, Wall Street
irresponsibility and Washington policies, while the richest Americans had
accumulated more wealth. He declared it “my highest priority” to reverse
those trends, while accusing other politicians of not only ignoring the
problem but also making it worse.
“With this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony
scandals, Washington’s taken its eye off the ball,” Mr. Obama told an
audience at Knox College, in Galesburg, Ill., the site of his first major
economic speech as a young senator eight years ago. “And I am here to say
this needs to stop. This needs to stop. This moment does not require short-
term thinking. It does not require having the same old stale debates. Our
focus has to be on the basic economic issues that matter most to you — the
people we represent.”
The hourlong speech in Galesburg, his first speech of the day and one of the
longest of his presidency, at times resembled a State of the Union address.
The president mainly offered revived elements of his largely stalled
economic program, like developing new energy, rebuilding manufacturing,
spending more on roads, bridges and ports, expanding preschool to every 4-
year-old in the country and raising the minimum wage.
But he and his aides hoped to use the speech both to claim credit for the
progress made since the recession of 2008-9 and to position himself as the
champion of a disaffected middle class that has yet to recover fully.
He chastised Republicans in Congress for not focusing on economic priorities
and obstructing his initiatives. “Over the last six months, this gridlock
has gotten worse,” he said.
And he challenged them to come up with their own plans. “I’m laying out my
ideas to give the middle class a better shot,” he said, addressing himself
to Republican leaders. “So now it’s time for you to lay out your ideas.”
In Warrensburg, Mr. Obama repeated his economic themes in a packed gymnasium
at the University of Central Missouri. To bursts of applause, he called
Americans “gritty and resilient” and added that in the last five years “
we’ve been able to clear away the rubble of the financial crisis.”
He focused on the need for investments in education to help generate more
growth in jobs in the future. “If we don’t invest in American education,
we are going to put our kids, our companies, our workers at a competitive
disadvantage,” Mr. Obama said, standing in front of a sea of young children
in matching red or white T-shirts.
The president also said the government must do more to make college
affordable and pledged that his administration would work toward connecting
99 percent of American schools to high-speed Internet in the next five years.
Republican leaders were not impressed by Mr. Obama’s renewed push on the
economy. Speaker John A. Boehner said beforehand that a speech would not
make a difference.
“What’s it going to accomplish?” Mr. Boehner asked on the House floor. “
You’ve probably got the answer: nothing. It’s a hollow shell. It’s an
Easter egg with no candy in it.”
Republicans said they had in fact advanced ideas for improving the economy,
particularly in education, energy, tax changes and regulation. They noted
that a House panel was taking up bills intended to relieve businesses of
what Republicans consider burdensome regulation by the Environmental
Protection Agency.
“Mr. President, just get the federal government out of the way,” said
Representative Kevin Brady, Republican of Texas, the chairman of the Joint
Economic Committee. “Instead of putting handcuffs on job creators, try
shaking their hand for a change.”
Senior advisers to the president said he frequently referred to his first
speech at Knox College in 2005, long before the economic crisis that seized
the country three years later. They said Mr. Obama was eager to discuss how
much had changed in the nation’s economy since that speech.
“Now, today, five years after the start of that Great Recession, America
has fought its way back,” Mr. Obama said, citing the recovery of the auto
industry, growth in energy sectors, higher taxes on the wealthy, new
regulation on banks and 7.2 million more private sector jobs.”
But he said too many Americans had been left behind. He said nearly all of
the income gains of the past 10 years had gone to the richest 1 percent of
Americans, and said the average chief executive had seen raises totaling 40
percent since 2009, while the average American earned less than in 1999.
“This growing inequality, it’s not just morally wrong, it’s bad economics
,” he said. “Because when middle-class families have less to spend, guess
what? Businesses have fewer consumers. When wealth concentrates at the very
top, it can inflate unstable bubbles that threaten the economy. When the
rungs on the ladder of opportunity grow farther and farther apart, it
undermines the very essence of America, that idea that if you work hard, you
can make it here.”
He called on Republicans to pick up his economic proposals and to pass
legislation overhauling the immigration system. He also scolded Republicans
for trying to undercut his health care program and argued that it would
expand coverage and trim costs.
But he also challenged members of his own party to stop defending outdated
government programs and resisting change.
“I will be saying to Democrats, we’ve got to question some of our old
assumptions,” he said. “We’ve got to be willing to redesign or get rid of
programs that don’t work as well as they should.”
Michael D. Shear reported from Warrensburg, and Peter Baker from Washington. | I******I
发帖数: 14241 | | j*****v
发帖数: 7717 | 3 His agenda is to get every mid lass family on foodstamp. | l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 4
And declare Victory on taxpayers.
【在 j*****v 的大作中提到】
: His agenda is to get every mid lass family on foodstamp.
| j***o
发帖数: 2842 | 5 这个傻逼要帮经济，那经济肯定完了，:-)
economic
over
administration
【在 l******a 的大作中提到】
: 我坚信，垂汪当总统都比它爸强。
: 虽然，垂汪可能把economy打得满脸是血。
: Obama Focuses on Economy, Vowing to Help Middle Class
: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times
: Obama Speaks in Illinois: The president spoke about the country’s economic
: progress and his vision for the rest of his presidency.
: By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and PETER BAKER
: Published: July 24, 2013 612 Comments
: WARRENSBURG, Mo. — President Obama tried to move past months of debate over
: guns, surveillance and scandal on Wednesday and reorient his administration
| l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 6
丫尼哥就能做两件事：玩RACE卡，涨税！
对了，还有，让垂汪横扫美国大街。
【在 j***o 的大作中提到】
: 这个傻逼要帮经济，那经济肯定完了，:-)
:
: economic
: over
: administration
| T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 7 加上洗脑（演讲，媒体，好莱坞）
【在 l******a 的大作中提到】
:
: 丫尼哥就能做两件事：玩RACE卡，涨税！
: 对了，还有，让垂汪横扫美国大街。
| h*******g
发帖数: 2201 | 8 Let's hope he won't totally mess up USA, and the next president can fix it
up.
【在 T*********I 的大作中提到】
: 加上洗脑（演讲，媒体，好莱坞）
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