Obama Declares 'National Emergency' for Action on Jobs Plan
 

Obama Declares 'National Emergency' for Action on Jobs Plan

By Carrie Budoff Brown, Politico

President Barack Obama opened the sixth day of his jobs push Wednesday with a campaign-style rally at North Carolina State University, saying the country is in the midst of a “national emergency” that requires Congress to act swiftly on his $447 billion plan.

Against the backdrop of more negative poll numbers and two special-election losses for Democrats, Obama called on thousands of college students assembled in the steamy Reynolds Coliseum to mobilize behind the plan, a mix of tax cuts and government spending on infrastructure, jobs programs and construction projects.

The 26-minute speech echoed his remarks in previous days, with a slightly sharper critique of congressional Republicans for suggesting that they don’t want to give Obama a political “win” and pass his proposal.

“I get fed up with that kind of game plan, and we’ve been seeing it for too long. Too long,” Obama said. “We’re in a national emergency. We’ve been grappling with a crisis for three years, and instead of getting folks to rise up above partisanship in a spirit that says we’re all in this together, we got folks who are purposely dividing, purposely thinking just in terms of how does this play out just in terms of this election.”

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Obama has been talking about jobs for more than a year and finally he has a plan, a son of stimulus to keep govt workers on the job and to make Nancy happy with extending unemployment benefits as this does stimulate the economy. His new jobs plan is more class warfare and this is what he does best to pit the rich vs the rest of us.