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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (115931)	10/19/2011 9:51:43 PM
From: joseffy	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Obama ends bus tour with pitch to subdued crowd (just more of the same Obama crap) ......................................................................................... LA Times 10/19/2011 by Peter Nicholas latimes.com Closing out his bus tour on a low-key note, President Obama made a pitch for his jobs package at a firehouse, where a subdued crowd needed a bit of prompting to applaud his proposal to boost the economy. Obama visited Fire Station 9 to draw attention to a major piece of his $447-billion jobs package. He wants to spread $35 billion among states and cities, in part to prevent layoffs of police and firefighters, and would pay for it with a surtax on millionaires. Congress may vote on that measure as early as this week. On Wednesday afternoon, Obama stood at a lectern against a backdrop of firefighters and offered his prescription for solving the persistent jobs crisis: "A fair shot for everybody; a fair share from everybody. That's the principle that built America." The president got a polite reception from the 100 or so people crowded into the station garage. Early in his speech he mentioned his American Jobs Act. One or two people clapped. "You can go ahead and clap," the president said. "Go ahead, nothing wrong with it." (Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...