Obama's call for help

[cavegal]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/41772.html

President Barack Obama, in his weekly address to the nation, kicked off the Labor Day holiday weekend with a call to help rebuild the collapsing American middle class.

“This Labor Day, we should recommit ourselves to our time-honored values and to this fundamental truth: to heal our economy, we need more than a healthy stock market; we need bustling main streets and a growing, thriving middle class,” Obama said.  Obama said that the deep, lingering recession has dealt a hard blow to middle-income earners who had once made the American economy "the envy of the world.” But he added that, even before the current recession began, “the values of hard work and responsibility that build this country had been given short shrift” in the recent past.

“For a decade, middle class families felt the sting of stagnant incomes and declining economic security,” Obama said. “Wall Street firms turned huge profits by taking, in some cases, reckless risks and cutting corners. All of this came at the expense of working Americans, who were fighting harder and harder just to stay afloat .…Ultimately, the house of cards collapsed.”

Obama did not mention Republicans by name in his address, but instead touted his administration’s moves to bolster the middle class, including measures paid for by the $800 billion stimulus bill as well as student loan and health insurance reform legislation.

“We’re fighting to build an economy in which middle class families can afford to send their kids to college, buy a home, save for retirement, and achieve some measure of economic security when their working days are done,” Obama said. “And over the last two years, that has meant taking on some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for too long.”

Comments are funny. He is not!  

 

One more thing i noticed allot of comments from Independents, not happy with obie.

[thundley4]

I am hoping that this was mostly meaningless BS to placate the unions, but I fear that it may be another precursor to taking from tax payers to give a handout to the unions.

[rich_t]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfH46DTAkxo

Says it all.

[rich_t]

“We’re fighting to build an economy in which middle class families can afford to send their kids to college, buy a home, save for retirement, and achieve some measure of economic security when their working days are done,”

If you really feel that way Lord Zero, then stop raising our ****ing taxes.  You narcissitic pile of shit.

Tell me that lie again about how nobody making less than $250K will see any tax increases.

You scum bag asshole.

[NHSparky]

Tell me that lie again about how nobody making less than $250K will see any tax increases.

Notice he isn't pushing that talking point anymore?

[BlueStateSaint]

Tell me that lie again about how nobody making less than $250K will see any tax increases.

A moonbat co-worker of mine, who retired last month, used to repeat this lie over and over.  He and I bet $100 on whether or not the Obamessiah is going to be re-elected.  He actually thinks that he'll collect from me.

[JohnnyReb]

We'll know how bad it is when he goes to the ebonic language....

"Hope me sumbody, hope me."

[DumbAss Tanker]

Tell me that lie again about how nobody making less than $250K will see any tax increases.

Mybe they won't...what they WILL see is big price increases, when all the businesses that are either corporations or owned by people making over $250K have to raise prices to cover their increased overhead from their taxes, health care fees/penaties, environmental/OSHA/Alphabet-agency-du-jour compliance costs go drastically up.