Friday, December 17th, 2010
Funny how tongue-tied and simple-minded the former “community organizer” became during this charade of impending doom if the tax-cuts were not implemented. He graciously and obligingly bowed to the Republican party while not even mentioning one time, NOT ONE SINGLE TIME, the plight of the unemployed who have, through no fault of their own, expended [...]
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Thursday, December 9th, 2010
Top 2% – $130 Billion
99’ers – $0 and no jobs (not even a lump of coal)
Keith Olbermann’s special comment on the President’s betrayal of the 99ers appears on the sidebar and after this article
It appears that President Obama is declaring victory in getting a bill passed that assures the richest 2% of [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
from bloomberg.com
by David G. Blanchflower
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama held a jobs summit last week. It surely was a coincidence that unemployment figures released the day after showed the U.S. jobless rate fell in November.
True, unemployment did decline in July too, but only to increase in August, September and October. [...]
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
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video from itnnews
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article from voiceofAmerica
Sensitive to criticism his accomplishments do not equal those of past winners, the president has described his own Nobel Prize as a call to action.
U.S. President Barack Obama is in Oslo to formally accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. Mr. Obama began his stay in [...]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
from businessweek.com
Commentary by Caroline Baum
Bloomberg’s Caroline Baum says the big question for Obama is what to do if employers are hacking away at their permanent workforce
(Bloomberg) — All last week I was frantic waiting for my invitation to the White House Jobs Summit to arrive. I thought about crashing, but [...]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
from sbartstv
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President Obama on Job Creation and Economic Growth President Obama outlines the steps his Administration has taken to stimulate economic growth and plans to create new American jobs in remarks to the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. December 8, 2009.
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
from cnnmoney.com
By Jennifer Liberto, CNNMoney.com senior writer
President wants to extend tax breaks for small business, invest in infrastructure and give rebates to consumers who make homes energy efficient.
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney.com) — President Obama on Tuesday outlined a broad new proposal to try to spur jobs and give more help to Main Street [...]
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Friday, December 4th, 2009
from nytimes.com
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
In the strongest jobs report since the recession began, the government reported Friday that the nation’s employers had all but stopped shedding jobs in November, taking some of the pressure off of President Obama to come up with a jobs creation program.
The Labor Department reported Friday that the [...]
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
from bloomberg.com
By Nicholas Johnston
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama will show the limits of his ability to attack unemployment as he hosts a job- creation summit at the White House today.
The forum will assemble economists, union heads and business leaders such as Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Mountain View, California-based [...]
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
from stratfor
by George Friedman
U.S. President Barack Obama announced the broad structure of his Afghanistan strategy in a speech at West Point on Tuesday evening. The strategy had three core elements. First, he intends to maintain pressure on al Qaeda on the Afghan-Pakistani border and in other regions of the world. Second, he [...]
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