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Originally posted by CageTheElephant:
N.P.
THE SPIN
“Just a little more than a year ago, our President Barack Obama stood on the steps of the Capitol, just a little more than a year ago and called for swift, bold action now to restore our economic growth. In his budget, he set out a blueprint founded on three pillars for our prosperity: a highly-educated workforce, the future, a clean energy economy, good-paying jobs, and quality, affordable health care for all Americans. And he saw these critical building blocks as engines of job creation and economic growth.
“Answering that call, and responding to the needs of America’s counties, we passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, creating and saving up to 2 million jobs so far, and more to come".
“But our work is far from complete. We know that. Congress will stay focused on our top priority: putting Americans to work. And I said putting Americans to work, I didn’t say putting Americans back to work. Because we have far too people who will have no job, never had a job that they would go back too.
MORE SPIN
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President’s economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation—innovation begins in the classroom—clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform. Health insurance reform is about jobs. This legislation alone will create 4 million jobs, about 400,000 jobs very soon.
THE ANALYSISYou have to break down everything that is posted by Cage/Jobe. The first part is opinion, the second spin is from Nancy Pelosi about the healthcare bill, Both are actually very good examples of the methodical and determined efforts from both the president and speaker of the house to not only lift the country from the brink of depression but also to reform a broken healthcare system. The highlighted use of the words jobs are Cage/Jobe's jab at the unemployment rate. If NOTHING had been done, as has been the blueprint from the party of no, how high would the unemployment rate be? And can any of the right wing radicals give examples of CONCRETE proposals from republicans for job creation? The clock will start running the day the new congress is sworn in. That will be my new mantra at the bottom of all posts.
41 days until Republican majority in congress:
WHERE ARE THE JOBS????