Excellent speech! About time we saw more kick-ass from the President!

[backscatter712]

This is the Obama I voted for and campaigned for!

[Marrah_G]

1. Actions speak louder then words

Got no hope left in me. I am going to need to see some positive, leftward results.

[joshcryer]

4. What actions exactly are you expecting?

[Marrah_G]

6. I would like to see more living wage jobs for Americans

And less incentives for corporations to leave the country. I would like to see money spent here on American Labor and AMerican resources to not just repair infrastructure but to completely revamp it so we can move into the future with renewable energies and forward thinking technologies.

I'm expecting the slow erosion of social safety nets, the lowering of taxes on the wealthiest families, and a few tax loop holes closed, but not the ones that will impact the biggest companies. Oh yes... and some trade agreements that will further ship jobs over seas and kill the last of our manufacturing.

[joshcryer]

9. And what actions do you expect the President to take to make those things happen?

The trade agreement job losses are to be mitigated by the trade assistance act, benefits to those who lose their jobs because of it and who need training in another field or to start a different business, etc.

[Marrah_G]

11. Training in what other fields?

I would like to see stimulus money put to use here in the US, hiring American workers, using American made parts, from American resources. You could regain that money by taxing the wealthiest Americans, taxing the wealthiest companies, closing meaningful loop holes and stop allowing the very rich to avoid taxes by living off investments taxed at a lower rate.

He could push for legislation to make it more costly for goods to be imported from over seas.

There are a lot of things we could do to improve things here.

[joshcryer]

13. You still haven't exapained how Obama can do the things you want. What actions can he take?

What legal route does he have to do this?

[TheWraith]

7. Your dedicated efforts toward threadcrapping and demotivation are appreciated. nt

[TwilightGardener]

2. I especially liked the reminder to Republicans of the many good things

that Republicans have done in the past, starting with Lincoln. They weren't always the Party of No, obstructionists, wreckers. They used to give a damn about this country.

[RadiationTherapy]

3. The best in a long time. Excellent speech.

[elfin]

5. Agree - he is just starting

And he did it in the midst of a security alert. He is what the USA needs right now and for the future.

I am often disappointed in him, BUT he has a sense of history and what it means to be the USA and building for the future while addressing short term situations.

[zipplewrath]

8. You voted for more tax cuts?

You voted for more tax cuts?
You voted for lower corporate tax rate?
You voted for more free trade agreements?
You voted for medicare and medicaid reductions?
You voted for regulation reduction and elimination?


This is triangulation 2.0

This is a long string of GOP inspired ideas dressed up try to politically corner them and credit Obama with a "win".

Where's the WPA? Where's the direct employment? Where's the "Hoover Dam"?

[FrodosPet]

14. Bring back the WPA

Young people need to be laying bricks, digging drainage ditches, spraying paint, leveling concrete, hammering shingles, spreading roof tar, cutting weeds, and picking up trash, instead of going broke and starving.

Hopefully the modern wages would be better, though. In the original WPA they only made, on average, the modern equivlent of $800 a month ($52.50 in 1939) with no health insurance, no overtime, and were only employed for the duration of a project. Only one member of a household could be employed, and you had to be able bodied. But still, it got people off of relief until private sector jobs opened up.

An excellent collection of original documents of the Works Progress Administration can be found at:

http://www.gjenvick.com/WPA-WorksProgressAdministration/index.html

[wisteria]

10. Yes, lets hope he keeps the momentum going! n/t

[jillan]

12. I loved his tone tonite. It was like he was saying "This time I am NOT going to put up with your BS"

And he is going to stop right in Cantor and Boner's districts to sell it.

[COLGATE4]

18. This time... and the next time... and the next time... and the time

after that. Obama's like a permissive parent: "If you don't stop that right now, you're going to get it". "This time, I really mean it". Rinse and repeat.

[HappyMe]

15. He nailed it.

Past time to hold those obstructionists responsible.

[Angry Dragon]

16. He has always given a pretty speech

Now the true test of kick-ass is in the actions to back up the pretty words

[woo me with science]

17. This is what Democrats are now? The Chamber of Commerce plan

with more job-killing free trade agreements and tax cuts for corporations on the backs of the poor, elderly, and disabled?

This is the next step in the assault on Medicare and Social Security, and Democrats are cheering it as a great speech?

What has happened to our party?

[amborin]

19. +1000