Obama talks jobs, says politics misplace focus

May 18, 2013 @ 3:03 am


President Barack Obama attends a roundtable at the Center for Urban Families (CFUF) in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". CFUF is a Baltimore non-profit whose mission is to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) | Zoom

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is calling attention to his economic proposals and efforts to expand the middle class.

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the U.S. should focus on attracting good jobs, educating workers and ensuring workers get paid a decent living.

Obama has been pushing those priorities in recent visits to Baltimore and Austin, Texas. Obama says he'll make the case in more U.S. cities soon.

Obama says politics in Washington often aren't focused on what Americans care about. He's alluding to a series of political troubles that dogged him last week and overshadowed his agenda.

In the Republican address, Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland says red tape in Obama's health care law will drive up costs. He says the embattled IRS needs less power, not more.

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Obama address: http://www.whitehouse.gov

GOP address: http://www.youtube.com/HouseConference


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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    Obama needs to compromise
    February 23, 2013 7:03 am
    to not destroy so much....
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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Spen...borrow...spend...borrow...spend...borrow....
    February 23, 2013 1:13 pm
    ....and the DimoRat beat goes on.
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  • longwayhome wrote...
    hpd
    February 23, 2013 7:21 pm
    Still as ignorant as they come. Still posting negative vomit via faux news. Go away, far far away.
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  • CH wrote...
    I got the answer
    March 9, 2013 9:15 pm
    have the republicans pull King Obama's middle finger. Don't know what a middle finger is republicans. Look over here this middle finger is for you!
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    "Stupid is as stupid does"
    March 15, 2013 3:27 am
    Dear Leader Forrest Gump Obama!
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  • calapete wrote...
    Yes, this is what we need in America
    March 15, 2013 5:28 am
    progress, being World leaders again instead of followers.

    No new pipelines, let use American ingenuity to get off the oil.

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  • Rick W7PSK wrote...
    HEY MYNW I.T. Department
    March 15, 2013 5:28 am
    do you think you cound find someone, somewhere that knows how to make separate comments for each news story. I dont think it should be that hard.
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  • SickofSeattleite wrote...
    good grief! Hahahahaha....
    March 15, 2013 5:51 am
    all those stupid Prius's the govt gave people right offs for....I guess the consumer did not do their research...the carbon footprint to make those vehicles over the typical gas only vehicle is astronomically higher! I just read a huge report on it in the NY post ....you all have been had! Everyone driving a Prius is a sheep following obama to the slaughter.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    calapete "This is what American needs!"
    March 15, 2013 5:56 am
    Yup! Sixteen TRILLION dollars (and rising!) later, Millions of Americans out of jobs and rising, taxes increasing, services being cut and electric cars that take more oil and carbon footprints to run and the costs involved and the extortion that King Obama has perpetrated with American tax dollars and this fool continues to mindlessly Parrot the Obama ministry of LIES!

    Man you Left wing Parrots are dumbed down more and more ever day.

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  • HPD 5-0 wrote...
    Wean vehicles off oil?
    March 15, 2013 7:31 am
    How about we start w/ that huge 747 you fly and go from there....hypocrite.
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  • HLC wrote...
    Obozo invested $192 million in Fisker.
    March 15, 2013 10:36 am
    Their founder has left and they about to fold. The fool is an economics wizard. If Obozos going to invest the taxpayers money in a company that you have stock in you'd better sell because it's about to go under. Hundreds of millions of dollars of bad investments of the taxpayers money in 5 years with 3 more to go. WOW.
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