Too many Americans remain on unemployment insurance, said President Barack Obama last week. The president admitted that the continued state of the economy is troubling, and also that far too many people in this country remain jobless despite their best efforts otherwise. As the nation titters about the likelihood of a backwards slide into deflation and continued recession, the President clearly wanted to show his concern and dedication to the issues most troubling to Americans in these difficult times.
Obama called out Republican lawmakers for what he called unjustly partisan politics being used to block a bill that is intended to aid small business owners to grow their enterprises and to hire new workers. Speaking in Washington from the White House Rose Garden just before what would turn out to be an emotional trip to New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall. Obama claimed that the minority representation in the House wouldn’t even permit the bill to get so far as going up for a vote, despite the fact that the would-be law in question “is fully paid for, it will not add to the deficit, [and that] there is no reason to hold it except for partisan politics.”
Republicans, for their part, have referred to the bill as misguided. Obama insists that the bill is absolutely necessary, and should be approved as soon as possible. The President says that his immediate goals for the country include boosting the middle class and “promoting the growth we need to get out people back to work.”
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