Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Déjà Vu: In 2010 And 2011 Obama Promises Jobs Plan After Getting Back From Vacation In Martha’s Vineyard…



and this plan will end like the last one — in total failure.
(CNS News) — President Barack Obama, in an Aug. 29, 2010 interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, said he would propose a plan for jobs and economic growth when he returned from his summer vacation [inMartha’s Vineyard — ed.], the same claim he made after returning from his vacation this year.
“We anticipated that the recovery was slowing — the economy is still growing, but it’s not growing as fast as it needs to. I’ve got things right now before Congress that we should move immediately, and I said so before I went on vacation, and I’ll keep on saying it now that I’m back,” Obama told Williams when asked if he had a jobs plan.
“There are a whole host of measures we could take — no single element of which is a magic bullet — but cumulatively can start continuing to build momentum for the recovery,” he said.
The promise of a plan echoes a similar promise Obama made on Monday, saying that in the coming week he would present concrete proposals that would spur hiring and economic growth.
“Next week, I will be laying out a series of steps that Congress can take immediately to put more money in the pockets of working families and middle-class families, to make it easier for small businesses to hire people, to put construction crews to work rebuilding our nation’s roads and railways and airports, and all the other measures that can help to grow this economy,” Obama said on Monday at a Rose Garden ceremony for new Council of Economic Advisors Chairman Alan Krueger.