Obama: The Keeping of America in 2012
source: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77032#ixzz1V18wlLAC
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President Obama blasted the “trickle down” theory of Reaganomics advocated by the most influential ideologues within the Republican Party.
“For over two decades, he’s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy—give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the ‘Ownership Society,’ but what it really means is—you’re on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps—even if you don’t have boots. You’re on your own. Well it’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America,” said President Obama. We are not standing on the brink of recession due to forces beyond our control. The fallout from the housing crisis that's cost jobs and wiped out savings was not an inevitable part of the business cycle. It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington - the culmination of decades of decisions that were made or put off without regard to the realities of a global economy and the growing inequality it's produced.
Read more at the American Presidency Project: Barack Obama: Remarks in Janesville, Wisconsin: "Keeping America's Promise" http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77032#ixzz1V18wlLAC
“For over two decades, he’s subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy—give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the ‘Ownership Society,’ but what it really means is—you’re on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps—even if you don’t have boots. You’re on your own. Well it’s time for them to own their failure. It’s time for us to change America,” said President Obama. We are not standing on the brink of recession due to forces beyond our control. The fallout from the housing crisis that's cost jobs and wiped out savings was not an inevitable part of the business cycle. It was a failure of leadership and imagination in Washington - the culmination of decades of decisions that were made or put off without regard to the realities of a global economy and the growing inequality it's produced.
Read more at the American Presidency Project: Barack Obama: Remarks in Janesville, Wisconsin: "Keeping America's Promise" http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=77032#ixzz1V18wlLAC
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KSirys
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Food for thought, voted up!
- 10 months ago
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KSirys
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congoboy
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i'm feeling verklempt
- 10 months ago
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congoboy
