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Why Do We Have to Wait for President’s “Fresh Ideas” on Jobs?

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In the update to my post on the president’s latest plaint about the problems he inherited, I quoted something President Obama said two years ago:

My administration has a job to do as well. That job is to get this economy back on its feet. That’s my job, and it’s a job I gladly accept. I love these folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, ‘Well this is Obama’s economy.’ That’s fine. Give it to me.My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe. So, I welcome the job. I want the responsibility.

Emphasis added.  If back then, he recognized his job was to solve problems, to get the economy back on its feet, why then do we, as have to wait for a couple weeks to learn about his proposals to put people back to work?

You’d think a guy who saw that problem-solving was part of his job description, would have a proposal to create jobs near at hand.

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  1. Why Do We Have to Wait for President’s “Fresh Ideas” on Jobs?

    Heh – Even the USPS is taking cues from Gov. Scott Walker. Why can’t Obama just do the same? http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/usps-proposes-cutting-120000-jobs-pulling-out-of-health-care-plan/2011/08/11/gIQAZxIM9I_story.html

    The financially strapped U.S. Postal Service is proposing to cut its workforce by 20 percent and to withdraw from the federal health and retirement plans because it believes it could provide benefits at a lower cost. The layoffs would be achieved in part by breaking labor agreements…

    […]
    In a white paper on health and retirement benefits, the USPS said it was imperative to rein in health benefit and pension costs, which are a third of its labor expenses.

    For health insurance plans, the paper said, the Postal Service wanted to withdraw its 480,000 pensioners and 600,000 active employees from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program “and place them in a new, Postal Service administered” program.
    […]