Obama: "Can't be satisfied" with small jobs increase

President Barack Obama gives a thumbs up as he greets the crowd after speaking at Dobbins Elementary School in Poland, Ohio, Friday, July 6, 2012. Obama is on a two-day bus trip through Ohio and Pennsylvania.

/ AP Photo/Susan Walsh

(CBS News) POLAND, OHIO -- In a cramped elementary school - on a stage framed by American flags but absent the hay bales and picnic tables that dotted President Obama's visits yesterday to these select Northern Ohio communities, Mr. Obama spent less than 2 minutes discussing today's jobs numbers, acknowledging that "it's still tough out there."

"We learned this morning that our businesses created 84,000 new jobs last month, and that overall means that businesses have created 4.4 million new jobs over the past 28 months, including 500,000 new manufacturing jobs. That's a step in the right direction."

The President emphasized that simply recovering lost jobs is clearly not enough. "We can't be satisfied because our goal was never to just keep on working to get back to where we were back in 2007, he said. "I want to get back to a time when middle class families and those working to get into the middle class have some basic security. That's our goal. So we've got to grow the economy even faster and we've got to put even more people back to work."

Obama campaign senior adviser David Plouffe seemed to shrug off the jobs numbers, telling CBS News, "it's what everybody expected." And Plouffe said the campaign will continue to make the case that the economy would not get better if Romney were elected president. Romney, he said, "would make it worse."

[victoriarep]

I always said the choice of president had never had an impact on me personally....not until this one. I lost my home under Obama. I am now living in an RV. This man should never have been elected and now should bow out gratefully...grateful we haven't already kicked him out. He and the woman we now refer to as our First Lady...ha ha this is just a woman who calls our children fat and wants to show us she can do better than we. Give me a break. I have always said I hoped Morgan Freeman would be our first black president, since Obama is of mixed race mr freeman can still fulfill my dream. Obama will still hold the record for 1. being our worst president and 2. our first Muslim president.

[sjc_1]

At least President Obama admits it, Bush would have indignantly change the subject with a scowl that indicated that you should not be so rude to bring up THAT topic.

Mutt RobMoney would just try to spin it, saying that some jobs are created and some are lost and that is business. The fact that it was YOUR job that was lost is the way it goes, you win some and you lose some....amazing.

[Dontbeslow]

obama said; "I want to get back to a time when middle class families and those working to get into the middle class have some basic security. That's our goal." Very lofty goals, he is such a visionary.
Notice he didn't say he wanted families to have financial independence or a bright future for our kids, because his GOAL is for Americans to have "basic security" FROM GOVERNMENT.
So while he pitches his misleading slogan, "forward", he actually want us to go backwards. NO THANKS.
I'm for Romney 2012!

[Nocults]

Thanks for posting from the Mexican polygamy colony, Mrs. Romney.

[Dontbeslow]

"...middle class families and those working to get into the middle class have some basic security. That's our goal." - obama
WOW! He really set the bar with some lofty goals, "basic security".
This was very intentional, his goal is NOT to improve the economy so families can have independence & a prosperous future. His words were intentional & I'm NOT argueing semantics. He is very deliberate. It called indoctrination, you just have to listen. If he had said "financial security" it would have been fine, but he didn't finish the sentence, "'basic security' from government".
This man is NO GOOD FOR AMERICA.

[Nocults]

Thanks for posting from Mexico, Mrs. Romney.

George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 - July 26, 1995) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He is the father of former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney and the husband of former Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Lenore Romney.
Romney was born to American parents living in the Mormon polygamy colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to flee back to the United States when he was a child. The family lived in several states and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled during the Great Depression.

[Nocults]

Unemployment down to 8.2% from 10.5%
Housing markets are recovering
Dow is up to almost 13,000 from 7,500 at the depths of the 2008 crash
bin Laden is dead
Combat Ops in Iraq are over
Auto industry was saved
Gas prices down 50 cents a gal. in the past month
Wall Street paid back the $850 BILLION Bush TARP to avoid being regulated
All done with Boner, and Can'tor chewing at our Constitutionally elected President's ankles

Yep, we're better off than we were 4 years ago, unless you are a complete moron who refuses to accept reality.

[sjc_1]

On a relative basis we ARE better off, it is just the HUGE hole that Bush left after the sub prime A bomb detonated. This should never been allowed to happen, but when you have an arrogant, incompetent and ignorant fool like Bush in there, we get what we got.

[wayneonly]

Nocults, just think how much better off we would be if we had a Congress who was willing to work with the President for the good of the American people instead of trying to block any economic recovery in order to make Obama a "one term president" as is the GOP's stated purpose. If the American voters are dumb enough to let this happen, they deserve the economic failure of the GOP's "trickle down" solution.

[wfw3536]

Obama doesn't have a clue about jobs, but he sure did a good job of wasting the 800 plus billion dollars in stimulus money on all of those shovel ready jobs.

[Nocults]

On December 11, 2008, the House of Representatives buckled under to the demands of GM and Chrysler, voting (largely along party lines) in favor of a $14 billion bailout. The next day, however, the Republican Senate voted down the legislation.
A week later, lame-duck President George W. Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson intervened. Announcing that the administration would offer the automakers loans with terms similar to the ones Congress had voted down, Bush gave GM and Chrysler three months to develop restructuring plans and prove they could become viable companies.
To help the automakers through that phase (and a possible Chapter 11 bankruptcy), the administration extended them $17.4 billion from the $850 BILLION Troubled Asset Relief Program, which had originally been set up to buy assets and equities from the financial sector in the wake of the mortgage crisis

The Congressional Budget Office is projecting a $1.17 trillion budget deficit for the budget year that ends in September. For the last budget year under President George W. Bush, the government recorded a $1.41 trillion budget deficit. So while the deficit looks to be smaller, it is not near half what it had been.
Based on this metric, President Obama looks a lot better than President Bush. Mr. Bush started his presidency, with Karl Rove as a senior adviser, with a $127 billion budget SURPLUS.

[sjc_1]

The Republicans insisted that the first $300 billion of the ARRA money go to tax breaks, which created NO jobs. Then the Republicans complained that there were no jobs. Then the President saved millions of fire, police and teachers jobs long enough for governors to make plans, many made no plans and then complained about laying off fire, police and teachers.

Then the remaining money went to building roads and bridges. We had numerous over/under passes improved and several sections of roads had lanes added after being long over due for improvement. This created jobs AND improved roads but the Republicans complained. All it seems the GOP can do is complain, but they offer no "solutions" other than more deficit increasing tax breaks, which create NO jobs!