White House helping Town Hall "pregnant woman"
The White House is trying to lend a hand to an audience member from the CBS News Town Hall with President Obama broadcast on "The Early Show" Thursday.
Karin Gallo, a 43-year-old federal employee - a spokesperson for the National Zoo and public affairs specialist - is slated to lose her job in four weeks due to budget cuts. She's also seven months into a high-risk pregnancy with her first child, and in the midst of building a house.
With no job offers in sight, she asked the President, "What would you do if you were me?"
Special section: CBS News Town Hall on the Economy, with President Obama"
Mr. Obama didn't answer the (seemingly rhetorical) question directly, but he used Gallo's story as a means to defend government workers at all levels who are being laid off.
He also said, "We can have a conversation, maybe, afterwards."
On "The Early Show" Friday, Gallo said that, while she didn't get to speak directly with the president, she did have a conversation with a White House staffer on Thursday who seemed eager to help, and told her several other staffers were trying to come to her aid, as well. Gallo added that she also got a phone call late Thursday from the Presidential Personnel Office, which wants her to come in Monday for an informational interview.
Asked by co-anchor Erica Hill what she'd say to other job seekers who weren't fortunate enough to come to the president's personal attention, Gallo said she "never once thought there was no light at the end of the tunnel. I definitely thought there was going to be something on the other end. ... I always just kept the faith that something was going to happen, that there was going to be an opportunity. I completely lucked out that the opportunity was so huge for me. But I guess I speak for a lot of Americans who are out of work and frustrated. And I just have to say - keep the faith and know that there is something at the end of the tunnel."
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Yes, it's a train called America that is being run by Obama. And it is off it's tracks and about to crash hard.
It is nice that King Obama granted this woman a chance to work in the castle, but she did not say she has a job, just an informational interview. King and Queen Obama are kind to us, when they learn that you are here illegally Queen Michelle says "let them stay" and INS looks the other way,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052005262.html
and now when a this woman needs a job King Obama says give her work.
I just can't wait for the next big party. I bet someone will say "Let them eat cake".
The Obama administration's National Labor Relations Board is trying to tell the Boeing Company how to run its business. To wit, the NLRB is telling Boeing that it cannot open a plant in business-friendly South Carolina. South Carolina is a right-to-work state, meaning that it has "a law against compulsory union membership" - so is the NLRB retaliating on behalf of labor?
It's the first time a federal agency has intervened to tell an American company where it can and cannot operate a plant within the U.S. It lays the foundation of a regulatory wall with one express purpose: to prevent the direct competition of right-to-work states with union-shop states.
Again, King Obama has his regulatory agency doing thy bidding. This shall not end well for America if thy kings will is done.
Those jobs that Boeing would bring to South Carolina might find a new home in Mexico. Other companies like BMW, Honda and Michellin love SC, why you ask. RIGHT TO WORK STATE.
Those jobs that Boeing would bring to South Carolina might find a new home in Mexico. Other companies like BMW, Honda and Michellin love SC, why you ask. RIGHT TO WORK STATE.
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Your IGNORANCE makes you look rather STUPID ...... you're online, educate yourself about some of these issues.
Why would she make a national fool of herself as a helpless, hopeless whiner ensuring no one would ever want to hire her again? Just embarrassing all around, both her whining question and his lame response.
She is an embarrassment to the American work ethic, And the CBS Reporter who says her "attitude is terrific"? Dont you think a "can do" attitude is terrific, not Karins attitude, which is that of a helpless, worthless complainer seeking handouts, like a whining child.
Ras!! Some women can and want to handle it...
It isn't a matter of whether she can handle it. If it's a high risk pregnancy, why would you risk the health of the baby? She only has a couple of months to wait, why take the chance?