Obama focuses on the job losses announced yesterday and the need to pass the stimulus. He gets to the key purpose of the legisation: creating jobs. That's Obama's top priority, but seems lost on almost all of the Republicans.
An excerpt on jobs creation, noting what's going to happen in different states:
From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.Jobs, it's about jobs. I wonder if David Vitter, one of the leaders of the Senate Republicans (and a patron of the DC Madam), has any interest in fixing those levees in New Orleans. Probably not. I really don't think the Republicans grasp how freaked out people are about the economy. It's real and it's pervasive and it's lost on the GOP.
Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.
Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.
Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.
Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.
