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President Obama's Speech To Congress On Jobs (Part 1) - 09/08/11

The President said, I hope every senator thinks long and hard about what's at stake when they cast their vote on the Jobs Act. October 6, 2011.

RT on Twitter twitter.com RT on Facebook www.facebook.com Pinning its hopes on the sole support of the US, Israel risks a collapse if it is ever withdrawn - much like apartheid-era South Africa, prominent scholar Professor Noam Chomsky warns. He recalls how South Africans felt safe to ignore a UN embargo and corporations pulling out of their country throughout the 1980s, as long as the Reagan administration continued to support them. As soon as the US withdrew its support, the apartheid regime collapsed. "For 35 years, the US and Israel have been rejecting a political settlement that is supported virtually by the entire world. A couple of months ago, there was a meeting of the oligarchs -- people who pretty much run the economy [of Israel]," Chomsky says, "and they warned the government that it better accept something like this resolution, because otherwise, Israel will be, as they put it, South Africanized: even more isolated, with boycotts, refusal to load ships, and their economy will collapse."

Obama Live September 8 2011 pushes Congress to act now on economy - politics - White House WASHINGTON — Calling it an "urgent time for our country," President Barack Obama asked Congress on Thursday night to "stop the political circus" and approve a nearly half-trillion-dollar plan to help the economy by cutting payroll taxes, raising taxes on the wealthy and rewarding companies that hire new workers. "We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless and a political crisis that has made things worse," Obama said in an address to a joint session of Congress. To answer that crisis, Obama was proposing what he called the American Jobs Act, which he said would cut payroll taxes in half for working Americans and most small businesses; boost spending on public works, like roads, by 5 billion; and make permanent a temporary cut in the individual tax rate, which was reduced from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for this year only. 1. Other political news of note 1. First Read: The CBO and short-term fixes The Congressional Budget Office released a report in January that looks at some of the short-term policies the president might ask Congress to enact in his speech Thursday night. 2. Analysis: Perry takes the heat but keeps on smiling 3. Perry's Merck link in spotlight following vaccine order 4. Payroll tax cut likely hub of Obama's jobs plan 5. Congressional debt reduction panel kicks off Obama calculated that the "typical working family" would ...

President Obama gives an INCREDIBLE SPEECH and PLAN to create JOBS for America but will the REPUBLICANS/TEA-PARTY allow PRESIDENT OBAMA to do his job and help this COUNTRY?

When the President of the United States says he wants to address Congress, it is not normally up for discussion but then again, these are far from normal times in Washington DC. Barack Obama is taking heat for agreeing to reschedule a major economic speech, because Republicans effectively told him they had other plans. Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane reports.

Salutes Extraordinary Decade of Military Service by the 9/11 Generation. August 30, 2011.

On the first day of his tour of rural America, the President takes questions on the economy. August 15, 2011.

Join President Obama as he travels around Iowa with highlights from his Rural Economic Tour. Learn more about the President's tour at wh.gov

Hop on board with President Obama as he travels across Minnesota on day one of his Rural Economic Bus Tour. Learn more about the President's tour at wh.gov