WASHINGTON (AP) — 
Obama spoke in the Rose Garden after the August jobs report came out better than expected, showing the private sector adding 67,000 new jobs last month and revising upward the numbers from June and July. But unemployment ticked upward to 9.6 percent as more people entered the job market, and the president said it wasn’t good enough.
“That’s why we need to take further steps to create jobs and keep the economy growing, including extending tax cuts for the middle class and investing in the areas of our economy where the potential for job growth is greatest,” Obama said.
“We are confident that we are moving in the right direction, but we want to keep this recovery moving stronger and accelerate the job growth that’s needed so desperately.”
Administration officials say a big new stimulus bill like last year’s $862 billion measure is not in the offing — nervous lawmakers looking to November’s balloting would not be expected to approve an expensive new measure. But Obama said he’d be proposing a new set of ideas next week. He’s likely to detail them during a speech on the economy Wednesday in Cleveland, midway through an economy-focused week capped by a rare White House news conference.
Obama’s package could include a number of provisions that have languished in Congress for much of the year, including infrastructure bonds for municipalities and extensions for a series of tax breaks for businesses and individuals that expired at the end of 2009. Democratic leaders are considering making one of the tax breaks permanent, for businesses that invest in research and development.
They are also considering extending a law passed in March that exempts companies that hire unemployed workers from paying Social Security taxes on those workers through December. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., has proposed extending the exemption an additional six months.
Obama is continuing to prod the Senate to pass a bill that calls for about $12 billion in tax breaks for small businesses and a $30 billion fund to help unfreeze small business lending. Republicans have likened the bill to the unpopular bailout of the financial industry. And the president wants to make permanent the portion of George W. Bush’s tax cuts affecting the middle class.
The House has already passed many of the provisions, but they have stalled in the Senate because Republicans and Democrats could not agree on how to pay for them.
Jim Manley, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Reid hoped to be able to get the small business measure through once the Senate goes back in session later this month but the prospect for other ideas was cloudier. Moreover, some of the ideas are relatively small bore, so even if they did pass in the next month or two it‘s unlikely they’d make a real dent in the economy before the elections.
Departing White House economist Christina Romer told The Associated Press that the new proposals would be “targeted measures aimed at particular problems or incentivizing a particular area of the economy.” Romer is leaving her post as chair of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers on Friday to return to the University of California, Berkley.
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Associated Press writers Julie Pace and Stephen Ohlemacher contributed to this report.
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Stuck_in_CA
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 8:05pmHey Ray, you really ARE gone.
Report Post »rstarce
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 8:00pmObama’s October Surprise…he is going to pretend to think like a conservative and fool all of us again.
Report Post »Don’t fall for it this time. His teleprompter is getting ready to tell us all what he thinks we want to hear in order to save some seats in Congress. He is a politician, nothing more. We know what they are.
rstarce
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:58pmYou are a pathetic soul. Open your mind, use what little brain you may have for something worthwhile. If you are an example of the majority of people in this country, it surely is doomed. Thank God for Glenn Beck.
Report Post »A1955Rosie
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:52pm“Centrist sybil” is out campaigning again. Be careful folks. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice….SHAME ON ME. Do what‘s right for this country but don’t be snoockered.
Report Post »marlaco
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:48pmRaygone…Isn’t it nice to know God loves you, despite the fact you’re any idoit.
Report Post »campkronk
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:41pmYou sound pretty bored Ray. You should have come, it was extremely up lifting and you could have brought or made a friend.
Report Post »Eraty Bab
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:39pmPlaying the race card and you have a lousy hand. I’d fold if I were you.
Report Post »iatoala
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:35pmMan your hilarious keep it up MSNBC is looking to hire writers for their news group. You maybe delirious enough to work there.
Report Post »CheesecakeLarry
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:28pmSomeone please correct me if I’m wrong (I usually am) but isn‘t Obama’s “tax-cuts” a rebate program where you have to ask for some of your money back, it isn’t an actual cut, where they tax you less, they just hold it until you ask for some of it back.
Report Post »PatriotLady
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:23amWho knows… They probably don’t even know – remember they thought they had to pass that health care atrocity before we could know what was in it!
To Congress – Oh, please – just stop with the spending already!
Report Post »stingerhp
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:23pmYo raygone, we DONT have a black president, we DONT have a white president, we DONT have a yellow president, we DONT have a green president..WE DONT HAVE A PRESIDENT..We have a kid in a candy store with my and your wallet……………
Report Post »stingerhp
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:20pmWhat a dolt !! We MUST spend, spend and spend some more..Not interested in your opinion or reason not to spend..We will spend as long as we are in office and can say “we won”..You are nothing more than pig fodder and need to be silenced at any cost, so we are going to spend some more whether you like it or not..After all this is NO LONGER YOUR country……………..
Report Post »RayGone
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:18pmNews Corp’s number-two shareholder funded ‘terror mosque’ planner
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100820/bs_yblog_upshot/news-corps-number-two-shareholder-funded-terror-mosque-planner
I am pretty sure to Mr. Magic Underwear Beck will get to the bottom of this ( after he comes back from his honeymoon in Wasilla)
1ncquilter
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 8:12pmThanks for sharing Ray. You’re such a genius. There, does that make you feel better?
Report Post »EZBurns
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 9:25pmTrolls are funny— they eat goats and live under bridges.
Ray is jealous that we have friends and he has to come here to get attention. Sad little boy.
Report Post »Eraty Bab
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 10:41pmRay….you’re still here??
Report Post »OLD__SALT
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:40amRay,
I’m not a Mormon, but I am aware of the significance of the undergarment you refer to as “Magic underwear”, and although I find your remark hateful I must remind you that one of your biggest heroes, Harry Reid, also wears that garment.
We are praying for you..
Report Post »Deidre
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 9:40amLOL! Hey Ray you just proved my Top 10 Reasons People Hate Beck!!! Way to go – so you’re a Mormon hater or at the very least anti-Mormon. Nice. Shall we give that new website that claims to want to root out “racism” your name – while I know it‘s not ’racist‘ to hate Mormons I do think it’s in the same arena to hate, dislike, taunt etc folks for their religion. And yeah, I’m not one of the “Muslim” haters before you get on the podium. I actually have a former Muslim in the family and friends who are Muslim – so before you try it – thought I’d put out that fire.
Report Post »Bronks
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:38pmRaygone,
I think your spaceship left without you.
Report Post »Maybe some nice progressive will take you in.
Wait progressives only take.
BigEd
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 12:34amRay,
General Electric subsidiaries financed Saddam in his oil for food scam. Will Keith Olbemann be getting to the bottom of that real soon?
BTW, did you know Harry Reid is also a member of the LDS Church? Will you be making hateful remarks about his undergarments?
Report Post »jpeg964
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 9:08amWhy is everyone even bothering to respond to this idiot. There are far more important posts to reply to, so STOP replying to Ray.
Disclaimer: This is my first and last reply to any of his comments.
Report Post »marlaco
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:18pmHe is just so clueless. I would challenge anyone on the Left to give us just one example of anything he has done in the last 20 months that has helped the country as a whole. Just one example…Remember he is the President for ALL of us, not just those with their hand out or all of his progressive buddies. And don‘t say ’well he has just been cleaning up Bush’s mess”…that one doesn’t work anymore.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:34pmWho inherited what?
I send this along in case you missed seeing it when it came around awhile back . . . . . .
The Washington Post babbled again today about Obama inheriting a huge deficit from Bush. Amazingly enough,…… a lot of people swallow this nonsense. So once more, a short civics lesson.
Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress,and the party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democratic Party. They controlled the budget process for FY 2008 and FY 2009, as well as FY
2010 and FY 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat belatedly got tough on spending increases.
For FY 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely, passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill to complete the FY 2009 budgets..
And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills, and he signed the omnibus bill as President to complete FY 2009. Let’s remember what the deficits looked like during that period: (below)
If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the FY 2007 deficit, the last of the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in Congress took control of spending, and that includes Barack Obama, who voted for the budgets. If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself.
In a nutshell, what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January
20th.
There is no way this will be widely publicized, Unless each of us sends it on! This is your chance to make a difference.
fertlmind
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:17pmYou waste your time posting here,…but we still love you!
Report Post »Ammonihah
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:16pmWhy do all the pictures of Obama make him appear constipated and angry lately. He looks like he is looking in disgust at something. Probably has Glenn on his mind.
Report Post »AlwaysLearning
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:11amLike Rush says, we are living rent-free in BOs head!
Report Post »DoGoodWorks
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:15amMISTER Beck (it’s so much easier to draw it out with a snarl and under your breath, at the same time)
Have you noticed how gray he’s getting? They‘re lucky he has such a short cut or they’d run out of dye.
Report Post »parmajohn
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:13pmListen To the words…..watch the show…reportback in one week…
Report Post »phaysmn
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:12pmI find it troubling that Obama‘s economic plan is resembling FDR’s. The idea of Roosevelt‘s plan on National Regimentation was described in Herbert Hoover’s book The Challenge To Liberty. Many of these strategies were also Wilson’s. The idea was to achieve National Regimentation through expanding the powers of the Executive Branch. “without tedious recitation of the acts of the Congress delegating powers over the people to the Executive or his assistants, and omitting relief and regulatory acts”…
Through this the “powers which have been assumed include, directly or indirectly, the following:”
“To debase the coin and it’s set value; to inflate the currency; to buy and sell gold and silver; to buy Government bonds; other securities; and foreign exchange; to seize private stocks of gold at a price fixed by the Government; in effect giving to the Executive the power to “manage” the currency”
“To expend enormous sums from the appropriations for public works, relief, and agriculture upon projects no announced to the Congress at the time appropriations were made”
“To organize administrative agencies outside the Civil Service requirements”
Only to name a few!
Report Post »ConsiderThis
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:06pmWell, Obama’s had about twenty months. He gave the drug companies a sweetheart deal. the banks – well they’re just tickled pink – wouldn’t you be …a trillion dollars. (and so much for their promise to let some trickle down to small business) AND now the polls are telling him those hard working unemployed Americans who just want jobs and aren’t very happy, are going to the voting booth in November to make their point. So now he’s making those “we need jobs” noises. (of course by ramping up the debt)
Report Post »Palin, and maybe Huckabee are looking better every single day.
Skip Gardner
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 8:16pmYou have hit the nail on the head my friend. I hope everyone of us can see that all this “job talk” is simply a election ploy. He has been a liar since the day he began his campaign. He says what “people” want to hear, then does what he wants as soon as he can. Dont fall for the tricks. If “they” do cut any taxes, it will be short lived and he’ll attempt to bring them back or create new ones after November. Remember, he lies. Fool me once….
Report Post »extexjb
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 10:31pmThey aren’t going to “cut” taxes….they‘ll probably send us our tiny ’allowance‘ check and call it a ’tax cut’! Our taxes will sky-rocket shortly to pay for the Obamacare-scam that was sleazed through as though this was a totalitarian Govt (or close to it)
Report Post »LoveRules
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:03pmWhat part of , at some point in time all this has to be paid back, does he not understand? Cut taxes yes. Cut spending, yes. Cut government size to the core, yes. Then get out of the way and let the American people recover themselves. We are certainly capable of it. We really do not need or want “Big Daddy” government to take care of us.
Report Post »DoGoodWorks
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:11amAmen.
Report Post »Epluribusunum317
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 10:05amI agree. Although… there is a way that the genius of America can in fact pay back 15 trillion or more- of course the Obama administration defunded 3 of the programs that could do just that.
Report Post »The Bush Admin funded a bio-fuel project in the San Juaquin valley in Ca- which creates bio-fuel that can be converted to jet fuel- see normal biofuel cannot be made into jet fuel this can- that is a quantum leap- if this was fully funded it could convert the 300 tons+ of bio-material from that valley- which usually goes to dumps or to be burned into fuel. Second was the wind farm that was being built by T Boone Pickens- it would be the equivolent of 2.5 nuclear plants- think we could use that. The Obama Admin defunded connecting that farm to the grid- so the farm could produce energy for- no one- that makes sense right? The 3rd is Nasa one of the few govt programs that worked. This is not a mission that they are currently undertaking but is very doable. The shuttle can transport tons of material back from space- there are asteroids in high earth orbit- that are loaded with valuable minerals gold platinium ect. So if they started retrieving these since they are already up there they could finance the next mission and start paying down the debt. The setimate is a 1/4 mile chunk is worth 1.5 trillion or more- in metal resources- so break em down and bring em down.
parmajohn
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:47pmWhens the next muslim holiday? It was kindda nice him not talking about how great things are going every day…Realality is on the way…Prepare…GBGB {God Bless Glen Beck}
Report Post »NoMarxist
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:43pmHurry up and pass STIMULATEUS-2.. It’s time for my next vacation!! I’ll have to invite some more Hollywood celebs to party at the White House so Michelle can keep being proud of America.
Report Post »e-merlin
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:37pmGo, Obama! Because the first half dozen stimuli worked so well….
(That’s sarcasm for those of you who were born without a sense of humor.) ;)
Report Post »Daragon29
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:29pmMore spending? Really? Dam Cummunist..
Report Post »30moves
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:19pmProof that the stimulus worked:
The University of Missouri spent $180,935 on developing better methods of freezing rat sperm.
So at least some rats, at some time were stimulated.
Report Post »obamababble
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 12:22amHad a “Chris Mathews Tingle” run up their legs…….hickory dickery dock.
Report Post »blessings
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 11:21amOH !! RATS !!!
Report Post »like the one who ran by Obama during his speach…. bees…. rats…. flies…..
hhuummmm….. the bees know!
iamcricket
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:24amTo those of us, who date back some GOP years, we remember when to spend and on what = our own “Ike” (Pres. Eisenhower) built the Interstate Highway System … If Obama had been more like Ike then we would be building The New Product Energy GRID and unemployment would be at about 4% … Old GOP Conservatism is better than the “Newt G. Trickle-Down that Never trickles To Small Business.”
Report Post »NoMarxist
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 6:18pmSo with Obamanomics, business has stopped dead in it’s tracks, Obama is allowing America a change to get even with illegal immigrants. If Americans just stop having babies, Obama’s debt will be paid by generations of anchor babies. Ahhhh.. the American dream!!
Report Post »fertlmind
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 7:14pmGet control of Congress, find a good reason,( there are many!) and start the impeachment process. He’ll be too busy defending himself to do anything else to us. And you never know,… we may be rid of him early and start on Bidens impeachment!
EZBurns
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 9:17pmDitto. The first step is taking back Congress. Campaign, be active and VOTE! Our kids futures depend on us taking back the country from the out of control arrogance and spending.
skyman002@live.com
Posted on September 3, 2010 at 9:21pmTheir is still hope fore this country after what I witnessed sat.8/28 500,000 plus(more like a million people their which I confirmed from tea-party rallys like this last spring,Espically when we all sung amazing grace by bagpipes! WOW!! AND ALSO like poeple that write here on the blaze website
Report Post »Man we are making HISTORY!!!
skyman002
plunderpower
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 2:57pmA 1% Transaction Tax will take effect right after the midterm elections. It is a 1% tax on all deposits, all withdrawals, and all funds transfers. It will crush the economy, cost jobs, and send us back to the 1800′s amid hyperinflation. They will blame Bush and the terrible mess they inherited again. It will increase Govt costs as people avoid EFTs and demand checks by mail. It will crush online business. This tax is a death toll.
Report Post »plunderpower
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 3:03pmThere is going to be a 1% Transaction Tax you will start paying right after the midterms. It is a tax on all Deposits, Withdrawals, and Funds Transfers. You will pay dearly because of this tax. It will crush the online economy, all sales will drop everywhere, jobs will be lost, and even govt costs will go up as people demand payment by check. Banks will lose accounts left and right. This tax is a disaster.
Report Post »GeneralC_USA
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:02pmObama forever! This idea scares the …… out of me. The scenario. There is a reason Obama doesn’t care what the citizens think. He plans to take over the country. Black Panthers et al cause violent disruptions at the polls. Regrettably, Obama will have to throw out the election results because they may have been tainted. He will then have to declare martial law, for the good of the people. He will then suspend congress just as Hitler did in Germany and put controls on the media as FDR did. Anti-government (Anti-Obama) people will be rounded up and taken to quickly set up “re-education” camps in the empty badlands, hate mongering people like Palin, Beck, and all the non-ultra liberal judges. Fox News will be shut down as “unfixable”. The removed justices will have to replaced by “correct thinking” judges. Now what Obama does could be taken to court and the court fix would be in, just as Hitler did in Germany. By default, Obama would just have to continue to be our leader like Chavez and Castro. BTW guns will be immediately confiscated just as was done by Hitler. Just go to the registered gun lists. The ONLY stop is for gun owners to “sell” their guns to someone else who does not register them. I sure hope this is wrong.
Report Post »slwolfgram
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 6:23pmNo matter what Obama says or is reported to have said..If his lips move and sound comes out he’s lying.
Report Post »Rolinda
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:12pmThe goal of the Left is to Bankrupt America one bail out at a time. Then they will try to “Fundamentaly Transform America”. I‘ve never seen another Presidential family spend so much of the people’s money and then try to tell us how to spend ours. When the financial system of America crashes what will you use to buy a loaf of bread? Thinking….thinking…thinking……….
Report Post »ShningKnight
Posted on September 4, 2010 at 8:23pmOkay…enuff!!….Seems like everyone likes Obama…he’s a good guy…here’s the problem….time for him to “MAN UP”…yes…“MAN UP” he has SCREW’D UP! He know’s it…will he MAN UP?? In business YOU “MAN UP” We all screw up…every one of us..but we need to MAN UP…will he? that is the bottom line…if he would MAN UP…he’d go far…unfortunately..he’s a socalist..so I don’t seeing manning up being something he does…Glenn..you Manned UP…. you take responsibiltiy where Obama will blame someone else Sharpton and Jackson will blame others…that is difference….Sharpton wants to blame someone else…MAN UP just MAN UP…We are MEN…MAN UP …. Whether you’re black or white…MAN UP
Report Post »iamcricket
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 7:14amWhere are the older, more matured Republicans, who know that Eisenhower brought our National Economy back from the brink with Government Investment in The Interstate Highway System? We now have proof that The Trickle-Down (of Newt’s generation) Never Trickled Down to Main Street, Small Business, or Community Banks … Do we need a ‘Time Out’ to restructure our Conservative Value System?
Report Post »BlazerMan
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 1:13pmWhat this country needs to do most is to downsize the government, and help the small business people so that they will be able to hire more people and get the economy back on track. The American people also need to fix it so that the government is not in control of everything.
Report Post »Cincinnatus Dogood
Posted on September 5, 2010 at 1:50pmIts easy. We take the house. We take the senate. Obama is not an NBC (natural born citizen).
Report Post »We impeach him on that charge. He is than classified as a Usurper. All laws and appointments, executive orders are nullified. We start over. We get rid of Biden and Pelosi as they knew of his ineligibility and were complicite in the LIE to put him in office. Make the Democratic party pay all the bills for OBAMAs Usurpation. This would be a good start.