The Labor Department released its monthly employment survey today, and though the U.S. lost 11,000 jobs in November, that number was nearly 115,000 fewer than was forecast. The overall unemployment rate decreased, and the report found that nearly 160,000 fewer jobs had been lost over the last two months than had been previously thought. The New York Times called this "the strongest employment report since the recession began nearly two years ago."
Speaking at an event in Allentown, Pennsylvania today, President Obama explained:
This is good news, just in time for the season of hope. But I want to keep this in perspective. We still have a long way to go. I still consider one job lost one job too many. And as I said yesterday at a jobs conference in Washington, good trends don't pay the rent. We need to grow jobs and get America back to work as quickly as we can.The journey from here will not be without setbacks or struggle. There will be more bumps in the road. But the direction is clear. When you think about how this year began, today’s report is a welcome sign that there are better days ahead.
This is good news, just in time for the season of hope. But I want to keep this in perspective. We still have a long way to go. I still consider one job lost one job too many. And as I said yesterday at a jobs conference in Washington, good trends don't pay the rent. We need to grow jobs and get America back to work as quickly as we can.
The journey from here will not be without setbacks or struggle. There will be more bumps in the road. But the direction is clear. When you think about how this year began, today’s report is a welcome sign that there are better days ahead.
From OFA Director Mitch Stewart:
Last week, Republican Senator Jim DeMint tried to rally our opposition by declaring that stopping reform would "break" President Obama. Instead, hundreds of thousands of you rushed forward to stand up for enacting health insurance reform this year. Then last night, the President delivered a powerful prime-time address about why further delay is simply not an option, and even more support came pouring in. (Watch the highlights here). Now, we're on the brink of a major milestone in building this campaign: One million Americans publicly declaring their support for the President's three core principles for health insurance reform this year. Our goal is to reach the one million mark before Congress casts the first crucial votes as early as next week. This is just a first step of many we'll take together. But it will send a clear message that the American people will not stand for playing partisan politics with our lives and livelihoods -- and that we won't settle for anything less than the real health insurance reform America so desperately needs this year. Add your name to stand up for the President's three principles for real health insurance reform in 2009.
Adding your name right now will have real impact. Not only will you help us hit this key milestone, but we'll run the signatures we collect in local and national newspaper ads and present them in powerful displays at high-profile local events across the country in the crucial days and weeks to come. We're so close to a million because volunteers all over the country are reaching out online, door-to-door, on the phone and at public events in their community. And every time a new supporter stands up with the President, they in turn reach out to others and the movement grows. Less than three months ago, OFA launched our campaign for health insurance reform. In that short time, hundreds of thousands of Americans have joined in by:
This afternoon, President Obama will lay out a comprehensive regulatory reform plan to modernize and protect the integrity of our financial system. While the current financial crisis has had many causes, it is clear that the government could have done more to prevent these problems from growing out of control and threatening our overall economy.The President is scheduled to deliver remarks at 12:50 PM Eastern, and will be joined by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, representatives from the regulatory community, consumer groups, the financial industry and members of Congress. We'll have more coverage of the announcement later in the day.
The President placed what was happening in Iowa in the context of two centuries of energy innovation in America, but noted America’s leadership in innovation had always been coupled with an alarming rise consumption. The President ran down the all-too-familiar list of problems our energy consumption and oil dependence brings, from those people face every day like prices at the gas pump, to those that have a broader but equally serious impact like the trade deficit, constraints on foreign policy, and the prospect of irrevocable climate change left as a burden for out children. As the President has stated again and again, these problems also represent a fundamental weakness in our economy which will prevent long term stability as long as we refuse to address them. And while those interests who have profited off of this weakness have aligned to defend the status quo and paint change as a danger, the President forcefully framed what this choice is all about: "We can't afford that approach anymore -- not when the cost for our economy, for our country, and for our planet is so high. So on this Earth Day, it is time for us to lay a new foundation for economic growth by beginning a new era of energy exploration in America. That's why I'm here. Now, the choice we face is not between saving our environment and saving our economy. The choice we face is between prosperity and decline. We can remain the world's leading importer of oil, or we can become the world's leading exporter of clean energy. We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural havoc across the landscape, or we can create jobs working to prevent its worst effects. We can hand over the jobs of the 21st century to our competitors, or we can confront what countries in Europe and Asia have already recognized as both a challenge and an opportunity: The nation that leads the world in creating new energy sources will be the nation that leads the 21st-century global economy. America can be that nation. America must be that nation."
I'll Take Prosperity Mr. President!!!!!!
Thank You Very Much!!!!!
It's amazing that Google, which offers easy to use programs such as Picasa, can make imbedding an image from a web album into a forum post so difficult.
Many who participate in photography forums embed images from their online photo galleries into posts. Typically it's a relatively simple process: right-click an image, copy the url and pastes it into a thread. That's it!
Not so easy with photos displayed in Picasa web albums, at least not at the time of the writing (Sept 2007). So, if you use web albums, here's what to do:
Note: In some forums you'll need to place IMG tags around the cleaned up url:
[img]URL[/img]
http://www.digicamhelp.com/blogs/random-thoughts/embed.php
BARACK OBAMA WON!!!!!!!!!!
YES WE DID!!!!!
Take a look!
Link
What a liar!!
If you are one of those people who often tire of all the emails received by being part of the Barack Obama email groups, you should really read this article: http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Obama_e_mail_list_makes_Dems_salivate
This article demonstrates how Barack and his key people were smart enough to figure out how powerful massive email lists would prove to be during this campaign. I know that I am one who has personally learned a lot from communicating with various email groups. Like the writer, of that article, I've never been involved in politics before and I've talked to many others who haven't been. However, thru email communications, we've donated money and time, corresponded with people who run our government and voiced our opinions, corresponded and news media, and shared videos, messages, laughs, upsets, and victories with people we don't know. The intelligence of Barack amazes me - and infuriates others. I'm proud that I support him.
The funniest blog post I have ever seen! LOL Janice get's to be my friend now because she won the favorite Blog Award! Here is the post:
I am back from St. George Utah and had a great time my computer broke but now it is fixed so here I am on Obama's website again.
Obama is definetly going to get the nomination but will he beat McCain is the big question.
I have been having my mom call tons of people in Oregon and have called 38 people we knew!
TODAY IS APRIL 22nd AND WE HAVE TO WIN IT'S PENNSYLVANIA OR BUST!GO BARACK OBAMA!
