On Monday, during a speech at a Labor Day event in Detroit, President Barack Obama preluded his upcoming address to Congress with plans to “propose ways to put people to work (that) both parties can agree to“. With the unemployment rate for African Americans now at its worst since 1984, many are in need of 
some sort of resolution with the president at the head of the line, stating “We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before politics.”
We’re going to see if we’ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We’re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party. We’ll give them a plan, and then we’ll say, do you want to create jobs? Then put our construction workers back to work rebuilding America. Do you want to help our companies succeed? Open up new markets for them to sell their products. You want — you say you’re the party of tax cuts? Well then, prove you’ll fight just as hard for tax cuts for middle-class families as you do for oil companies and the most affluent Americans. Show us what you got.
The time for Washington games is over. The time for action is now. No more manufactured crises. No more games. Now is not the time for the people you sent to Washington to worry about their jobs; now is the time for them to worry about your jobs.
President Obama will address a joint session of Congress on Thurs., Sept. 8 at 7 ET. View his Labor Day remarks in full above.
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the game was suppose to be over the minute he took up office… see the same crap in my country… politicians trying to keep their positions and wealth and nobody give a siht about what’s good for the country… good luck Mr.O
Don’t knock him. He passed health care, he killed Osama, he erased un needed or unwanted programs that congress set up, he helped the auto companies, he stop banks from allowing charges to go through when there is no money in the bank account, he help college student with financial aid, he has let us the people into conversations (like the health care bill) that other congress members did not feel we had a right to listen in on or have played on national tv -it has ONLY been 3 years give -stop the bs and support what this President has done unlike the many before him. What game are you playing?
@SELFISH YESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
THESE FOLKS ARE SO QUICK TO CRITICIZE HIM AND THEN FORGET ALL THE POSITIVE THINGS HE’S DONE
why are presidents and politicians so scared to even mention the lower class struggle??? all i ever hear is about the upper and middle class
Obama is a great leader and a great President. People need to give him creditbecause he does his job well. He should collaborate with Ls Jones, Terri Woods, and Hale Harper on his next book to further explain his daily life, making decisions, and issues he faces as a President.