Via The Daily Caller:
The White House talking points, as leaked to TheDC, are below:
- based on bi-partisan ideas;
- it is fully paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share; and
- it will have an impact on job and economic growth NOW — just as soon as Congress acts.
- Every day, people in this country are working hard to meet their responsibilities. The question now is whether Washington will meet theirs.
- The time for obstruction and gridlock is over. Congress needs to put country ahead of politics.
- The American people know that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the American middle class has been under attack for decades.
- That’s why President Obama believes we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis.
- The President is rebuilding the economy the American way — based on balance, fairness and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street where hard work and responsibility pay and gaming the system is penalized.
- It’s an American economy that’s built to last and creates the jobs of the future, by forcing Washington to live within its means so we can invest in small business entrepreneurs, education, and making things the world buys, not outsourcing, loopholes and reckless financial deals that put middle class security at risk.
Liberal Spin: it is fully paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share
Translation - Tax Increases.
Liberal Spin: and it will have an impact on job and economic growth NOW — just as soon as Congress acts.
Translation: Congress needs to act even NOW on my plan even though I, Barack Obama, have not produced a written plan and submitted to Congress.
Liberal Spin: Every day, people in this country are working hard to meet their responsibilities. The question now is whether Washington will meet theirs.
Translation: Do as I say not as I do.
Liberal Spin: The time for obstruction and gridlock is over. Congress needs to put country ahead of politics
Translation: I, Barack Obama say this even as I use this "jobs speech" as a campaigning tool for my reelection bid in 2012.
Liberal Spin: The American people know that the economic crisis and the deep recession weren’t created overnight and won’t be solved overnight. The economic security of the American middle class has been under attack for decades.
Translation: Please forget about the 21 tax increases, I Barack Obama, have signed into law over the last 2 1/2 years which attacks the middle class.
Liberal Spin: The President is rebuilding the economy the American way — based on balance, fairness and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street where hard work and responsibility pay and gaming the system is penalized.
Translation: Forget that I, Barack Obama, wish to penalize those that work hard, employ millions and provides jobs to the masses by strangling them with regulations, choking their ability to expand and grow which would help lower the 9.1 percent unemployment rate we see today.
Liberal Spin: It’s an American economy that’s built to last and creates the jobs of the future, by forcing Washington to live within its means so we can invest in small business entrepreneurs, education, and making things the world buys, not outsourcing, loopholes and reckless financial deals that put middle class security at risk.
Translation: Please forget that I, Barack Obama, have raised our national deficit by more than any other president in history, by my out-of-control spending, trillion dollar healthcare law, failed $787 billion stimulus bill, etc.... so I can "spend more" aka "invest" aka "more stimulus".