This was just posted a couple of hours ago from ABC News and the link here to the Yahoo news so some may not have yet seen it yet, I just did.
Here's another promise, recent, he's keeping. Taking the wind out of at least some of the fluttering sails on the news cycles as to the tepubs and their presidential candidates, that all seem to hate the federal government while feeding from the troth of.
A Real Jobs Plan from a Jobs Creator!
White House 'Can't Wait' To Help Young People Get Summer Jobs
5 January 2011 - President Obama will continue his campaign to bypass Congressional opposition to his jobs agenda Thursday by announcing a new partnership aimed at helping a quarter of a million young people find summer jobs.
The initiative, part of Obama's "We Can't Wait" campaign, is intended to replace a youth jobs fund that would have been enacted had Congress passed the president's $447 billion jobs bill.
"America's young people face record unemployment, and we need to do everything we can to make sure they've got the opportunity to earn the skills and a work ethic that come with a job. It's important for their future, and for America's. That's why I proposed a summer jobs program for youth in the American Jobs Act - a plan that Congress failed to pass. America's youth can't wait for Congress to act. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment," Obama said in a written statement.
The new partnership between the federal government and the private sector commits to creating nearly 180,000 employment opportunities for low-income youth in the summer of 2012, with a goal of reaching 250,000 employment opportunities by the start of summer.
Republicans have pushed back against the announcement. read more>>>
Tepubs pushing back on jobs creation?, who'da thunk, what with all the work they've done with their job creator friends, whoops my bad, they haven't done a thing for a decade now!
Adding many probably already know, but he'll also be visiting the Pentagon today and speak on the coming battle over the cutting of the always grossly over funded Defense Budget.
January 05, 2012 10:50 AM EST
President Obama Speaks on the Defense Strategic Review
The Pentagon, Washington, DC
Watching to see what else comes, how about another stimulus, recovery, package especially to the Veterans Administration and there decades long under funding thanks to rubber stamping war costs but ignoring, even as the wars cheered on, the results from related to those we send and their families!