Your Tax Dollars at Work

9:41 PM, Sep 8, 2011 • By WILLIAM KRISTOLSingle Page

Here’s how bad it’s gotten for President Obama:

At 9:20 p.m., the White House press office sent out a statement of support for the president’s proposal from ... the Center for American Progress (see below). That’s newsworthy!

By the way, this was sent by the White House, not the Obama campaign or the Democratic National Committee. Is this an appropriate use of government resources?

---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: White House Press Office
Date: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:20 PM
Subject: The Center for American Progress Backs American Jobs Act

To:

For Immediate Release
September 8, 2011

Contact Laura Pereyra, 202.203.8689 lpereyra@americanprogress.org

STATEMENT: The Center for American Progress on President Barack Obama's Jobs Speech

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for American Progress released the following statement in reaction to President Barack Obama’s jobs speech tonight:

Today, 14 million Americans who could be working and producing are unemployed. Persistently high unemployment has left millions of people on the sidelines, depressed wages, dampened consumer demand, and has now brought economic growth to a standstill. America has not faced a jobs crisis of this magnitude since the New Deal.

Tonight, President Obama put forth a plan whose boldness matches the size of the challenge. It is pragmatic and sharply focused on the biggest obstacles holding back economic growth. And it is fiscally responsible.


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