President-elect Barack Obama today laid out some of the details of his economic recovery plan. While the current President focuses on giving the Medal of Freedom to the leader of a country that has the highest number of trade union murders in the world and on spending nearly $600,000 on new china for the White House days before leaving office, Obama is moving to clean up the Bush economic mess. Giving the Democratic radio address this morning, Obama said: Our first job is to put people back to work and get our economy working again. This is an extraordinary challenge. Obama said his plan was in part crafted by economist Jared Bernstein, an ally of the labor movement at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and now economic advisor to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. continue reading
OBAMA ECONOMIC PLAN: CREATE MADE-IN-AMERICA JOBS
by Toneshia Harris | Jan 11, 2009 | National News