John Boner or John Boehner, that is the question.

[Niels Bohr 72]

From NBC's Athena Jones

Bring your A-Game, President Obama told the audience at a summit the White House sponsored today to solicit ideas on how to spur job growth.

Some 130 attendees from businesses big and small, labor, non-profits, and academia took part in the event, participating in six panel discussions that focused on infrastructure investment, small businesses, green jobs, exports, encouraging business investment and strengthening Main Street.

"The question we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again?" Obama said in during the opening session of an event. "How do we get ourselves to the point where more people are working and more people are spending and you start seeing a virtuous cycle and the recovery starts to feed on itself."

With unemployment at a 26-year high of 10.2% and in the double digits in more than a dozen states, the administration is under increasing pressure to jumpstart job creation. Their Republican critics argue the $787 billion stimulus package the president signed in February has done more to increase the deficit than it has to reduce the unemployment.

"You have to remember that President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have never run a business, much less ever had a real job in the private sector," House Minority Leader John Boehner said at a roundtable discussion he hosted on jobs today with economists and GOP leaders. "So how do they know what it takes to create real jobs?

The president highlighted steps his administration had taken to stabilize the financial system and encourage lending to families and businesses -- steps he believes were necessary to avert a total economic collapse. He also noted that with productivity rising, companies were reporting profits and the stock market was up, but said there was still much more to do.

"I am not interested in taking a wait-and-see approach when it comes to creating jobs," he said. "What I'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term."

In fact, critics have called today's jobs summit just another Washington solution, an example of talk instead of action. Obama acknowledged the skepticism, but tossed it aside with a joke that dates back to the campaign trail. "I don't mind skepticism. If I listened to the skeptics, I wouldn't be here," he said to laughs.

Obama plans to announce a set of measures to boost job growth on Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institution. But today he stressed the need to do so responsibly given the nation's already-stretched resources.

"I want to be clear: While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector," he said. "We don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis."

During the closing session, the president discussed some of the conclusions of the two working groups he took part in -- on infrastructure and green jobs. And he took questions on topics ranging from higher education and the deficit to the uncertainty many businesses feel is hampering their ability to make investment decisions like hiring.

Uncertainty was an issue mentioned by questioners. "My strong hope is that we get health care done by the end of this year. That eliminates some uncertainty, because people will have a sense of what's going to be happening in the health care field," Obama said. "That we get financial regulatory reform done, if not by the end of this year then early next year so that banks have certainty and that to the extent that the uncertainty is derived from these major legislative initiatives I think will be solved in the next few months."

[GabiandVi 34]

From NBC's Athena Jones

Bring your A-Game, President Obama told the audience at a summit the White House sponsored today to solicit ideas on how to spur job growth.

Some 130 attendees from businesses big and small, labor, non-profits, and academia took part in the event, participating in six panel discussions that focused on infrastructure investment, small businesses, green jobs, exports, encouraging business investment and strengthening Main Street.

"The question we have to ask ourselves today: How do we get businesses to start hiring again?" Obama said in during the opening session of an event. "How do we get ourselves to the point where more people are working and more people are spending and you start seeing a virtuous cycle and the recovery starts to feed on itself."

With unemployment at a 26-year high of 10.2% and in the double digits in more than a dozen states, the administration is under increasing pressure to jumpstart job creation. Their Republican critics argue the $787 billion stimulus package the president signed in February has done more to increase the deficit than it has to reduce the unemployment.

"You have to remember that President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have never run a business, much less ever had a real job in the private sector," House Minority Leader John Boehner said at a roundtable discussion he hosted on jobs today with economists and GOP leaders. "So how do they know what it takes to create real jobs?

The president highlighted steps his administration had taken to stabilize the financial system and encourage lending to families and businesses -- steps he believes were necessary to avert a total economic collapse. He also noted that with productivity rising, companies were reporting profits and the stock market was up, but said there was still much more to do.

"I am not interested in taking a wait-and-see approach when it comes to creating jobs," he said. "What I'm interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term."

In fact, critics have called today's jobs summit just another Washington solution, an example of talk instead of action. Obama acknowledged the skepticism, but tossed it aside with a joke that dates back to the campaign trail. "I don't mind skepticism. If I listened to the skeptics, I wouldn't be here," he said to laughs.

Obama plans to announce a set of measures to boost job growth on Tuesday in a speech at the Brookings Institution. But today he stressed the need to do so responsibly given the nation's already-stretched resources.

"I want to be clear: While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector," he said. "We don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis."

During the closing session, the president discussed some of the conclusions of the two working groups he took part in -- on infrastructure and green jobs. And he took questions on topics ranging from higher education and the deficit to the uncertainty many businesses feel is hampering their ability to make investment decisions like hiring.

Uncertainty was an issue mentioned by questioners. "My strong hope is that we get health care done by the end of this year. That eliminates some uncertainty, because people will have a sense of what's going to be happening in the health care field," Obama said. "That we get financial regulatory reform done, if not by the end of this year then early next year so that banks have certainty and that to the extent that the uncertainty is derived from these major legislative initiatives I think will be solved in the next few months."

Weren't you the guy who started the Diane Savino's boobs thread?

[Niels Bohr 72]

I miss the connection. What was it?

Edited December 11, 2009 by Niels Bohr

[GabiandVi 34]

I miss the connection. What was it?

immature . . . ####### . . .

And while we're at it, you read that entire article and what you got out of it was that John Boehner had a hard on? For what? What was the connection between what he said and having an immature #######? Please explain your leap.

[Niels Bohr 72]

While your at it, explain why someone as selfish as a member of the Republican party can't spell the President's name?

I miss the connection. What was it?

immature . . . ####### . . .

And while we're at it, you read that entire article and what you got out of it was that John Boehner had a hard on? For what? What was the connection between what he said and having an immature #######? Please explain your leap.

[GabiandVi 34]

While your at it, explain why someone as selfish as a member of the Republican party can't spell the President's name?

I miss the connection. What was it?

immature . . . ####### . . .

And while we're at it, you read that entire article and what you got out of it was that John Boehner had a hard on? For what? What was the connection between what he said and having an immature #######? Please explain your leap.

#######?

[Niels Bohr 72]

[alienlovechild 75]

I want to be clear: While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector," he said. "We don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis."

Uncertainty was an issue mentioned by questioners. "My strong hope is that we get health care done by the end of this year. That eliminates some uncertainty, because people will have a sense of what's going to be happening in the health care field," Obama said. "That we get financial regulatory reform done, if not by the end of this year then early next year so that banks have certainty and that to the extent that the uncertainty is derived from these major legislative initiatives I think will be solved in the next few months."

Obama has his priorities backwards after months of fooling around with his pet projects such as healthcare, he comes to the realization that businesses don't like to hire when they don't know what they will be saddled with in taxes and regulations. He didn't really get the banks to lend money which was one of his first tasks. Federal spending was supposed to leverage spending by business and renew confidence by investors. There never were enough public dollars and there are no public money without a strong private sector.

Edited December 11, 2009 by alienlovechild

[Niels Bohr 72]

bump

[Amby 490]

consolemaster...I am considering starting a "ask consolemaster" thread. are you willing to give advice to all that ask for it?