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| Obama picks jobs expert as top advisor |
| 2011-08-31 |
[Dawn] US President Barack B.O.Obama on Monday nominated Alan Krueger, a Princeton University expert on unemployment, as his top economic adviser as he plots an "urgent" new offensive on the jobs crisis. See? He's already created [1] job? Obama described Krueger as one of America's top economists who understood the challenges that the country faces, with a recovery that has been too tepid to make significant cuts in an unemployment rate of 9.1 per cent. Krueger, if confirmed by the Senate, will serve as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and succeed long-time Obama confidante Austan Goolsbee who left the administration to return to academia in Chicago. Ah, academia. Tenured haven for failed political policy makers. I'll be a god there... Next week, the president will lay out a new plan to create jobs and slice into the deficit, projected to hit dollar 1.6 trillion this year, in a speech certain to ignite a new political firestorm with Republicans. "Our great economic challenge as a nation remains how to get this economy growing," Obama said as he appeared with Krueger in the White House Rose Garden and previewed his big speech. The president promised "steps that Congress can take immediately to put more money in the pockets of working class families and middle class families and to make it easier for small businesses to hire people. "That's our urgent mission, and that's what I'm fighting for every single day," he said. "My hope and expectation is we can put country before party and get something done for the American people. That's what I will be fighting for." The president is pushing for an extension to a current payroll tax cut, an infrastructure spending plan that would provide jobs for construction workers and an initiative to put returning Afghan and Iraq war veterans to work. |
| Posted by:Fred |
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| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-08-31 20:02 |
| #12 Have a look at Finis Welch's thoughts on one famous piece of work by Professor Krueger and colleague. (It is a pdf file.) |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2011-08-31 18:51 |
| #11 Obama himself is on the record for not having worked a single day in his whole life...the perfect gay coke head parasite... |
| Posted by: hotspur666 2011-08-31 13:45 |
| #10 The guy has never had a job. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-08-31 13:35 |
| #9 Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chairman under President George W. Bush and long-time acquaintance of Krueger sez: [A] reputation as an analytic, data-driven economist, not as a champion for many specific policy initiatives... highly-qualified for the post... doesn’t expect Krueger to push the administration in new directions... more of a continuity appointment... "don’t think the president wanted a change. He’s keeping the basic structure of the team in place.” |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-08-31 12:56 |
| #8 Steve Jobs or the Koch Brothers are jobs experts. A college professor (see Austan Goolsbee) - not so much. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-31 12:13 |
| #7 And the first thing this "expert" suggested before taking his chair is a National sales tax. What an expert. What a stupid idiot - FUBAR. He will sleigh the economy. Let the freddie Kruegar jokes fly. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-08-31 11:48 |
| #6 Wake me when a professor from an ivy league school actually makes a positive difference in the government. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-08-31 11:40 |
| #5 I come in contact with a lot of regular people on a daily basis who have created more jobs than this guy. The arrogance of the elite. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-08-31 11:04 |
| #4 Government spending creates one job for every two that transfer taxation destroys. Want more jobs? Get out of the way. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-08-31 10:21 |
| #3 Or on the golf course. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-08-31 10:06 |
| #2 "That's our urgent mission, and that's what I'm fighting for every single day," he said with a tough, manly glint in his eye. (See that's how you make it look like that he really cares about the proles and is a leader to boot!) |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2011-08-31 08:51 |
| #1 "That's our urgent mission, and that's what I'm fighting for every single day," he said. Except when he's fighting for more regulation, more taxes, or more fairness in income distribution, that is. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-08-31 06:07 |