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AS OBAMA PUTS CAMPAIGN PROMISES ON HOLD,
WILL
VETERANS FEEL THE PINCH? -- Obama: "Everybody's
going to have to give. Everybody's going to
have to have some skin in the game."
I really don't like expressions like the one
President-elect Obama used in a recent TV interview: "Everybody's
going to have to give."
Really? Everybody?
You, Mr. President-elect? Members of
Congress? Corporate cronies who have received hundreds of billions
of dollars in bailout money?
Who's got to give?
Hey... VA Watchdog readers... disabled vets...
are you willing to give? Give up a percentage of your VA disability
benefits? How about a longer wait for healthcare at the VA because
of lower staffing? How about a longer wait for a claim to be
approved?
Vets... Are you willing to give any of those
things?
I thought not. And, rightly so.
Because you've already given what the majority of this country never even
thought about giving.
So, Mr. President-elect... be careful when you
say "Everybody's going to have to give."
Because, you see, Sir, I already gave.
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Some Obama campaign
promises are put on hold as the economy sinks
BY CELESTE KATZ
DAILY NEWS POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
Tackling the troubled economy is going to require Americans to sacrifice -
and it means some campaign promises will have to be put on hold,
President-elect Barack Obama says.
"Everybody's going to have to give. Everybody's going to have to have some
skin in the game," Obama said on ABC News' "This Week with George
Stephanopoulos" set to air this morning.
Obama's comments came as the President-elect, who takes office Jan. 20,
responded to a new national unemployment report by saying in his weekly
address Saturday that he'll save or create 3 million to 4 million new
jobs.
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more
money into that, eliminating things that don't work and making
 things
that we have more efficient," Obama said on ABC. "I want to be realistic
here. Not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going
to be able to do on the pace we had hoped."
Obama agreed that his administration is going to involve some version of a
"grand bargain" - changes in areas like tax reform, Social Security and
Medicare will come at a cost.
Addressing the nation as his team released figures on the job situation,
Obama said in his weekly radio and video address that 90% of the jobs will
be created in the private sector. The remainder are "mainly public sector
jobs" such as teachers, cops and firefighters.
The report released by Obama's team Saturday projected the creation of
678,000 new construction jobs and 408,000 manufacturing jobs by next year
under an estimated $775 billion stimulus plan.
Among the sources of the new jobs Obama cited: designing more efficient
cars and building solar panels, infrastructure roles such as repairing
roads and bridges, and jobs in the health care and education sectors.
Obama said economists predict that if Congress doesn't agree on a
large-scale stimulus plan, the U.S. will shed as many as 4 million jobs
before the recession comes to an end.
Obama also vowed to procure "bipartisan extensions of unemployment
insurance and health care coverage" and a $1,000 tax cut for 95% of
working families.
"Given the magnitude of the challenges we face, none of this will come
easy. Recovery won't happen overnight, and it's likely that things will
get worse before they get better," Obama warned.
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posted by Larry Scott
Founder and Editor
VA Watchdog dot Org
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