Obama to Pitch Economic Agenda at Ohio Steel Plant

[TomCADem]

Source: Associated Press

President Barack Obama is taking his economic message to Ohio, using a Cleveland steel plant as the setting to promote his energy efficiency, business attraction and auto industry policies.

Obama is also likely to address the status of the health care law after his administration announced that only 26,794 people enrolled for insurance on the trouble-plagued federal website during October. In a bright spot for Obama, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is one of a few Republican governors to take advantage of the law's Medicaid expansion to reach more low-income Americans.

Obama will visit a plant owned by ArcelorMittal, a Luxembourg-based steel company that has benefited from the auto industry resurgence. It manufactures advanced high-strength steel that contributes to automobile fuel efficiency.


Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-pitch-economic-agenda-ohio-steel-plant-20884728

[Larkspur]

1. Will he speak about TPP?

TPP would wipe out these plants.

[pampango]

5. If it has enforceable provisions on labor rights and the environment, it will decrease

the advantages of low-wage countries.

We already have "free trade" agreements with most of the TPP countries (Canada, Mexico, Australia, Chile, Singapore and Peru). Trade with the others is governed by WTO rules.

If TPP rules turn out to be worse than FTA/WTO rules now in effect, it should be rejected. If they are better that is a different story.

[liberal N proud]

2. I just listened to a neocon bitch about him coming to town

This guy called the Obama administration the "most transparently corrupt administration." I couldn't leave it alone and said as compared to the war criminals bush and cheney?

The subject was quickly changed!

[Divine Discontent]

3. hahaha! I mean, yeah, does that guy have the shortest memory ever?

B&C were as corrupt and shameful as any tandem P&VP in the WH that I can recall... way to shut him up...


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[Pterodactyl]

4. I sure hope the economic improvements work!