AFL-CIO’s Trumka hopes for ‘very bold’ jobs proposal from Obama

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Muriel Kane


In an interview to be aired Friday evening on Bloomberg Television, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka tells interviewer AL Hunt that he is hoping President Obama will propose a jobs creation program amounting to $400 billion a year over the next ten years in order to get the country moving again.

"I am optimistic about it," Trumka says in an advance transcript of his remarks supplied to Raw Story. "I'm hoping that he'll be very bold, he'll stand up for the American worker and say, 'This is what needs to be done to fix the problem, and I'm going to fight for it.'"

Trumka supported his call for spending a total of $4 trillion with figures from a report, issued by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which stated that the United States needs to spend $2.2 trillion just to repair its aging infrastructure and another $2 trillion to bring that infrastructure into the 21st century.

Trumka noted that other measures, like tax credits for job creation, might "help around the edges, but they don't create and give you the economic activity. ... It has to be with other things."

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/02/afl-cios-trumka-hopes-for-very-bold-jobs-proposal-from-obama/

[ibegurpard]

1. I'd like his take on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1863174&mesg_id=1863174

[placton]

2. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

oh this is rich - thanks for this humor! what? he really said that?

[Peregrine Took]

6. +1

[stranger81]

3. And I hope I'll get a unicorn

in my stocking this Christmas.

[doc03]

4. I don't think we will ever see bold and Obama in the

same sentence.

[gkhouston]

8. Here...

Obama is about to make a cosmic blunder by nibbling at the edges of the problem instead of going big.

[Bluebear]

5. And I hope there's a Cadillac under my tree this christmas

[Parker CA]

7. That's a pretty big tree. ;-)

[Bluebear]

12. I'm wishing for a big tree too lol

[UTUSN]

9. So is he starting by *voting* for the Democratic president OBAMA?!1 n/t

[Dragonfli]

10. Hope in one hand and sh*t in the other... /nt

[Brickbat]

11. He hopes, but he knows.

[Starry Messenger]

13. +