Speaking on the latest jobs numbers this morning, the President had words for Republicans who have been relentlessly blocking any measure to give the economy another boost: “We need to do what’s right, not what’s political, and we need to do it right now.”
The audience was made up of workers at Gelberg Signs, a small business in DC that’s currently hiring new workers and making new investments in their technology thanks in part to two Small Business Administration loans. It’s the kind of business that helped private employment grow for the seventh straight month just a year after the economy seemed to be falling off a cliff.
But while the worst kind of disaster may have been averted, and the approximately 3 million jobs the Recovery Act was responsible for have brought us back from the brink of another Great Depression, the President has also been consistent that more needed to be done. And for those who have been stalling job-creating initiatives in Congress, the President gave them a fresh sense of urgency.
Fonte: White House