Obama's Kansas Speech Highlights: Giving Everyone a Fair Shot

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Excerpts from President Obama's speech in Osawatomie:

"This is a make or break moment for the middle class, and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class. Long before the recession hit, hard work stopped paying off for too many people. Those at the very top grew wealthier from their incomes and investments than ever before. But everyone else struggled with costs that were growing and paychecks.

This kind of inequality -- a level we haven't seen since the Great Depression -- hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling, it drags down the entire economy, from top to bottom. We need to extend a payroll tax cut that's set to expire at the end of this month. If we don't do that, 160 million Americans will see their taxes go up by an average of $1,000, and it would badly weaken our recovery.

Today, thanks to loopholes and shelters, a quarter of all millionaires now pay lower tax rates than millions of middle-class families. It's been about building a nation where we're all better off. We pull together, we pitch in, and we do our part, believing that hard work will pay off; that responsibility will be rewarded; and that our children will inherit a nation where those values live on."

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[ruffzspree]

I always find it hilarious about the people who have been "dissapointed" in Obama saying I voted for change blah blah. Do these people know how government works? The guys does not have the ability to do everything he wants. You have to pass it through congress which has been Obama's wall. Everything gets blocked. A lot of people don't follow politics to the point they should, instead of relying on a 30 second local news clip or a small paragraph from a newspaper. If only people did research.

[MyLng sixhundredh]

End the fed! Bailing out companies because they go bankrupt(they go bankrupt because they are not good enough, AND their CEOs pay themselves millions of dollars) If you continue to bail them out they can continue to pay themselves millions for bad business.

It doesn't save jobs to bail them out. Other companies can emerge, the market opens for new business. Let the shitty ones die and the new flourish!

[Wanda Goree]

God bless you Mr. President, stay uplifted no matter what arrive, always know that you are here for the goodness of the people.

[Seung Wan Kang]

God bless you sir

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[lilnardo731]

Mr. President your policies are working and hyave been working. Stand up for your record, I sure will tell people of your promises kept. I have your back.

[JR Tey]

He's the best President ever!

[Bernardzee5]

How on earth would anyone dislike this man? A man who wants to "build a nation where we're all better off."

[Les Subrick]

Go Bama!

[Olek Monson]

lalalal



[kyleeftw]

so you banned online poker cuz its not hard work?!, ppl are busting theyr asses off infront of the computer to make a living.