Posts filed as “Barack Obama”

President Obama’s Amazon jobs pitch is hard to buy with one click

Weak job growth, low pay and Amazon's hypocrisy undermine the administration's story about new opportunities

President Barack Obama inadvertently foreshadowed July's mediocre employment numbers when he picked a new Amazon warehouse in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a speech last week about the need to improve the quality of American jobs.

Calling for stable middle class jobs from an Amazon warehouse is like announcing a fitness initiative in a grocery store's snack aisle,...Read more.

All the president’s deja-vus

Thursday's speech on the economy was just like all the others – it sounded great, we got excited, then poof! We moved on

This week Barack Obama remembered the middle class.

You know them. The people who will suffer in retirement if our Social Security retirement benefits are given a "tweak" as he phrased his own effort at entitlement reform last year. They are the people whose incomes have continued to fall...Read more.

All the president’s deja-vus

Thursday's speech on the economy was just like all the others – it sounded great, we got excited, then poof! We moved on

This week Barack Obama remembered the middle class.

You know them. The people who will suffer in retirement if our Social Security retirement benefits are given a "tweak" as he phrased his own effort at entitlement reform last year. They are the people whose incomes have continued to fall...Read more.