While the recovery has seen the U.S. economy return to growth and unemployment rates have fallen to near pre-crisis levels, the economic outlook is not all rosy for Obama.
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“The comments from the President apply to a significant number of candidates in the Republican field”.
Later that day, Obama offered an example of what he thinks makes America great when he addressed 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed, the Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a possible bomb. We can do even better, but the reason I’m so confident about our future is not because of our government, or the size of our GDP, or our military, but because everybody in this country that I meet regardless of their station in life, their race, their religion, the region they live in.
Obama returned to the theme later in his remarks.
Obama said it was imperative that Republicans in Congress pass a government spending measure before the end-of-month deadline to avoid a shutdown, calling the standoff over funding for Planned Parenthood “bad policymaking”. “America’s great right now”.
The New York real estate developer has proposed mass deportations and the erection of a wall between Mexico and the USA , as well as revisions to the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants “birthright citizenship” to those born in the US.
“This whole notion that somehow we’re getting outcompeted, out dealt, out-this, out-that, we’re losing – nobody outside the United States understands what we’re talking about”, Obama said, adding later that there is “not a country out there, including China, that wouldn’t look at us with envy right now”. “You’ll recall two years ago, Republicans shut down the government because they didn’t like Obamacare”. Ending the tax break would force hedge-fund managers to pay the top income-tax rate of 39.6 percent on most of the profits they earn for other people, rather than the much lower capital-gains rate. But only the relatively obscure carried-interest loophole now has the support of both the leading outsider Republican candidate and its most prominent establishment favorite-a pretty powerful combo with which to prod the GOP Congress. That’s not our problem.
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Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada said he was heading to the White House on Thursday along with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi for talks with the president.
