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Obama Plans Jobs Speech, Calls for Long-Term Deficit Cuts to Pay for Spending Now - FoxNews.com
Two senior officials confirmed to Fox News that the president will deliver an address focused on jobs and deficit reduction next month.
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., urged the president to focus his new approach on encouraging the private sector to expand.
"If the president's proposals will just be once again ... reflecting his belief that you simply spend more money to create more jobs, it won't work," he told Fox News. "It's how we got into the downgrade that we're in."
best line in the whole story!Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck suggested Obama drop the speech and just submit his plan. "We really don't need another speech -- just a plan, like, on paper. Seriously, just drop it in the mail. Podium not required. Thanks," he wrote on Twitter.
The unemployment rate is at 9.1 percent. No president in recent history has been re-elected with a jobless rate nearly that high.