President Obama announced his job’s proposal plans earlier this month on September 8th. Through his plan, the President is focusing on workers. He wants to lower payroll taxes on the workers while also giving more benefits to those who have been unemployed for an extended period of time. Obama also wants to sway local state governments from the layoff of teachers, police officers and firefighters. In addition to helping the workers, the President wants to spend a lot of money on rebuilding roads, bridges and schools.
To gain support for his plans, President Obama is campaigning in the re-election battleground states. On Thursday, September 22nd, President Barack Obama delivered a speech in Ohio to discuss these plans to help the unemployed in the country. Through his speech, Obama was also hoping to pressure the Republican politicians to back his bill of investing in highway system repairs by paying construction workers $27 billion to do the work.
The President made his speech while standing near the Brent Spence Bridge; a bridge which annually contributes around 4 percent to the country’s gross domestic product. The relevance of scenery was to show that this aging bridge, and other infrastructures in its condition, would benefit from his plan.
Still, Obama faces opposition for his plans from House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Although both politicians are in favor of fixing deteriorated roads and infrastructures, they are not in agreement with Obama’s ways of doing so. In his speech Obama addresses this and said that Boehner and McConnell “can either kill this job’s bill, or they can help pass this job’s bill.”
After his speech, the public addressed their concerns through Twitter. While some people seemed content with the President’s speech, others not so much. View some tweets below:
