President Obama’s Weekly Address – 02/07/09

February 8, 2009 by
Filed under: Blog Entries, Obama, Personal Finance, Politics 

There was bad news and then there was good news.

Yesterday we learned that in January, the country suffered its largest one-month job loss in 34 years.

But last night, the Senate struck a compromise on the economic recovery plan and put us on our way to giving the economy the short-term jolt and long-term investments it needs.

“Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we’re equal to the task before us,” the President says in this morning’s Weekly Address. “Let’s show them that we are.”

Watch the President’s address and read the full text here.

 

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One Comment on President Obama’s Weekly Address – 02/07/09

  1. theo.johnson on Sun, 8th Feb 2009 12:58 am
  2. Amen, to that. The tax cut only model doesn’t seem to have helped much. The President goes off pretty good on the Republicans. Way to go.

    It’ll be interesting to see how things turn out.

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