Bill Clinton: “This is a clear choice”
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President Bill Clinton explains why he's behind President Obama's plan to build our economy from the middle class out.
Category: Economy and jobs
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Ryan: “Made in America is coming back”
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“I’ve been a supporter of President Obama since 2008. I got chills watching his inauguration and I think he’s done a fantastic job.
“I’m a recent college graduate working in supply chain—I graduated in 2009 and I had a pretty bad first job, but the job market has really opened up for me since President Obama came into office. Things have been getting better every day.
“We’ve had 29 straight months of job growth and I don’t want to see Mitt Romney undo all of that good work. When President Obama’s Recovery Act took place, that’s when our economy started improving.
“His work on the rescue of the auto industry helped a ton of my friends in Michigan. A lot of them have good jobs now as a result. I also really believe in Obamacare. Anytime you can get 30 million more people health insurance, that’s great for this country. He’s a strong leader who makes good decisions on foreign affairs. I support his stance on gay marriage. There are so many reasons why President Obama has my vote.
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Letter of the week—August 20th, 2012
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My name is Janine and I am from West Michigan. When I was scrolling through the list of what this message was going to be about, there were really too many that I could have chosen from.
I am a teacher about to start my ninth year teaching art in a local middle school. I am originally from Flint, and I come from parents who are still married after more than 40 years. My mother is from Israel and immigrated to this country when she was 14; my dad has lived on the same street in Flint for pretty much his whole life. They met in their Catholic high school and married after graduating. When I think about our country, like you, I realize that my story is not possible anywhere else.
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The Sunday Dinner Company: A small business for Obama
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In downtown Detroit, Chef Eric Giles is busy helping young people succeed at the Sunday Dinner Company. Play the audio slideshow featuring the family restaurant and a few of its employees to find out why Chef Giles is a small business owner for Obama.
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Joe: A small business owner for Obama
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“President Obama trying to improve the lives of all citizens. He doesn’t pick and choose. Small businesses benefit from good policies overall. People with health care are going to be better employees, people with income from jobs and social services can go out to dinner. Strong communities make for strong businesses. That’s why we need another four years. He’s just getting started.”
—Joe, a small business owner from Washington, who was able to open a pizzeria with the Small Business Jobs Act.
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Oskaloosa: “The President stands for the working class”
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At the Nelson Farm and Pioneer Museum in Oskaloosa, Iowa, President Obama laid out a few key differences between his plan for the economy and Mitt Romney’s. After the speech, audience members offered their take.
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“I think the stark difference is that the President ultimately stands for the working class and the middle class. And I know it almost gets to sound cliché—but they’ve got the data to support the claim that the Republicans are, in fact, in support of the richest and the wealthiest in America. That's who they want to aim the tax cuts toward, and they want to then pay for that on the backs of some of the middle-class, working Americans.”
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Letter of the week—August 13th, 2012
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To the campaign staff of President Barack Obama:
I have a story that I think says a lot about how Obama has helped the middle class in multiple ways.
My husband and I worked for a publishing company—17 years for him, 13 years for me. The company could not afford its staggering debt and laid off wave after wave of employees. Within a year, when our son was 3, my husband was laid off. I was laid off 6 months later, in December 2008.
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Middle class taxes and Mitt Romney
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According to the Tax Policy Center, Mitt Romney would have to cut numerous middle class tax benefits to pay for his $5 trillion tax plan, which is weighted towards the wealthy. As president, he would have two choices: Either add trillions to the deficit, or make cuts to existing tax breaks for millions of middle-class families. (And sparing any individual benefit would simply mean having to cut the others more deeply.)
Click through the slideshow to see what Romney might do—then share it with your friends.
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Mitt Romney's tax plan
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