Obama Asks Congress for Bargain To Create Jobs

The president of the United States seeks reforms to get more jobs for the middle class.

This Sunday in Congress, President Barack Obama asked Republicans for a “grand bargain” in order to encourage employment for the middle class through budget code reform for businesses.

“I’m willing to work with Republicans to simplify our tax code for businesses large and small, but only if we take the money we save by transitioning to a simpler tax system and make a significant investment in creating good, middle-class jobs,” Obama said.

In his weekly broadcast on Sunday, the president indicated that his suggestion to change the budget system would allow for the obtaining of resources to invest in infrastructure and promote industry — and with that, he said, promote exports and give economic aid to community colleges to train skilled workers, without adding “a single dime” to the deficit, he emphasized.

Obama warned that the main priority of politicians in Washington should be to reverse the trend within the last decade of only a privileged few making progress, while the majority of families “were working harder and harder just to get by.”

“I’ll keep laying out my ideas to give the middle class a better shot in the 21st century, and I’ll keep reaching out to Republicans for theirs,” the president emphasized.

Obama harshly criticized the initiatives approved by Congress that have reduced the budget for government investment, saying that they threaten to bring about the country’s fall into default.

“Denying health care to millions of Americans, or shutting down the government just because I’m for keeping it open — that won’t help the middle class,” the president said.

At the end of the 2013 fiscal year, this Sept. 30, Congress and President Obama must reach an agreement on budget allocations for the 2014 fiscal year so that the government has funds to operate from next Oct. 1.

From 1995-96, the federal government stopped working because of a lack of resources after President Bill Clinton stopped a spending bill passed by the Republican-controlled Congress that included intense cuts to education, environment and health.