{"id":9707,"date":"2011-09-08T15:10:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T19:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9707"},"modified":"2011-09-08T12:27:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T16:27:10","slug":"pres-obama-says-congress-must-pass-job-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9707","title":{"rendered":"Pres. Obama Says Congress Must Pass Job Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DETROIT<\/strong> &#8212; <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> said Monday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs as he used a boisterous rally to aim a partisan barb at the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said there are numerous roads and bridges that need rebuilding in the U.S., and over 1 million unemployed construction workers who are available to build them. He was speaking on Labor Day, the holiday that celebrates the American worker and marks the traditional end of summer.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said that with widespread suffering, &#8220;the time for Washington games is over&#8221; and lawmakers must move quickly to create jobs. &#8220;But we&#8217;re not going wait for them,&#8221; he said at an annual event sponsored by the Metropolitan Detroit AFL-CIO. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to see if we&#8217;ve got some straight shooters in Congress. We&#8217;re going to see if congressional Republicans will put country before party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Show us what you&#8217;ve got,&#8221; <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the speech, the union crowd kept chanting &#8220;four more years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT &#8212; President Barack Obama said Monday that congressional Republicans must put their country ahead of their party and vote to create new jobs as he used a boisterous rally to aim a partisan barb at the opposition. In a preview of the jobs speech he will deliver on Thursday to Congress, Pres. Obama said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}