“The good news is more young people are earning college degrees than ever before.” —President Obama
“The bad news is that they’re all in Women’s Studies, and a new report shows conclusively that there are no actual jobs that involve studying women.”
Archive of posts filed under the Obama Warned Us category.
Obama Warned Us – Economy
“Our economy is doing better, it’s growing.” —President Obama #RaiseTheWage
“Well, maybe not ‘growing’ so much as ‘metastasizing‘…”
Obama Warned Us – Pay Disparity
“I don’t want my daughters getting paid less than someone else’s sons for the same job.” —President Obama #StandWithWomen
“That’s why I’d never let my daughters work for me.”
Obama Warned Us – Raising Wages
Raising wages is not just a job for organizers, not just a job for elected officials – it’s also a job for businesses.
“Who will soon have no jobs for anyone, anymore, if the organizers and elected officials keep meddling.”
Obama Warned Us – Raise
Nearly 3 in 4 Americans support raising the minimum wage.” — President Obama #RaiseTheWage
“So, basically, everyone except the people who would actually have to figure out how to stay in business while paying 30% more to have the same amount of work get done.”
Obama Warned Us – Inclusive
“America is a place for everybody — that’s what we’re fighting for.”
“Welllll… a place for everybody except the people we’re fighting.”
Obama Warned Us – Familiar
“It’s like that movie Groundhog Day — except it’s not funny.” — President Obama on the attempts to dismantle Obamacare
“So it’s exactly like that movie Groundhog Day.”
Obama Warned Us – Threat
No more stalling: Climate change deniers need to understand now that this is a real threat. http://ofa.bo/bTt #ActOnClimate
“This tweet, I mean. Not climate change.”
Obama Warned Us – Permanent Record
Health care reform changed the course of history. Add your name to the permanent record of supporters: http://ofa.bo/hTC
“Or face the consequences. #ThingsCreepyDictatorsSay”
Obama Warned Us – Word
That’s why 7.1 million folks have health insurance – because people got the word out.”
“That’s why 6 million people lost their health insurance – because Democrats got 2600 pages of words out.”
Obama Warned Us – Climate
FACT: Droughts in the southwest U.S. are expected to last over 5 years by 2050. It’s time to #ActOnClimate.
“Some people think they can accurately predict weather 36 years in the future #RubberRoom #StraightJacket.”
Obama Warned Us – Built
The budget I sent Congress earlier this year is built on the idea of opportunity for all.
“Much like Giants stadium is built on Jimmy Hoffa.”
Obama Warned Us – Unemployment
“Too many Americans have gone without unemployment insurance for too long: http://ofa.bo/bVL #RenewUI”.
“You probably know them as ‘the employed’. Obamacare will fix most of those.”
Obama Warned Us – Push
“Where our own self-defense may not be involved, we may not act militarily. That does not mean that we don’t steadily push against those forces that would violate those principles and ideals that we care about”.
“So when that freight train comes barreling down the track at us, get ready to push steadily.”
Obama Warned Us – Messy World
“The truth of the matter is that the world’s always been messy. What the United States has consistently been able to do, and we continue to be able to do, is to mobilize the international community around a set of principles and norms.”
Barack Obama, Press Conference 3/25/14
“Principles and norms like ‘sitting on our hands and hoping the bad guys don’t hurt us’.”