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Address: A Path Towards a Thriving Middle Class
The White House
January 31, 2015
Hi, everybody. At a moment when our economy is growing, our
businesses are creating jobs at the fastest pace since the 1990s, and wages are
starting to rise again, we have to make some choices about the kind of country
we want to be.
Will we accept an economy where
only a few of us do spectacularly well?
Or will we build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance
to get ahead?
That was the focus of my State of
the Union Address – middle-class economics.
The idea that this country does best when everyone gets their fair shot,
everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
This week, I will send a budget
to Congress that’s built on those values.
We’ll help working families’
paychecks go farther by treating things like paid leave and child care like the
economic priorities that they are. We’ll
offer Americans of every age the chance to upgrade their skills so they can
earn higher wages, with plans like making two years of community college free
for every responsible student. And we’ll
keep building the world’s most attractive economy for high-wage jobs, with new
investments in research, infrastructure, manufacturing, and expanded access to
faster internet and new markets.
We can afford to make these
investments. Since I took office, we’ve
cut our deficits by about two-thirds – the fastest sustained deficit reduction
since just after the end of World War II.
We just have to be smarter about how we pay for our priorities, and
that’s what my budget does. It proposes
getting rid of special interest loopholes in our tax code, and using those
savings to cut taxes for middle-class families and reward businesses that
invest in America. It refuses to play
politics with our homeland security, and funds our national security priorities
at home and abroad. And it undoes the
arbitrary, across-the-board budget cuts known as “the sequester” for our
domestic priorities, and matches those investments dollar-for-dollar in resources
our troops need to get the job done.
Now, I know that there are
Republicans in Congress who disagree with my approach. And like I said in my State of the Union
Address, if they have ideas that will help middle-class families feel some
economic security, I’m all in to work with them. But I will keep doing everything I can to help
more working families make ends meet and get ahead. Not just because we want everyone to share in
America’s success – but because we want everyone to contribute to America’s
success.
That’s the way the middle class
thrived in the last century – and that’s how it will thrive again.
Thanks, and have a great weekend. |
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