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Address: Protecting Working Americans’ Paychecks
The White House
March 28, 2015
Hi, everybody. Five years ago, after the worst financial
crisis in decades, we passed historic Wall Street reform to end the era of
bailouts and too big to fail.
As part that reform, we created
an independent Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with one mission: to
protect American consumers from some of the worst practices of the financial
industry.
They’ve already put $5 billion
back in the pockets of more than 15 million families. And this week, they took an important first
step towards cracking down on some of the most abusive practices involving
payday loans.
Millions of Americans take out
these loans every year. In Alabama,
where I visited this week, there are four times as many payday lending stores
as there are McDonald’s. But while
payday loans might seem like easy money, folks often end up trapped in a cycle
of debt. If you take out a $500 loan,
it’s easy to wind up paying more than $1,000 in interest and fees.
The step the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau announced this week is designed to change that. The idea is pretty common sense: if you’re a
payday lender preparing to give a loan, you should make sure that the borrower
can afford to pay it back first.
As Americans, we believe there’s
nothing wrong with making a profit. But
there is something wrong with making that profit by trapping hard-working men
and women in a vicious cycle of debt.
Protecting working Americans’
paychecks shouldn’t be a partisan issue.
But the budget Republicans unveiled last week would make it harder, not
easier, to crack down on financial fraud and abuse. And this week, when Republicans rolled out
their next economic idea, it had nothing to do with the middle class. It was a new, more-than-$250 billion tax cut
for the top one-tenth of the top one percent of Americans. That would mean handing out an average tax
cut of $4 million a year to just 4,000 Americans per year, and leaving the rest
of the country to pay for it.
I don’t think our top economic
priority should be helping a tiny number of Americans who are already doing
extraordinarily well, and asking everybody else to foot the bill. I think our top priority should be helping
everybody who works hard get ahead. This
country does best when everyone gets their fair shot, everyone does their fair
share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.
That’s what middle-class
economics is all about, and as long as I’m your President, that’s what I’ll
keep on fighting to do.
Thanks, and have a great weekend. |
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