Obama's jobs speech

Obama's jobs speech:

The President's Job's Initiative Doesn't Measure Up
Robert Reich, December 8, 2009
Barack Obama is trying once again for balance.
http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/12/presidents-jobs-initiative-doesnt.html


Obama Not Cutting It On The Economy
Dan Gerstein, Forbes, December 9, 2009
President's speech drops the ball on spending.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/08/barack-obama-jobs-afghanistan-opinions-columnists-dan-gerstein.html?feed=rss_opinions


Obama's Stimulus 2.0 acknowledges government's limitations
Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, December 9, 2009
What I like about President Obama's Stimulus 2.0 is what all the partisans and ideologues hate about it -- its restraint and its willingness to embrace seemingly contradictory ideas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803795.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns

Parsing Obama's Speech on the Economy
Noam Scheiber, The Stash, December 8, 2009
The president appeared at the Brookings Institution this morning to announce several job-creating measures as a kind of tangible follow-up to last week's summit. But between Obama's speech and a background briefing by senior administration officials beforehand, I detected four other goals on the economic front.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-stash/parsing-obamas-speech-the-economy

Obama's FDR moment
Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, December 9, 2009
Obama's proposal only goes part of the way toward salvaging the economy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803403.html?wprss=rss_opinions