Barack Obama Quotes About Economics

• Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let’s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.

  Barack Obama

  Fall, Top Down, Play

  "Ex-Senators Paid To Help Multibillion-Dollar Company Evade Corporate Income Taxes" By Shadee Ashtari, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

• What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called "right to work" laws, they don't have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics. What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money.

  Barack Obama

  Rights, Talking, Law

  Barack Obama's remarks at the Daimler Detroit Diesel Plant in Redford, Michigan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 10, 2012.

• We can't afford more top-down economics. What we need are policies that will grow and strengthen the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Top Down, Class, Needs

• I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work.

  Barack Obama

  Top Down, Want, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• I put forward a budget of what I called "middle-class economics" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Class, Growth

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity.

  Barack Obama

  Real, Party, Cutting

  "President to Meet with Senate Leaders; Minot Evacuees Can't Go Back Home Yet; Indonesian Workers Banned From Saudi Jobs; TSA Forces 95-Year-Old to Remove Adult Diaper; Bachmann to Declare Bid Monday". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. June 26, 2011.

• So we don't need more top-down economics. We've tried that theory. We've seen what happens. We can't afford to go back to it.

  Barack Obama

  Top Down, Needs, Economics

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