Sentences with phrase «ignore jobs and growth»

«There's no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices, and you know, understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that,» President Obama said at a press conference in response a question by New York Times reporter, Mark Landler.

[Here is the golden nugget in the interview gc] I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that.

Given this painful history, the president's almost testy press conference response — «if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that» — becomes more understandable.

There's no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices, and you know, understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that.

Not exact matches

These companies use political contributions and armies of lobbyists to cajole governments to ignore the consequences: an economic crisis worse than the recent recession awaits if these nations fail to spark growth in areas that can stimulate growth and create jobs.

Add starvation, eliminate the ability for SO MANY to have health care, continue to ignore outsourced jobs (which just MIGHT be a reason for our stagnant job growth) and you don't think the demise will come sooner?

He's declared Buffalo «a national success story» while ignoring job growth that's only half the national average and a poverty rate that ranks among the highest in the country.

Granted, the Federal Reserve would like to tell you the job growth is solid, even as chairwoman Yellen and her colleagues ignore the disappearance of high - paying manufacturing jobs on a daily basis.

They are fed up with a bunch of white environmentalists and oppressed do - gooders running the country into ruin by ignoring the fundamentals of jobs, wage growth, and personal and family security in favor of reduced coal burning, reduced oil drilling, no oil pipelines, no fracking, endangered species over the human kind, and attempts to control the long - term climate at tremendous cost to the citizenry.

While inventory strains are driving increases in home prices here in Las Vegas, we can't ignore the benefits of job growth, both locally and nationally.