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White House, Opposition Republicans Battle Over Economy

   VOA News 24 August 2010
   House  Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks about jobs and the
   economy at the City Club of Cleveland, 24 Aug 2010

Photo: AP

   House  Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) speaks about jobs and the
   economy at the City Club of Cleveland, 24 Aug 2010

   The  White  House  and  a  top  Republican  lawmaker are sparring over
   economic  policy,  a  little more than two months before the country's
   midterm elections.

   The  top Republican in the House of Representatives, John Boehner from
   the  state of Ohio, called Tuesday for President Barack Obama's entire
   economic  team  to  resign.  Boehner criticized the administration for
   what he said was excessive spending.

   U.S.  Vice  President  Joe  Biden  responded  by  accusing  Boehner of
   supporting economic policies that sparked the financial crisis.

   The  debate  comes  as  a  new poll shows 52 percent of those surveyed
   disapprove  of  President  Obama's performance. The Reuters/Ipsos poll
   also  found  72 percent of those surveyed are very concerned about the
   unemployment rate.

   The  poll  surveyed  more  than  1,000  people and is considered to be
   accurate within 3 percentage points.

   Boehner  spoke Tuesday to business officials in the city of Cleveland,
   Ohio.  He  criticized  the  Obama  administration's spending policies,
   saying  the  president is not doing enough to support small businesses
   and  create  jobs.  He  also  said  it  was time to put, in his words,
   "grown-ups (adults) in charge."

   Vice  President  Biden  spoke  in  Washington,  where  he was giving a
   progress  report  on  White  House  efforts  to  stimulate  additional
   economic  growth.  Biden  said  the Obama administration is helping to
   create an economy that will allow the U.S. to, in his words, "dominate
   the world economically."

   He  said  $100  billion  in  government  funding  already  has  led to
   technological  advances,  in  areas  like  renewable  energy, that are
   creating hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

   The U.S. unemployment rate is 9.5 percent. The Labor Department's said
   last  week  the  number  of  Americans  getting  extended or emergency
   unemployment benefits rose to almost 5.6 million at the end of July.

   Some information for this report was provided by Reuters.

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