The mid-term elections are crucial to stop Republicans from rolling back job creation and health care and financial reforms, President Barack Obama told “The Tom Joyner Morning Show.”
“There are a whole series of choices that are going to be forced upon us if we don’t take this election seriously,” Obama told Tom Joyner and Sybil Wilkes on an interview recorded Thursday for Friday morning broadcast.
The president acknowledged the unemployment rate – especially in the black community, where it hovers around 17 percent – is still too high. Obama said that when he took office in January 2009, the economy was losing 700,000 to 800,000 jobs a month, but for eight straight months now, there has been growth.
“Jobs are being created, just not fast enough,” Obama said, noting that he has called for $50 billion for infrastructure reform that would put millions of Americans back to work repairing roads and bridges and “rebuilding America.”
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