Speech Excercise

The video above is the President of the United States of America (Barack Obama) adressing in a press conference some of the major problems the government is currently faced with. Included in this speech was the discussion about our budget defieit as well as decsions that needed to be made by both Congress and Republicans to compromise with the President and Democrats. Republicans where blamed for not authorizing the raising of the deficit ceiling in order to pay off America's "bils". Not doing so would ultimately push investors away from doing business in the United States and therefore contributing to the deficit.

This video above also catches the president's statements toward Republicans by saying that they where taking an "unbalanced approach" to cutting the budget deficit. He accuses them of "doubling down" on groups such as emergency respnders, seniors, and middle class families when a single loop hole among the wealthiest americans could avoid the burdens that lower income level americans would have to face. The common theme in both these videos is that Republicans have been a pretty big pain to work with since they are unwilling to compromise with the Democratic party.