Washington (CNN) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will kick off a series of town halls on jobs next month, one day before President Barack Obama holds a jobs forum at the White House.
Gingrich's American Solutions organization announced Monday that Gingrich will hold what it calls a "real jobs summit" in Cincinnati, Ohio, followed by another the next day in Jackson, Mississippi. That's the same day Obama holds his forum in Washington.
The president announced on November 12 that his forum will include representatives from business, organized labor, and academia, among other sectors.
The nation's unemployment rate now stands at 10.2 percent, the highest level in more than a quarter century.
"Our economy's growing again, for the first time in more than a year, and we know that economic growth is a prerequisite for job growth," Obama said Monday, after meeting with his cabinet. "But having said that, what I emphasize today is we cannot sit back and be satisfied, given the extraordinarily high unemployment levels that we've seen."
But Gingrich takes issue with Obama's economic programs.
"President Obama's upcoming 'Jobs Summit' in Washington, DC is an acknowledgment that the big government stimulus package failed to create jobs. For an administration that is actively promoting job-killing health care, energy, and big labor legislation, holding a 'Jobs Summit' is deceiving political theater in the midst of millions of Americans struggling to find work," the possible 2012 GOP presidential hopeful said in a statement.
"Beginning in Cincinnati, we will be traveling the country talking to small business owners and entrepreneurs – the engines of growth in our economy – to get their ideas on how to create jobs and grow the economy," added Gingrich.
American Solutions spokesman Dan Kotman said additional town halls will be announced next year.
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These economic problems stem from years prior to the Obama administration.
How conveniently they like to forget what the GOP has wrought.
Where was Newt eight years ago? Republicans ruined everything and only pay for war, war and more war. Lieberman admitted it on Sunday that he pays for war not health care.
Newt don't you have a wife to divorce somewhere?
Obama has spent 1 trillion in a stimulus passed to create jobs and the most he can show for it is creative wording of "saved or created" jobs and the medai (yes, CNN – factchecker of comedy skits) gives him a pass for incompetence. No other President has done so little with so much.
Will not vote for this guy again. Would like Hillary in a heartbeat. Obama has failed on that 3 am call in about 4 different areas and it is still ringing.
I been around Washington lone enough to have known business high people not president! sad but true.
People....we all know that if you're not a republican member you are not invited to this event. I just take my chances with the POTUS Obama. At least he will be fair about the jobs sources.
Gingrich........the same guy that was run out of DC in disgrace?
That Gingrich............nevermind
Well, I congratulate Geingrich for picking up a broom and helping to clean the economic mess and bring back jobs.
I just hope he is not looking for political gains in his timing.
I don't know why the president is having a jobs summit. I thought the stimulus was working? He waits till it hits 10.2% to realize he needs to do something besides make government bigger?
but weren't the Republicans criticizing the President for this summit? and now they are trying to beat him to the punch and make it look like their idea? gross.
Will he hold any suggestions that are positive on helping the economy? If not then who cares?????
You are the disrespectful party of "NO" you are very spiteful and that's why no one want to deal with your Rheteric, your party of "No" needs to go and help the President clean up the mess that the party of "NO" made. Get a clue, your party made this mess and President Obama is cleaning it up, and by the way, he's doing a great job at it too. It's people like you Mr. Gingrich that is making America look very devided. We have always been devided, but your party of "NO:" is making us look even worse to the third world countries, that look up to us. How do we expect to get along with other countries, when we can't get along with our own American family. Your party of "No" is a joke and it's going to be a sad day in hell that anyone from your party is going back into the White House any time soon.............President Obama for 2012..............
Take notes Obummie. You might learn something.
No problem with this. Finally maybe a Republican who wants to do something other than say NO !!!!
What a load of idiots are these republicans, they are always looking for publicity where there is non, what is he doing when Bush is running the country down, or he stupidly forgot that joblessness is the outcome of 8 years of Bush mismanagement and ineptitude.
Oh what a coincidence – is Newt attempting to make it look like the GOP came up with this idea? Cuz we all know that President Obama has had this planned for a while!
No doubt in my mind that Gingrich will be more effective than Obama.
Another empty suit with no answers attempting to upstage the president.
With guys like Newt at the helm, the GOP continues to promote hatred, fear, and racism.
GOP: Evolve or die...
Why can’t these OLD HACKS just retire..... ??
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA like gingrich has a clue about anything. He was aptly named – a slimy small tiny brained cold blooded creature that lives under rocks.
newt is so pro-family he has already managed to have three of them!
republicons talkin job creation is like going to jeff dhamer doing a cooking lessons...........
The very first sensible thing that should have been done was tax breaks for small business and making sure they could obtain credit. Genius Barry decided rather to spend 800 billion on a stimulus plan that stimulated very little except the national debt. We see how effective the stimulus (written by the Apollo Alliance by the way) has been up to this point. Our president cares nothing about creating jobs because he does not believe in capitalism, his jobs summit is for political cover.
Wow, Obama is moving with lightning speed!! He has only been in office for one year and he already has figured out that Americans need jobs.
Now that he has gone to Asia and has recovered their economies, maybe he can get ours going!
He is definately the man for the job!
Attention addicts like Palin and Gingrich just don't get it. They quit, lost, were dumped due to ethics concerns, or otherwise lost their credibility with anyone except the fanatical fringe dwellers at the edges of the political spectrum. Just another used up gas bag with an attention addiction.
Why is it that these disgraced Republican "family values" politician keep re-appearing like a bad rash the country got a few years ago?
You'll never hear from Garry Condit again, or Elliot Spitzer, or one of the disgraced Democratic politicians, but you Republicans sure recycle them over and over and over.
What is the definition of insanity again, "you keep doing the same thing over and over and you excpect different results?"
Next thing we'll have Tom Delay teaching us ethics, hahahahahahahah
As far as my previous comment, I have one thing to add about disgraced Republicans re-appearing like bad rashes...
...folks, WE ARE STUCK WITH SARAH PALIN FOR A LONG LONG TIME...
...she will never go away...
...it is going to be a one big funny Republican political circus...
Now folks–this is the PERFECT IDIOT!!!!! Need I say more??
I guess all the "has beens" that were seat warmers are trying to be "sub-presidents" these days.
What an idiot!!
Time for a NEW contract with America, and with real WORKING Americans, not the dorito eating, Oprah watching, waiting for the check in the mail Obama voters.
Time for Newt to school the fraud of a President on how to uh, uh, uh actualy lead and uh, uh, uh make decisions other than "present" or say anything but "I apologize".
Newt Gingrich is smart as hell and is not afraid to crack a few Conservative heads if need be.
He forgot more than Obama knows.
Newt gives Obama the boot 2012.
Way to go Newt! Show the socialists how REAL jobs are created. Ballooning government employment and adding thousands of road pavers is NOT increasing employment Obama!
Gingrich in 2012! He lead the last revolution and the country needs him again before we're bankrupted by Obama socialism.
If I am not mistaken, I don't believe that this President has repealed the Bush tax cuts, and has added additional tax cuts in his stimulus package, can someone explain why the tax cuts doesn't seem to be working. We've been told that as long as we give corporations a tax cut they will hire people and create jobs. Why are we shedding so many jobs. Those tax cuts doesn't end until 2011. At some point, we the people will have to ask corporations to step up.
Who cares of him he is a rep
If Newt was interested in America, he could have held a "real jobs summit" long before now. The only thing that's "real" in this country is the GOP with its head stuck up its rear.
Hard as he may try, Newt will never upstage Obama. More Carl Rovian tactics gone awry
Okay, and this real jobs town hall meeting has taken 8 years because why??????????? I thought so, no answer.
Let me guess: Gingrich will propose tax cut for the wealthy.
He must think we're pretty stupid to not notice that all the tax cuts GW Bush irresponsibly passed during wartime lead to the greatest global financial collapse since the Great Depression.
The wealthy take their extra money, build factories overseas and layoff Americans.
The only people who benefit from those tax cuts are the wealthy; contrary to Reaganomics (aka, Voodoo Economics), the money does not tinkle down onto the rest of us.
please,please,please crawl back under your rock Newt.
Just who do you speak for(work for!), certainly not the American people. Just what is your new agenda?You do have intelligence, why not put it to good use and be of service to this administration.
Gee, Mr. Gingrich, it's pretty darn plain what small business owners need: reduced health insurance costs.
Since 1999, health insurance premiums have gone up 131% on average (15% alone this year).
As these costs have gone up, employees are having to pick up larger and larger portions of the costs.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that what would help small business owners the most is meaningful health care reform, including a robust public option. And who is opposed to this?
Your party, Mr. Gingrich – The GOP!
Bring on the clowns. Is this Newt guy an idiot or what? I say he should be denied communion at church for being divorced so many times. Talk about making a mockery of marriage. In the eyes of God you are never divorced, so every time you marry you are committing adultery. I am just being fair here, what is good for Kennedy should be good for the Newt.
Are you serious!!??!! His organization is called "Gingrich's American Solutions" as in G-A-S?? As in wind bag?? As in YOU STINK?? Come on Newt, please go back to wherever the heck you came from with your latest girlfriend, wife or whatever and get off of the stage. Your 15 minutes expired LOOOOONG time ago.
Unemployment is at the highest level since Ronald Reagan began the destruction of America's middle class.
The Republicans have opened up America's economic arteries and bled this nation out, to feed their hyper-wealthy sponsors.
As far as jobs are concerned, Gingrich is a Capitalist while Obama favors Socialism. If you're seeking a new job in the private sector attend Mr Gingrich's seminar. If you want more food stamps or a job in the ever-growing Government, talk to Obozo!
I hope what he tells business owners is to use the Bush tax cuts and provide jobs. What ever happened to the jobs that were supposed to be created with the Bush tax cuts? How about telling them to use some of the bailouts they received to start hiring again. Better yet, hopefully he tells them to help bring the country back from the brink and just start hiring plain and simple. It will take more than President Obama to create jobs, it takes business owners investing in America to keep the recovery going.
I don't know why people want to sit back and whine about what President Obama is or is not doing. It takes more than the President to make this country work. It takes all members of Congress, it takes all of us working together for the sake of our country. What continues to bring our country down is the constant negativity, divisiveness, pettiness, and yes racism that is thrown at us 24/7 just because they don't happen to like our duly elected President. It is way past time for all of us to start working together for the sake of all of us.
How does this work? Newt's skills are geared toward losing jobs not creating them. Besides, where was he when the Bush administration was losing millions of jobs?
Newt-what a g'rinch. LOSER.
And we are supposed to care about this? He was part of the group that helped give big corporations in this country the big green light to offshore jobs, money and machinery.
I'm not sure if small business owners will be able to create jobs that will put millions of people back to work.The problems here in America is that politics have become a theater. People seems to forget what got us into this situation in the first place. If it took us 8yrs to get here, it's going to take at least 10-12 yrs to get out of it. There is not one single person who can get us out of the mess that the country is in 10 months. Newt Gingrich, you need to stop it period. Republicans, stop complaining your party was in control for 8yrs, your party took this country to war, your party spoke for the American people when it came to go to war, so please stop the complaining, and bring some resolutions to the debate that works for all Americans. Dems, Rep,and Independent.
There is nothing that these Republicans will not politicize. Absolutely nothing. And they're proud of that.
Another FORMER government employee who is only thinking of HIS political aspirations. Isn't it interesting that he is doing it the day before the President is doing his ? If He really cared so much about helping people find jobs why doesn't He offer his assistance to the President instead of trying to "one up" him.
Since Gingrich can't effect any change in policies, who cares if a bunch of Conservative 'gentlemen' get together to trash what Obama is doing.
Let's not forget that people like Gingrich, Bush and Rove drove the economy off this cliff. Now they are going to huddle together to solve it?
The thoughtful Newt summit may give some suggestions towards solutions, the "vote pres(id)ent" guy's summit will produce campaign slogans! (as usual)...
Obama already had his jobs summit...in China...since that is where he has been sending them.
he has no credibility, so timing is the only thing he has to attract the media
laughable, his solution: more of the answer 'no'
an actual solution need not be considered
If you want to create jobs, loosen credit access for small business. The banks received the TARP Bailout, and the money was quickly moved off shore. General Motors did the same thing, sending a huge payment into Germany to support a manufacturing facility. Politicians do not create jobs, business people, namely small business people, create jobs!
Newt, don't come by my business. My memory is as short sighted as so many others.
From the K Street Project to your pal Abramoff, you are the root of the corruption in Washington.
Good news Newt, Onama is going to have to think about jobs first, then he will decide.
Newt Gingrich is a has been. I think it is funny how he keeps trying to make himself relevent. ROFL
What a joke "a real job summit" , the only real job here is for Newt to get people to vote for him. Another Republican trying to play people stupid.
Funny, I don't recall hearing Ginrich worry about the employment rate ever before. I think he thinks he has a shot to get back into power.
At this stage, whatever works.........
Maybe Newt can tell us where Bush and Newts policies sent all the jobs
Until the GOP stop using the mantra ( more tax cuts will create jobs ), I don't want to hear anything they have to say. Banks aren't lending money period. Corporations are outsourcing as fast as they can to keep labor costs down to satisfy the shareholders regardless of federal tax breaks and state incentives. Private capital companies aren't willing to work on investing in infrastructure. If the GOP would work with the Dems on finding a non government solution ( meaning no more tax cuts or subsidies ) to get employment moving again, I just don't care to hear anything they have to say.
There is only one word the GOP know; that is NO! I can't see or have not seen them dong anything to help with the mess they created.
Instead of finding solutions, they are hell bent on causing more distruction.
No, to the stimulus that assist keeping teachers, ploice officers and other important public resources in place. Not to mention creating jobs for many who can have a good Thankgiving.
No, to healthcare. Why should they? They are the same ones who said no to Medicaid and Medicare.
They are even saying no to themselves and can't find a common ground. The party of NO should remember the voters who elect them.
Newt's much smarter than Obama and would be qualfied to run the country, unlike Obama. Obama is good at community organizing, bake sales, and dithering. Oh, and bowing.
Newt will have real ideas for creating jobs. Obama will be putting on a show to look like he's interested. Guess who the press will cover?
another polarizing bush left over that thinks this country would ever vote in this loon!
oh look!.. it's the GRINCH that stoled Christmas, Watch out for your ornaments!
When politicians include reps from business, they often pick leaders from large corporations, not small businesses. Let's not forget that we need small businesses to help us revive our economy, because big corporations will not bring any jobs back.
This is also one reason why we should include a strong public option to make health care coverage affordable for small businesses. Go ask small businesses in Massachusetts and you will find their Commonwealth Care now insures many workers otherwise uninsured before.
Job creation, economic recovery and health care reform are all interconnected.
We certainly have ALOT OF REPUBLICANS playing the role of President these days!!
Are you serious? Newty has done anything the past 8 years to help americans. So wen obama comes up with simething good he copies it. Wow rpublicans are just sorry