A NEW JOB PLAN BY OBAMA.

President Barack Obama laid out his plan to create jobs before a joint session of the U.S. Congress, and the nation as a whole.

It is now the opposition's turn to pass a bill to implement the contents of his plan, to alleviate the pressure that the country is feeling under an acute unemployment situation. It is high time for the Republican Congressional membership to act in a positive way in response to the president's ideas.

They have the chance to do so now, more than ever before, as so many of their demands have been satisfied in the Obama Job Plan. It has tax cuts, tax credits, infrastructure investments, and some of the suggestions that have always had bipartisan support.

Although, many of the measures in the president's plan have been in existence for more than two years; but they are not rehashed ideas or a "tired agenda", as a leading Republican Senator describes the plan. (Fox News report, 8/9/11).

They have to be brought back to support the frustration the president and many Democrats have felt; that they were being stopped by the Republicans from doing what they were elected to do in the first place; and that was to solve the nation's problems, such as unemployment and a crippled economy.

The Republicans must not go back and introduce their own plan that will interfere with what the Democrats have already agreed with them on. It will rather confuse the issue of getting millions of people back to work for the nation's economy to gain strength, as it must.

They have a national duty to perform, and for the sake of patriotism, they must do it by putting party politics aside, and giving support to what will help a great number of Americans who are presently hurting and are unemployed.

They should pass a bill that would engulf the president's proposals, and not one that would be designed to complicate the already stalled economy.

If there was an economic crisis to the day, it would be that, there was no compromise in the U.S. Congress, because of ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans, and nothing else.

The debt ceiling debate proved that, if Congress could not resolve its own problems, then who would do it? There would only be quarrels leading to dissensions on all issues confronting the nation as a whole.

That was what caused the U.S. to almost default in its financial responsibilities, for the first time in history, and thus creating havoc in ALL world financial markets. They (markets) have continued to falter ever since.

Congress needs to come together and agree on certain things, for the government to have the opportunity to deliver what is needed to promote its policies; for the country to make progress, politically, socially, and most of all, economically. Political reasons alone must not be allowed to influence members' decisions.