Obama is now making the rounds for free community college in the same way that he traveled the country trying to sell Obamacare.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis of the New York Times reported.

On Campus, Obama Makes Case for Plans Including Free Community College

INDIANAPOLIS — President Obama on Friday pressed voters to demand that their representatives reach across the political aisle to pass initiatives in his budget including free community college, more generous child care subsidies and new roads and bridges, making the case for his agenda in a heavily Republican state.

“The way folks all across America can help is to let your members of Congress know these things are important,” Mr. Obama told about 400 people at a town-hall meeting here at Ivy Tech Community College.

The president said that if Republican leaders did not agree with him on how to finance the plans — he has proposed higher taxes on wealthy individuals and multinational companies — “then they should show me another way.”

President Obama speaking on Friday in Indianapolis. He was promoting his $60 billion plan for free community college.
“But your voice letting them know that this is important — not because it’s partisan, but because it’s the right thing to do for America — if they hear that from enough people, then that’s going to make a difference,” the president said.

On a day that saw the release of an encouraging employment report indicating growing economic momentum, Mr. Obama said his top priority for the remainder of his term was to help bolster Americans’ paychecks so they could benefit from the same forces that have lifted the stock market and corporate earnings.

“My No. 1 priority is to make sure that the American people’s wages and incomes are going up,” he said, asserting that his budget “could put thousands of dollars back in the pockets of hard-working middle-class families.”


 
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