Ready to work with Obama: Jindal

Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 8:02 am

Responding to US President Barack Obama’s first speech to the joint session of the Congress, Republican Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal termed the President’s economic stimulus package “irresponsible”, but said the Republicans were willing to work alongside him.

“Republicans are ready to work with the new President to provide these solutions. Here in my state of Lousiana we don’t care what party you belong to, if you have good ideas to make life better for our people,” he said.

“We need more of that attitude, from both the Democrats and Republicans in our nation’s capital. All of us want our economy to recover and our nation to prosper,” added Jindal.

“So where we agree, Republicans must be the President’s strongest partners. And where we disagree, Republicans have a responsibility to be candid and offer better ideas for a path forward,” he said in excerpts released to the public.

Jindal, the 37-year-old son of immigrants from Punjab, India, said his parents had taught him that “Americans can do anything” — a sentiment at the core of Obama’s “Yes, We Can” campaign slogan — but warned that government only stifles individual enterprise.

He took aim at Democrats’ 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus package, shaped by Obama, as guaranteeing tax increases in the future while piling more debt on future US generations to fund what Republicans call wasteful projects.

“Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have, on things we do not need? That is precisely what the Democrats in Congress just did. It’s irresponsible,” he said.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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Ready to work with Obama: Jindal

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