Obama mocks GOP candidates over economy
President Barack Obama has ridiculed the overladen field of Republican presidential candidates who aim to attack his economic record during 2016 election.
"We've got some healthy competition in the Democratic Party, but I've lost count how many Republicans are running for this job," Obama said in La Crosse, Wis. on Thursday.
"They'll have enough for an actual Hunger Games," he added.
There are currently 14 GOP candidates, with two more — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — who are expected to announce bids later this month for the upcoming presidential election.
All of the Republican lawmakers as well as these candidates have always faulted Obama for a sluggish economy and a weak foreign policy since he took office in 2008.
On Thursday, Obama criticized Republicans for proposing to reduce taxes and loosen regulations, saying the wealthy would benefit at the expense of the middle class.
The fact that the Republicans want to repeal the health care law would cancel insurance for up to 16 million people and this "seems a little mean," Obama said. "They're good people," he said of the Republicans. "It's just their ideas are bad."
He described the Republican presidential candidates as "an interesting bunch," who will attack his record by "making a whole bunch of stuff up."
He said this is one of the reasons why he delivered such a speech, noting "I figure why should I let them have all the fun?"
Walker, who himself greeted Obama at the airport in La Crosse, described the president’s "big government" policies as ineffective.
Obama said Thursday that his health care law is functioning and that his economic policies have decreased the unemployment rate to 5.3%.
"This is progress," Obama said. "Step by step, America is moving forward. Middle class economics works."
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