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With a largely negative Republican response to Obama’s $900 billion stimulus package in the Senate, the President has started a campaign to push the bill; beginning in Elkhart, Indiana.

Using alarmist phraseology as to call the current financial crisis as “deep and dire as any since the Great Depression,” and calling previous political policy “the same failed ideas.”

“More people will lose their homes and their health care. And our nation will sink into a crisis that, at some point, we may be unable to reverse.”

The President told the audience about the website, Recovery.gov, which has been established to keep transparency in the spending of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. He also criticized the Republican adjustment to the bill from $900 billion to $780 billion, saying that the adjustment cut much of the education-oriented stimulus.

“I’ll be honest with you, the Senate version cut a lot of these education dollars. I would like to see some of them restored,” said the President.

The stop in Elkhart, Indiana was particularly astute, as the county unemployment rate hit 15.3 per cent according to recent reports, nearly double that of the national rate.

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