Hi, everybody.Four years after the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, we're seeing signs that, as a nation, we're moving forward again.After losing about 800,000 jobs a month when I took office, our businesses have now added 5.2 million new jobs over the past two and a half years.And on Friday, we learned that the unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since I took office.More Americans are entering the workforce.More Americans are getting jobs.But too many of our friends and neighbors are still looking for work or struggling to pay the bills―many of them since long before this crisis hit.We owe it to them to keep moving forward.We've come too far to turn back now.And we've made too much progress to return to the policies that got us into this mess in the first place.For example―two years ago, we put in place tougher, commonsense rules of the road for Wall Street to make sure that the kind of crisis we've been fighting back from never happens again.These rules mean that big banks are no longer going to be able to make risky bets with your deposits.And if a big bank does make a bad decision, they pay for it―not taxpayers.And we also put in place the strongest consumer protections in our history to crack down on the worst practices of credit card companies and mortgage lenders.But for some reason, some Republicans in Congress are still waging an all-out battle to delay, defund and dismantle these commonsense new rules.Why? Do they think undoing rules that protect families from the worst practices of credit card companies and mortgage lenders will make the middle class stronger?
