The days of My Pet Goat are over
"Obama economic plan aims for 2.5M new jobs by 2011"
Take a gander wingnuts -- witness true leadership in action.
Barack Obama's weekly radio/YouTube address was focused on the economy and for those who are anxious to hear about his plans to help stimulate the economy, the message sounded pretty good.
How nice to finally have a president with a vision. In these hard times people need to know that their president is in charge and that he's going to do everything he can to turn this train-wreck around.
Gah, I'm just happy that we have a president who wants to reach out to the public...but then I do understand why keeping Bush away from microphones was a good thing.
"WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama promoted an economic plan Saturday he said would create 2.5 million jobs by rebuilding roads and bridges and modernizing schools while developing alternative energy sources and more efficient cars.
"These aren't just steps to pull ourselves out of this immediate crisis. These are the long-term investments in our economic future that have been ignored for far too long," Obama said in the weekly Democratic radio address.[..]"
He talked about the 1.2 million jobs that have already been lost this year, and insisted that we now have to act "swiftly and boldly." He said the "American Dream" has endured because, in "our darkest hours," we have "acted boldly, bravely, and above all, together."
It'd be awfully nice if the nation didn't have to wait until late January for Obama's stimulus package, but I suppose we don't have a choice.
Here is Obama's 4 minute address if you missed it:
How refreshing to have a President who will speak truthfully to us and not sugar coat...who spells out how bad it is (with facts and statistics) and how it will likely get worse before getting better. Quite a contrast to the last few months of Bush lying that "the economy is sound"...and Bernanke and Paulson saying "the mortgage crisis is contained."
What gets me is that Bush was allowed to piss away $600 billion in Iraq (and we are not done yet), but there will be a great howl from the wingnuts about fiscal responsibility if Obama proposes to spend even a fraction of that on stimulating the economy.
