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The Stimulus Plan: How to Spend $787 Billion

// February 16th, 2009 // No Comments » // Obama

In case anyone is interested in the stim plan's quick breakdown overview, check out the viewer-friendly chart created by our friends at the NYT: The Stimulus Plan: How to Spend $787 Billion - The New York Times

“what the inauguration means to me”

// January 13th, 2009 // No Comments » // Featured, Obama

The brilliance of America that drew the eyes of the world was the unwavering determination by past leaders to establish certain principles. These principles allowed for our country and people to naturally progress to the pursuit of being remarkable. In the beginning it was in championing democracy emulated throughout the rest of the world, then the race for science, civil rights, landing on the moon, being a leader in technology and computers, the first automobile, and the list goes on. We claimed many Firsts. What these all have in common is that they were only possible because of the fundamental principles that reward those leaders who challenge the status quo, to push others to think outside of their self-interest and to do something remarkable. The rewarding of remarkable results incentivized others to compete to win, and fair market competition allowed for our economy to flourish, and Capitalism was born.

One day, we woke up and realized we had lost sight of what made us remarkable.