Update: The President’s Budget for FY 2011 is available here (192 pages total). The total is $3.2 trillion. I’ve never typed or written that many zeros in my life. Overviews and introductions by the White House Office of Management and Budget are available here. Critiques are available everywhere, [...]
A week or two after the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001, I made a trip to NYC for a few days to attend a film market. During that trip I found myself in a small peace demonstration near NYU. Honestly, I was there to meet a friend who was asked [...]
In his Weekly Address, President Obama follows up on his Wednesday night speech before Congress on his plan for health care reform. The Treasury Department has released a report indicating that nearly half of Americans under the age of 65 will lose their health insurance in the next 10 years. Americans in the [...]
The problem I’m having with the health care reform debate is that too many people are behaving as if it was 1993; and too many people are making a political football out of an essential service that gives Americans the best shot at the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The [...]
June 4, 2009. This speech isn’t just for Muslims.
“In all seriousness, I come here not to dispute the suggestion that I haven’t yet achieved enough in my life. I come here to embrace it; to heartily concur; to affirm that one’s title, even a title like president, says very little about how well one’s life has been led — and that no matter [...]
I can’t help but be intrigued by what our leaders are reading. And let’s just say, I do believe our current President actually cracks open these books.
Being heavily involved in our local Big Read I was a tad disappointed the President isn’t reading our city book THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by [...]
Months before Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, I said he was modeling after Ronald Reagan, not in policy, but in practice. This week’s submission of the FY2010 budget proposal, “A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America’s Promise,” was just another example. While the headlines read that President Obama is [...]
….our goal must be to spend these precious dollars with unprecedented accountability, responsibility, and transparency. I’ve tasked my cabinet and staff to set up the kind of management, oversight, and disclosure that will help ensure that, and I will challenge state and local governments to do the same.
President Barack Obama
Can we apply this goal to [...]
Believe it or not, I heard mild rumblings from some people who were disappointed that Barack Obama dashed their dream (or confirmed their realization that the clock had run out) of becoming “the first” Black POTUS.
For me I was absolutely certain about the first; not me, but in my lifetime. In [...]
