That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works
Barack ObamaI promised to bring change to Washington. The underlying reason for the economic mess we're in has been building for years. It's a fundamental imbalance in which the top 1 percent now gets almost a quarter of all national income. We haven't seen income and wealth this concentrated since the late nineteen twenties, and we all know what happened then - the Great Depression. We'll never really get out of the gravitational pull of the Great Recession until we fix this basic problem.
Barack ObamaToday we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time.
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