Barack Obama promised to spend billions of taxpayer dollars today to invest in roads, bridges, school buildings, the internet, medical records, a chicken in every pot, etc.
The Politico reported:
President-elect Barack Obama added sweep and meat to his economic agenda on Saturday, pledging the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Dwight D. Eisenhower built the Interstate system in the late 1950s, and tying his key initiatives – education, energy, health care –back to jobs in a package that has the makings of a smaller and modern version of FDR’s New Deal marriage of job creation with infrastructure upgrades.
The president-elect also said for the first time that he will “launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen.”
“We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms,” he said in the address.
The president-elect is bringing new elements of his domestic agenda into his economic recovery plan, committing to a path toward giving every American access to an electronic medical record as part of an “economic recovery plan … that won’t just save jobs, it will save lives.”
Here’s the deal:
The government couldn’t be trusted with Joe the Plumber’s records.
Do we really want them to control and have access to our medical records?
Neocon Express has more on Obama’s play on words from today’s address.
