Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Opening Statement Excerpts

I hear that they are re-running the final episode of "Battlestar Galactica" tonight at 8 pm. In case you'd rather watch that ... or a wildebeast eaten by a lion in slow-mo on NG ... these are all the good lines from the Big Guy's opening remarks:

We’ve put in place a comprehensive strategy designed to attack this crisis on all fronts. It’s a strategy to create jobs, to help responsible homeowners, to re-start lending, and to grow our economy over the long-term. And we are beginning to see signs of progress.

The budget I submitted to Congress will build our economic recovery on a stronger foundation, so that we do not face another crisis like this ten or twenty years from now. We invest in the renewable sources of energy that will lead to new jobs, new businesses, and less dependence on foreign oil. We invest in our schools and our teachers so that our children have the skills they need to compete with any workers in the world. We invest in reform that will bring down the cost of health care for families, businesses, and our government. And in this budget, we have made the tough choices necessary to cut our deficit in half by the end of my first term – even under the most pessimistic estimates.

At the end of the day, the best way to bring our deficit down in the long run is not with a budget that continues the very same policies that have led to a narrow prosperity and massive debt. It’s with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.

That’s what clean energy jobs and businesses will do. That’s what a highly-skilled workforce will do. That’s what an efficient health care system that controls costs and entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid will do. That’s why this budget is inseparable from this recovery – because it is what lays the foundation for a secure and lasting prosperity.

We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all work together; when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other – that’s when we succeed. That’s when we prosper. And that’s what is needed right now. So let us look toward the future with a renewed sense of common purpose, a renewed determination, and most importantly, a renewed confidence that a better day will come.

16 comments:

  1. TOTUS, that speech could have been written by some naive 26 year old.

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  2. Hey buddy, could you do me a favor? Wherever it says "invest", can you change it to "spend recklessly"? Thank you!

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  3. I thought you wern't allowed to say "crisis" anymore. Remember you have to stay up beat and possitive. Oh and your speech sucks. Sorry TOTUS I still adore you.

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  4. Re-write for you.....

    We will recover from this recession. But it will take a new President.

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  5. They say they want renewable rescources, but then block people from building wind farms and solar panels in the desert.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/21/feinstein-dont-spoil-desert-solar-panels/

    They just tell lies.

    TOTUS, do you have a truth serum or maybe a magic lasso to make them tell the truth?

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  6. TOTUS,
    That's the worst eulogy I've ever heard.

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  7. TOTUS, is your opening para obliquely implying that TJ (Teleprompter Jesus) is really a Cylon?!

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  8. he's actually saying this right now....

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  9. I get it now... every day in the Obama Administration is opposite day!

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  10. Please note that when you wrote 8PM, you mislead me on what time to tune in. When I tuned in at 8PM central, I had already missed it. I'm busy, I need ya'll to put the information on when to watch TV out there - and I'm not joking. I don't generally watch TV, but I know I have to go out of my way to tune into the old media channels. Please keep this in mind so you can keep us effectively informed of when we need to activate simple but outdated channels - obviously we would all prefer to get everything directly online and immediately.

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  11. "when each of us looks beyond our own short-term interests to the wider set of obligations we have to each other"

    Is he referring to my short term interest like paying rent, and grocery, gas, electric, and medical insurance bills? Saying they are insignificant? Laughable perhaps? And instead I need to fulfill my obligation to pay other people's rent and bills?

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  12. honk if I'm paying your mortgage...

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  13. Oh hail the commander in thief .. otherwise known as the bogus potus who can never go anywhere without his totus

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  14. This is truly amazing work, TOTUS. I never before realized that spending is investing, and that our historic record deficit is best reduced by historic record investing (spending) at an exponentially higher rate each minute of each day. They never taught me this in business school. Thos ignorant fools. They just didn't get new age finance and glib, slick, teleprompted madness.

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  15. i was listening to this on the way home from work...five minutes into this i had to pull over and throw up (really). by the time he had finished i had a 102 fever...

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