Obama's Address on the Economy

Next week Senator Obama will go into even more detail - but for the outline of how he wants to bring the United States out of our current economic woes and chart a better future, you'll have to read his speech. My personal favorite part?

I understand that the challenges facing our economy didn't start the day George Bush took office and they won't end the day he leaves. Some are partly the result of forces that have globalized our economy over the last several decades – revolutions in communication and technology have sent jobs wherever there's an internet connection; that have forced children in Raleigh and Boston to compete for those jobs with children in Bangalore and Beijing. We live in a more competitive world, and that is a fact that cannot be reversed.

But I also know that this nation has faced such fundamental change before, and each time we've kept our economy strong and competitive by making the decision to expand opportunity outward; to grow our middle-class; to invest in innovation, and most importantly, to invest in the education and well-being of our workers.

Source: The Daily Kos

Yes, there are problems, and yes, they will require hard work to fix - not just wishing that magic tax cuts will be a cure for everything.