To ensure our children can compete and succeed in this new economy, we’ll renovate and modernize 10,000 schools, building state-of-the-art classrooms, libraries, and labs to improve learning for over five million students. We’ll invest more in Pell Grants to make college affordable for seven million more students, provide a $2,500 college tax credit to four million students, and triple the number of fellowships in science to help spur the next generation of innovation.
President Obama recognizes not only that education (proper education!) is vitally important to the economic future of America but that science education is even more vitally importanter.
And my skeptical heart grew three sizes when I heard him say these next words:
I know that some are skeptical about the size and scale of this recovery plan. I understand that skepticism, which is why this recovery plan must and will include unprecedented measures that will allow the American people to hold my Administration accountable for these results. ...every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.
Critical thinking ain't just for analyzing bigfoot, Heaven, and UFOs, folks. It should be applied to everything, politics doubly so. This level of transparency is what government should be practicing.
Here's the whole thing:
Also, I have to say that the presidential addresses being distributed via YouTube fills me with glee. Go 21st century!
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Me, too! I'd like for him to spend more for infrastructure in the stimulus plan than is allocated for it. He could take most of the tax cut money and put it there. It's so refreshing to have this change!
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