This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment.
It’s an exciting new program that I will attempt to explain to you using the Q & A format:
Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Please Enjoy watching the President’s Inauguration Speech. What a huge sea of people!
Obama’s Inaugural Speech
Presidential Inauguration
Excerpt|20:03||Closed Captions available
Barack Obama delivers his inaugural speech after taking the Oath of Office as the 44th President of the United States.
Let Freedom Ring!
Not just Freedom, but so much more.
President Obama does truly usher in a new era.
An era that will come to be known as the birth of the 21st century.
“A New Age”, as the President puts it.
Unemployment claims are high, and one in 10 families owns a “home in distress” whatever that means.
His solution? He’s asked his economic team to “develop a bold plan…” Oh, I feel better, don’t you?
It seems hard to argue with point number one, adding energy efficiency in public buildings, but you have to ask yourself why this wasn’t done 15 or 20 years ago, don’t you? Where was the Clinton administration on this seemingly simple sounding task? Why was this ignored by 8 years of the Bush administration?
A Japanese company ( Toyota ) and an American company (Ford Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri River. Both teams practised long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race.
On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile.
This idea supposedly comes from a friends mother-in-law’s Post Master named Willie in Rainer, WA. and it came to me buy email. No Wille, I never got permission, so if you want t otake credit or sue me, just get in touch here!
Here’s this weeks 3 1/2 minute video from President Elect Obama, and I have to admit I’m impressed at this weekly reaching out to us, the American public, and I applaud the effort instead of the silent arrogance of the Bush administration.