Excellent Outline of the President's Proposed Budget

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/

Public Opinion Asks About President's Speech

The Public Opinion (Feb. 26, 09) called Democrats to ask their opinion about the President's speech (your editor was included as well as Rev. Steven Harris.) You'll notice another article about Republicans watching the speech. The Republicans, in the main, chose not to watch. I can understand their frustration having often thought twice about watching former President Bush. But in the end I did, because you have to be informed in order to form an opinion. Hopefully Republicans will get over the shock of being in the minority and figure out ways to work with President Obama to rebuild the American economy.

SC 8th Grade Student to Sit with First Lady

Ty'Sheoma Bethea, an eighth-grade student at J.V. Martin Junior High School in Dillon, S.C., will sit with President Barack Obama's family Tuesday night when he delivers his first address to Congress. Ty'Sheoma was invited to sit in first lady Michelle Obama's mezzanine box in the House of Representatives, thanks to her letter imploring lawmakers to help her crumbling school, which was built in 1896. Ty'Sheoma's letter made its way to Obama, who campaigned at J.V. Martin in 2007.

Obama cited J.V. Martin two weeks ago in his first presidential news conference as a symbol of decaying schools that would be replaced by funds in his economic stimulus plan. "The president and first lady were moved by Ty'Sheoma's heartfelt letter and are looking forward to welcoming her to D.C.," said a White House spokeswoman. She walked to the Dillon town library to write her letter because her family doesn't have a computer.

"People are starting to see my school as a hopeless, uneducated school, which we are not," she wrote. "We finally want to prove to the world that we have a chance in life just like other schools, and we can feel good about what we are doing, because of the conditions we are in now we can not succeed in anything."

Keep Track of the Stimulus Bill Spending

This is a very good website posted by President Obama's office to track the funds and spending timeline of the recovery spending.
http://www.recovery.gov/

The White House Web Site

The White House website is full of important information and a terrific blog on the latest Obama Administration initiatives. Particularly don't miss the slide show on the work that went into passing the Stimulus Package. http://www.whitehouse.gov/slideshows/

Happy Valentine's Day

Call In For Single Payer Health Care Feb. 12, 2009

Our Fulton County friends, Jack and Kathie Hendricks, ask us to mark the national call in day for National Health Care, the single payer solution heading for Congress. we are being asked to call our congressman and the White House...the whole thing is nicely organized at this website: http://www.healthcare-now.org/campaigns/call/

Abraham Lincoln the Working Man Imagined Our Future

“It has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have labored and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue.”- “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed, that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence…labor is the superior -- greatly the superior -- of capital.”... “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the Money Power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.” Abr. Lincoln

Photos from Inauguration Day?

Did you visit the mall? Did you party at home? Or, as your editor did on a moonlit beach in PR with a group of happy Democratic snowbirds. Please e mail photos of your experience on inauguration day to ruthjcommunications@comcast.net.

Editor Returns from a Long Swim

Your scuba loving editor has returned from Puerto Rico. Hope people are still reading this blog. Look for interesting updates later this week.