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President Obama recorded a video to speak directly to you about his economic recovery plan.
Invite your friends and family to watch the video and learn why our unprecedented challenges require immediate action.
You can even use our email contact importer to make it easy. Don't worry -- we don't hold on to any of the addresses you use.
After you watch the video, watch Gov. Tim Kaine answer questions from ordinary citizens about the plan and share your story about the economic crisis.
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Once we receive your stories we will make them available to the public to show how critical it is to support the economic recovery plan.
Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.
In the morning, we received yet another round of alarming employment figures – the worst in more than 30 years. Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January. We've now lost more than 3.6 million jobs since this recession began.
But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.
In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face. That was, after all, what last November's election was all about.
Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come. But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary. The scale and scope of this plan is right. And the time for action is now.
Because if we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.
Let's be clear: We can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place. We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.
The American people know that our challenges are great. They don't expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.
From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.
Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.
Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.
Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.
Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.
It includes immediate tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where 4.5 million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000. It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who've lost their jobs. And it helps our states and communities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.
That's what is at stake with this plan: putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children's children for generations to come.
Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us. Let's show them that we are. And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.
T. Boone has put his money on the line for what he believes. The movement must focus on strengthening social activists, and grassroots organizations that are actively fighting for green for all and sustainable energy initiatives. A critical mass of like minded persons and groups like in the Picken's Army must link up and elect a board comprised of private sector business folk like Boone, Gates, and Buffet and representatives from strong grassroots groups like Green For All to put forth alternatives to the types of bail outs and so called re-investment hope programs spilling from the mouths of politicians. The problem is way above the pay grades of the politicians and needs solid input from businessmen and grassroots groups that have billions to lose and that live the problems daily.
I just read where Buffet has put a couple of billion in the hands of some Swiss insurance company that was in need of a bail out! Considering all the proposals and groups weighing in on this sight that couple of billion surely could do a heap of good on the home front! Buy American and invest in America is what is needed.
Even if the politicians water down the Buy American provisions the American consumer can exercise their buying power and voice - simply hold back your money. I note there is a real fear that the investment and government spending for green will go to the European and Asian companies that manufacture the majority of windmills, photovoltaic cells, storage batteries etc need. At minimum if they want American dollars than they should build their plants here in America so American workers benefit. A fine example of a foreign company transferring in their technology is the Canadian company Vbine. American owned Franklin Wind Energy Group LLC was able to purchase the exclusive United States manufacturing and marketing rights for a new type of micro wind turbine from the Canadian company. This enables Franklin to assemble product in a plant right here in America creating jobs.
Boycott, picket - take a lesson from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Operation Bread Basket strategy that was implemented in Chicago back in the day! Companies that want our dollars must respect US consumers and put their plants where they make those sweet dollars they crave!
As a group, we have sent over 30,000 messages to our Senators in just 2 days. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. Real action is on the table. Let them hear from us.
Boone's team has made it so easy - it takes just one minute to forward a simple message to your Senators. PLEASE do it today. Please get the folks in your home, family and office to do the same.
I apologize for the delay in getting back with you on the conversion of class 7 & 8 trucks. we are continually updating our website www.jiffygas.com which will provide you with basic information on what we are doing. the thing that is slowing us up at this point is funding to really get things moving. we are currently working with a local community college putting together a curriculum for training & hopefully creating green jobs. Please feel free to call me @ 813-454-8574 if you have additional questions.
We have sent over 30,000 messages to our Senators in just 2 days. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. Real action is on the table. Let them hear from us.
Boone's team has made it so easy - it takes just one minute to forward a simple message to your Senators. PLEASE do it today. Please get the folks in your home, family and office to do the same.
Mark,
I apologize for not being knowlegeable about the economics of harvesting algae blooms in the open ocean. There certainly would be a tremendous variation in algal species involved, depending on location and other factors such as available sunlight and nutrients. The dominant species in a particular location would probably change over time. All these variables would significantly complicate and add cost to any oil extraction process. However, the algae biomass could be run through a Fischer Tropsch (FT) process just like wood chips or garbage and converted into high quality fuel. Unfortunately, this would probably add cost to the process and would destroy all of the high value-added protein typically produced by many species of algae.
The capital cost for the tanker plus the operating costs of fuel and labor would further subtract from profits.
We usually think of petroleum-based fuel as being 'expensive' but in reality it is extremely cheap on a per gallon basis. Costs for any replacement technology must be kept to an absolute minimum. My gut feeling is that commercial algae farmers would much prefer to partition off sections of the ocean near the shore and set up controlled, continuously operating, minimal cost operations and pump the algae to nearby, land-based processing facilities. In this way, the operations might be compared to 'commercial fish farming' as opposed to 'open ocean fishing'.
I think controlled, ocean algae farming would be a great idea if it can be shown that the economics make sense.
I am concerned about the high percentage of our oil that comes from foreign countries. Even in December, as the economy was contracting, we imported nearly 70 percent of the oil we used and paid over $19 billion for it.
I am very interested in the aspects of The American Renewal and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1) that include the promotion of alternative energy - wind and solar; the building out of a 21st century electrical transmission grid; and incenting trucking companies to upgrade from trucks running on foreign diesel to those running on domestic natural gas.
A Department of Energy study showed that developing our capacity to produce wind energy would not only replace 20 percent of the electricity we now produce using coal-burning plants, but would add 138,000 jobs in the first year and more than 3.4 million over a ten-year span.
Also, if we switch just 350,000 of the 6.5 million heavy trucks running on the nation's Interstate Highways to domestic natural gas from imported diesel, we could cut our oil imports by over five percent. In December alone that would have kept nearly $1 billion from being shipped off shore.
I hope you will join me in supporting these components of the Pickens Plan as H.R. 1 moves toward final passage in the Senate
P.S. Savings bonds could be help in economic crisis.
While Washington tries to "fix" the banking and Wall Street mess created by subprime "gotcha" adjustable rate mortgages defaulting en masse, many of us are looking for a safer place to put at least some of our retirement, college funds, etc.
And we also want our country to become more energy-independent and our crumbling infrastructure repaired. But with things as they are, how can we accomplish these three objectives? A new form of U.S. Treasury savings bonds could be the answer.
Without U.S. saving bonds, we wouldn't have been able to supply our troops and allies like we did in World War II. If the U.S. Treasury issued energy independence and infrastructure savings bonds that paid an interest rate about 3 percent greater than the annualized FED rate adjusted for inflation, only be redeemable on their anniversary date(s), and what they pay is not faxed when they are redeemed at maturity, all three of these objectives can be achieved without any increase in taxes, especially if these funds were only employed as 1-to-2 matching funds.
Such bonds could increase employment enough to even reduce our taxes. Pass this idea on to your friends and then the politicians.
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My daughter mentioned to you the idea of having an entry in Mardi Gras. I told her I'd fill you in on the idea so here goes.
Honda makes a NGV and if approached by PP might agree to "Loan" us one for use in parades there in La, Ms, and Al.
The car could be driven by district leaders in local parades, decorated with colorful magnetic PP logos.
Maybe local members could march in front or behind with a banner and music playing and tossing PP bumper stickers or just PP stickers, or find beads from a thrift store.
Think it over it could be a blast and good promotion and launch some local press!
Thanks Mark, If we can get just one fax, web based comment form, or letter to the President or Vice President there may be a possibility that he may direct the Secretary of Treasury to take action on this idea. He needs our support and he needs funding to make the 10 year goal of Energy Independence from middle east oil he set happen. Also, the Select Congressional Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming is another route besides your representatives. Please, at your discretion, if you want to pass this idea to others and encourage them to become friends on my web page do so. Thanks for your support and help.
Sincerely and with Respect
Mike Kendall
Hi Mark, I forgot to ask you if you'd be willing to pass the word on the "Energy Independence Savings Bonds" idea to the people in your district?
Thanks, Mike
Mark, I visited your SEE website. Getting farther with the energy we are already using for our homes is definitely part of the solution. I know there is alot of funding going towards the smart grid but believe that more efficiency and a little thought can go a long ways. Possibly, an Energy-R category as well for the "Energy Independence Savings Bonds" that I would like to see sold by the US Treasury to give us all yet another tool to wield power as citizens towards what we want.
Best Regards and With Respect, Mike
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Please share with your network and add a comment about the concept at the site. It's an idea in formation and everyone's input is sought and welcome.
We’re very happy to have you riding with us. With you and 1.4 million others on this ride, maybe we’ll actually get this thing done. Keep you horse watered and your powder dry, it's going to be a long dusty ride.
Regards,
Jack Costantino
Jim Muhaw
DL’s, NJ-11
timbersRus@comcast.net
Davis Timber Frame Co.
Invite Your Friends to Watch the Video
President Obama recorded a video to speak directly to you about his economic recovery plan.
Invite your friends and family to watch the video and learn why our unprecedented challenges require immediate action.
You can even use our email contact importer to make it easy. Don't worry -- we don't hold on to any of the addresses you use.
After you watch the video, watch Gov. Tim Kaine answer questions from ordinary citizens about the plan and share your story about the economic crisis.
We're counting on you to collect the real stories of the challenges Americans are facing during this recession. We need to hear from you how the economic crisis is affecting your life and why the economic recovery plan is important to you and your community.
Once we receive your stories we will make them available to the public to show how critical it is to support the economic recovery plan.
Share your story click here.
Watch President Obama's video and share it with your friends and family:
REMARKS OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
WEEKLY ADDRESS
The White House
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.
In the morning, we received yet another round of alarming employment figures – the worst in more than 30 years. Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January. We've now lost more than 3.6 million jobs since this recession began.
But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.
In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face. That was, after all, what last November's election was all about.
Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come. But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary. The scale and scope of this plan is right. And the time for action is now.
Because if we don't move swiftly to put this plan in motion, our economic crisis could become a national catastrophe. Millions of Americans will lose their jobs, their homes, and their health care. Millions more will have to put their dreams on hold.
Let's be clear: We can't expect relief from the tired old theories that, in eight short years, doubled the national debt, threw our economy into a tailspin, and led us into this mess in the first place. We can't rely on a losing formula that offers only tax cuts as the answer to all our problems while ignoring our fundamental economic challenges – the crushing cost of health care or the inadequate state of so many schools; our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.
The American people know that our challenges are great. They don't expect Democratic solutions or Republican solutions – they expect American solutions.
From the beginning, this recovery plan has had at its core a simple idea: Let's put Americans to work doing the work America needs done. It will save or create more than 3 million jobs over the next two years, all across the country – 16,000 in Maine, nearly 80,000 in Indiana – almost all of them in the private sector, and all of them jobs that help us recover today, and prosper tomorrow.
Jobs that upgrade classrooms and laboratories in 10,000 schools nationwide – at least 485 in Florida alone – and train an army of teachers in math and science.
Jobs that modernize our health care system, not only saving us billions of dollars, but countless lives.
Jobs that construct a smart electric grid, connect every corner of the country to the information superhighway, double our capacity to generate renewable energy, and grow the economy of tomorrow.
Jobs that rebuild our crumbling roads, bridges and levees and dams, so that the tragedies of New Orleans and Minneapolis never happen again.
It includes immediate tax relief for our struggling middle class in places like Ohio, where 4.5 million workers will receive a tax cut of up to $1,000. It protects health insurance and provides unemployment insurance for those who've lost their jobs. And it helps our states and communities avoid painful tax hikes or layoffs for our teachers, nurses, and first responders.
That's what is at stake with this plan: putting Americans back to work, creating transformative economic change, and making a down payment on the American Dream that serves our children and our children's children for generations to come.
Americans across this country are struggling, and they are watching to see if we're equal to the task before us. Let's show them that we are. And let's do whatever it takes to keep the promise of America alive in our time.
Thank you.
I just read where Buffet has put a couple of billion in the hands of some Swiss insurance company that was in need of a bail out! Considering all the proposals and groups weighing in on this sight that couple of billion surely could do a heap of good on the home front! Buy American and invest in America is what is needed.
Even if the politicians water down the Buy American provisions the American consumer can exercise their buying power and voice - simply hold back your money. I note there is a real fear that the investment and government spending for green will go to the European and Asian companies that manufacture the majority of windmills, photovoltaic cells, storage batteries etc need. At minimum if they want American dollars than they should build their plants here in America so American workers benefit. A fine example of a foreign company transferring in their technology is the Canadian company Vbine. American owned Franklin Wind Energy Group LLC was able to purchase the exclusive United States manufacturing and marketing rights for a new type of micro wind turbine from the Canadian company. This enables Franklin to assemble product in a plant right here in America creating jobs.
Boycott, picket - take a lesson from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Operation Bread Basket strategy that was implemented in Chicago back in the day! Companies that want our dollars must respect US consumers and put their plants where they make those sweet dollars they crave!
Boone's team has made it so easy - it takes just one minute to forward a simple message to your Senators. PLEASE do it today. Please get the folks in your home, family and office to do the same.
Here is the easy link to our Senators:
http://capwiz.com/pickensplan/issues/alert/?alertid=12548996&ty...
Let's really push the needle today. Let's make this 50,000 Wednesday! Have a great one!
Best,
Kim
I apologize for the delay in getting back with you on the conversion of class 7 & 8 trucks. we are continually updating our website www.jiffygas.com which will provide you with basic information on what we are doing. the thing that is slowing us up at this point is funding to really get things moving. we are currently working with a local community college putting together a curriculum for training & hopefully creating green jobs. Please feel free to call me @ 813-454-8574 if you have additional questions.
We have sent over 30,000 messages to our Senators in just 2 days. THIS IS THE MOMENT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR. Real action is on the table. Let them hear from us.
Boone's team has made it so easy - it takes just one minute to forward a simple message to your Senators. PLEASE do it today. Please get the folks in your home, family and office to do the same.
Here is the easy link to our Senators:
http://capwiz.com/pickensplan/issues/alert/?alertid=12548996&ty...
Let's really push the needle today. Have a great one!
Best,
Kim
I apologize for not being knowlegeable about the economics of harvesting algae blooms in the open ocean. There certainly would be a tremendous variation in algal species involved, depending on location and other factors such as available sunlight and nutrients. The dominant species in a particular location would probably change over time. All these variables would significantly complicate and add cost to any oil extraction process. However, the algae biomass could be run through a Fischer Tropsch (FT) process just like wood chips or garbage and converted into high quality fuel. Unfortunately, this would probably add cost to the process and would destroy all of the high value-added protein typically produced by many species of algae.
The capital cost for the tanker plus the operating costs of fuel and labor would further subtract from profits.
We usually think of petroleum-based fuel as being 'expensive' but in reality it is extremely cheap on a per gallon basis. Costs for any replacement technology must be kept to an absolute minimum. My gut feeling is that commercial algae farmers would much prefer to partition off sections of the ocean near the shore and set up controlled, continuously operating, minimal cost operations and pump the algae to nearby, land-based processing facilities. In this way, the operations might be compared to 'commercial fish farming' as opposed to 'open ocean fishing'.
I think controlled, ocean algae farming would be a great idea if it can be shown that the economics make sense.
Dear Friends,Email Your Senator Today!
I am concerned about the high percentage of our oil that comes from foreign countries. Even in December, as the economy was contracting, we imported nearly 70 percent of the oil we used and paid over $19 billion for it.
I am very interested in the aspects of The American Renewal and Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1) that include the promotion of alternative energy - wind and solar; the building out of a 21st century electrical transmission grid; and incenting trucking companies to upgrade from trucks running on foreign diesel to those running on domestic natural gas.
A Department of Energy study showed that developing our capacity to produce wind energy would not only replace 20 percent of the electricity we now produce using coal-burning plants, but would add 138,000 jobs in the first year and more than 3.4 million over a ten-year span.
Also, if we switch just 350,000 of the 6.5 million heavy trucks running on the nation's Interstate Highways to domestic natural gas from imported diesel, we could cut our oil imports by over five percent. In December alone that would have kept nearly $1 billion from being shipped off shore.
I hope you will join me in supporting these components of the Pickens Plan as H.R. 1 moves toward final passage in the Senate
I need you to contact your U.S. Senators to tell them to support the Pickens Plan. Click here to send an email today.
Read the full text of the bill H.R 1>>>
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.pdf
P.S. Savings bonds could be help in economic crisis.
While Washington tries to "fix" the banking and Wall Street mess created by subprime "gotcha" adjustable rate mortgages defaulting en masse, many of us are looking for a safer place to put at least some of our retirement, college funds, etc.
And we also want our country to become more energy-independent and our crumbling infrastructure repaired. But with things as they are, how can we accomplish these three objectives? A new form of U.S. Treasury savings bonds could be the answer.
Without U.S. saving bonds, we wouldn't have been able to supply our troops and allies like we did in World War II. If the U.S. Treasury issued energy independence and infrastructure savings bonds that paid an interest rate about 3 percent greater than the annualized FED rate adjusted for inflation, only be redeemable on their anniversary date(s), and what they pay is not faxed when they are redeemed at maturity, all three of these objectives can be achieved without any increase in taxes, especially if these funds were only employed as 1-to-2 matching funds.
Such bonds could increase employment enough to even reduce our taxes. Pass this idea on to your friends and then the politicians.
Renew_America_Bonds.pdf
Discussion link: Funding Energy Independence?
Stay tuned for more information on green jobs following the Middle Class Task Force’s, first meeting on February 27, 2009 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
BRIEFING ROOM: The White House provides timely and accurate information about the President's latest events and public statements. Here you'll find photos, video, and blogs, as well as proclamations, executive orders, and press releases.
Honda makes a NGV and if approached by PP might agree to "Loan" us one for use in parades there in La, Ms, and Al.
The car could be driven by district leaders in local parades, decorated with colorful magnetic PP logos.
Maybe local members could march in front or behind with a banner and music playing and tossing PP bumper stickers or just PP stickers, or find beads from a thrift store.
Think it over it could be a blast and good promotion and launch some local press!
Jeri
Sincerely and with Respect
Mike Kendall
Thanks, Mike
Best Regards and With Respect, Mike
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