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A new path forward

-- Amanda Meade -- 03/11/2009

Last November, voters chose a new direction. We realized our country was headed in the wrong direction and overwhelmingly voted for a new vision of where the country should be. Last month, President Obama started carving a new path with an historic stimulus bill. And this month, has submitted a budget that represents the shortest route to help move us from the old path to a new one.  

From his cabinet appointments to the release of his budget, in the handful of weeks he's been in office, President Obama has worked hard to fulfill his campaign promise to chart a new course for America's future.  First, he fought for and passed the American Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That bill was the single largest investment in clean, renewable energy in history.  

President Obama's budget seeks to eliminates unfair tax loopholes and subsidies that companies like Exxon have taken advantage of for years.  Last summer, high gas prices were the spark that lit our economic wildfire, but Exxon and its congressional allies continue to claim that President Obama is picking on the oil industry.  They fail to mention that in 2008, Exxon made the largest recorded profit of any company, anywhere, ever. Taxpayers will not be fooled into bailing out the most profitable companies in history, companies that have already spent decades on corporate welfare.  

It's up to each of us to follow the path that President Obama drew and to urge all of our Senators and Representatives to look beyond special interests, to look beyond self-interest, and to work instead for America's interests by passing the President's budget.