He's shutting down TARP, criticizing the people (ahem, Republicans) that cut taxes when they couldn't pay for it, cutting the deficit, creating jobs in the biggest way since the Depression, investing in infrastructure, directing money toward new business, repeating his vow to get us health care without raising the deficit, and reminding the critics that he inherited all these problems, not created them.
Full transcript.
What a beautiful close, too - you can't help but feel he's on the common American's side, and believes in this country more than the majority of us do:
Everywhere I've gone, every stop I've made, there are people like this, men and women who have faced misfortune, but who stand ready to build a better future. There are students ready to learn. Workers eager to work. Scientists on the brink of discovery. There are entrepreneurs seeking the chance to open a small business. And once-shuttered factories just waiting to whir back to life in burgeoning industries. There is a nation ready to meet the challenges of this new age and to lead the world in this new century. And as we look back on the progress of the past year, and look forward to the work ahead, I have every confidence that we will do exactly that.
These have been a tough two years. And there will no doubt be difficult months ahead. But the storms of the past are receding. The skies are brightening. And the horizon is beckoning once more.
I literally have goosebumps. Seriously guys. Yes we can.
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