Although it’s no secret that we are currently in the worst economic situation since the Great Depression, there has been little talk about where small businesses come into play. With a recovery and stimulus package of epic proportions being distributed, where is the small business piece of the pie? On February 17, President Obama signed [...]
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends — hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism — these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress [...]
“In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned… it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things — some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor — who have carried us up the long, rugged path toward prosperity [...]
The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on our ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart — not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good. -Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, [...]
“On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.” –Barack Obama The day we’ve all been anxiously waiting for has arrived and, with it we have a new President. The time has come to usher in what Barack Obama has called a new “era of [...]