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Thread #101088   Message #2298824
Posted By: Amos
27-Mar-08 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views on Obama
Obama's Economic speech is making waves.

"But the American experiment has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle. Our free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get, however you can get it. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest. We have done this not to stifle – but rather to advance prosperity and liberty. As I said at NASDAQ last September: the core of our economic success is the fundamental truth that each American does better when all Americans do better; that the well being of American business, its capital markets, and the American people are aligned.

I think all of us here today would acknowledge that we've lost that sense of shared prosperity. "

Full advance text can be read here in the Times