Obama's National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank

From The Page - by Mark Halperin , Senator Obama is proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank today:

"For our economy, our safety, and our workers, we have to rebuild America. I’m proposing a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that will invest $60 billion over ten years. This investment will multiply into almost half a trillion dollars of additional infrastructure spending and generate nearly two million new jobs – many of them in the construction industry that’s been hard hit by this housing crisis. The repairs will be determined not by politics, but by what will maximize our safety and homeland security; what will keep our environment clean and our economy strong. And we’ll fund this bank by ending this war in Iraq. It’s time to stop spending billions of dollars a week trying to put Iraq back together and start spending the money on putting America back together instead.”

-Barack Obama

Americans Who Are Denied the DREAM

With an astounding number of undocumented immigrants belonging to the largest minority group in the United States, close attention needs to be focused on issues that are important to immigrants. Simply because their vote will count! Throughout the course of the debate, voters and non-voters who are concerned with providing opportunities for immigrants to attain citizenship, will be observing the sentiments of the 2008 presidential candidates on the failed DREAM legislation. This legislation would have allowed children who have grown up in the United States, but are not native to the country, to attain citizenship through either military services or higher educational opportunities. The positions of four of the current candidates are as follows:


Sen. Hillary Clinton- supporter of DREAM Act


Sen. Barack Obama- supporter of DREAM Act


Mike Huckabee- opposes DREAM Act


Sen. John McCain- supporter of DREAM Act