Obama, Biden launch 'recovery summer' meeting at White House

[Col. Flagg]

http://www.politico.com/playbook/

BREAKING -- OBAMA, BIDEN DECLARE “RECOVERY SUMMER”: Vice President Biden today will kick off “Recovery Summer,” a six-week-long push designed to highlight the jobs accompanying a surge in stimulus-funded projects to improve highways, parks, drinking water and other public works. Biden will present President Obama with a report laying out a spike in stimulus activity this summer, and how it will contribute to a steady climb to a total of 3.5 million Recovery Act jobs by the end of the year. Biden, Obama and other administration officials will travel to more than two dozen Recovery Act project sites in coming weeks. Tomorrow, the president will travel to Columbus, Ohio, to mark the groundbreaking of the 10,000th Recovery Act road project, around Nationwide Children’s Hospital. On Monday, Biden will travel to Midland, Mich., for the groundbreaking of the new Dow Kokam advanced battery manufacturing facility.

[Original_Intent]

indeed. This reminds me of some of the "empowerment" meetings I have attended at various employment. And it also reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon saying if employees were truly empowered they would not need to have an empowerment meeting to tell us.

It's all NewSpeak, the Ministry of Truth, a lighter side of 1984.

[pritchet1]

My "Recover Summer" just got flushed down the drain today. I am no longer working under the Dept. of Energy, i.e. working under the Executive Office, i.e. working for the Corporation of the United States. I was told to surrender my badge. No reason give because my employer is an "at-will" employer and can get rid of employees for reasons real or imagined.

Now I can devote a little time to finishing up my Assurance For Value paperwork :

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13332973/UCC- ... n-20031028