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In his inaugural address today, Pres. Barack Obama underscored his campaign promises to reform health care and develop alternative energy. Here are some excerpts, from the prepared text:
“Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet … .
“The state of the economy calls for action, bold and swift, and we will act —not only to create new jobs, but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place, and wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its cost. We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age. All this we can do. And all this we will do.…
“To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds. And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world’s resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.”
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Add CommentTIME FOR ANOTHER PUSH FOR THE METRIC SYSTEM!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe U.S. Metric Association reports that only the U.S., Liberia, and Myanmar have not adopted the metric system. The U.S. was on the way toward accepting this scientific system of measurement when Pres. Reagan, who had little respect for science, stopped federal efforts toward metrication and metrication has languished since then. The Bushes have had little respect for science, but our new President, Obama, has expressed a renewed respect for science and favors change.
Perhaps this is a good time to push again for the U.S. to join the rest of the world in the use of the metric system. Not only would it encourage scientific education, but it might also improve our position in world trade. One can add one's vote for metrication as an issue for Obama's new Chief Technical Officer to consider at obamacto.org.