Subject: Did you hear the President today?
From: "David Axelrod" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:25:06 -0400

Friend --

This is a make-or-break moment for middle-class Americans
-- and anyone who cares needs to watch the speech President
Obama made in Cleveland today.

In this election, we face a choice between two
fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy.
The path Mitt Romney and his Republican allies want to take
us down is exactly the one that led us to the 2008 crisis.
We have to reject those policies and embrace the
President's vision of growing the economy, not from the top
down, but from the middle class out.

Hear from President Obama in his own words, and sign on to
the principles he laid out:

http://my.barackobama.com/The-Presidents-Vision5

The choice couldn't be clearer on the issues most important
to ordinary Americans:

    - Better Education: We need to invest in good teachers
and help more students go to college and get job training
-- not pack kids into classrooms and slash scholarships.

    - More, Cleaner Energy: We need to invest in promising
new sources of energy to create a market for innovation and
good jobs of the future -- not go back to relying on
foreign oil.

    - Leading Through Innovation: We need to invest in our
best scientists, researchers, and entrepreneurs so they
innovate here -- not cede new ideas to countries like China
and India.

    - Job-Creating Infrastructure: We need roads, bridges,
ports, and broadband technology that attract businesses
that will create jobs here -- not more pet projects and
bridges to nowhere.

    - Fair, Simple Tax Reform: We need to reward businesses
that create jobs here instead of rewarding outsourcing, and
must ask the wealthiest to pay their fair share again --
not sacrifice investments critical to the middle class. 

This economic crisis didn't start in 2008. For more than a
decade before, we knew things weren't working the way they
should. We saw costs for everything from health care to
education rising faster than wages. Good-paying,
middle-class jobs were becoming harder to find, as more and
more companies moved production overseas.

The other side's solution was the same then as it is now --
massive tax cuts benefiting mainly the wealthy, rolling
back regulations on risky behavior for Wall Street and
banks, and slashes to services that the middle class
depends on, like Medicare, education, and job training. A
decade ago, Bill Clinton left a record surplus. But the
last administration put two wars, two huge tax cuts, and
the Medicare prescription program on a credit card, and
handed President Obama a trillion dollar deficit and a
raging economic crisis.

Incredibly, Romney and his allies want to go back to those
same, disastrous policies: budget-busting tax cuts for the
wealthy and free rein for Wall Street to write its own
rules. We tried Mitt Romney's failed formula for most of
the last decade. It benefitted a few, but exploded the
deficit, crashed our economy, and devastated the middle
class. It didn't grow our economy, create good jobs, or pay
down our debt -- it did the opposite. And it won't work
this time around either: Independent economists confirm
that Romney's plan wouldn't cut the deficit, or even create
a single job now -- in fact, it could slow growth and push
us back into recession.

Today the President laid out a very different vision, one
where everyone -- no matter who you are, where you're from,
or how big your bank account is -- pitches in together to
rebuild the foundations of our country and economy. Instead
of another $250,000 tax cut for millionaires, Obama
believes we should pay down our debt and invest in the
things we know we need to grow the economy and strengthen
the middle class. That means restoring and upgrading our
crumbling infrastructure, investing in education, paying
down our debt responsibly, and yes, asking the wealthiest
Americans to pay a little more. This approach requires
tough choices and shared sacrifice -- exactly how we built
the American economy in the first place.

As supporters, it's on us to get this message out there.

Watch the President's speech, and share it with your
friends, family -- heck, share it with everyone you know.
There's even a helpful printout you can download and pass
around:

http://my.barackobama.com/The-Presidents-Vision5

Thanks,

David

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