Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Obama signs stimulus bill

AFP has the story:

DENVER, Colorado (AFP) — President Barack Obama signed his huge 787-billion-dollar stimulus bill into law, declaring the "beginning of the end" of the worst US economic crisis since the 1930s...

"I don't want to pretend that today marks the end of our economic problems nor does it constitute all of what we have to do to turn the economy around," Obama said in the city where he vowed to unleash a wave of change in his convention speech in August.

"But today does mark the beginning of the end -- the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans scrambling in the wake of layoffs."

Here's video of President Obama's remarks: