We can return to the failed economic policies of the past, or we can keep building a stronger future.

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While we are still rebuilding our economy and working to recover from the worst crisis since the Great Depression, we are making progress and the last thing we should do is return to the economic policies that failed us in the past.

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That viability may, in turn, determine our ability to avoid in the years ahead, as we have for the past four decades, a return to conscription to meet our requirements for warriors in those conflicts.

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The sun is high when our column ambles out of the corral, the shadows long when we return, past the barn that's home to a wagon, the very one the current owner's grandfather drove in when he bought this place in 1901.

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And we were in Cleveland, the same place that Congressman Boehner was in where he outlined a return to the past, and the President wanted to outline what he believes a hopeful and vibrant American future looks like.

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