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This is a long history of net-positive impact of government investment and risk taking in advancing new American technologies, corporations, jobs, and the wealth of our nation.
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The FORBES 400 demonstrates that the the real wealth of our nation is not physical--jewelry, gold, large cash accounts, lots of land--but metaphysical, what stems from the human mind--creativity, imagination, innovation, inventiveness.
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The United States government, through its public funding of DARPA, was responsible for the creation of the Internet and our nation reaped untold wealth as the progenitor of the information revolution.
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Our nation has enjoyed the fruits of this wealth.
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And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight, we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
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