Our citizens and those who have gone before us charted the broad outlines of where we need to go and they would envy our opportunity to translate those dreams into action. And I believe they will judge us very harshly should we fail to act.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Money isn't the most important thing in life but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.