Allow me to begin on a positive note: the intermingling of D's and R's in the audience was a very good idea. It cut way down on the annoying clapping, both in the number of interruptions as well as length of clamor. No matter what party is in office, that clapping stuff sucks. So, on that point, last night's SOTU address got a thumbs up from me.
Now to the speech itself. I found Obama's address to be one of two things, delusional or deceptive. Logic and intellectual honesty were given the night off while he spoke. Obama framed his vision with the rhetoric of American ingenuity, productivity, invention, the concept of achievement of any individuals dream being possible here in America, unlike any other country on earth. What American doesn't support these ideals?
Obama, however, employed these inspiring words (in Reaganesque fashion) to conversely make the argument for BIGGER Government, MORE tax dollar spending, LESS personal choice (ala Jimmy Carter). With not much stealth, he uses code words to describe these actions, ie, protection of the public equals BIGGER Government, investment equals tax dollar spending or worse borrowed Chinese money, alternative energy sources equals less personal choice and forced higher prices to heat homes, drive cars, buy groceries, turn the lights on. What American DOES support these ideals?
With all of Obama's clever wording, he still came off like an alcoholic justifying that next round of mixed drinks for himself and EVERYONE in the house. He pretends that substituting a yummier cocktail of peach schnapps and vodka for the much harder to swallow scotch, neat, as addressing the addiction problem. Mr. President, a pay freeze at the obscene levels you've already raised them to is NOT a solution to the addiction problem of Government spending. Obama's ploy is clear. If the addict can get us all hooked then he no longer has to deal with roadblocks to his and now our shared poison.
Obama is not to blame for our addictions to entitlements, pensions and the fairytale of a Government who takes care of us in the most excellent manner. Bush, Clinton, even Reagan had a hand, to differing degrees, in creating this crippling addictive scenario as well as presidents going back as far as Woodrow Wilson. Obama has only taken the role of Pusher to an exponentially outrageous level at possibly the most dangerous time in history to do such.
Our president tells us all to go for the American dream, be entrepreneurs, innovate yet turns around and suggests millionaires should cough up the funds to "save our schools". With logic like that, who wants to EVER achieve millionaire status if it means you are to be painted as the evil success story, responsible for the poor staying poor?
No, it's GOVERNMENT that has robbed us all blind, kept the poor, poor, that enabled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to pull off fraud so insipid, even the U.N. would blush. Did you know we TAX PAYERS are paying the legal fees to DEFEND the Fannie and Freddie Executives who defrauded...we, the tax payers? How dumb do they think we are? Maybe they're banking on the fact we were educated by the U.S. Government public school system that now needs evil millionaires to save it.
The Government has mis-managed our schools, not millionaires. It is the GOVERNMENT who has taken power away from parents and communities, turning our educational institutions into high priced day care centers where socialist theory is the only point of view presented. We don't need any regulations to protect the people from big business, it's our GOVERNMENT and their mind-numbing "free education" we need protection from. Even Obama wouldn't dare subject his daughters to the Government controlled education he pushes on the rest of us. The Government needs the reigning in, not free enterprise, not capitalism or successful individuals.
Obama spoke of creating jobs, cutting pork, transparency in Government as if he just came up with these ideas last night. Excuse me Mr. President but you promised all these things over two years ago but did just the opposite. The stimulus was a fiasco. Billions still sit, not funding anything, creating zero jobs yet our debt rises.
Cutting pork was not accomplished when Obama signed the Health care legislation, laden with very expensive, unnecessary, untraceable streams of waste, setting up state budgets to fail in the funding of these programs and our debt rises.
Transparency occurs in this administration only after the fact. Perhaps on this item Obama is being honest because he said on the new website we will be able to see where all the tax dollars are going, not where they are proposed to go. Providing transparency ahead of time is never good in socialist societies. That might give the people the ability to disagree and stop wasteful spending before it happens. And our debt rises.
I had to hold back laughter when he went into the whole SPUTNIK riff. He wants us to "do big things" like mind blowing advancements such as solar roof tiles, toxic mercury light bulbs, high speed trains (that can't ever be go over 70 mph due to the other train traffic on the rails but why bother with that little factoid) all the while he guts NASA, the very agency capable of "big things"... instead turning them into an agency assigned to promote Muslim self-esteem. Big things? Did Obama's literature teacher EVER explain the term irony to him? Just asking.
Obama used all the right words to mean all the wrong things. If he had started out saying, "Hello, I am Barack Obama, and I am a spendaholic, Fabian socialist, narcissistic front man", then, then I might have believed the rest of his long-winded pontification. Delusion or deceit. Which is it?
But again, that seating idea was really good.
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