~ HA! These speeches are traditionally a time for your president to lay out his vision for the year to come. But lets face it: Im a lame duck, and you Republicans now control both houses of this great Congress. So this is sort of pointless. I was, for example, going to use this speech to suggest we give ordinary Americans a bit of a tax break. I read the report yesterday that by next year one per cent of the worlds population will control more wealth than the other 99 per cent. That book by the French economist last year, the one that so many of you didnt read, says history proves that inequality will only get worse (I know it has on my watch). So I thought it would be a good idea to tax our richest citizens a bit more, and our ordinary citizens a bit less. And I thought maybe we could offer community college students free tuition for a couple of years, and raise the federal minimum wage. But as I look out at this Congress, I realize I might as well yell those and any other ideas I have right into the Oval Office toilet. I do, though, want to make this point: The state of our union is pretty good right now, especially compared to everybody elses. Our deficit is a trillion dollars less than it was six years ago. Thats almost incomprehensibly good. Our economy is creating about a quarter of a million jobs a month. Our unemployment rate is 5.6 per cent. That same rate is about 25 per cent in Spain. France is at about 10.5 per cent. Even those Canadians, whose prime minister made all those annoying speeches for years about how much wiser and more prudent they are, are at 6.6 per cent. So, yeah! USA! USA! cbc.ca/news/world/a-state-of-the-union-address-the-president-is-unlikely-to-give-1.2918934
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:42:52 +0000
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