State of the Union

State of the Union

Obama’s first few opening sentences were inspiring goals for the future. He wants and hopes for America’s future to be brighter and to succeed. In order for America to succeed, he says we must unify to help the country and he has a few ideas to do this. Obama claims “the worst of the storm has past.” I believe that to be true because our economy has made a slow but definite recovery from the lowest point of the recession. The Recovery Act (Stimulus Bill) is what helped us recover from the recession. 25 acts were passed to cut taxes. However, the devastation still remains. Still, many people live in poverty because they cannot get a job.
Obama’s primary focus is to make more jobs available to people and employ more people in the essential fields for America such as National security, Energy, and environmental. I think this will greatly help America and people in need of jobs to support themselves and their families. Right now, it’s hard to start your own business and get your idea off the ground, but Obama has proposed 3 billion dollars to give to the banks to help out small businesses just starting and give people an opportunity to succeed.
Obama believes improving education is the best way to stop poverty. That is true because when people have a good education they can get a job and make some money. Now days getting a good education through college may be expensive, that is why Obama is giving some families 10 thousand dollars for families moving on to college.
So many people now days are limiting their spending and creating a budget to only buy the essentials, so why shouldn’t the government? Obama’s other goal is just that; to reduce government spending and to spend only out of necessity and create a budget. That’s a very good idea because our government is very much in debt. This is an excellent idea, yet Obama seems to be tossing around a lot of money around, but it might be for the better. Finally, Obama proposed all government spending to be shown to the people so they may see how their government is spending.
Obama sums up his speech by saying he WILL get America out of the war and support our troops when they come back. I think this is a good idea because we are spending a lot of unnecessary money on the war and seem to be gaining nothing. I have a tremendous amount of respect for our troops and hope that Obama does find a way to support them as they return.
So America should unify against doubt and reduce spending to work to a better future…sounds good to me. I think if Obama sticks to his goals and plans, we should continue to make a steady recovery.