Obama Previews State of the Union, And It’s Pretty Much What We Thought
What’s that old saying? “Stand for something, or you’ll fall for anything”? I think that sums up the problem with President Obama. He never worked on a budget before his election, he had very little experience in making hard decisions, and so it’s my theory that he’s all too susceptible to the same old Wall Street-loving advisors who are pushing the corporatist “New Democrat” tax-cuts-for-growth, “austerity” line. Apparently this year’s theme is “winning the future ,” and it’s about his preferred solution to everything: being “competitive.” (Corporate speak for “lower wages, no benefits and no pesky regulations.”) We have to “out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate.” Oh yeah, and and deal with our deficits in a “responsible” way, make government “leaner” and “smarter.” “Finding common ground while having vigorous debate” is important, too. (It’s worked so well, right?) I would so much prefer to have confidence in our president, but I think he’s too deep in the bubble, and he clearly believes in ideas that have already been proven to harm the rest of us.
Obama Previews State of the Union, And It’s Pretty Much What We Thought
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on January 23, 2011. Filed under