State of Union address lays out bold plan for U.S.
Lewis DiuguidPresident Barack Obama set a bold economic, international and educational plan for the nation.
A group of letter writers meeting at The Kansas City Star offered insight on the president’s comments. “I think he offered a lot of ideas, programs and a wish list. He’s seeking GOP buy-in,” one letter writer offered.
Others said Obama offered policies that sounded at least as much Republican-oriented as Democratic. “He’s going to play heck to getting it all done,” one man said.
Republicans didn’t clap or stand much as the president spoke, even though Obama’s speech was not particularly liberal, said one man, who treated the group to a documentary, “Brother Outsider: the Life of Bayard Rustin” for Black History Month before the president’s speech.
Another man said he was encouraged by Obama wanting to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour and tie increases to the cost of living to get people out of poverty. Getting that through Congress would be an amazing feat.
Others said they were encouraged with Obama wanting to make hard work count for Americans again to get people out of poverty.
Many people hope Obama is able to return jobs to U.S. and stop companies from sending work overseas.
“That stuff doesn’t strike me as liberal,” one letter writer said. “It’s just common sense.”
George Hunsucker
Northland
4 months agoI had this tingle in my leg as zero kept talking about growing govt. yet magically not increasing the deficit…. He sees no downside to mandated minimum wages…. He is either an economic dufus or something… He is definitely not a leader for curing our economy, as has been shown….
Matt Henry
4 months agoCommon sense for people to have better jobs and make more money.
Well duhhhhhhh…..
But the devil is in the details isn’t it? The question is how and if he is serious, which I believe he is not. His liberal policies fail demonstrably over and over and over again and yet he pushes for more of the same, constantly buoyed by the “low-information” voter who thinks or investigates about an inch deep before moving on the watch Duck Dynasty and then talks about ‘common sense’. Fix the infrastructure! Great idea! Isn’t that what he said four years ago before he pushed passage of the trillion-dollar trust fund? “Shovel ready was not as shovel ready as we thought.” But how many of us know all that?
Common sense. Wow.
Matt Henry
4 months agoMeant to say slush fund, of course….