State of The Union Thoughts

I liked most of what President Obama had to say in last night's State of the Union address.  I agree we need to move forward and not rehash old arguments, and we definitely need boost our infrastructure and or education system.  He lightly touched on the need to keep jobs here in the U.S. but never really said much about how he was planning to do that.  And with that being said, here are a few thoughts on what I felt was lacking from the State of the Union address.

First and foremost, I would've liked to hear him talk about how along with jobs, financial reform was at the forefront of his concern.  The GOP cannot look past the money that is put in their pockets to see how much the lack of regulation caused not only our economy, but the worlds economy as well, take such a dive.  It's either because they are completely stupid, or because they are as thick as thieves with the financial arena, that they cannot see how regulation could've prevented such a travesty.  And what's really disheartening is how a lot of those people that were affected by the actions of Wall St. still voted in GOP members this last election cycle.

As for the jobs, is it really that hard to figure this all out?  At a minimum we need to stop or try to limit the imports from China.  And here's what I find truly ironic with the GOP.  They want to keep spending money on the military buildup because they feel we need to protect ourselves from communism and terrorist.  Yet, in the same breath, they freely allow corporations here to do massive amounts of business with a communist country like China, and countries where large portions of the income from oil goes to terrorist backed governments.  I just don't get it.

And then to listen to Paul Ryan spew his bullshit.  Talking the usual GOP tag line.  Democrats create big government, blah blah blah.  What about, when Bush was in office.  He created The Department of Homeland Security, among other "branches" of government.  And the worst part of it all, is how invasive that entity of the government has been on our public lives. Yet, Paul Ryan, who claims to be such a staunch Republican, never talked about how many of our rights and freedoms have been lost, and continue to be lost.  Why no mention of the extension of the Patriot Act?  Doesn't anybody care that they just keep sliding the extension of that along with little notice?

It's the cup game folks.  Both sides, deployed by big business, have been chosen as pawns in their quest to become richer while beating the lower and middle class into submission.  When will people begin to wake up?