I tried, but when the President started his speech tonight saying the bad economy was Bush’s fault and that things are just getting good, I found myself spending more time with an old rerun of Cold Case.
Switching back I caught snippets about how he is going to raise taxes on companies that ship jobs overseas — hey, is General Electric included — and keep trying to pick winners and losers here. I heard him say how he’s going to send everyone to community colleges and high-tech and innovation and buzzwords and hey, kids let’s put on a show. Or something like that.
I heard him say natural gas is going to supply us for 100 years and that he’s going to protect our intellectual property so those threats from Hollywood about his SOPA stance apparently had some affect.
So anyway, Cold Case ended and I saw he was still rambling on about something, well, nothing after I listened to it for a bit, so I came up here and wrote this up.
Addendum, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels provided the GOP response to the President’s address and showed that he gets it. Daniels noted that middle class cannot be maintained on government programs financed by ever-increasing borrowing as the President sincerely appears to believe is possible.
He noted that debt causes nations to fall and that there is only a short time to get our house in order.
He said simple arithmetic shows that Social Security and Medicare will soon fail. Rather than asking that the tax rate on the wealthy be increased, he wondered why they continued to receive safety net benefits along with breaks in the tax code.
You think he might see a chance to be the Republican presidential nominee?