Obama's Speech to Joint Meeting of Congress

The man knows how to make campaign speeches. There was very little difference between this speech and all the ones he made stumping to get elected. This one had as much substance in it as all his previous ones.

There are a few things that caught my attention and requires attention from all of us. First he spent a lot of time blaming things on the Republican Bush Administration. Never did he mention that for the first seven years of the Bush years this country benefited from unparalleled prosperity. The stock market hit all time highs and unemployment was at an all time low. It wasn’t until 2006 when the Democrats gained control of Congress that things started going south. It was at that time that the Democrats went full steam ahead to destroy Bush and the Republicans. They decided to forgo taking care of the country’s business and concentrate on impeaching Bush and others in his administration. They interfered in the war in Iraq. To further discredit Bush and Republicans they were hoping for defeat, none of this was brought up.

What he did mention as a side line was that he intends to stop all development of “cold war era weapons development”. That is code for he will stop most of the funding that would enable our military to keep us, our alias, and other interests in the world safe from harm. If we pay no attention to anything else we need to give our attention to his intention to do what Jimmy Carter did to our ability to defend our selves.

The non- Stimulus Bill he signed will cost us more than the Iraq war, Katrina, and the war in Afghanistan put together, this in just the first month of his administration. Then he told us he will save us money stopping contracts with companies supplying our troops, end development of new military capability, drastically reducing agriculture subsidies, and cutting pork (like he did with the bill he just signed, oh boy). How he hopes to supply the troops he is sending to Afghanistan he did not mention. What is going to happen to the rest of our troops when he recalls them from Iraq was also not mentioned. All I see is he will add them to the unemployment lines.

To me his talk about not burdening our children with a huge debt rang very empty to me. How are they to pay for his version of socialized health care can only be from higher taxes and less care.

He did not seem at all worried by Islam’s attack on the Western World, the biggest threat we are now facing.

His desire to tax the “rich” more, give tax rebates to those that pay no taxes, and mess with private enterprise was very disheartening. All in all it was what I expected and he made no points with me.