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The State of the Union: a Hollow Speech

Alan from NJ Wrote: Jan 31, 2010 12:40 AM
You will be abused just as the banks are being abused that paid back the loans they were forced by Obama to take. The ones that paid them back with due interest are the ones that are going to be fined. I believe the ones that have not paid the loans back, yet, might have an easier sentence. Just as only union members would have untaxed 'cadellac'(sp.) health plans and non-union members with such plans would be taxed. Everyone's equal, but some are more equal than others. A typical communist result. My contention is that Scott Brown's election made going forward with this health debacle not impossible but would allow filibuster and the rotten, criminal antics would have been too exposed. To date, they are still rather obscure in 2000...

When President Bill Clinton faced Congress in 1995, after first losing any hope of health care reform and then control of Congress, he used his State of the Union speech to declare, "The era of big government is over." President Obama's State of the Union speech last night only served to remind us that the era of big speeches is over.

As America struggles with a 10 percent unemployment rate, stubbornly refusing to go down even as other economic numbers seem to rise, the public will no longer believe in speeches -- only in results. As Cuba Gooding...

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