Obama hopes to use the big speech to remove a blemish of his presidency: an economic recovery that has left wage growth behind.
Free community college. A $175 billion tax cut for the middle class. Faster, cheaper broadband internet. A week of paid sick leave. Discounted mortgages.
Obama wants to move forward with all of these populist proposals for the poor and middle class, and he wants to do so by taking from the rich in the form of higher taxes on the wealthy and Wall Street.
Few of the proposals are going anywhere with a GOP Congress, but the White House sees Obama’s penultimate State of the Union as the president’s last, best chance to lay down policy markers for the next two years —and to frame the 2016 battle for the White House.
It’s also meant to ensure Obama remains relevant for as long into his presidency as possible.
“I think we should have a debate in this country between middle-class economics and trickle-down economics,” top aide Dan Pfeiffer said on “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
“I think, in divided government, each side should lay out their agenda, what they think is in the best interest of the country,” he added.
Those comments signal another aspect of the emerging White House strategy.
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A Viewer Writes: And the next day, the president will be interviewed about his speech by three YouTube bloggers — including a California teenager who offers fashion advice and a comedian known for videos like ‘My pushup bra will help me get my man.’”
Among other things this is a full scale assault on traditional colleges.Such action encourages the students who did really good in high school AND those who did really bad to attend community college.That levels the playing field which is what this action was intended to do.The students who studied their butts off just to get to college deserve better.
ReplyDeleteFree community college. A $175 billion tax cut for the middle class. Faster, cheaper broadband internet. A week of paid sick leave. Discounted mortgages.
ReplyDeleteIt's Christmas again!!!!!!
Little "gifts" from government that are aimed at only one thing: controlling the people.
ReplyDelete$18,000,000,000,000.00 in debt and he want to push us further in debt.
ReplyDeleteThe Presidents current agenda focuses on making the Republican Party look as if they are the party of the rich and do not care about "regular people". All of these ideas are DOA in congress. Funny how each party always seeks to make the other look bad and in the process succeed in getting nothing of any importance accomplished.
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