In State of the Union, Obama Focuses on the Middle Class

[brooklynite]

Source: New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Obama claimed credit on Tuesday for an improving economy and defiantly told his Republican adversaries in Congress to “turn the page” by supporting an expensive domestic agenda aimed at improving the fortunes of the middle class.

Released from the political constraints of a sagging economy, overseas wars and elections, Mr. Obama declared in his sixth State of the Union address that “the shadow of crisis has passed,” and vowed to use his final two years in office fighting for programs that have taken a back seat. He called on Congress to make community college free for most students, enhance tax credits for education and child care and impose new taxes and fees on high-income earners and large financial institutions.

“We have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on Earth,” Mr. Obama said in an address seen by an estimated 30 million people. “Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well? Or will we commit ourselves to an economy that generates rising incomes and chances for everyone who makes the effort?”

The president used the prime-time speech to call on Congress to pass new legislation authorizing the fight against the Islamic State. The president said approval of a resolution granting him that power — something he has argued he does not need to carry out the five-month-old campaign — would send an important signal. “Tonight, I call on this Congress to show the world that we are united in this mission,'’ Mr. Obama said.

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[pinto]

1. I hate these opinion / news pieces. I know it's expected to frame an event, yet -

there was a time when news reporting was news and opinion pieces were opinion. The amalgamation has become insidious, even among the world's most respected journalistic intuitions.

[Gothmog]

2. This is appropriate

[msongs]

3. calls for transparency yet won't tell us what's in the TPP til its been shoved down our throats nt

[1handclapn]

4. there is no middle class, there is only an underclass

the 1% richest hold 43% if America's Financial wealth, the richest 10% hold 72%, the richest 20% hold 96.4% of financial wealth... the bottom 80% holds a Whopping 4.6% of America's financial wealth, the bottom 80% holds about 2.5 to 2%.
so that shoots the heck out of that "Middle Class" BS. there IS NO MIDDLE CLASS anymore..!!

so what happens now that there is no one left to loot and rob
to maintain the Wall Street PONZI GAME..??

the ELITIST rich and GOP believe that wealth and Power are proof of god's favor of a man..
therefore it is a sin against gods will to tax them, explains the GOP Dogma
and the poor are being punished by god so it is a sin against God's Great Plan to help them. and not torment them.. sound familiar.?

the GOP can not stop their spiral into 1930's Fascism due to their Dogma, they have no agenda only a duty to fulfill gods Great Plan.

this is all explained in Jeff Sharlets book "the Family" about how a Nazi, who heard gods voice in hid head, took over the government in 1935. and they are still in power.. the C Street Family