President of the United States of America delivered State of the Union address today, which is meant to inform the people of America, the status of their country. The speech was a typically Obama fashioned, just speaking on the occasion.
The key factor of this speech, though was decorated to be patriotism, but what I sensed was a President pleading for the pride and credibility that he had lost in just one year of office. Sure, being President of the United States isn't easy, because thats the nation which never looks unto itself, rather intrudes into affairs of territories around the world. United States is the country which still believes that it still is a super power and without it, the world would suffer. But United States is not a might that it believes it to be. Historically, Americans have lived advocating what others around the world would do and forgetting that slowly the glory of America is fading away.
This address of the President is to make Americans realise where there ground is. But the Americans are far above the ground that any attempt to land them would not be without hurting itself. Nevertheless, if the trend had continued, the damage would have been severe, because the more they move away from the ground, the greater the depth of the fall. Probably its not the wrong time for such realisation.
US was really marred by the fact that there was acute unemployment in the US when he took over. And he took pride by saying that the worst is over, but yet would like to continue the good work. He was selling his healthcare reforms agenda aggressively as he had been doing in the recent past. He mentioned about children writing letter to him about the distress in their family due to unemployment.
A classic quote, I used wonder about the first part of it, "why it seems like bad behavior on Wall Street is rewarded, but hard work on Main Street isn't". The President is truly inspirational. His speech always motivates and instigates. From this moment, he was addressing the election rally.
He talked about bailout being hated by all including him, but why it was essential, doing what is popular than what was necessary. The novel concept came in where he proposed fee on the banks which benefited from the bailout plans, stating that when these banks can pay big bonuses again, why not the taxpayers who helped them when needed. Next was unemployement issue and the tax cuts offered to individuals and smaller businesses, college students and how that had saved jobs of 2 million Americans.
He proposed new jobs bill by glamorous statements about the Recovery Act, which had saved jobs of millions of Americans. He proposed to promote credit institutions in smaller towns, offer credit for smaller businesses. Next was infrastructure, clean energy development and he included clean-energy use by house-holds. There are variety of other issues he spoke.
He spoke about both Democrats and Republicans working together for the United States. He mentioned bills should not be delayed just because one has the right to delay. He touchingly spoke about the military personnel of the US and promised to take back troops from Iraq. He finished by saying: "We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment, to start anew, to carry the dream forward, and to strengthen our union once more."
I watched this on television. There were applauses, just by sitting, standing, from democrats alone, both. But there were a set of 10-15 people sitting in front, who never gave a reaction, don't know who they are, what is their role, but guess they are meant to remain like that. Parliamentary proceeding in such a decent fashion is hard to see in our country, atleast we will appreciate for the decorum that was maintained throughout.
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