Nappy Headed Black Child

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The state of the union accomplishes what we call in politics Agenda Setting. Explaining to the people congress and the party what the game plan is. Its a Propaganda tool essentially. Now im not gonna dissect everything im just gonna highlight a few things to prove a point

okay before we get started lets address some basic things

Obama is not a Black Panther, member of the NOI, or the UNIA he is a politician

The American political system is slow, only functional through compromise but is adversarial in structure.

Obama believes in American Government

Obama as the president can only introduce policy congress has to actually do the legwork to make it law

American Politicians are driven by ego and the what the will be the outcome political legacy

The Democrats have a history of piss poor party discipline (due to special interest and the variety of issues that fall under the democratic banner)

Currently politicians govern by campaigning (meaning decisions are made based
off doing things that will make you look good in a election or make an opponent look bad in an election there by eliminating progress on the basis of making something fail)


given these things Obama is up against a brick wall in terms of getting things done. He has been very busy and active. I believe he is trying and frankly if he wants a second term he is going to have to try harder.

Like Obama said Job is the first thing on the plate. I agree with this assessment. Money makes most people stop complaining and is going to make the democratic congress folk safer heading into midterms but thats provided this jobs package is put into effect and is showing results before November. My issue here is where the jobs are created. By his example the bulk of them will be in manufacturing and construction and then their associated expertise mostly tech stuff.

Healthcare needs to be passed asap. Congress has gotten bogged down in the bullshit over public option which most people support. Sitting on Healthcare allows the GOP to misinform and create panic. Obama needs to sit down and and explain this thing. I would suggest paring the bill itself down because that bad boy is over 1000 pages however that would take too long. Ram this joint down the GOPs throat. This is becoming an issue of credibility.

Campaign Finance reform as well as Wall Street regs and the Bailout Business Regs are other places where Obama can shine with his populism. The supreme court has made a decision where corporations can give an unlimited amount of money to a political candidate. Basically handing them political power as dangerous as it is ridiculous (think shinra from FF7). Regulating wall street (responsibly of course) post recession is always a good idea particularly in the way of paying taxpayers back. And sanctioning business that go overseas is advisable as well.

Those at least for me were the major issues i wanted addressed. However none of this is set in stone. What one must realize is that this is only a plan. How this plan will be implemented if implemented at all i still to be determined. The biggest question mark is how. For example Obama mentioned substantially increasing exports. Which makes sense in the same way having a diverse stock portfolio (not putting all of your eggs in one basket like housing market). However lets really think about exports. First and formost lets think about who imports generally smaller countries who dont have the land, resources, or expertise to support growing or manufacturing their own. Also America is a wealthy nation which means they can sell for less sorta like walmart which cuts into the prices of smaller local shops. So its makes it harder for less wealthy nations to compete when exporting the same materials. Fact is poorer nations import more and export less. Increasing our exports will come at a cost of hurting the business of poorer nations. Haiti is a prime example. Haiti Imports American rice and it has destroyed rice growing on the island forcing out of jobs and thus people go into the city in poor conditions. This is an context with how the US has manipulated Haiti for its own benefit and a potential way increasing exports.

See my point? Implementation is key matter of fact implementation is just about everything eluding the law and the way its written (which is generally vague and malleable for the purpose of loose interpretation).

We not out of the woods yet and its looking to get uglier before it gets any better. Hold your officials accountable