Our President must be living in some other country, because his State of the Union speech did not represent our country:
- Life is good. That is ... if you have a household income of over $1 million, life is good. Those households have received, on average, a tax cut of $103,000. For the rest of us in the real world, it's not so rosy. For the year 2005, nominal wages rose only 2.4% while inflation rose 3.4%. You do the math ... that meant that our real compensation went down 0.9%. Not quite the "healthy and vigorous" economy that our President trumpeted in his State of the Union speech.
- Bush hailed spending on research for alternative fuel sources while his actions are the exact opposite: "Fact -- Bush pushed for renewable energy cuts in latest budget: President Bush's FY06 budget request for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) energy efficiency and renewable energy programs envisioned "reductions totaling nearly $50 million -- an overall cut of roughly four percent." (Renewable Energy Access, 2/28/05)" - Bush Wanted Renewable Energy Cuts
- He encourages children to take more math and science to remain competitive in the world while proposing to cut education budget
- Perhaps the most telling moment in his speech was when the Congress loudly applauded when he said that Congress had failed to act on his Social Security privatization plan.
Clueless ... completely clueless.
4 comments:
YOur last line says it all!
The Social Security applause by the Dem's was classic to say the least.
Those 3 things: education, poverty, and the environment are the things that I care most about as they relate to politics. And he has blown it spectacularly on all 3.
hell, he's blown it on virtually everything hi's ever touched (oil exploration, the Rangers, Iraq, terrorism, etc.). Why would it be different on education, poverty and the environment?
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