State of the Onion

I am not a political genius, I will readily admit this. I barely passed political science in college and it was probably because I was barely interested in the subject matter. It was required, otherwise I would not have taken the course. This being said, I watch The President's speeches with half an ear. Why? Well, I didn't vote for him. Not that I really voted for the other guy, I was more voting against W. I digress.

Last night was the State of the Union address, or as my husband said, State of the Onion. I wasn't going to watch it because I'd much rather watch a cooking show or a reality television show than listen to the leader of the free world spew crap for 45 minutes or so. My husband, good citizen that he is, wanted to watch it so we did. Boy, I was not disappointed. His whole speech was probably about 15 minutes long but with everyone having to clap and stand up after every other sentence it stretched to 45 minutes (this is after the 15 minutes it took to have him walk in, shake hands, sign autographs, yes I said sign autographs, and then have everyone clap, stand up and clap some more). I couldn't help but think that most of the Democrats in that room, you know, the ones who weren't standing and clapping everytime he said "the", were muttering under their breath, "Man, he's such a schmuck." Maybe it's me. I find it hard to place my faith in a president that hasn't done a whole bunch positive in the two terms he served but wants to change the world in the less than a year he has left. Call me pessimistic, but I just don't think it's going to happen. What I got out of his speech was this, the rich will get richer, the poor might get a little more help, and those of us who might be middle class are SOL. Maybe I'm wrong.

He talked about military members and families making more money. I'm down with that as a former military member I know exactly how much military families don't make. He wants government to be accountable and balance the budget. Gee, ya think? He wants no more tax increases. I don't want to pay more taxes as much as the next guy, but if we want stuff fixed, the money has to come from somewhere. Realistically speaking, it'll probably have to come from taxes. I say tax all the super-wealthy people that are barely paying any taxes to begin with due to loopholes and whatnot. I read in an article that people like Warren Buffet, a.k.a. super rich guy, pay income tax on about 0.5% of their income while regular joes, like myself, pay income tax on 100% of our income. Am I the only one seeing something wrong with this? He wants the rebates for tax payers to go out and stimulate the economy. Where's the money coming from? Last I heard, we're up to our eyeballs in debt, the dollar ain't worth squat, and most of the products we buy are imported. Gee, think we need to fix all that stuff first? Once again, maybe it's just me.

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