January 25, 2012 / Politics, Water Cooler Talk
The President had a tough job delivering the state of the union address. I must say the man has charisma. I like him, I like his wife, kids and dog but I don’t like his politics. He stated a number of things that were on the positive side and that is good, the auto industry is doing great. He wants to see the middle class strengthened and the very rich paying their fair share of taxes, how can you fault that? He pointed out that under his watch Osama Bin Laden has been laid to rest. He also pointed out that our troops are coming home and finally the war in Iraq is over. This is all good. However, he did not point out that unemployment is almost at 9 per cent, gasoline is running about 3.70 a gallon, health share cost has gone up and we are billions of dollars more in debt and what have we received for this huge amount of money we have been spending. We have bailed out banks and we have had our credit rating go down. Our kids are paying huge money out on college loans and big government has done little if nothing to help them.

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