We the people will experience more of the same from the President in his second term was the only message I received loud and clear as I endured the preachy tones of a President who in spite of his use of the word “WE” clearly indicated that he is much more likely to “STAY THE COURSE.”
Why not? After all, as conveyed in the endless gloating of talking heads, he did win.
So, we were treated to a momentary reminder that the middle class can expect to remain the government’s piggy-bank for the President’s lofty goals for paying for Affordable Care, paying to maintain Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security only for current seniors before change is imposed on those paying in, promotion of jobs bills paying for more teachers and construction workers, and immigration policy that better welcomes illegal immigrants instead of better honoring our rule of law and those would-be immigrants who choose to follow it.
It was a speech of repetition, stunning in its absence of indicating any lessons learned from the policies and mistakes of his first term that have left the division in the country much like the unemployment rate, unchanged or worse.
If a “WE the People phrase” had been followed by anything new in terms of plans to cut the federal budget and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse, self-reflection about working with others and perhaps putting down the Executive Order pen and doing a better job of working with the Legislative branch, a reprieve for the middle class from financing the improvement of conditions for the poorest among us, perhaps the droning preacher tone and repetition would have inspired, but for me, it did not.
A restatement of his ideology might have been interesting one year after his first election, two years, three years, but again? The words were inadequate for me. The misuse of the word tenents instead of tenets at the very beginning of the speech indicated that not even the President himself was very inspired by the event.
