Thank you. Everybody, please have a seat. I would like to welcome the new 112th Congress, even the new speaker, John the former bar-sweep. I said please have a seat. But, seriously, let's stand in honor and solidarity with Gabby Giffords who is recovering tonight. You may be seated. Now I know we've had our differences, and we don't see eye to eye on practically anything, but that's a good thing. The system is working. We are all part of the big American family. And of course, that is bigger than any of our real families.
I found this little saying in a fortune cookie I was given. Can we work together tomorrow, like we are sitting together tonight? Stand and clap as long as you like. I believe we can and must. Obviously, the voters who sent all the new congressmen to this house did so because they thought governing should be a shared responsibility, and not just left in the hands of one party. To get new laws passed, both democrats and republicans must move forward together or not at all. Somebody's got to give, and we know I'm right. Let me put it this way, this is bigger than party and politics. It's bigger than any one of us. Why, it's really, really big! Elections come and elections go, but they don't mean as much as jobs and the economy.
We are poised for progress! Boy, are we poised!! How I can feel the poising tonight! How shall we measure this progress? By what kind of opportunities for a better life we leave for our children, besides the national debt. I'm talking about the tax cuts we made last month. Now that's what I call a boost in your pay check. Yeah, the world is changing, and some people have seen their pay checks shrink. But that's because the days of easy jobs are over. A lot of stores are closing. Factories are boarded up. Down towns are deserted. Well, the rules have changed. But why have nations like China and India been doing so well, while America hasn't? It's because their kids are smarter than American kids! We've got to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. Who knows! Maybe that will get our labor costs as cheap as those of growing countries. Good time to clap. Good time to stand, too.
Now nobody in the world is as creative or ingenious as America. But it is the governments responsibility to pay for research and development, because, if they didn't who would?!! The Internet and GPS would not have happened without the government flipping the bill for research. Sure, it was for military research, but that's just what we need - more military. Just as long as you know, this is your sputnik moment....
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Oh, I just can't stand it anymore. These speeches are mostly a pep-rally for the Presidential party of the moment. I do like to hear their big aspirations and plans. But the system works because of the checks and balances brought on by election-day mood swings of the masses. If the republicans just gave in to what the democrats wanted, they would just be all democrats. The new Congress in the House reflects the will of the majority for right now because they want change. But it will change again.
I know how it feels to be one of those unemployed faces, feeling under-utilized day after day. I wished for work and even wrote the President, telling him about it. I have friends right now that are in the same boat. I enjoy hearing these State of the Union speeches, because they are slightly funny. They only rally those who voted for that particular President. Such speeches only emphasize the differences while trying to say words of solidarity and unity with an under-tone of "my way is the right way."
God knows His plans for our nation, and they aren't about making it an economic empire. They aren't about frustrating children with even longer school hours and more home work. They aren't about funding a research grant. His plans haven't ever changed from generation to generation. People need a Savior to save them from themselves. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. That's His promise.
Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him. - Isaiah 55
That's what I want to hear in a President's speech. But who needs the speech when we've already been given the words of life.
I found this little saying in a fortune cookie I was given. Can we work together tomorrow, like we are sitting together tonight? Stand and clap as long as you like. I believe we can and must. Obviously, the voters who sent all the new congressmen to this house did so because they thought governing should be a shared responsibility, and not just left in the hands of one party. To get new laws passed, both democrats and republicans must move forward together or not at all. Somebody's got to give, and we know I'm right. Let me put it this way, this is bigger than party and politics. It's bigger than any one of us. Why, it's really, really big! Elections come and elections go, but they don't mean as much as jobs and the economy.
We are poised for progress! Boy, are we poised!! How I can feel the poising tonight! How shall we measure this progress? By what kind of opportunities for a better life we leave for our children, besides the national debt. I'm talking about the tax cuts we made last month. Now that's what I call a boost in your pay check. Yeah, the world is changing, and some people have seen their pay checks shrink. But that's because the days of easy jobs are over. A lot of stores are closing. Factories are boarded up. Down towns are deserted. Well, the rules have changed. But why have nations like China and India been doing so well, while America hasn't? It's because their kids are smarter than American kids! We've got to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. Who knows! Maybe that will get our labor costs as cheap as those of growing countries. Good time to clap. Good time to stand, too.
Now nobody in the world is as creative or ingenious as America. But it is the governments responsibility to pay for research and development, because, if they didn't who would?!! The Internet and GPS would not have happened without the government flipping the bill for research. Sure, it was for military research, but that's just what we need - more military. Just as long as you know, this is your sputnik moment....
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Oh, I just can't stand it anymore. These speeches are mostly a pep-rally for the Presidential party of the moment. I do like to hear their big aspirations and plans. But the system works because of the checks and balances brought on by election-day mood swings of the masses. If the republicans just gave in to what the democrats wanted, they would just be all democrats. The new Congress in the House reflects the will of the majority for right now because they want change. But it will change again.
I know how it feels to be one of those unemployed faces, feeling under-utilized day after day. I wished for work and even wrote the President, telling him about it. I have friends right now that are in the same boat. I enjoy hearing these State of the Union speeches, because they are slightly funny. They only rally those who voted for that particular President. Such speeches only emphasize the differences while trying to say words of solidarity and unity with an under-tone of "my way is the right way."
God knows His plans for our nation, and they aren't about making it an economic empire. They aren't about frustrating children with even longer school hours and more home work. They aren't about funding a research grant. His plans haven't ever changed from generation to generation. People need a Savior to save them from themselves. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. That's His promise.
Seek the LORD while He may be found, Call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; Let him return to the LORD, And He will have mercy on him. - Isaiah 55
That's what I want to hear in a President's speech. But who needs the speech when we've already been given the words of life.
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