Thoughts on the State of th Union Adress

Obama started his speech talking about how we as people were tested to become united and strong and that is how we succeeded. He is calling upon us as a nation to come back together and prevail against the economical struggles. He says that these problems and issues are nothing new. These problems of economic struggle have been here for years and change has not yet come. He believes that there is alot of hope coming from him because of the people in our nation have never given up. He also believes that the people need a government that is as strong as the people. He talks about how he has to do what is necessary instead of popular. He believs that his works are making the recession better, but not totally. I like how he did not take responsibility for what he did not do. His next goal he works on is the employment problem. he believes that by the end of this year, by putting the stimulus bill in affect, there will be more than 1 million more jobs by the end of the year. I am skeptical of what he says because he also said that the health care plan would work but it did not at all. He says that the recession is growing again so I do believe that we are coming out of the recession and that the new jobs bill is the government's main focus. I think that this is a good next step to recovering the economy because without jobs there will not be money to filter back into the system because businesses won't be able to sell anything if people don't have money to buy what they need. The new bill will give 30 billion dollars to the businesses to help start up the businesses which will eventually be stable enough to have more employees to pay. One thing i don't understand is why the government is taking away the money the banks earned back and using it again because I thought that the reason we were in a recession was that there was no money to get.., shouldn't we save instead of spend at this point? Or slowly spend instead of spending 30 billion dollars all at once? By the end of the address, Obama reminded me of Lincoln in his speech about the war and how the only way to progress is to unite. Lincoln said, " a house divided cannot stand." Now, Obama is saying the same thing because he says that the political parties have to settle their differences and stick together because thats the only way they can make definate decisions which will improve the health of our nation.