State of the Union Speech

8th · Post by **8th** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:40 pm

Anyone watch this? what did you think? also, what did you think about the Democratic response?

it was better than i expected. but what did yall think?

and SUBSIST: did yall watch the State of the Union in lebanon? What are the sandy countries sayin about it?

16 Micz · Post by **16 Micz** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:53 pm

not into politics im sure tom has tho

8th · Post by **8th** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:58 pm

actually his busy ass missed it. he clearly hates america [calm down children its a joke]. but yeah, anyone see it

complexity · Post by **complexity** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:03 pm

I saw bits n pieces on Anderson Cooper. Interesting that he spoke a little bit on immigration & global warming, etc.

8th · Post by **8th** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:15 am

talking about it and REALLY doing something about it are two seperate things.

~Symbolikull~ · Post by **~Symbolikull~** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:20 am

fo sho, agree wit yuh 8th. actions vs words?

drunken jesus · Post by **drunken jesus** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:22 am

^exactly, me and 8th talked about this a lil on aim

basically nearly everything he said is near impossible to happen before he leaves office

now it all sounds good, but is it likely to happen by the ned of the year? nope

what hes did is created a burden for the next president, if the president doesn't do what he said in this address(or "continue will probably be the word used even though little is going to get accomplished this year) the republicans will make it look like the next president is worse(unless its a republican elected but even then they might if the electee is a little more liberal to gather a wider array of voters)

but actually he had alot of good ideas, this is one of the better state of the unions i've seen in awhile, its just hard to believe everything he said'll happen so he just said a sugarcoated list of what people would like to see happen, without a whole lot of potential that it could actually happen

~Symbolikull~ · Post by **~Symbolikull~** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:24 am

i really and truthfully could give to shits about politics, but when is minimum wage goin up to $7.25/hr????

8th · Post by **8th** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:27 am

like i said, it was better than i expected. He spoke in very vague terms. I REALLY liked the part where he talking about making the ear marks visible, and not just taking on rediculous amounts of pork. and when he said, regardless of whether you wanted to be in Iraq, we are there now. so something has to be done, and he outlines his plan a lil more.

but killah, all state of the union speeches are far reaching 'promises' that will most likely not occur.

when he talked about immigration and everyone appauled it made me sick. he has REFUSED to do anything, as has most of congress, and everyone knows it. Im not really sure who they were trying to fool.

8th · Post by **8th** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:29 am

the minimum wage hike will not help. It will raise prices of everything. Sure you'll make more, but everything will cost more. so it will basically be the same, but if 'feels good' to raise it. and the percentage of people actually making minimum wage is very small.

drunken jesus · Post by **drunken jesus** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:40 am

^agreed, i've noticed this in PA (our minimum wage has gone from like 5.15 to 7.00)

where i live shit is more expensive but since the minimum wage hike its went up more

and i know about the unlikely promises 8th, this isn't the first state of the union speech i've watched

and about the illegal immigration thing, i agree with you to a point, not much will be done about it

but this country needs illegal immigration like it or not, but i think it needs to be regulated with more LEGAL work visas being distributed so that we can better KEEPING track of immigrants in this country

without legal immigration most of the work done by immigrants won't be able to get done, so their needs to be a study done seeing how many immigrants are needed to complete the jobs that illegal immigrants now hold and once that happens their needs to be stricter penalties on ILLEGAL immigrants because if more than needed are entering the country it creates a drain on our society

~Symbolikull~ · Post by **~Symbolikull~** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:44 am

i make minimum wage man, so i care dramtically

drunken jesus · Post by **drunken jesus** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:47 am

yeah but with minimum wage going up and no other changes being made won't make a difference, everything will cost more no matter what income you make, for minimum wage to be increased something else has to be done to counter the cost so the price of other items won't go up

complexity · Post by **complexity** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:09 pm

Ghost. Your business may not able to raise your salary. Then you will be fired?

If not you many other people.

Its not all good. I agree with basically everything 8th and killah are saying. Skimming through this topic.

I wish I had more time to comment on it.

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