State of the Union 2014 Obama POLICIES:

One voice to the people we represent – USA STATE OF UNION:

1. The lowest unemployment rate in over five years. 
2. A rebounding housing market. 
3. A manufacturing sector that’s adding jobs for the first time since the 1990s. 
4. More oil produced IN US than we IMPORT = 1st time in 20 years. 
5. Our deficits – cut by more than half – 
6. USA = 1st time in over a decade business leaders declared USA #1 place to invest
7. TRENDS = Economy picking up speed
8. TRENDS = Companies intend to hire more people this year. 
9. TRENDS = 50% of big manufacturers want to insourcing jobs from abroad. 
10. Decade of grinding war = Our brave men and women in uniform are coming home.  
11. After years of grueling recession = Our businesses have created over six million new jobs.  
12. Today we buy more American cars than we have in five years
13. Our stock market HIT NEW RECORD HIGHS
14. More consumer, patient, and homeowner protections than ever before.
15. Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas.

2014 = Rubble of crisis Clearing away = A breakthrough year for America after 5 years of determined effort

USA = Better-positioned for the 21st century than any other nation on Earth.

4 years of Economic Growth on Wall Street

1. Record corporate profits
2. Record stock prices never higher
3. But millions of Americans have not yet been rewarded = still can’t find full-time JOBS
4. Stagnant Wages for 30 Years
5. Shrinking Middle Class
6. USA #1 in Wealth Inequality in Developed World
7. USA #1 in Income Inequality 
8. USA #4 in Inequality in ENTIRE WORLD
9. Deficit DOWN by $2.5+ Trillion = spending cuts + raised tax rates slightly on wealthiest 1%

Our job is to reverse these trends – concrete, practical proposals:

1. Average wages have barely budged for 30 Years = Inequality deepened.
2. Upward mobility has stalled.
3. Too many Americans = Working more than ever just to get by = too many NOT working
4. Strengthen the middle class
5. Build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class.
6. Millions of Americans outside Washington are working to Improve and MOVE America FORWARD:
7. White House just organized a College Opportunity Summit = 150 universities, businesses, and nonprofits commitment to reduce inequality
8. College Opportunity Summit = Access to higher education for every hardworking kid to go to college and succeed when they get to campus.
9. Across the country, we’re partnering with mayors, governors, and state legislatures on issues from homelessness to marriage equality.

We believe in America = Our success depends on our work ethic and our dreams

Our forebears to America = Opportunity is who we are = Our Defining project is to restore that promise access to a good job.

OUR GOAL = A rising, thriving middle class – WORK ON BEHALF OF ALL – the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love.

Government = On behalf of the many, and not just the few = Encourage free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great nation.

America = MUST save $100’s of Billions = Get rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well-off and well-connected = comprehensive tax reform that encourages job creation and brings down the deficit = tax code that ensures billionaires with high-powered accountants can’t pay a lower rate than their hard-working secretaries + a tax code that lowers incentives to move jobs overseas + lowers tax rates for manufacturers that creates jobs in America.

Tax REFORM = To help consumers and to create jobs

Put the nation’s interests before party = Forge reasonable compromises = do it together

Our tax code = Riddled with wasteful, complicated loopholes

Our tax code = Punishes businesses investing here and rewards companies that keep profits abroad. Let’s flip that equation. Close those loopholes and end those incentives to ship jobs overseas, and help businesses create jobs here at home.

Transition to tax reform to create jobs rebuilding our roads, upgrading our ports, unclogging our commutes = first-class jobs gravitate to first-class infrastructure.

I will slash bureaucracy and streamline the permitting process for key projects, so we can get more construction workers on the job as fast as possible.

We have the chance to WIN the race for the next wave of high-tech manufacturing jobs = Two hubs in Raleigh and Youngstown + I’m announcing six more this year.

Priority #1 = Make America a magnet for 500,000 NEW manufacturing JOBS = ENDING LOSSES for more 10+ years

MANUFACTURING FACTS:

1. Caterpillar bringing jobs back from Japan.
2. Ford bringing jobs back from Mexico.
3. Intel opening its most advanced plant right here at home.
4. Apple making Macs in America again.

Accelerate this trend = 1st state-of-the art manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio + launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs with DOD + ENERGY — WHAT THE HECK?? = Wants NETWORK of fifteen hubs = WEAPONS MADE in America.

Let’s help entrepreneurs and small business owners to create new jobs in America.

98% of our exporters are small businesses = New trade with Europe & Asia-Pacific

FACT: Nation that goes all-in on innovation will own the global economy tomorrow.

Federally-funded research helps convert ideas and inventions into the NEXT Google or Apple.

A patent reform bill will allow our businesses to stay focused on innovation.

Natural gas = Bridge fuel to power our economy = Less carbon pollution

Businesses plan to invest almost $100 billion in new factories that use natural gas.

I’ll cut red tape to help states get those factories built, and this Congress can help with putting people to work building NAT GAS fueling stations.

Strengthen protection of our air, our water, and our communities – Every four minutes another American home or business goes solar = too stops giving $4 Billion to fossil fuel industry.

Fix our broken immigration system = Senate Passed it but House must to grow our economy and SAVE almost $1 Trillion OVER 20 YEARS.

Harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants = business, labor, law enforcement, and faith communities all agree = pass comprehensive immigration reform = MILITARY FORCE ON SOUTHERN BORDER + pathway to earned citizenship + cut waiting periods and bureaucracy to attract the highly-skilled entrepreneurs and engineers = A comprehensive immigration reform bill.

Americans must have the skills to fill those jobs = more on-the-job training + more apprenticeships so young worker have an upward trajectory for life + community colleges design training to fill companies’ specific needs.

We must restore unemployment insurance for 1.6 million Americans.

99% of our students must have high-speed broadband = Apple, Microsoft, Sprint, and Verizon promised a down payment to connecting 15,000+ schools and 20 million students over the next two years.

We’re offering millions the opportunity to cap their monthly student loan payments to ten percent of their income – trapped by student loan debt.

The American Dream = NOT an empty promise = Honor the dignity of HARD work PAYING OFF for every single American

Women = Must make 100 cents for every dollar a man earns NOT 77 CENTS = when women succeed, America succeeds.

Americans overwhelmingly agree that no one who works full time should ever have to raise a family in poverty. Raise the Minimum wage to the POVERTY LINE ($11.29/hour) and KEEP IT THERE OVER TIME.

Step for workers to have a pension BEYOND Social Security check = Start their own retirement savings: MyRA = A new savings bond that encourages folks to build a nest egg = guarantees a decent return with no risk of losing what you put in = Every American HAS access to an automatic MyIRA on the job to save.

Congress CAN help = Fix an upside-down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy save, but does little to nothing for middle-class Americans.

Congress CAN help = Law that protects taxpayers from footing the bill for a housing crisis ever again = Keeps the dream of homeownership alive for future generations

Governor Steve Beshear of Kentucky, a man possessed when it comes to HEALTH coverage for commonwealth’s families. “They are our friends and neighbors. They are people we shop and go to church with…farmers out on the tractors…grocery clerks…they are people who go to work every morning praying they don’t get sick. No one deserves to live that way.”

Citizenship = Standing up for everyone’s right to vote = It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank account, that drives our democracy.

Gun violence = stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans.

Decade of grinding war = Our brave men and women in uniform are coming home.  

180,000 Americans were serving in Iraq and Afghanistan in early 2009.

1. 0 troops in Iraq.
2. 60,000 troops out of Afghanistan + 34,000 more this year = Complete our mission there by the end of 2014.
3. If negotiated = A small force of Americans could remain in Afghanistan

Syria = USA support the opposition (AC CONTRACTORS) agenda.

I’ve imposed prudent limits on the use of drones without regard to consequences.

I will reform our surveillance programs for privacy of ordinary people.

Close GITMO at $1+ Million / year WASTE = True to our Constitutional ideals

American diplomacy = supporting Israelis and Palestinians talks to end the conflict

American diplomacy = Halted the progress of Iran’s nuclear program and rolled parts of that program back IN COOPERATION WITH 6 WORLD POWERS = Let me be clear: if this Congress sends me a new sanctions bill now that threatens to derail these talks, I will veto it = for our national security = Give diplomacy a chance

USA leadership = Defense + Do good and promote cooperation + Expand new markets to free people from fear and want (CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION).

Across Africa = Businesses help end extreme poverty (LOL – NEXT SLAVE LABOR TO EXPLOIT) = We believe in the dignity and equality of every human being, regardless of race or religion, creed or sexual orientation.

Focus on Asia-Pacific = STILL LOTS TO EXPLOIT = Promote our long-term security.

No other country in the world does what we do. TRUE! = Our military might!

Our freedom, our democracy, has never been easy = We stumble; we make mistakes.

For more than two hundred years, we have placed our collective shoulder to the wheel of progress – to create and build and expand the possibilities of individual achievement.

We Free other nations from tyranny and fear and impose unbearable DEBTS ON THEM and ROB THEM OF THEIR RESOURCES but we CALL IT promoting justice, and fairness, and equality under the law.

The America we want for our kids = a rising America where honest work is plentiful and communities are strong; where prosperity is widely shared and opportunity for all lets us go as far as our dreams and toil will take us.

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MY BIGGEST CONCERN:

Medicare = Enact reforms TO CUT LIKE GOP Simpson-WALL STREET DEM Bowles commission.

CUT Cost of health care for an aging population = Modest reforms TO HELP our children = Senior citizens CANNOT shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction.

He tried that one before! It is time to APPLY FICA to ALL INCOME AND TYPES!

TAX CAP GAINS AS REGULAR INCOME!

STOP THE PRIVATIZED HEALTH CARE RIP-OFFS = USA #1 WITH DOUBLE COST OF ALL OTHER COUNTRIES

Grow the middle class = NOT by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families already struggling, or laying off more teachers, cops, and firefighters.

Americans know that broad-based economic growth = balanced approach of spending cuts and revenue. 

Affordable Care Act = slows the growth of health care costs = Reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies + Reduce costs so GOV pays for QUALITY CARE in Medicare – not the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital.

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NO MORE = Drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next = Pay our bills on time and PROTECT FAITH in USA.

A growing economy that creates good, middle-class jobs = Attract more USA jobs +  Equip our people with skills for NEW jobs + A decent living for ALL

American Jobs Act WILL create one million new jobs = fully paid for = NO increase in deficit = A smarter government to invests in broad-based growth.

Job-creation investments in science and innovation with research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race = American renewable energy like wind and solar = tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it + NAT GAS FROM FRACKING to combat climate change = 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15 + Superstorm Sandy + most severe drought in decades

Executive actions = to reduce pollution + prepare for climate change + more sustainable sources of energy.

Our new-found NAT GAS energy is from PUBLIC LANDS = Use some oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust to drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good.  NAT GAS GAS STATIONS!

Cut 50% of energy wasted in homes and businesses over 20 years.

“Fix-It-First” program = Repair America’s aging infrastructure = Repair deteriorating roads + 70,000 bridges + rail + internet + high-tech schools + EFFICIENT power grid

Proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America with private capital (TOLL ROADS AND TOLL PORTS AND TOLL PIPELINES AND TOLL SCHOOLS)

A bill in this Congress would give every responsible homeowner in America the chance to save $3,000 a year by refinancing at today’s rates.

Equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs = Start at the earliest possible age = fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program = Work with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America = Every $ save $7 like Georgia or Oklahoma.

A high school diploma = A path to a good job = Like Germany focus High Schools on technical degrees with one of our community colleges = Like P-Tech in Brooklyn – graduates students with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering = Redesign America’s high schools to Equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy = science, technology, engineering, and math skills today’s employers need.

Skyrocketing higher education costs = Young people with unsustainable debts.

Colleges = Must CUT costs = Require affordability and value with “College Scorecard” that parents and students can use to compare schools based on the most bang for your educational buck.

Our wives, mothers, and daughters must be free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence = Today Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act = Now the House must do the same = women earn a living equal to their efforts.

Minimum wage = $14,500 a year and Poverty Line is $23,500 = Congress raise the minimum wage = STOP THE WELFARE TO BIG BOX STORES = no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty = Proposes Federal minimum wage of $9.00/hour or $18,720 / Year = STILL POVERTY LEVEL = Customers with more money in their pockets.

Offer TAX CREDITS to companies that hire Americans to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods in 20 of the hardest-hit towns in America.

Afghanistan this spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead.  Another 34,000 American troops will come home in 2014 and by the end of 2015 our war in Afghanistan will be over. BUT our commitment will continue with two missions: training and equipping Afghan forces and BULL CHIOT counter-terrorism to FIGHT THE AQ CONTRACTORS WE ALSO PAY.

In 2012 NATO leaders signed off Monday on President Barack Obama’s exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014.

BOOGIE MAN AQ CONTRACTORS WHO WE PAY don’t need Tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad, or occupy other nations.  Instead, we will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya, and Somalia provide for their own security.  We will continue to take direct action against those AQ who pose the gravest threat to Americans. WE HAVE forged a durable legal and policy framework to guide our counterterrorism operations.  Congress will continue to engage to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world.

Iran = A diplomatic solution = A coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon and  engage Russia to seek further reductions in all nuclear arsenals.

NEW BOGGIE MAN =  Cyber-attacks = Sabotage power grid or BANKS = LATEST SCAMS = It is CHEAP to strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect America.

Trans-Pacific Partnership = NAFTA STYLE TRADE DEAL TO SHIP AMERICAN JOBS TO SLAVE LABOR COUNTRIES AND MOVE TOWARD ONE FINANCIAL ORDER WITH DOZENS OF NEW SCAMS FOR THE RICH.   BUT OBAMA SELLS IT AS Boosting American exports + Supporting American jobs + Level playing field with Asia

OWO = A comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union = free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good-paying American jobs.

US will EXPLOIT IMPOVERISHED PEOPLE but sell it as PROGRAM to eradicate extreme poverty in 20 years by providing new opportunities and saving the world’s children.

America = A beacon of freedom = Defense of freedom (LOST IN AMERICA) as citizens around the world demand their universal rights = A messy (COSTLY TO THEAMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS) PROCESS AS WE insist on respect for the fundamental rights of all people.

In Syrian = We support the Syrian opposition (AQ CONTRACTORS) and Israel.

We will invest in new capabilities (COST TO MIDDLE CLASS) even as we reduce waste and wartime spending.

Defending our (REMAINING SLIM) freedom is not the job of our military alone.  The right to vote that GOP IS ROBBING ACROSS AMERICA with impossible requirements and 7 hour WAITS to cast a ballot- betraying our ideals = The American people demand democracy.

Senators of both parties are working together on tough new laws to prevent anyone from buying guns for resale to criminals.  We were sent here to look out for our fellow Americans the same way they look out for one another, every single day.