CRITICAL VIEWS
ON OBAMA’s STATE OF THE UNION
Hugo Adan,
February 13, 2013
1.
Tough on immigrants (more
severe rules for the 11Mn to be US citizens,
more boots in the border and
drones against Latino-emigrants on top),
and tough with the
elder (he will continue “cut the deficit” by slashing social entitlement
programs -Medicare and Social Security- upon which tens of millions of elderly
Americans depend; soft with the rich
(see below)
and very bad on
foreign policy (extra-judicial drone assassinations will continue: he will secretly
order the assassination of anyone in any part of the world, including American
citizens, if presumed being “terrorists”; so, the Bill of Rights and its
guarantee of due process is dead letter. Besides, he promised more “freedom” interventionism for democracy in Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Syria with the
support of Saudis, Qatar, Israel’s fundamentalist and jihadist-Muslim-mercenaries.
Who will finance such policies?. In
addition he joined the French invasion of Mali and promised to be tough with
Iran and North Korea, to assure the monopoly of nuclear threads from Israel and
US allies on the whole world.
2.
The usual philosophy
“more investment (this time with the so calles "smart" federal investment in infrastructure, and clean
energy? –EX-oil pipeline included- and education? more cuts in public schools?),
more spending
(only $70bn to rebuild roads and bridges)
and more consumerism (blessing Monsanto & GMO Corp business and
begging the Senate to raise the minimum wage to $9US when he knows the senate
won’t approve it). Both parties, democratras and republicans, already agreed in more cutts to medicare by
extending age-benefit to 67).
Meaning : more neoliberal
policies (philosophy that both parties share).
Is this the solution to save the
economy?.
What about the waste in military
expending and the big share given to mercenary-contractors, a way to undermine real
soldier’s moral?
Whose economy is going to be
improved with OB plan? big corporations, of course.
What it has to do with “ensure a
rising, thriving middle class”. Nothing!.
Obama already excluded most of the
rich from higher taxes when he raised the average income for the middle class from
250 th a year to 400 th in order to favor tax evasion of the rich
(wall street crocks rewarded again) . The real middle class, those who get from
100 th a year to less than 200Th a year will continue suffering the extortion of
higher taxes. Besides, big corp are already excluded for higher taxation since
the Bush era.
FUENTES
As Obama Touts
Pathway to Citizenship, Record Deportations Leave Undocumented Immigrants in
Fear. http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/13/as_obama_touts_pathway_to_citizenship
State of the
Union: Obama pledges to reignite economy.
Obama Defends
Drone Assassinations in State of the Union Address. http://www.globalresearch.ca/obama-defends-drone-assassinations-in-state-of-the-union-address/5322762
President
Obama's state of the union address: fair enough but forgettable. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/on-america-s-dividing-lines
Obama asks for
more [of the same?]
Economic Update:
"Lessons from Megabanks’ Megascandals" http://rdwolff.com/content/economic-update-lessons-megabanks%E2%80%99-megascandals
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