3,000 people weigh in on Bill Moyers FB page re: The State of the Union

[G_j]

Last edited Wed Jan 29, 2014, 08:31 PM - Edit history (2)

http://billmoyers.com/2014/01/29/your-turn-the-state-of-the-union/


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As expected, Obama spoke about inequality, and when he did, a number of people re-posted his statements, especially this one: “No one who works full-time should ever have to raise a family in poverty.” The president was applauded for issuing an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay their employees a fair wage of at least $10.10 an hour. And others were enthusiastic when Obama called on American companies to raise the minimum wage. As Robin Cook Wooten put it: “SAY YES! Give America a raise! Yes Yes Yes!” Parthena Rodriguez used Obama’s “easy to remember” wage increase as a chance to take a swipe at legislatures. “$10.10 sounds like a perfect wage for Congress.”

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While the president got the thumbs up for acknowledging that “climate change is a fact,” his push for natural gas was a major disappointment, with scores raising concerns about fracking. Here’s what Amy Ward Brimmer had to say: “You can’t say climate change is real and then promote dangerous fracking for fossil fuels.” And this from Mark Hackler: “He scored some cheap political points by calling out the Republicans on climate change, but he only gets real points if he cancels the [Keystone] pipeline.”

The president called for collaboration on the bipartisan trade promotion authority, which is expected to pave the way for the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), angering many. Jerry Ryberg wrote: “This corporate power-grab would NOT create good jobs, just the opposite. These “trade deals” have never been anything but a net job loss, and a bigger trade deficit for America.”

What was missing? According to our community, quite a bit on major issues including campaign finance reform — which Scoutie McScouterson said was at the “heart of our dysfunction” — as well as the West Virginia water spill, the Keystone pipeline, FISA, NASA, drug sentencing laws, workers’ rights and more. The single sentence devoted to the National Security Agency, in which the president said he would reform America’s surveillance programs to ensure that the privacy of ordinary people is not violated, fell short for some.

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Overall, there was much positive feedback on Obama’s State of the Union address, with some going as far as saying it was one of the president’s best speeches yet.

[aristocles]

1. Whoa, 3,000 out of more than a 300 million population

Cat videos on YouTube get more response.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. !!!

[G_j]

4. Bill Moyers has 300 Million FB friends?

awesome!!

[Doctor_J]

2. The speech was pretty thin, especially since he'll only accomplish a quarter of it or so

Likely that the pro-corporate TTP, KeystoneXL, and fracking will go forth while the pro-citizen things will not. Then it will all be blamed on "pragmatism"