Barack's Intiative

At the State of the Union speech Barack says "We will move forward together or not at all". I believe he says this because he is trying to emphazise the importance of working to together. 

The challenges that the United States face are bigger than the gridlock of the government. For instance, job employment is a big problem that needs to be fixed. Obama, in the state of the speech, also talks about education and how it is hard to get a job with a high school diploma. That is why he urges to pass a bill that will make going to college, very affordable. Eventually, colleges and universities will get serious about cutting their tuition because that can help solve this problem.

The Troops 
 Obama believes that by July 2011, we can start bringing back troops. Troops from Iraq to Afghanistan must have the full support.  And just as they must have the resources such food and clothes, they need in war, we all have a responsibility to support them when they come home, also. As a result, Barack has made the largest increase in investments for veterans in years like the building of a 21st century VA.





http://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2011 


http://hypervocal.com/news/2010/like-assange-obamas-pullout-method-in-afghanistan-right-on-schedule/

$$Barack Budget$$

In this year's budget Obama plans on doing a lot of cuts. Especially on unnecessary spending, I felt this is the cause of the depression we're in now. Barack believes that education spending needs to be pushed to the forefront of our their budget. He thinks that the future needs to be ready to compete with the competition. We should not only compete, but beat the competiton. The only way to accomplish this goal is with a better education system. Nevertheless, we still need to get ourselves out of debt and create a better economy. 

Milit

Barack Obama understands that in order to defeat our competition we must improve the following:

Innovation, eduation, and clean energy.

Innovation results from a smarter people. It can also help answer some of the problems in of economuy. Education helps to create that smarter future with great ideas. If Obama invests some of the budget on education, then, like Obama said "every American is equipped to compete with any worker anywhere in the world". Lastly, Clean energy is put us ahead of the competition and keep the air clean and safe to breathe. Discovering efficient ways to create clean energy like wind and wave energy.

Connection to the class: In class we talked about gridlock and how divided government can be a good and a bad thing. First of all, Gridlock is the inability of the government to act because rival parties control different parts of the government. Our recent government is an gridlock because the republicans control the house but, the democrats control the senate. This means that Obama's budget can be modified by the house because of disagreement between our democratic president and our republican house of reps.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-14/politics/obama.budget.remarks_1_major-entitlement-programs-budget-priorities-fiscal-discipline?_s=PM:POLITICS