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State of the Union Address
- 1. Brooke Scarbro 2 February 2014 First Year Seminar Harold Blanco State of the Union Address The State of the Union Address was presented by Barack Obama on January 28, 2014. He brought up many different topics that are on the minds of the American people. He discussed health care and how it aided a single mother in Arizona who had a pre-existing condition. Normally without the Affordable Care Act she would not have been able to receive the insurance and instead would have had to file for bankruptcy. Over 9 million are signed up for government health care. He also spoke on increasing the funding for education and how they are placing more emphasis on critical thinking rather than filling in test bubbles. Also that businesses could partner up with community colleges so that they could train workers for a particular job. The ending of the Iraq war was another hot topic and also about how the troops were coming home from Afghanistan. Once they returned home, he wanted to make sure that the veterans would receive medical health care for physical and psychological care. He also talked about using diplomacy and sanctions to keep Syria from gaining chemical weapons and Iran from attaining atomic weapons. The MyRA was mentioned as a way to save for retirement. He has started to promote the use of natural gas for our energy because this has caused us to slowly wean off of foreign energy. Through this hour long address, President Obama discussed many important issues and presented ideas he thought were best to help resolve or better our country.