I unfortunately didn't get a chance to watch it last night due to my daughter throwing up all night. Darn kids.
Could you be more specific on things you liked and didn't like? Thanks!
Here's the transcript and video if you've got an hour to spare. Reading it would be faster than listening to the applause after every sentence (something I've always hated about these types of speeches).
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/trump-congress-video-transcript.html?_r=0
He started by talking about black history month, condemning Jewish center vandalism and the Kansas City shooting, which was okay. I just wish he hadn't done his fair share of stirring up all of that hatred over the past year, but obviously are prejudice problems did not start with Trump.
For once he acknowledged that America isn't the cesspool of violence and crime that he often makes it out to be. He mentioned a few times that in 9 years will be our 250th anniversary of our independence declaration, which kind of freaked me out as I attended events on the 200th anniversary. I'm old.
He did once again take credit for things that he isn't actually responsible for since he's been in office such a short time, like the stock market (which has steadily increased for quite a while now) and companies keeping jobs here (many of which acknowledge their plans predated Trump) and such, but that's to be expected. All presidents take credit for things they didn't actually do, but also get blamed for things they couldn't control. Part of the job.
He blames a lot of things on our immigration policies and on immigrants in particular, many of which aren't true (such as the hordes of people coming in). It has been shown that illegal immigrants are coming in numbers that are less than the ones leaving, so the problem isn't getting worse. Still, we do need a common enemy, right? So he's starting some new program called VOICE which will track illegal immigrant crime. He had a couple of people there whose loved ones had been killed by an illegal immigrant. I would prefer we track all crime better than we do.
He gave his incorrect numbers of the unemployment rate. He likes to use the 94 million number, which includes everyone not working from the age of 16 and on, but is completely misleading as a vast percentage aren't looking for jobs (students, retirees, stay at home parents, etc).
Lots of the usual tax reduction talk, lots of promises of spending tons of money on the military, infrastructure, the wall, etc. I'm not an economist, but all I can think when he talks about the tariffs he wants to impose on imports and all of his America First talk about products is that I soon, in my lower middle class and soon to be disabled state, will not be able to afford anything. I heard someone state that the money for the infrastructure will come from things like toll roads. I can't afford to pay to drive on toll roads. But that's just me.
Time for lunch. More later (maybe).
