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President Obama, in his State of the Union address Tuesday, will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research to help boost job creation and remain competitive with other powerful nations, Fox News has confirmed.
Obama is also expected to call for some budget cuts although nothing close to the amount Republicans are demanding.
White House aides told Fox News the best preview of Obama's remarks can be found in a Dec. 6 speech he made in North Carolina where he said this is the nation's Sputnik moment. He called for more spending on American innovation and American products with the same enthusiasm that the country had right after the Russians beat the U.S. into space.
"We need to do what America has always been known for: building, innovating, educating, making things," he said in last month's speech. "We don't want to be a nation that simply buys and consumers products from other countries. We want to create and sell products all over the world that are stamped with three simple words: 'Made In America.' That's our goal."
Read more: Obama to Push for New Spending as GOP Demands Deep Budget Cuts - FoxNews.com
Infrastructure, research and education are investments. We are able to sustain our current lifestyle because people who came before us spent resources in those areas we use today. That said, we are running a hideous deficit as is. Ideally, we would cut the huge amount of bloat that we feed off today in return for putting money into the future. Realistically, we can choose between raising the deficit or sacrificing the long term. Politics is a devil's bargain.
"We need to do what America has always been known for: building, innovating, educating, making things," he said in last month's speech. "We don't want to be a nation that simply buys and consumers products from other countries. We want to create and sell products all over the world that are stamped with three simple words: 'Made In America.' That's our goal."
And I forgot to add. It was mainly due to the government giving tax breaks for research done in certain areas. Now if the government did less but more while having less. It would be a great government. But as of the moment, the government is too big and too entrenched in everything. For almost every single issue or statement people look at the President for the answer. Its like he or she is some sort of messiah; for a bunch of people going through a hard time. He is not going to fix your near emtpy bank account or anything like that. But don't let the truth get you down. Politicians love it when people come to them for answers....Infrastructure, research and education are investments. We are able to sustain our current lifestyle because people who came before us spent resources in those areas we use today. That said, we are running a hideous deficit as is. Ideally, we would cut the huge amount of bloat that we feed off today in return for putting money into the future. Realistically, we can choose between raising the deficit or sacrificing the long term. Politics is a devil's bargain.
I hate breaking this to you. But most research done to help us. Was money spent by corporations on research.
I hate breaking this to you. But most research done to help us. Was money spent by corporations on research.
America must choose between Obamacare and other entitlements or infrastructure. America can't afford both. It must choose one or the other.
I thought America was the richest country in the world? Why can't we afford what others can who make less money than we do?
America is several different countries with increasingly less in common. There is no longer an American community in which we share some modicum of identity and consciousness.
So screw it. Why should one nation in this country help another nation here that is hostile to it?
We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.
We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.
He who would be my brother shall be embraced and nothing shall be denied him.
He who is hostile to me shall receive nothing but strife.
If someone wants new infrastructure, it makes sense to be my brother and to drop all hostility to me and mine.
If we are so much wealthier... why are we in such deep debt?
Are you denying that the U.S. is significantly wealthier than all European countries with socialized health care?
WTF? :screwy
If we are so much wealthier... why are we in such deep debt?
Are people really that unaware that our basic infrastructure is ancient and decaying, and that there isn't some friendly private entity that is going to replace your main water lines so you can continue to take showers in the morning?
Corporations primarily take government basic funded research and develop it into usable products
Are people really that unaware that our basic infrastructure is ancient and decaying,
We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.
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