State Of The Union Address

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Originally posted by Rasher:
No-one listening to the home issues; fuel economy of cars & health policies, but all on the foreign policy half - all addressed to a Congress controlled by Democrats. This is going to be very interesting. More interesting will be the reaction of the US public.

Rasher,

You would get tons more of public interest and reaction if we had a draft.

Haim

"For America, this is a nightmare scenario"
Glad he's finally realised. What a pity thousands of people had to die first.

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:
You would get tons more of public interest and reaction if we had a draft.

A "Britain and America - two nations divided by a common language" moment...

By 'draft', do you mean 'military consription' or 'text of the speech'?

Anyway, here is the text of the speech:

Text of Bush's State of the Union Address 2007

James

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By 'draft', do you mean 'military consription' or 'text of the speech'?

or draught, a (ch)ill wind?
or draught, mine's a pint.

H

a draft to me implies that that it is a preliminary version for review and correction

re State of the Union - yes it was a preliminary version - now the two houses and the people will will correct it and tell him how to do it properly

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Originally posted by JWM:]
A "Britain and America - two nations divided by a common language" moment...

James

This morning on the Today programme on Radio 4, the American Ambassador kept going on about the USA's 'Carbon Admissions'. He also seemed to think that the more carbon you produced the better at one point.



Stephen

He was probably at a school for the gifted with GWB.

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Originally posted by Chris Kelly:
He was probably at a school for the gifted with GWB.

Along with these:
http://www.shoutfile.com/v/gSfSsCpR/Why_People_Believe_Americans_Are_Stupid

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Originally posted by Stephen Bennett:
This morning on the Today programme on Radio 4, the American Ambassador kept going on about the USA's 'Carbon Admissions'.
Stephen

I didn't realise they'd admitted anything!

On a more serious note, what did you guys think of Bush’s health plan as mentioned during the SOTU address?

Under the guise of supposedly helping some uninsured get health insurance it will constitute a new tax on millions who have employer paid benefits and provide an excuse for some employers to dump their plans. I also heard on NPR that the inflation indexing for the amount of employer paid benfits at which the benefits become taxable income will be tied to the general inflation rate, not the health care inflation rate which is currently running at something like 3 times the general rate.

And it is nice shot at government employees and unionized labor. W has not and will not do anything intentionally for the working people. He is a tool of the wealthy and serves them faithfully.

Buying a private health care policy will remain out of reach of the working poor even if they get a walloping 10% break from tax deductibility.

I hope the Democrats are less impressed with this idea than Dubya is.

Webb's rejoinder was gripping and powerful, one of the most powerful speeches I've ever heard.