{"id":184771,"date":"2012-01-24T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/24\/my-take-on-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T22:22:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T03:22:00","slug":"my-take-on-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/01\/24\/my-take-on-obamas-state-of-the-union-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"My Take on Obama&#8217;s State of the Union Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t expect to be impressed, and I wasn&#8217;t.&nbsp; I&#8217;m <b>really<\/b> not one of his fans.<\/p>\n<p>Quick bullet points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>His nods to populism seemed to be insincere.&nbsp; I really don&#8217;t believe that we&#8217;ll see any effort to crack down on, for example, Chinese trade\/currency manipulation.<\/li>\n<li>He couldn&#8217;t resist inserting yet <b>another<\/b> &#8220;there are people on both sides&#8221; who are nasty bit, as was his digression about milk spill regulations, and icky regulations.<\/li>\n<li>Raising taxes on millionaires, and banning congressional insider trading and lobbying by campaign bundlers are winners, but won&#8217;t pass this Congress.<\/li>\n<li>His statements on spending war savings on infrastructure is nothing new.<\/li>\n<li>His call for establishing a financial crimes unit is probably a good idea, assuming that it is not just rearranging deck chairs.<\/li>\n<li>I liked his shout out to Richard Cordray heading the CFPB.&nbsp; It was pretty much his <b>only<\/b> &#8220;in your face&#8221; to the &#8216;Phants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t expect to be impressed, and I wasn&#8217;t.&nbsp; I&#8217;m really not one of his fans. Quick bullet points: His nods to populism seemed to be insincere.&nbsp; I really don&#8217;t believe that we&#8217;ll see any effort to crack down on, for example, Chinese trade\/currency manipulation. He couldn&#8217;t resist inserting yet another &#8220;there are people on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1142,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}