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Originally Posted by JohnnySkittles
Someone who watched the SOTUA, can you explain to me whats going on exactly? I've never been into politics at all but what Obama said sounds fantastic for the middle class American.
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There is a huge problem in the world(not only the US) where the rich are gaining more wealth while the middle/lower class have been sitting at pretty much the same spot for the past 20-30 years. This lack of social mobility is destroying the US probably more than other countries because on top of that, they have a very poor social net to help lower/middle class people move up.
In 2014 Obama proposed a lot of different policies including patent reform, immigration, work VISAs, etc, etc and almost none of them were implemented because of Congress being full of a bunch of idiots.
Obama has his ideas, and a guy like Paul Ryan has his ideas, and while they disagree a lot about what to do, they do seem to agree that there is a fundamental problem. This issue is that nothing seems to get done because of the gridlock.
I'm mentioning Ryan because he is probably the only guy Obama has a chance of getting to the table to hammer out some deals.