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 Michael Medved

'Groundhog Day' at the State of the Union

February 13, 2013 @ 12:52 pm (Updated: 12:53 pm - 2/13/13 )

The State of the Union speech concluded with a rousing call for change. "America needs a new direction," the president declaimed. "A change of course which will put the unemployed back to work; increase real income and production; restrain the growth of Federal Government spending; achieve energy independence; and advance the cause of world understanding."

Actually, the president behind these pledges was Gerald Ford in 1975, but the only aspect of his address that sounds out of date involves his numbers. He worried over a deficit of $30 billion and a national debt of $500 billion - both figures only one-thirtieth of today's alarming totals. No wonder the public sees politics as a less amusing version of the movie "Groundhog Day" - with our leaders gesturing at the same stubborn problems with no visible effect over the course of 40 years.

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  • sportsguru wrote...
    Finally
    February 13, 2013 12:39 pm

    I was getting worried Mr. Medved that I would never read anything you post that I would be able to agree with. TODAY, I am as happy as a Eddie Money in a travel agency. I absolutely concur with your assessment of our FEDERAL government over the last 40 years.

    Now as a group and I mean the public at large, not the political parties that have allowed this to happen. How do we get the bums out and get people in that knows how to steer a ship without crashing it into an ice burg and sinking it, how do we get term limits for congress, senate and the like, how do we get bases out of foreign land, how do we ween the corporate welfare receipients off of the public tit?

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  • maplefish wrote...
    Pathetic Speech from a Pathetic Leader
    February 13, 2013 7:19 pm
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vowHQwFUHAY#!
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Groundhogs Day ????????
    February 13, 2013 1:13 pm
    When Obama got going on his anti-gun kick, it sounded more like a Sunday revival meeting.

    But Groundhogs Day (the movie) might be right. Seems like every speech by the president for the past 5 years has been virtually the same. ....... Too bad it will never evolve into a happy ending.

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