My parents immigrated here to improve their life and to give their children a better one. My dad worked as a bar tenor bartender and my mother as a maid. I did not inherit any money from them but i inherited something better. An opportunity to make it to the middle class and beyond no matter where you start off in life. It comes from a free economy where people can risk their own money to open a business. When they suck they hire more people who success they hire more people. President s in both parties from john f. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan have known that our economy is the source of our middle class prosperity. But president obama, he believes it is the cause of our problems. That the economic down tun happened because the government did not tax enough, spend enough, or control enough. As you heard tonight, his solution to virtually every problem we face is for washington to tax more, borrow more, and spend more. This idea that our problems were caused by the government that was too
How will we go to the dr. And get it taken care of . Host president obama will be in the south, georgia, North Carolina, what do you want to hear next . Caller i want to hear about the reform. What can he do for me as far as that. How can he help me get me some insurance so i can take care of my bill . Host eastern pennsylvania, republican line, welcome. Caller i would like to just say that president obama can talk the talk, but can he really walk the walk . Host in what sense . Go ahead and turned on your tv while you are talking to us. What do you want to see him do next . Caller i would like to see him follow through on health care for medicare and Senior Citizens and all the people who cannot afford insurance. And insurance is increasing dramatically for normal middle class people. They will be losing their jobs the cows of the factor that these companies are cutting back, and it is very depressing. Host what did you think about senator rubios speech . You are a republican. We hear
[ theme ] stephanie hello, current tv land. Our number one Jackie Schechner. For political geeks, its like christmas morning, state of the union night. Did you hear whos going to be there . Ted nugent. Bill press just called him a terd in the punch bowl. Stephanie theres a metal detector before you get in, right . Just checking. If you threaten the president , under investigation which he was then probably not allowed to come to the state of the union. Stephanie one would think. I hope the secret service men go like this, watching you. They should prohibit him from coming. It seems a strange thing to allow. Stephanie its a new level of disrespect for the president. And dangerous. Stephanie its right wing, another version of joe wilson yelling you lie. Its a visual you affront to the president. I agree totally. Heres Jackie Schechner. Good morning everybody. North korea has conducted a third test of its Nuclear Defense program. The white house is calling its a highly provocative act emp
Businesses are now paying close to 50 if youre in a state like california, new york, youre paying more than 50 in tax. The top 5 pay over 50 of the income tax revenue in this country. This has to stop. The president has to stop this. And i dont think, i think he understands government. I dont think he understands that a vigorous government requires a vigorous private sector. The only way you will get a vigorous private sector if the government backs off and lets the Dynamic Energy of the private sector go forward. Neil he will be talking about not only bigger government but smarter government. Government can do a lot of good. Do you think government can . Look, we dont need smarter government. We dont need more efficient government. We needless government. People in middle class and people in the lower classes they dont need more government, they need jobs. We need to create jobs. We need the economy to grow so that we can fund these Government Programs. Look, government could be run b
Rights activist ted nugent. And in the chamber, our chief white house correspondent, jon karl. You are right above the speakers shoulder, jon . Right off to the left, 20 feet from Gabby Giffords and mark kelly. As we watch the president s cabinet come into this chamber, george, you will see a confident president come in. He is convinced that the American People are with him on the big issues. And he is also convinced that he has a mandate coming out of that election. So, he will be at times confrontational in this speech. Compromising, willing to compromise, but only so much with the republicans. The key issue, as you mentioned, is the economy. They gave us some excerpts of the speech early. One that hit me was that he said that the economy, an economy that creates job, good, middle class jobs must be the north star for our efforts, for everything we do. And that will be the message here. This is a divided chamber. John boehner, right over his shoulder, just this morning, told reporter