"The State Of Our Union Is Strong" ????

"The state of our union is strong." That's what President Obama said tonight during his state of the union address. It left me wondering if he is a part of the same union I am.

All I heard tonight was the sounds of spending more and more money while "cut backs" he's planning will reduce the defecit by 400 billion dollars OVER TEN YEARS! Ummm we are in debt 14 TRILLION DOLLARS! We are hoping to reduce that by 400 billion in the next ten years? Not to mention that the freeze would not apply to big entitlement programs -- such as Social Security and Medicare -- at the heart of America's deficit problem.

The goal apparently was to uplift Americans as to what the country was founded on and what it could be. He mentioned that America put the first automobiles in driveways but forgot to mention that General Motors sold more cars in China this year than it did in the US.

As usual a whole lot of nothing was accomplished. A lot of words were said and a lot of nothing came through it to me. His own economic team has some very specific ideas on how to deal with entitlements and I heard absolutely nothing about that from Mr. Obama. Do you feel that the speech accomplished anything tonight? Are you left feeling better about the economy now after hearing this?