I have been asked what I would say if I had to give a “State of the Union” address. Where would my focus be for this nation…realistically? I heard of this type of problem solving technique to better teach yourself your own principles, values, and purpose for the future of the United States. The fact is that millions of people would play on their own needs and wants. The extra step in this type of attention to detail to the value of the people around you rather than yourself is not new to college professors across the world. So proudly…I present to you with out any college degree…President James C. Emlund’s State of the Union Address.
“Distinguished guests, fellow citizens, and members of congress: Every year, by law and by custom, we meet here to consider those futures all men and women our entitled to freely have with any doubts or miscalculation of the rights that have been officially written in the Constitution of the United States of America. This year, we gather here deeply aware of decisive days that lie ahead.
The country has been utterly damaged from multiple sides for eight long years. It is no doubt in my mind this government has been doing their best to keep this nation heading in a positive and forward direction. In these times of great need or crisis the citizens of a nation have called out. They ask for their hard earned money, the soldiers return from a hardship that has only taken away from American families and have given to a third world country. Iraq is currently in a high level of poverty and even higher rate on the issue of security, nations interest rates drop to feed a broken stock market and even worse what could become a broken international market, and lacking the initiative to secure our own borders promised during times in which should have been resolved during the previous tenure of former President Bush.
So how do we fix the nation Mr. President? I am plagued with this question where ever I go…the how to guide to this nation. The simple scripture that solves this nation and the faults we have led to date. Well, my answer is no different here amongst the few to how I share it amongst the many. It sounds like rhetorical hope, fabricated fantasies, or possibly four fluffy years of similar promises heard for the past fifty years from respectable republicans and even democrats alike. The answer is inside the hearts and minds of every congressman, doctor, judge, lawyer, and most importantly the American soldier and citizen.
Inside such hearts and minds our many questions, but one that can sum them all into one revolves around an infrastructure of communication along lines that must be crossed and achieved by the people with the expertise and knowledge to do as such. Every citizen crosses such roads in day to day life and many forget to ask in this ever forging nation the change it will impact in generations to come. Well, it is time for those forgetful and difficult barriers to be torn down. It is time for the parent, teacher, husband, wife, neighbor, clergymen, close friends and relatives, the poor and wealthy to bridge that crossing and to nod and agree to disagree long enough for such change.
We must find away to look past difference. Major issues have been blind eyed due to our presence in Iraq and policies that will only benefit those well connected. For strong immigration policy, for the men and women that are veterans in our armed services, for an abused and overlooked health care system to take hold, for an economy that our government has inflated with false hope through interest cuts that will only allow sluggish results and not long term reform, and for a foreign policy built around fear and provides nothing towards our future for our nation as a people, for the people, of the people.
As the people to make this change stand to your left and right we must first recognize an education for our children. A nation in which we lay in their gentle hands is only around the corner and the people skills and common sense to deal with foreign nations to diplomatically find such relationships to better our own piece of land on Earth. Finally, once mature a world led by those very children upon our very weathered and wise faces.
I present to you a plan to lower private school cost through the same policy I present congress with using a rule of hard work to build this fine infrastructure of transportation through community service labored by the parents. The hours accumulated will attribute to your ability to earn such an education not just for your child, but as well as yourself if you choose to do as such. The services provided will not only better this nation, but will allow money intended for extra state jobs to be federally funded towards your education.
This type of balance is what this nation needs to bring back reform in every corner of this country. Raising penalties and policy of monopolization when corporations depart the United States for a growing international economy while balancing the unemployed through ensuring such monopolization doesn’t occur by making businesses open stock options for loyal employees after two years of dedication with their company or the option of retirement fund to allow banks and financial institutions to reclaim the damaging effects debt has placed this nation and the very people in which reside.
The money required from the federal government to do majority of what sounds like fantasy is under 7 billion dollars for the next two years. The spending towards the defense department in Iraq alone is 12 billion dollars for one year. The difference is unbelievably staggering. Over the course of the next two years removing one brigade of American soldiers every two months will reduce the overwhelming 24 billion to assist our soldiers in arms for the next two years to only 6 billion every two years in which we will provide to only 4 brigades as we focalize our efforts on the training of security, welfare, and betterment from encroaching insurgent groups that stem from Al Qaeda in Iraq.
This cut-back alone will provide the military with a new focus at home and through training and sustaining a rising number of fatalities against family members or the soldier themselves, and retain members of our armed forces to train younger soldiers. Additionally, 2 brigade teams will be refocused towards the ever growing problem in Afghanistan so border sectarian fighting will have little reason to quell in areas in which insurgents feel they have the upper-hand. Over all this cut-back in spending will be reformed towards a needing and more plaguing agenda after two years.
This nation must fight an international battle and aid those which desire and deserve their freedom from dictatorships. This 18 billion for the next two years will be sent first to our 2 brigades emplaced in Afghanistan. Once handled properly the remaining 15.5 billion will be placed into the healthcare system. All children inside the ages of recently born to 12 years will be enrolled upon arrival at their next check-up with their family doctor. Every child born after January 1, 2011 will be enrolled upon birth until the age of 12 years old. After the child’s twelfth year the parents must provide healthcare or face severe penalties through my plan. At the end of fiscal year return will receive 1/3 of spent healthcare on every child from the IRS to your additional Earned Income Credit in which you all ready receive.
As a nation we can not keep expecting our children will raise themselves with out placing responsibility just towards what we our required by the law, but by moral choice. As parents we must provide for a better life for each and every young generation. This plan will provide security in our choice for better opportunities for the future of our children. The policy recommended will not only provide such a focus to children, but with changing how we handle federal funding and how this government returns such financial need to the people will ensure further generations constructive and bold policies make change for the better.
Universal healthcare isn’t a dream though we must be patient. A process of legal, policy, and fairness must be developed. The children come first as does our economy and ending soldier’s hardships. Taking that into account, a healthcare plan for the children will begin to design a process that will bring in the future of America’s youth as well as ensuring this promise to the people of the United States of America.
In conclusion, as a people of a nation that has always prospered, always driven a bit faster, and determined to dream bigger we must ensure these roads we construct in a system that will assist generations of our future…Roads that reach at times impossible crossings to connect race, sex, our youth, foreign nations, and the purpose to ensure our time is a time of change, a time to construct words of simple theory to real abstract ideas that will give the decades beyond this current leadership the tools to succeed.
Thank you and may your voice be heard and encourage those around you to never be hopeless, and always find the positive in a nation built not just for the wealthy or well connected, but for those that work so hard that deserve the same dreams some take for granted.”
