F11: State of the Union

• Obama proposes that we should expand the Middle class, simplify the tax code, and increase the Federal minimum wage. 
• Obama spoke in a hopeful way, for example, he started the speech by talking about hard working Americans, and how these changes could help these people to better their lives. The person he mentioned by name was a wounded solider on his road to recovery. He compared it to the US and our situation, showing Americans that we can get through it. I think his focus this year was to make people hopeful that they can get out of the deficit and back to a normal America. 
• One thing I would like to focus on is the major lash from the Republicans on raising the Federal minimum wage and expanding the middle class. They only seemed against it because it was going to affect their big corporations and increase their taxes. I believe that there are some Republicans do support the raise of minimum wage, but their opinions are not heard over the louder ones.