State of the Union Address

I think Obama is an excellent speaker and think he did a great job on his speech this time. His main focus of the night seemed to be uniting the Democrat party and Republican party. Also, investing in important and new technology is of great concern for the president if we want to move forward, but we need to do it as one country. Obama said, "Progress is measured not by what Wall street does, but by how the American people are doing." I take from that he sees the potential in the average American to aspire to do great things. I think this is true and everyone should be given an equal opportunity to a job. I agree with Obama when he said "America is founded for the sake of  an idea and freedom of thought." He means we should be able to follow up on an idea we each have to improve the country and invest in new things, after all "this is our generations Sputnik moment." What Obama means by that is that we should invest in new technologies and new ideas and later it will bring us profit. I agree with this when talking about clean and abundant energy. We should no longer invest in things that require oil as an energy source because we will soon run out and its very expensive.He wants America to be the first company to have 1 million electric vehicles on the road and I think this is a good goal to help the environment and decrease our dependancy on oil. Obama's  new goal is to have 80% renewable energy by 2035. Obama's theme throughout his speach seemed to be "Lets fix what needs fixing and move forward."  But the final critical step is not to be buried under dept. Our gov. spends more than it take in, people work to stay in credit, why not the us government? That is why Obama is proposing cuts of government spending. However, some say he isn't making enough cuts. I like Obama's speech because he proposes many good ideas, but some of these ideas require a lot of government spending. How can we find the right way to invest in the future so that we won't be over encumbered by dept like we are now? This is a very important question and according to the Republican rebuttal to Obama's speech we should spend a lot less. If we do not, the Federal government will double in size in order to help maintain all the problems its created through spending. According to the rebuttal, we need less of government interference and less spending. The government is simply supposed to be our safety net. Perhaps this is true, we must consider all opinions on this matter. One thing is for certain, we must do something to get out of debt because we have a lot of it. I believe we should invest in new technologies also because the will be more efficient and we will eventually see profit from them.