Author: microsoft

January 2006) The State of the Union. If i had to give the speech on "The State of the Union", these are the pointsi would emphasize (i wrote these before listening to Bush's actual speech):
Disunity. The Union has rarely been so disunited. Bush is a very divisive president. There are now virtually two different countries within the USA (the "red" and the "blue" states), something that had not happened since the end of the Civil War.
Dependency on oil. The USA and its friends are basically all out of oil. Oil is in the hands of dubious friends (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait), historic rivals (Russia) or sworn enemies (Iran, Venezuela). Needless to say, they are all blackmailing the West, to one degree or another. There is no way that the USA can maintain its status of superpower if it depends on a resource that it does not own. The USA needs to get rid of the oil economy: invest in public transportation, invest in alternative fuels, invest in nuclear power.
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