Governor Daniels in his rebuttal to the State of the Union Address of January 24, 2012 went to say - There is a second item on our national must do list. We must unite to save the safety net. Medicare and Social Security (SS) have served us well and that must continue. But after half and three quarters of a century respectfully it’s not surprising that they need some repairs. We can preserve them unchanged and untouched for those in or near retirement but we must fashion a new affordable safety net so future Americans are protected too. Decades ago we could afford to send millionaires pension checks and pay medical bills for even the wealthiest among us - now we can’t so the dollars we have should be devoted to those that need them the most. The mortal enemies of SS and Medicare are those who in contempt of the plain arithmetic continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing; listening to them much longer means that these proud programs implode and take the American economy with them. It’ll mean that the coming generations will be denied the jobs they need in their youth and the protection they deserve in their later years. It’s absolutely so that everyone contribute to our national recovery including of course the most affluent among us. There are smart ways and dumb ways to do this. The dumb way is to raise rates in a broken grossly complex tax system, choking off growth without bringing in the revenue we need to meet our debts. The better course is to stop sending the wealthy the benefits they do not need and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do nothing to foster growth. It is not fair and it’s not true for the President to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions. They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements and encourage new job creation only to be shot down time and time again by the President and his Democratic allies. This year it falls to Republicans to level with our fellow citizens about this reality. If we fail to act to grow the private sector and save the safety net nothing else will matter much. But to make such action happen we must also work in ways we Republicans have not always practiced to bring Americans together. No feature of the Obama Presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others. As in previous moments of national danger we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed over a Niagara of death, we will all suffer regardless of income, race, gender or other category. If we fail to shift to a pro-job, pro-growth economic policy they’ll never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security or whatever size government we decide to have. As a loyal opposition who put patriotism and national success ahead of party, or ideology or any self interest, we say that anyone who will join us in the cause of growth and solvency is our ally and our friend; we will speak the language of unity. Let us rebuild our finances and the safety net; let us reopen the door to the stairway upward. Any other disagreements we may have can wait. You know, the most troubling contention in our national life these days isn’t about economics or policy at all; it’s about us as a free people. In 2 alarming ways that contention is that we Americans just can’t cut it anymore. In word and deed the President and his allies tell us that we just cannot handle ourselves anymore in this complex perilous world without their benevolent protection; left to ourselves we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage (has he not heard of the housing crash due to deregulation of mortgage lending laws), the wrong school for our kids, why unless they stop us we might pick the wrong light bulb (this was a 2007 Bush law). A second view which I admit that some Republicans also seem to hold is that we Americans are no longer up to the job of self government. We can’t do the simple math that proves the un-affordability of today’s safety net programs or all the government that we now have, we’ll follow the con job that says we can just plow ahead and someone else will pick up the tab, we’ll allow ourselves to be pitted one against the other, blaming our neighbors for troubles - worldwide trends or even our own government has caused. 2012 is the Year we must prove the doubters wrong, the year we strike out boldly not merely to avert national bankruptcy but to say to a new generation that America is still the world’s premier land of opportunity. Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen, who believe that the government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them, who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we’re in and lay before them a specific credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing. We will advance our positive suggestions with confidence because we know that Americans are still a people born to liberty. There is nothing wrong with the state of our union that the American people, addressed as free born mature citizens, cannot set right. Republicans in 2012 welcome all our countrymen to a program of renewal that rebuilds the dream for all and makes our city on the hill shine once again.
I agree with what Daniels said with the exception being that the Republicans are in line to make this happen. I have never heard a party so full of candidates that try to separate us by religion, race, class, or sexual preference as this group. I believe that Daniels is trying reverse psychology so you will believe that they are the solution to the problems they’ve caused. History shows that in all but 2 election years since Truman in 1948 the DOW has had a good year and I think because of this statistic there’s hope in 2012 and the Republicans are afraid the President will end this term on a good note and this is why Daniels plugged a lot of double talk. Don’t listen.
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