Obama's non-Reaganesque not-State of the Union speech

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I suffered through watching President Obama's first not-State of the Union speech tonight.

Obama's very non-Reaganesque speech can be summed up very simply: Obama is determined to have the government do everything.

If you are a left-wing big spending liberal, you might like Obama's bigger government vision. It is a vision of false hope that will bankrupt our children, if not us.

Reagan got it right - government is the problem. Government is not the solution to every problem.

Whatever happened to good old-fashioned American self-reliance?

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