Here are some of the things that I have been thinking about after hearing what President Obama had to say last night:

1. Small businesses do not pay much in the way of Capital Gains Taxes. This was basically an empty promise designed to make an attractive sound bite.
2. While we are on small businesses….They employ around 70% of Americans. Many of these people file their business taxes as personal income taxes.  President Obama said that he was going to raise taxes on those making over $250,000.  This will impact many small business people and is the complete wrong way to add jobs to our struggling economy.
3. 2 sentences on health reform…Basically status quo. He does not get that America does not want his plan.
4. Real health reform would allow for the buying of insurance across state lines, tort reform, letting like groups pool together to reduce premium costs and an end to ridiculous mandates.
5. We cannot tax our way into prosperity.
6. There was more comedy than substance in the speech last night. Seemed more like an SNL speech. Repeat of last years speech almost.
7. Was this President really lecturing the Congress on budgeting?
8. The laundry list of things that will never happen gets boring really fast.
9. Letting gays serve openly in the military is a bad idea. Find some other forum for your social experiments.
10. President Obama is completely out of touch with mainstream America.  Real people do not live is his egalitarian world.

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