Reply #10: I listened to the address this morning

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and I never had any expectation that anyone could distill down the details of what will be a multi-year if not multi-term plan in 5 minutes. This was his FIRST "official" radio address as President.

His plan has been common knowledge for some time - essentially taking the top tax rate back to where it was under Clinton (39%) - that's a 4% increase for the wealthy. IMHO, it needs to go back up to where it was before Raygun gutted it (in the 70% range), but that ain't going to happen with this Congress.

He can say exactly what you indicate until he turns purple but unless the useless Democratic Congress run by the shyster Pelosi and the undertaker Reid actually grows several hundred pair, tells the repukes to fuck off, and enacts these types of reforms, then Obama might as well be talking in outer space.

This country is NOT run by a Unitary Executive. Obama should not, cannot, and will not create signing statements or Executive Orders to generate reform legislation that would become the law of the land. He can state his desires and intentions and visions of what ought to be and he can use his pen to agree or disagree with the ultimate product that comes out of Congress. But ultimately, the onus is on Congress... And sadly, our own elected idiots put the same failed leadership back into place.

Yes, we'll all be dreaming but the better thing to do is to demand that our Congress makes the dream a reality.