Obama: The United States turned the page of history

The US President, in a message from Congress, called the Russian economy "cracking at the seams"

US President Barack Obama performed on Tuesday evening with the annual report "On the Regulation of the Country". The president proclaimed in his speech that the United States "turn the page" of their history.

In the seventh year of the presidency, Barack Obama used a traditional appeal to Congress in order to bring a symbolic line under the era of economic difficulties and announce his plans to increase the standard of living of the middle class. The president called the last year the "year of the breakthrough":

The shadow of the crisis has passed

- Today our economy is growing, jobs are created at the fastest pace since 1999. The unemployment rate is lower than it was before the financial crisis. More than our children are graduating from school than ever. More than so far, the numbers of Americans have insurance, for almost thirty years we have not been as independent of foreign oil as today. Today, for the first time since September 11, 2001, our combat mission in Afghanistan has been completed. Six years ago, almost 180,000 American soldiers served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, less than 15,000 remain there ... The shadow of the crisis has passed, our union is strong, ”President Obama proclaimed under the stormy applause of the hall.

For Barack Obama, the sixth performance was the moment of the triumph. Only three months ago, the Democratic Party suffered a brutal defeat in the congress elections, having lost the majority in the Senate, the level of support for the president in the country, according to public opinion polls, fell to forty percent. Today, Barack Obama has already approved about fifty percent of the respondents. The president himself confidently brought economic achievements into his asset, recalling that six years ago he promised to restore the economy on a new foundation. “At every step, we heard that we either set the wrong goals or our goals are too daring, that as a result we will destroy the workplaces, that the result will be an explosion of the deficit. Instead, we witnessed the fastest more than a decade of economic growth, our deficiency was reduced by two -thirds ... The conclusion is obvious. The economy with an aim to the middle class works,” the President Obama summed up. But, despite the improvements and achievements, the middle class needs support, the president insists: “Will we humble ourselves with the economic situation, when only some of us are fantastically successful or we will set the goal of creating an economy that will increase income and increase the chances for everyone who makes efforts to this?”

Answering this rhetorical question, Barack Obama spoke about a number of new state programs to help families with young children, students, customers of housing and medical insurance, and pensioners. The president proposed reducing taxes for the middle class, investing in infrastructure objects, new technologies, he called for expanding free markets. New revenues to the budget should be received as a result of reforming the tax system, the removal of legal “loopholes”, which allow corporations and wealthy Americans to avoid the payment of the corresponding share of taxes. The President called on the Congress to adopt laws that would prevent the transfer of US headquarters from the United States with lower tax countries with American companies.

We defend the principle that a large country is not entitled to fly a small

In the international part of an appeal to Congress, Barack Obama said that the international coalition led by the United States stopped the advance of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The president brought the situation around Ukraine as a demonstration of "American power" and the power of diplomacy. "We are defending the principle that a large country is not entitled to fly a small one," Obama said. "We are anti -resistant aggression of Russia, we support democratic construction in Ukraine, strengthen the guarantees provided by our NATO allies. Last year, while our allies and our allies worked hard on sanctions, voices were heard that Putin's aggressive policy is a skillful combination of strength and strategic calculation. Today we see that America and its allies are united and that their position is strong, in the then place, in the then place. Time as Russia is isolated and its economy is cracking at the seams. " The president called his decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba to "try something new" instead of a strategy that did not give results. According to him, there is an opportunity, as a result of the ongoing negotiation process, to prevent the appearance of a "nuclear" Iran.

Many American commentators took this speech as an attempt by President Obama’s decisive advance at their opponents in Congress. “The speech of President Obama did not contain any surprises,” writes Doyle McMenus, the observer of The Los Angeles Times, “but she most clearly demonstrated the strategy that Obama elected for the last two years of the presidency. He will continue to talk about inter -party cooperation, but in fact he intends to non -interpretation of his republican opponents with proposals of the Democrats, but he will continue to talk to his republican opponents. Many of which are verified by polls of public opinion. " The attitude of the President’s critics expressed by one line The Wall Street Journal: "Obama’s policy collapsed in the middle class, while he continues to offer previous recipes in an even larger volume." Commentators do not yet see possible points of contact between the president and the republican majority in Congress. Meanwhile, the Republicans, in whose hands for the first time in many years, the Congress found themselves, must prove that they are able to cooperate with the president and effectively rule the country. Otherwise, the Republican will hardly have a chance to win in the presidential election in two years.