Eight people who recently wrote letters to President Obama detailing personal stories about their own lives have reportedly been invited to sit with the First Lady tonight during the State of the Union address. President Obama plans to address these stories individually during his speech. Hmmm… I wonder if any of these literary scholars wrote inspiring tales of self-reliance in which they pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps without any assistance from the Federal government? I guess we will have to tune in tonight to know for sure… but I am just DYING to find out!
it almost has to be eight individuals whose lives were changed since 2009 thanks to:
1) Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization of 2009
2) Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
3) “Obamacare”
4) Consumer Protection Act of 2010
5) Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act of 2010
6) ending U.S. military involvement in the Iraq
7) American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
Anyway, those are my bets. For sure, no one will have a personal story of how going to Afghanistan improved their life…
My #1 is goofy – should be American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Sheesh.
I hope at least one story is about a guy who had to log on to a website over 3000 times in order to purchase government mandated health insurance. That story would be hilarious.