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By Robert Reich
Published: January 26 2011 22:36 | Last updated: January 26 2011 22:36
President Barack Obama's State of the Union address was everything his supporters hoped it would be "“ dignified, thoughtful and moderate. It was a call for fiscal prudence at a time of growing budget deficits and a summons to improve competitiveness to counter the gravitational pull of the Great Recession. In short, it hit all the right notes. But there was no melody, at least none that was memorable.
It had been billed as Mr Obama's first salvo of the 2012 election. It was his chance to give his version of why the economy fell into a hole, why so many Americans are still in it and what needs to be done. Instead, his speech could have been given (indeed, was given) by Democrats in the late 1980s when Japan seemed to threaten America's pre-eminence "“ about the importance of investing in education, infrastructure and basic research in order to build competitive capacities. Only now the threat is from China.
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