{"id":8676,"date":"2022-03-02T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=8676"},"modified":"2022-03-02T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T15:27:10","slug":"linked-remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2022\/03\/02\/linked-remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Remarks of President Joe Biden \u2013 State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1027,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.whitehouse.gov\\\/briefing-room\\\/speeches-remarks\\\/2022\\\/03\\\/01\\\/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-delivered&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/03\/01\/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-delivered\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Via Whitehouse.gov:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Let me be clear, our forces are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with Russian forces in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Our forces are not going to Europe to fight in Ukraine, but to defend our NATO Allies \u2013 in the event that Putin decides to keep moving west.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Now our infrastructure\u00a0is ranked 13th\u00a0in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And tonight, I\u2019m announcing that this year we will start fixing over 65,000 miles of highway and 1,500 bridges in disrepair.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and extend the Child Tax Credit,\u00a0so no one has to raise a family in poverty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s time for Americans to get back to work\u00a0and fill our great downtowns again.\u00a0\u00a0People working from home can feel safe to begin to return to the office.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>+<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We should all agree:\u00a0The answer is not to Defund the police.\u00a0The answer is to FUND the police\u00a0with the resources and training\u00a0they need to protect our communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Worth quoting in full:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And for our LGBTQ+ Americans, let\u2019s finally get the bipartisan Equality\u00a0Act\u00a0to my desk. The onslaught of state laws targeting transgender Americans and their families is wrong.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I said last year, especially to our younger transgender Americans, I will always have your back as your President, so you can be yourself and reach your God-given potential.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it often appears that we never agree, that isn\u2019t true. I signed 80 bipartisan bills into law last year. From preventing government shutdowns to protecting Asian-Americans from still-too-common hate crimes to reforming military justice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And soon, we\u2019ll strengthen the Violence Against Women Act that I first wrote three decades ago. It is important for us to show the nation that we can come together and do big things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I prefer reading speeches primarily because I\u2019m always short on time and reading without a pause for clapping is more efficient. The downside is any variations of this speech at delivery are lost.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I quoted the portions that resonated most with me. We must defend NATO even if we don\u2019t activate defenses in Ukraine but USA and allies are doing all they can without literally going to war in Ukraine. Infrastructure is huge. Our country is crumbling and the massive construction that occurred in the 40s and 50s\u2026that construction is crumbling. Concrete buildings, billions of pounds of concrete across our nation is cracking and crumbling. It\u2019s reaching end of life over the next 25 years and we\u2019re not prepared for it. Private and Public efforts are going to happen that disrupt our conversion to renewable resources. It\u2019s not far fetched to imagine we\u2019ll have to rebuild every high-rise in New York that was built last century over the next 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>$15 an hour is $28,800 a year pre-tax. It\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n<p>Biden calling out the need to return to offices is interesting. I wonder who had that written in? We\u2019re on the verge of a collapse of commercial real estate markets. Once leases begin to expire over the next 5 years, it could trigger a recession. Billions of square feet of space will be emptied and tech companies are already moving on to \u201cstay home, live in VR\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Defund the police was poorly executed. It was a protest seated in truth and reality but poorly named and poorly marketed. There\u2019s not a single community that will eliminate law enforcement i.e. defunding it from their budgets at the city \/ county or state level. I wish that had never caught on because I don\u2019t think anyone wanted to eliminate LEOs entirely. I\u2019m glad to see Biden acknowledge it\u2019s not possible while still recognizing there needs to be a change in how policing is conducted.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, human rights. This part of the speech I quoted in full. We have people of all colors, genders and sexual orientations who are discriminated against daily. It has to stop yet these laws and societal changes are met with push back every step of the way. Millions of Americans will have a half life of opportunity, lifespan, economic prosperity and freedom from being jailed or worse, completely ignored by a society who wrote in 200 years of laws to ensure they never rise to their fullest individual potentials. Children born today are in this group and many more millions will be born into modern day slavery because of their race, gender, sexual orientation. It is criminal and we need to change it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Via Whitehouse.gov: Let me be clear, our forces are not engaged and will not engage in conflict with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-03-02T15:27:19Z","apple_news_api_id":"2e2fd0b1-9b27-4c90-be83-40c1b6ee2210","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-03-02T15:27:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/ALi_QsZsnTJC-g0DBtu4iEA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-2fW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5554,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/linked-viral-syndrome-the-disease-infecting-journalism\/","url_meta":{"origin":8676,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Viral Syndrome: The disease infecting journalism&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"March 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via Al Jazeera: But as it is with good old traditional marketing and distribution, digital promotion should have a limited role, if at all, in determining the seriousness, substance or even style of journalism. 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