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The SOTU Speech We Could Have Heard
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YES! Magazine - Democracy
Imagine the stir he’d make if he declared it was time to move from an economy dominated by Wall Street, Lockheed Martin, and Walmart to a Main Street economy.
Moving toward a Main Street economy means making sure that fast-growing sectors like elder care are upgraded from Walmart poverty jobs to ones that pay a living wage.
But he failed to make a powerful call for a transformative economic agenda to replace our Wall Street and Walmart economy with a fundamentally new one rooted in ecology, equity, and democratic forms of ownership.
Between his more powerful inauguration speech and this address, he’s begun to shift the national conversation toward things that matter to most people.
Many were surprised to hear President Barack Obama take up climate change at today’s inaugural address.
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