"Our Generation's Sputnik Moment"

President Obama's State of the Union, did little of what it was purposed to do and lacked to fully address the state of the union. In fact at times it appeared if Obama was avoiding the entire concept of addressing it. Obama began with respectful congratulations to the new speaker of the house, John Boehner, as well as a heartfelt condolence to the shot victim and house of representative member Gabrielle Gifford.

But what eager citizens sitting on their couches all across the country, whether in a trailer or in a multi-million dollar mansion, did not have a chance to hear was the oh so promised change that the Obama campaign was centered around. There was plenty of talk about the historical man on the moon, but little about the trillion dollar national deficit or the increase in unemployment.

He went on and on about all the things Americans should be working hard to accomplish by certain years and how to do them. While these goals were a charismatic balloon of hope the inside of that balloon it appeared to be empty. The air needed to fill it up was lacking because of the minimal chances of these things actually happening based on the TRUE current state of the union.

Innovation, education,

and the infrastructure of the US were the three main discussion points of the address. Not too far into his speech Obama declared “it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.” His statements were extremely inspiring and surely quote worthy and any nerdy student couldn’t help but to revel in such a glorious utopia. But at last it was hard to focus on advancing in bioengineering, advancements in clean energy, better education encouraged to states with more federal funding, and finding ways to fit in illegal immigrants to our country when all of this involves more FEDERAL spending. More spending that our seemingly giant piggy bank of federal money can’t handle because it has already been broken open and now we are borrowing money sinking deeper and deeper into dept.

So while I sat wishing ever so hard to believe these things were going to happen, and trying to ignore the fact the current state of the union was not nearly so much as the rainbows and butterflies flying out of Obama’s mouth it was just impossible. The overall feeling of the state of the union address seems far better renamed as the Obama Campaign, 2012! And unless we really aren’t in debt as Obama neglected to speak about, it appears to be we are far from our generations ‘Sputnik moment’.