In a heavily sentimental performance, Barack Obama addressed the last state of the union of his term. 2016 is going to be an election year, so Obama addressed to the union what for his legacy to be reassured, remains to be done. His speech was based on three pillars, economic, social and foreign policy.
For the economy
The fact that economy is being changed and that the consequences will determine the new labor market were the reasons why the President of the United States struggled to determine the new role of the state in the economy. Fairness, technology and safety contribute the main strategy. Economy is changing. Technology tends to prevail in the service sector and as a fact the technology products can not only substitute the employee in the distribution line, but in so many, other ways. For this reason, central part in the new economc era is the dissemination and equal absorption information.
People need to evolve themselves in accordance with the new era of information. Technology is the new partner of the employee. For this reason the state economic policy comes to provide the opportunity for retraining and further education. As technology prevails, as the global economic competition pushes businesses to apply in the most convenient, distinct, low cost and effective places of the world, using the most up dated applications to make the production easier, faster and cheaper, a huge amount of employees will remain without their traditional labour task, position and opportunities, unless they realise the new era and adjust into the new informative environment.
Social security comes always immediately afterwards. In Obama’s plan, state comes to correct the uneasy and unequal economic consequences. The state funds come to be an additional help in the income status of the US citizens. The new era, that has been pushed by the strong financial crisis, looks for the most competitive economic situations, in order the business to apply. This is why the wages in the private sector perhaps in some cases will be really low, so the basic needs will not be met. State will fill the gap.
Instead of the philosoghical situtation of the interventionist policy and the blessing effects concerining the social policy, favouring the low and middle-low incomes, the fundamental process for accomplishing this end is through the economic orthodoxy. This is the reason why Barack Obama, later on, presented the strength of the US economy today.
Education and information
In accordance with the close, vital relationship the US citizen should develop with the breakthrough, innovative technology, the educational institutions need to provide the knowledge. The affordable college has been, even from the really early beginning of Obama’s term, one of the main field of his intense political interest. Obama informed the public that, upon now, his effort has been restricted to the loan issue. However, now, he announced that he will put effort to the state colleges in order these with little annual fees to become competitive and with even, as possible, opportunities as the private ones.
The central point of the speech, the final conclusion, somebody could say, of his term or the inaugural message of the new era that is about to begin, is the changing economy, the saturated positions in the service sector, and so the apply of a new strategy for a new labour way out. In his thought, the state is the main actor that could have the power to secure the income status that is about to meet challenges in the near future. Technology and education are presented as the main pillars, on which Americans should based in order they to continue to work.
Social security
We mentioned the way Obama intends to preserve the social security. Apart from discussing the state policy though, he discussed what in the society should be done. The social bonds, the trust, an effort for reinventing the modern social capital, through strong social networks contribute to the new form of social mobility, which based on knowledge and on the humanism.
The Foreign Policy
Perhaps a new big approval for the escalation of tension in Syria and Iraq, against the ISIS, was given yesterday by the US president. Towards a new international system, in which the US remains the strong power and in which the allied smaller countries will showcase their powerful role in the future, is the main strategy. Russia, according to the US sidem, is not a reliable partner and the new international stage should take this conclusion in advance. ISIS is the main danger, the defeat of which should be changed on strong social ties.
Conclusion
President Obama is closing his term with the burden of the responsibility to explain to the citizens the needs of the new era, the new major challenges and the vital need, for all of us,to respond to the new developments. The US seem to lead the effort to bring the citizen in the new economic conception.
The need to approach the technology to respond to the new role, which capitalism has already formed, so not even more people remain outside the labor market, is vital. In the new challenging era, the social bonds need to be strong so the fear to be absorbed.