State of the Union

     This years state of the union speech was different from all the others. This year President Obama made the Democrats and the Republicans sit next to each other. He felt that if the government couldn't work together then we wouldn't be able to get anything accomplished. He brought up many important topics. He talked about improving education, creating jobs, improving immigration, foreign policy, and the health care reform.
     President Obama wants to improve our nations education. The U.S. is behind in education compared to other schools, we need to raise our math and science scores. Race to the top is a grant that will help the U.S. achieve this goal. Obama also wants to get rid of no child left behind and replace it with a new and better one.
     Obama wants to create jobs. The U.S. has many unempolyed people due to the recession. He wants to create more jobs so that people will be able to work and earn a living for themselves  and their families.
     Obama wants to watch our country's foreign policy. He wants to continue to watch the government that we set up in Iraq to make sure that everything is going ok. He wants to watch Iran and Korea because they have been making nuclear weapons and testing them, he wants to watch out and make sure that they're not going to attack us. He also wants to start taking troops out of Afganistan.
      I feel that all the things that Obama said in the state of the union speech were important. All of his ideas are good and will greatly improve our country.
     This relates to class because we discussed the state of the union speech.