State of the Union

Mr President said “These ideas won’t won’t make everybody rich, or relieve every hardship. That’s not the job of government”.

In times past (and in many place today) where there were rulers but no government there tended to be a handful of people that were very rich and a majority with not much at all.

Curtailing the wealth of the rich by government decree is exactly the same thing as relieving hardship for others, since these are both relative concepts.

That is, a primary role of modern government is to strive towards reducing wealth disparity and thereby relieving hardship for many. Well so I thought.

But then I suppose without some people suffering from hardship how will the rich Americans know they are rich?

At least the Americans know where they stand – there’s no sugar coating in the state of the union of the states of north america.