Monday Matters #21

Link: http://blog.heritage.org/2014/01/28/7-things-late/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=headline140128

The people at Heritage have some ideas for President Obama and Congress to address at the State of the Union address tonight. They list them in points, having seven of them. The article starts off by saying that we need to save Americans from the skyrocketing energy bills by reversing the war on coal and having affordable energy readily available. The article then goes into proposing the idea of letting students succeed in schools of their choice. It shows that the Capital's scholarship program is not useful, and that when parents choose the schools students succeed, because school choice works. The third point suggests that the government serve the people by allowing more state's rights. They give gay rights as an example, that the federal government should stay out of it and let each state figure it out for themselves. The fourth point is saying to start moving forward on entitlement reform. America's spending causes us to go into debt, and it drags down the economy. They also suggest some type of controlled spending. The fifth point made says we should be ready for anything. We need to be ready for anything, mostly militarily. The sixth point encourages we follow the first amendment. We need to allow a little bit more freedom when it comes to health care and religious liberty. Finally, the last point made proposes we stop the food policies that hurt the poor. The farm policies we have now boost food prices. The government should stay out of the food supply.