State of the Union: 5 things president failed to tell Americans

By: American Decency Staff

Throughout the rest of the week, politicians and pundits will spend long hours dissecting and reacting to President Barack Obama‘s State of the Union address delivered  Tuesday night to Congress and the country.

They’ll pontificate — or is it bloviate? — about what the president said, and they’ll talk about the plans for the year ahead.

The American people, though, should care about what the president didn’t say. The commander-in-chief spoke at length about income inequality, gender fairness, entrepreneurship and increasing federal spending. But he failed to mention how disastrous some of his policies could be for jobs, civil rights and education.

Here are five things the president didn’t say in his 2014 State of the Union speech:

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