Remarks Upon The Presidents Remarks to Congress.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/ Overall I felt that him speech was sensible. Without going into much detail, he seemed to be saying that the government should work together with buisness, in order to build up private enterprise. But what can you expect. Pres. Obama is a social liberal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_liberalism, and as such believes that the government should involve itself in trying to solve social problems. Rather than trusting private persons, and institutions to work things out on there own. He feels therefore that the federal government has a positive, proactive role to play in dealing with the financial crisis. And I myself feel that, for the time being at least, perhaps there does need to be a welfare state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_state, before we can have a stateless, and classless, society. Just as Karl Marx said of the "worker's state" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat, in regards to socialism, so might the welfare state be, in regards to social democracy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Democracy. A social revolution, even a non-violent one, is not forthcoming. So I think that the best we can all hope for is bourgeois socialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgeois_socialism, for our bourgeois nation. Untill such time as the state is abolished all together, and social welfare is replaced by mutual aid http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid_(politics). I therefore feel that the government should encourage voluntarism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntarism_(action), and gradually phase out government social programs.