10. Together, we determined that a modern economy requires railroads
and highways to speed travel and commerce, schools and colleges to train our workers. 13, V, b
11. Together, we discovered that a free market only thrives when there
are rules to ensure competition and fair play. 14, VI, b
12. Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable,
and protect its people from life‘s worst hazards and misfortune. 15, VII, b
He states that the modern economy should be supported by infrastructures and the
educated individuals and that market economy system needs the rule for ensuring
the competition and fair play. He adds also that the country will protect the people
from any kind of loss by promising fair play. It is not obscure that he tries to use
the shared belief mentioned in the previous paragraph to reach the sustainable and winning free market system. He must see that before the United States goes far
controlling the world market, the country must first set the strong foundation from inside, from its people that are easier to be controlled with the implanted belief
that free market will lead the people to the freedom defined by the authority. Bellow those three clauses, he tells the people to not think narrow that the
only way to achieve the purpose is from the government as the central authority. Moreover, he says that that those purposes need the hard working character and
personal responsibility.
13. Through it all, we have never relinquished our skepticism of central
authority, nor have we succumbed to the fiction that all
society‟s ills
can be cured through government alone. 16, VIII, a
14. Our celebration of initiative and enterprise, our insistence on hard work
and personal responsibility, these are constants in our character
. 17, VIII, a
Therefore a single person must bear in himself to willingly work and be responsible
to the society since those characters are set to be the character of
American. Thus, it implies that individual cannot act outside the border drawn by
the government and will take the advantages of this characterization.
In the ninth paragraph, Obama gives two sides of effort made by individual as the U.S. citizen that it should come from the inner will of the person
but must result for the gain of the authority. He asks for new responses in order face the new challenges. However, the responses are not only based on individual
will but it needs the collective consent. 15. But we have always understood that when times change, so must we;
that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately
requires collective action. 18, IX, b
16. For the American people can no more meet the demands of today‘s
world by acting alone than American soldiers could have met the forces of fascism or communism with muskets and militias. 19, IX,
b
17. Now, more than ever, we must do these things together, as one nation and one people. 21, IX, a
He adds the notions of fascism and communism in the middle of this paragraph. It makes a certain effect that the people should act and think against these ideas. By
doing this, Obama is somehow creating a permission to put those with these ideas as opponent and legalize the act of fighting them. This is what Obama says
implicitly by the notion of ―one nation and one people‖. Obama in the tenth paragraph says that America should put more attention
to the economic recovery i nstead of dwelling with the issue of war by saying, ―A
decade of war is now ending.‖ The U.S. government has gain numbers of negative critics on their military intervention in Iraq and the ―preventive war‖ of WMD
Weapon of Mass Destruction in Afghanistan. So, Obama, who has been known to be a person who is opposite to G.W. Bush on the matter if Iraq invasion, tries to
shift people‘s attention from war issue to the U.S. economy issue which has been weakened by the spending it made for war cost.
18. A decade of war is now ending. 23, X, b 19. An economic recovery has begun. 24, X, b
20. America‘s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities
that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity
and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention
. 25, X, b
His optimism about the current support of economy influences how the citizen
views toward the program which he applies. He makes people believe that his term of office will create a new way of life in the American society which he
means by building the power from the economy area with an expanding free market system.
In the eleventh paragraph, Obama tries to embrace all elements of society to work together for the mentioned purpose. He clearly states that the American
prosperity is on the shoulder of raising middle class. It implicitly says that the middle class must put more effort and struggle to sustain the economy.
21. We believe that
America‟s prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class. 28, XI, b
22. We know that America thrives when every person can find
independence and pride in their work; when the wages of honest
labor liberate families from the brink of hardship. 29, XI, b
Not all people can directly realize that this is how Obama oppresses the citizen. He is shifting them from critical individual to become a controlled making-money
machine for an ambition of controlling the global market. Middle class is mentioned to be the core of economic recovery. They are attributed with the
qualities such as independence and pride which means that the middle class
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