Some of the more interesting bits

From Obama‘s State of the Union speech, 2015:

• End of Afghanistan “mission”
• Appeal to double down on middle-class economics
• Increase availability and provide tax credit for quality childcare
• Getting paid sick leave laws on the books
• Wage equality
• Raising the minimum wage — “If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it.”
• Lowering cost of community college to free
• Asks companies to provide more job training, hire more veterans
• Bi-partisan infrastructure plan to attract businesses / industries
• Trade deals in Asia, Europe — “95 percent of the world’s customers live outside our borders, and we can’t close ourselves off from those opportunities.”
• Precision Medicine Initiative — pursuing cures for cancer, diabetes; personalized health information
• Free, open, and fast Internet
• Colonizing space — “not just to visit, but to stay.”
• Closing corporate tax loopholes brokered by lobbyists
• Opposing Russia, supporting Ukraine
• Opening relations with Cuba
• Halting Iran’s nuclear program
• Legislation around cyberattacks, identity theft, and child data
• Pursuing climate change solutions, including getting China to commit to limiting their emissions for the first time
• Free speech; religious rights; LGBT rights
• Shutting down Guantanamo
• Transparency on surveillance; civil liberties vs. counter-terrorism
• Marriage equality
• American values vs. partisanship
• Plea for a better politics
• Appeal to debate and reason on divisive issues: abortion rights, immigration, voting rights, police brutality
• Mic drop — “I have no more campaigns to run.”

President Obama’s tech-centered State of the Union: full text, and digital rights concerns – Boing Boing. p.s. cool visualization of Twitter mentions during the speech (via srogers @ cartodb)