2016 State of the Union address to Congress, plus the opposition party responses: Jan. 14, 2016

President Obama delivered his last State of the Union address; three opposing parties delivered responses:

OnTheIssues.org excerpts:  (click on issues for details)

Budget & Economy     Barack Obama: Broad economic change causes economic insecurity for workers.     Gary Johnson: National debt, approaching $20 trillion, is bankrupting us.

Civil Rights     Gary Johnson: It's racism to judge others by their birth, like Trump does.     Barack Obama: Discrimination ultimately makes US less safe.

Corporations     Barack Obama: Private sector is lifeblood of economy but needs limits.     Barack Obama: Business should be more community oriented.     Barack Obama: Food stamps didn't cause financial crisis; Wall Street did.     Jill Stein: 80 billionaires own as much as the lower 50% of world.

Drugs     Gary Johnson: States are finally seeing the failure of the War on Drugs.

Education     Barack Obama: Universal Pre-K and computer science classes on horizon.     Barack Obama: Prioritize free community college and reducing student debt.     Jill Stein: Cancel college debt: it's now $35,000 per student.     Jill Stein: Make public college education free.     Jill Stein: Repeal incentives for privatization/charters in NCLB.

Energy & Oil     Barack Obama: Clean energy for climate change & creating new business.     Barack Obama: Make technology work for us on climate change.     Barack Obama: 7 years of investment in solar & wind nationwide.     Jill Stein: "All of the above" policy puts fossil fuels above all.     Jill Stein: Climate change causes record storms, floods, and drought.     Margaret Flowers: World will reach the limits of its carbon budget in 2018.

Foreign Policy     Cory Booker: Trump would denigrate relationships with Muslim countries.     Barack Obama: World order in flux but US still dominates.     Barack Obama: US should learn lessons from Iraq and Vietnam.     Barack Obama: The Cold War is over; lift 50-year embargo on Cuba.     Margaret Flowers: End U.S. global hegemony and become cooperative partner.

Free Trade     Gary Johnson: I'm a real skeptic on trade agreements, but I would sign TPP.     Barack Obama: TPP facilitates US control over Asian market.     Barack Obama: TPP cuts 18,000 taxes on products made in America.     Jill Stein: Oppose bipartisan job-killing corporate trade agreements.     Jill Stein: Fight global trade deals' "investor-state" court system.

Government Reform     Barack Obama: Governing cannot work without compromise.     Barack Obama: We've got to make it easier to vote, not harder.

Gun Control     Tom Vilsack: Start conversation with a respect for the 2nd Amendment.

Health Care     Barack Obama: 18 millions people have gained health insurance.     Barack Obama: Prioritize finding a cure for cancer.     Barack Obama: Lead eradication of malaria and HIV, like we did with Ebola.     Gary Johnson: ObamaCare's promise of lower cost simply isn't happening.     Joe Biden: Increased funding for NIH to highest level in a decade.

Homeland Security     Barack Obama: Self-defeating to overstate ISIS threat.     Barack Obama: We spend more on military than next 8 nations combined.     Barack Obama: Talk of economic decline & military weakness is just hot air.     Gary Johnson: Spying on U.S. citizens dismantles the 4th Amendment.     Margaret Flowers: Empire Economy: projects the Pentagon rejects get funded.     Pope Francis: Imitating tyrant's violence means we take their place.

Immigration     Jill Stein: FactCheck: 2.5M deportations counts removals, not returns.     Nikki Haley: FactCheck: US does have history of religion-based exclusion.     Jill Stein: We're deporting more immigrants than ever, 2.5M under Obama.     Jill Stein: Deportation of vulnerable refugees is morally abhorrent.     Nikki Haley: Immigrants have come for generations to live the dream.     Nikki Haley: Don't follow the siren call of anti-immigration anger.     Nikki Haley: Protect our borders, our sovereignty, and our citizens.

Jobs     Barack Obama: US economy is strong: 900,000 new jobs in the past 6 years.     Barack Obama: Need retraining programs for workers who lose jobs.     Barack Obama: We've cut unemployment in half during my term.

Principles & Values     Barack Obama: America is defined by innovative spirit: it's in our DNA.     Jill Stein: We are in state of crisis--for economy, ecology & democracy.

Technology     Barack Obama: Must continue to make technology accessible.     Barack Obama: We protected an open internet & got more Americans online.     Barack Obama: Put Americans to work on 21st-century transportation system.     Jill Stein: Green New Deal for efficient public transportation.

War & Peace     Gary Johnson: We are no safer after years of failed nation-building abroad.

Welfare & Poverty     Barack Obama: Expand tax cuts for childless low income workers.     Jill Stein: Millions thrown off food stamps because they can't find work.

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