The main idea unifying the State of the Union Address is the making of a better world.

The speech was delivered by President Barack Obama on January 24, 2012, the transcript consists of eight pages, distributed by the White House along with supplementary materials, such as a video of the President and one of the presidential staff led by David Plouffe working for a month to prepare the speech, many young women and men part of this group.

On reading this speech , we see a sentence central to the general meaning of it: "Lower the temperature of this city" (Washington), referred to the need to do away with the idea that the two major parties should be limited in a sort of perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, closed in rigid ideologies rather than open to build general consensus on widely shared plans, projects and strategies to make real progress, given the fact that fundamental differences cannot be overcome.

This is why President Obama, a Democrat reminds the Americans a fundamental idea of Abraham Lincoln’s, a Republican: "The government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more." In his idea in the near future America will be "… a country that leads the world in educating its people… attracts a new generation of high-tech manufacturing and high-paying jobs… where we are in control of our own energy, and our security and prosperity aren’t so tied to unstable parts of the world.

An economy built to last, where work pays off, and responsibility is rewarded. " The passage of the speech about the redistribution of the tax burden is very relevant, especially in Italy.

The President pointed out that now, due to traps in the tax code, many millionaires pay lower taxes than millions of middle-class households. Warren Buffet pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, for example.

The proposed solution is simple, if you earn more than 1 million a year, you shouldn’t pay less than 30% in taxes and also, as claimed by Republican Tom Coburn, Washington should stop subsidizing millionaires… On the other hand, if you earn under $ 250,000 a year, like 98% of American families, taxes should not go up. Meanwhile the Republicans are fighting for the choice of their candidate in November elections: by now they are focused on internal rivalries.

Millions of dollars in the banks of the Cayman Islands, tax evasion, rather unpleasant stories are used to reduce a group of four or five men to one.

From our point of view, gratitude to President Obama is a must, because from now on, it will be harder to use the word communist for those who complain about the increasing economic differences between the rich and the poor and the iniquities of the excessive tax burden on middle classes. We wish that in Italy too, a person endowed with political talent will appear, able to lower the temperature of the struggle between opposite fields, and to spread more civilized ways of political communication at all levels.