President Obama delivered a much needed pep talk for the country. His speech was a proposal for what he has proposed since before he took office. The tone is out of his book, the Audacity of Hope. The president proposed a joint effort to energize the economy, encourage job growth and incentivize the positive things needed for the country to compete on a global scale. What he did not advocate is the current path where wages are targeted to the lowest common average in order to make it cheaper for businesses to retain business in the United States.