It is not easy to listen to the State of the Nation address. The President talks about a lot of things and throws around numbers. Lots of initiatives are mentioned, but what are at the stage of ideas and plans, and what is stuck somewhere in the pipeline and what is already producing results? Instead of a speech, I would rather see an audited Excel spreadsheet that spells everything out exactly, but that's not how politics works.

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