Topical Discussion- FBCHS Bible Study

Topical Discussion 2/21/23

1.President Joe Biden delivered his second State of the Union speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday Feb.7 and there were some unexpected moments in the traditional address.

The president used the opportunity to tout his administration's achievements and to take aim at his Republican opponents, which was widely expected, but Biden also clashed with GOP hecklers during his remarks. President Joe Biden boasted about his first two years and road-tested populist re-election themes, promising to “finish the job” on what he dubbed a “blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America.”

2.For poorer school districts, deciding what to do with that money involves a tough tradeoff: work on long-term recovery or fix long-standing infrastructure problems. “There’s been times we’ve been cold, there’s been times we’ve been hot,” said M a 17-year-old senior in a eastern North Carliana school. “There’s been times where it rained and it poured, we’ve been drowning. We go through it — we go through it, man.”

Like other schools serving low-income communities across the country, Jim Hill has long dealt with neglected infrastructure that has made it harder for students to learn. So when Jackson Public Schools received tens of millions of dollars in federal COVID relief money, it decided to put much of the windfall toward repairing heating and plumbing problems, some of which temporarily caused the school to switch to remote learning.

"Have you noticed big oil just reported its profits, record profits?" Biden said. "Last year, they made $200 billion in the midst of a global energy crisis. And other topics.