The Obama 2012 Budget Proposal

[Trajan]

One thing all the commentators were talking about this morning is that no changes in social security or Obamacare are included in this budget--apparently all big entitlements are not on the table to even be looked at, much less debated.

hes waiting for the reps to bring that up so he can kick dirt, because no matter WHAT they propose, the 'theys gonna kill grannie' will be the political ads the very moment they table it.....its is as sullivan and several others have noted, an abrogation of leadership and one of the most cynical political moves in decades and considering the last 2 admins, thats saying something let me tell you...

You're right. If the GOP does exercise responsible leadership, the Democrats, aided and abetted by the MSM, will make it look like they are uncaring, heartless monsters.

absolutely....for instance; apparently he cut money for vouchers for low income folks who need assistance paying their winter fuel bills.... nary a peep.

If they do NOT exercise responsible leadership in this, they are going to bitterly disappoint the conservative base that gave them their majority in the House and a stronger position in the Senate.

yes and of course, as you see here, the willfully uninformed will surface a great gnashing of teeth if the reps don't. Because...because they said they would!!!!...and what did Obama say? and what is his responsibility? nope nary a word...


check this, the wash. post eviscerated him today in a Washington Post ( no attribution means it speaks for the publisher, ed- in chief and the paper as a whole) op-ed;


President Obama's budget kicks the hard choices further down the road

Tuesday, February 15, 2011; 12:00 AM

THE PRESIDENT PUNTED. Having been given the chance, the cover and the push by the fiscal commission he created to take bold steps to raise revenue and curb entitlement spending, President Obama, in his fiscal 2012 budget proposal, chose instead to duck. To duck, and to mask some of the ducking with the sort of budgetary gimmicks he once derided. "The fiscal realities we face require hard choices," the president said in his budget message. "A decade of deficits, compounded by the effects of the recession and the steps we had to take to break it, as well as the chronic failure to confront difficult decisions, has put us on an unsustainable course." His budget would keep the country on that course.

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The larger problem with the budget is the administration's refusal to confront the hard choices that Mr. Obama is so fond of saying must be faced. The president's debt commission concluded that more tax revenue will be needed in coming years to finance the costs of an aging society. Mr. Obama repeated his call to do away with the Bush tax cuts for upper-income taxpayers in two years - but maintained his tired and irrational insistence that the rest of the tax cuts, enacted in far different fiscal circumstances, be preserved.

If Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn could sign on to a deficit-reduction plan that included raising tax revenue, is it too much to ask for such bravery from Mr. Obama? And if Illinois Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin could sign on to a plan that included raising the Social Security retirement age, is it too much to ask for more from Mr. Obama than an airy set of "principles for reform"? Sadly, the answer appears to be yes.


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President Obama's budget kicks the hard choices further down the road

 

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I was listening to the news this morning and heard that General Motos will be paying their union employees (who, along with the U.S. treasury, still own a substantial percentage of that stock) and the execs big bonuses. Wonder how much that is indirectly costing us tax payers and what impact that had on the proposed budget? GM still owes the U.S. Treasury a ton of bailout money.

GM to pay more than $400 million in worker bonuses - Yahoo! News

 

[Trajan]

I was listening to the news this morning and heard that General Motos will be paying their union employees (who, along with the U.S. treasury, still own a substantial percentage of that stock) and the execs big bonuses. Wonder how much that is indirectly costing us tax payers and what impact that had on the proposed budget? GM still owes the U.S. Treasury a ton of bailout money.

GM to pay more than $400 million in worker bonuses - Yahoo! News

and there it is.....unreal.