*The liberal or progressive idea of conquering the record federal budget deficit by generating tax-paying jobs appears to have been abandoned by both the Republican Party and the administration of President Obama.
The idea essentially involves economic policies which would create millions of new jobs. The newly employed would pay taxes and over time the deficit (projected to surge to $1.65 trillion this year) would be reduced or even eliminated.
However, the $3.73 trillion spending plan outlined by Obama administration officials Monday basically adopts conservative Republican economic theory which calls for slashing the money spent on social programs – particularly those which tend to be most beneficial to minorities and the poor.
Obama’s proposed cuts are not as draconian or mean-spirited as those proposed by the Republicans but social programs still bare the brunt of the proposed budget cuts. On the chopping block are deep cuts in community health services, housing assistance, job training, Pell grants for low-income college students, environmental protection and Community Development Block Grants.
President Obama includes cuts in military spending in his budget plans. But the Republicans do not want to take a single dime from the military and the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Further, Obama is proposing tax increases which would primarily hit the wealthy. Again, however, the Republicans are opposed.
Despite being less harsh, President Obama’s budget essentially adopts conservative economic theory which argues that the best way to reduce the deficit is to cut government spending on social programs. There is little doubt that this approach will make life more difficult for the poor and average members of the working class.
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You know what’s going to be so ironic? How Obama abandoned his progressive base to pander to the Republicans, and then they are going to use it against him.
He is taking money away from all these domestic programs such as heating for the poor, development grants that provide affordable housing, and eliminating funding for education, while at the same time expanding the war budget in his effort to kiss Republican ass.
But Ron Paul just dogged him out for turning his back on his base and calling him a war monger.
“The reality is it would be very, very difficult,” Rep Paul (R-TX) said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “But if you look at the polls, and there aren’t that many, my appeal is to a lot of independents and a lot of progressive Democrats who are sick and tired of Obama for opting out of cutting back on some of this militarism.”
“He’s a war monger,” Rep. Paul added. “He’s expanding the war. My numbers would be much bigger running against Obama than they will be running against some conservative in the Republican primary.”
Damn! Now ain’t that the truth?
“President Obama includes cuts in military spending in his budget plans.”
Whatever. Obama came in and tripled the number of troops in Afghanistan, for no other reason than his belief that it would appease Republicans. Oh, so now he wants to cut back. Just a little.
In the fiscal year starting in October, the president wants $118 billion for the two missions – $41 billion less than the current year.
There is no reason why we should still be spending $118 billion in Afghanistan and Iraq. We all know Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. The FBI still won’t even indict Bin Laden for 9/11, citing lack of hard evidence, and there is virtually no Al-Qaeda member still in Afghanistan. As for the Taliban, over 92% of them never even heard of 9/11, even though Obama continue to claim that he is fighting over there to stop the people who caused 9/11.
These wars and occupation are all based on lies and the desires of a president who would rather kiss Republican ass, rather than represent the interest of his base.
He is not one of us. He was raised by whites who adored Reagan. That’s why he continues to give Reagan major props, the same man who is universally despised by blacks.
Seems like Reagan reincarnated. And he was horrible!
A liberal is a vile person, that what scripture tell us. That evilness is consumption by us, our great armies. There is no such word as a conservative in scripture. Where did all the money go? That’s the question the world refuses to anwser, it went to our sins, but we call it mistakes or my bad. It’s going from bad to worst, think not.
You are out of your f*@king mind. The words them self tell the tell… Liberal: to give, share, or spread around.
Conservative: to conserve, to horde, or hold back…. I don’t know what scripture you’re reading from, but I have never read anything in the bible that described a liberal person as vile. That is YOUR interpretation of what the scripture says….
I think he is not being literal. Let’s calm down..
Thank you love4parris! I see I am not the only one on here that gets soooo tired od kevobx34 interpretation of the scriptures.
It’s strange the word liberal also means Catholic in the world. * Now Isaiah 32:5 The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful. Isaiah 32:8 But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand. * Proverbs 11:25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee on Obama and his mentor, Ronald Reagan:
“It is unacceptable for this President to continually suck up to Wall Street banks who caused the current economic mess, legitimize the cutting of benefits earned by workers, and pretend like Republican proposals to cut Medicare and Democratic proposals to end tax cuts for the wealthy are equally legitimate proposals – they are not. Americans did not elect a Democratic President to act like Ronald Reagan or enact a corporate agenda.”
Obama’s Constant invocation of Reagan is just another way he chooses to suck up to Republicans. He’s not content to just waging their wars, approving their tax cuts and proposing their budget.