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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Republicans attack Obama's 2013 Budget Proposal" -- what's their alternative?
"Republicans attack Obama's 2013 Budget Proposal" is the title on the Yahoo News main page, but the article it links to is "Obama sends FY2013 budget proposals to Congress." I'm not seeing what their "attack" is about.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the government's huge health benefit programs, a major cause of future deficits.
The budget has plans for revenue increases, job growth, deficit reduction, etc. The "huge health benefit program" is largely Medicare, and even there cuts are proposed.
Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor and disabled, would more than double from $255 billion this year to $589 billion by 2022.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-sends-fy2013-budget-proposals-congress-145523152.html
What, exactly, is the alternative proposed in the GOP "attacks?"
What would they do to "restrain the surge" from baby boomers' retirement? What's their idea to hold down help for the poor and disabled?
Death panels? Pulling the plug on grandma? Big Government deciding how to spend the money retiring taxpayers have already paid, throughout their lives -- and deciding it's better to put in rich people's pockets than into Social Security and Medicare as promised? Leaving the poor and disabled to suffer (just like Jesus would)?
I'd really like to hear what they suggest.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Republicans attacking Obama's budget (or anything Obama does, says or thinks) is as predictable as the sunrise.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)"It seems like the president has decided again to campaign instead of govern," Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in an interview. "He's just going to duck the responsibility to tackle this country's fiscal problems."
Which is so ironic it's absurd.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Republicans can't govern, they are in permanent campaign mode.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)The President doesn't tackle the country's fiscal problems, the House of Representatives does.. The President just signs what the Congress passes into Law or not...
sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)the top 1% would get another $210,000 tax cut and everybody else would see Medicare go away?
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)The GOP would still have bitched about it, even though that is what they want.
This demonstrates that no matter what, they would attack it.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)I'm sure that'd be their response.
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Stupidity? Lazyness? Because of a directive from his manager?
AP lost all credibility when Bush Supporter/Apologist Ron Fournier took over as political editor and started introducing right wing editorializing into news stories. He's with the National Journal now, but apparently his spirit still haunts the halls of AP>
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)The only one worse was Nedra Pickler. Is she still around?
emulatorloo
(44,182 posts)Fournier wrote that article back in 2008 claiming white people were lying to pollsters when they said they were gonna vote for Obama. Per the article, they really weren't going to, but they said they were because they didn't want the pollsters to think they were racist.
He had some lame-ass study to back him up. But when you dug deeper into it, you saw there was not much study, but lots of Fournier spin.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)But Pickler was totally over the top.
safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)lower taxes, along with lower wages
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)as the boomers retire, and more poor and disabled people are added?