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though O is half-white he is an idiot like the rest of the socialists
and minorities he represents
On Apr 3, 12:43 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Obama Calls G.O.P. Budget Plan 'Social Darwinism'
>
> Luke Sharrett for The New York Times
> President Obama delivered a speech attacking the Republican budget
> plan on Tuesday in Washington.
>
> By MARK LANDLER
> Published: April 3, 2012
>
> WASHINGTON — President Obama opened a full-frontal assault Tuesday on
> the budget adopted by House Republicans, condemning it as a "Trojan
> horse" and "thinly veiled social Darwinism" that would greatly deepen
> inequality in the country.
>
> Mr. Obama's attack, in a speech during a lunch with editors and
> reporters from The Associated Press, was part of a broader indictment
> of the Republican economic blueprint for the nation. The Republican
> budget, and the philosophy it represents, he said in remarks prepared
> for delivery, is "antithetical to our entire history as a land of
> opportunity and upward mobility for everyone who's willing to work for
> it."
>
> With Republicans beginning to coalesce around Mitt Romney as the
> party's likely presidential nominee, Mr. Obama is sharpening his
> political message for the election — one that draws a stark contrast
> between his and Mr. Romney's visions for the country, and flatly
> rejects the Reagan-era mantra of trickle-down prosperity.
>
> In the latest of a series of combative speeches, the president said
> Americans could not afford to elect a Republican president at a time
> of fragile economic recovery, with a weak job market and a crushing
> national debt from "two wars, two massive tax cuts and an
> unprecedented financial crisis."
>
> The widening gulf between the rich and everyone else, Mr. Obama said,
> was hobbling the country's economic growth. He cited studies that
> found that societies with less income inequality had stronger and
> steadier growth.
>
> "In this country, broad-based prosperity has never trickled down from
> the success of a wealthy few," the president said, according to
> excerpts of his address. "It has always come from the success of a
> strong and growing middle class. That's how a generation who went to
> college on the G.I. Bill, including my grandfather, helped build the
> most prosperous economy the world has ever known."
>
> Many of Mr. Obama's themes echoed his State of the Union address in
> January and his speech in Osawatomie, Kan., last December, where he
> invoked a Republican predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt, who he said
> combined a fervent belief in the free market with a resolve to protect
> people from its worst predations.
>
> But the president reserved his harshest words for the 2013 budget
> proposal recently passed by the Republican-controlled House. The
> budget, drafted by Representative Paul D. Ryan, Republican of
> Wisconsin, calls for $5.3 trillion in spending cuts, as well as tax
> cuts for households earning more than $250,000.
>
> "Disguised as a deficit reduction plan, it's really an attempt to
> impose a radical vision on our country. It's nothing but thinly veiled
> social Darwinism," Mr. Obama said. "By gutting the very things we need
> to grow an economy that's built to last — education and training,
> research and development — it's a prescription for decline."
>
> More:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/us/politics/obama-attacks-house-gop...
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
>
> --
> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy
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