vote backing his proposed budget... the winners are the US public.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Tommy News <tommysnews@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yep, you are a real loser there, Annointed NONE!
>
> On Apr 4, 10:48 am, THE ANNOINTED ONE <markmka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Republican budget votes..... all republican.. no Dems
>> Obamas budget offering.......No Republicans..NO Dems
>>
>> Seems even O bama can't get his own party on board... he did not get a
>> single yes on his budget proposal.... yep hes a real winner there
>> Tommytomtom.
>>
>> On Apr 4, 7:34 am, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Obama, in Talk,
>> > Calls House G.O.P. Budget
>> > the Work of Rightist Radicals
>>
>> > Speaking in Washington on Tuesday,
>> > President Obama criticized Republicans, the latest in a string of
>> > combative speeches.
>>
>> > By MARK LANDLER
>> > NYTimes Published: April 3, 2012
>> > WASHINGTON — President Obama opened a full-frontal assault on Tuesday
>> > on the federal budget adopted by House Republicans, condemning it as a
>> > "Trojan horse" that would greatly deepen inequality in the United
>> > States, and painting it as the manifesto of a party that has swung
>> > radically to the right.
>>
>> > Multimedia
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>> > Obama at the Associated Press Luncheon
>> > Obama at the Associated Press Luncheon
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>> > Related
>> > a.. Obama's Remarks to Newspaper Editors (April 4, 2012)
>> > b.. House Passes G.O.P. Budget Plan, Mostly Along Party Lines (March
>> > 30, 2012)
>> > Related in Opinion
>> > a.. Editorial: Calling Radicalism by Its Name (April 4, 2012)
>> > b.. The Election 2012 App
>> > Warning against what he said would be severe cuts to college
>> > scholarships, medical research, national parks, and even technology to
>> > make accurate weather forecasts, Mr. Obama said the Republican budget
>> > was "so far to the right, it makes the Contract With America" — Newt
>> > Gingrich's legislative manifesto of 1994 — "look like the New Deal."
>> > Mr. Obama's scathing attack, in a speech to a meeting of editors and
>> > reporters, was part of a broad indictment of the Republican Party that
>> > included the president's likely opponent in the fall, Mitt Romney.
>>
>> > The House budget, and the philosophy it represents, Mr. Obama said, is
>> > "antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and
>> > upward mobility for everyone who's willing to work for it — a place
>> > where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward
>> > from the heart of the middle class."
>>
>> > Republicans fired back quickly at the president, with the House
>> > speaker, John A. Boehner, accusing him of lobbing "partisan potshots"
>> > at Republicans rather than responding to their budget plan with a
>> > responsible counteroffer. A spokesman for the House Budget Committee,
>> > Conor Sweeney, said Mr. Obama's assertions about the cuts in the
>> > budget "are simply false."
>>
>> > For Mr. Obama, it was the latest in a string of combative speeches, in
>> > which he has sought to make House Republicans a proxy for the
>> > Republican Party and cast himself as a brake on their radical agenda.
>>
>> > "I can't remember a moment when the choice between competing visions
>> > of our future has been so unambiguously clear," Mr. Obama said.
>>
>> > Americans, he said, cannot afford to elect a Republican president at a
>> > time of fragile economic recovery, with a weak job market and a
>> > crushing 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. "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."
>>
>> > Mr. Obama's themes echoed his State of the Union address in January
>> > and his speech in Osawatomie, Kan., in December, when he invoked a
>> > Republican president, Theodore Roosevelt, who he said combined a
>> > fervent belief in the free market with a resolve to protect those
>> > vulnerable to its excesses.
>>
>> > But the president turned a harsh new spotlight on the 2013 budget,
>> > drafted by Representative Paul D. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who
>> > chairs the Budget Committee. The proposal, he said, calls for
>> > across-the-board cuts in discretionary spending, as well as tax cuts,
>> > which he said would disproportionately benefit households earning more
>> > than $250,000 and would cost $4.6 trillion over the next decade.
>>
>> > "Disguised as deficit reduction plans, it is really an attempt to
>> > impose a radical vision on our country. It is thinly veiled social
>> > Darwinism," Mr. Obama said. "And by gutting the very things we need to
>> > grow an economy that's built to last — education and training,
>> > research and development, our infrastructure — it's a prescription for
>> > decline."
>>
>> > Singling out Medicare, the president asserted that the Republican plan
>> > to shift people to a system of vouchers would drive up the cost of
>> > health care for the elderly, since private insurance companies would
>> > target the youngest and healthiest people and leave the rest to rely
>> > on Medicare.
>>
>> > For millionaires, the president said, the average annual benefit of
>> > the tax cuts would be $150,000 — money that he said could be used to
>> > pay for computer labs in schools, salaries for police officers and
>> > firefighters, medical care for veterans and a year's worth of
>> > prescription drugs for older people.
>>
>> > The White House's calculation for the tax benefit is straightforward,
>> > but Republicans on the House Budget Committee say it is wrong. The
>> > average household earning more than $1 million would gain $46,000 from
>> > the House budget's repeal of the Medicare hospital insurance tax that
>> > was part of the health care law, the Republicans said, and $105,000
>> > from the extension of the Bush-era tax cuts that Mr. Obama wants to
>> > see expire next year.
>>
>> > But the shape of the tax code is left largely unknown by the budget.
>> > The blueprint calls for the six existing income tax rates collapsed
>> > into just two, 25 percent and 10 percent. The revenue loss would have
>> > to be made up by the repeal of unspecified tax credits and deductions.
>> > It would be up to the House Ways and Means Committee to determine how
>> > that would be done.
>>
>> > In theory, tax writers could focus on tax breaks that primarily help
>> > the rich, like the deduction for charitable giving, or end the biggest
>> > tax breaks only for upper income earners. But Democrats say such
>> > selective changes to the tax code would never recoup such large cuts
>> > to income tax rates.
>>
>> > Jonathan Weisman contributed reporting.
>>
>> > There are 2 things you must know about how I work:
>> > When you need me but do not want me,
>> > I must stay.
>> > When you want me but do not need me,
>> > I must go.
>> > - Nanny McPhee
>>
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>>
>> > --
>> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
>> > Have a great day,
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