"Obama’s budget seeks unity among Democrats; Elections reduce odds of adoption" by Andrew Taylor | Associated Press, March 04, 2014
WASHINGTON — Obama’s almost $4 trillion budget plan is likely to have a short shelf life. It comes just three months after Congress and the White House agreed to a two-year, bipartisan budget pact that has already set the parameters for this election year’s budget work.
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"The deal buoyed Wall Street investors. Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, concluded that as a result overall Pentagon spending will remain relatively the same for the next several years before it begins to grow once again, at about 2.5 percent per year."
And the unemployment checks the Democrats took out of the deal but said they would do as soon as they came back in January? Still waiting.
Instead we got food stamp cuts and more corporate welfare.
Democrats controlling the Senate have already said they won’t advance a budget this year and will instead skip ahead to the annual appropriations bills for 2015, relying on new spending ‘‘caps’’ set by December’s budget deal that provide $56 billion less than what Obama wants in 2015....
Then this whole article is really a NOTHING PIECE, isn't it?
And it removed the whole wealth inequality/tax issue off the political radar, too -- just in time for the upcoming elections.
Obama’s budget arrives after a tumultuous year that began with the president muscling through a 10-year $600 billion-plus tax increase on upper-bracket earners....
Related: Fiscal Cliff Fraud
Some tax "increase," huh?
Then, conservatives in the GOP forced a 16-day partial government shutdown over funding to implement the nation’s new health insurance program. The small-bore, two-year budget deal struck by Representative Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, and Senator Patty Murray, Democrat of Washington, emerged from the wreckage to alleviate the toughest automatic cuts.
Murray the Democrat was an architect of the deal?
With no design or expectation of luring Republicans into more budget negotiations in this election year, Obama’s blueprint presents his vision for boosting job growth and favored initiatives like education....
He's had six years already, and look at the situation this country finds itself.
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Also see: President Obama pushes new cleaner-gas rule
I've had my fill of fart mist, sorry.
UPDATE: Obama’s budget proposal a populist wish list
Pffft!
Also see: President Obama pushes new cleaner-gas rule
I've had my fill of fart mist, sorry.
UPDATE: Obama’s budget proposal a populist wish list
Pffft!
