By DAVID ROGERS,Politico
President Barack Obama’s new $3.83 trillion budget is a chickens-come-home-to-roost moment for Democrats who skipped past the deficit to tackle health care last year and now risk paying a heavy price in November.
The great White House political gamble was to act quickly — before the deficits hit home — and institute major changes which proponents say will serve the long-term fiscal health of the country. Instead,a year of wrangling and refusal to consider more incremental steps have brought Obama and Congress to this juncture,where waves of red ink threaten to swamp their boat and drown reform altogether.
“It’s very important to understand,we won’t be able to bring down this deficit overnight given that the recovery is still taking hold and families across the country still need help,” Obama told reporters Monday. But with $5.08 trillion in deficits over the next five years,his spending plan seems also a cry for help in the face of what he sees as intransigent Republican opposition.
Not until 2014 to 2015 — midway through what Obama hopes will be his second term — is there any chance of approaching a sustainable budget. Even then,the president admits he will need the help of a bipartisan fiscal commission willing to tackle long-range issues like Social Security reform.
New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg,the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee,called Monday for a bolder “game-changing budget that will turn things around.”
obama is doing his best to bankrupt this country can you liberals not see this you will be effected just like me when it bankrupts us and obama and bernanke collpse the dollar you will effected just like me wake up before it is to late
Why is it that tiny Tim always looks like he is constipated or has a terrible case of gas?
IMPEACH OBAMA IN 2010 he's a poor excuse for a President.
http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/
Currently illegal immigrants occupy approximately 8 million jobs in the USA. We cannot afford this at a time when unemployment is at a record high. American workers should not have to compete with foreign workers at a time when jobs are so scarce. Unemployment for Afro-Americans is running as high as 16 percent,6 percent higher than for the average American worker. The situation is so bad that many people have simply dropped out of the workforce all together. Obama has an obligation to put American Citizens first.
Therefore I propose that we declare a moratorium of on all forms of immigration and demand that our immigration laws be strictly enforced by doing the following things.
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1) Rescind all H1-B Visas
2) Make E-Verify mandatory and permanent for every employer in the USA.
3) Give US Citizens the first right of refusal on all job offers.
4) Hire more Border Patrol Agents and Immigration Officers;these are great Government jobs for American workers.
5) Make it mandatory for Law Enforcement Officers to check the legal status of all people who come into contact with the Criminal Justice System for any reason and deport all people who are found to be here illegally.
This will not only ‘create or save’up to 8 million jobs and it will reduce the strain on taxpayers and our health care system tremendously. Once our economy has fully recovered then we can start to discuss opening the country back up to immigrants and creating a path to citizenship that is not too demanding.
James in Texas