Posted on 02/21/2009 12:05:38 PM PST by Baladas
President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on business and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, administration officials said.
In addition to tackling a deficit swollen by the $787 billion stimulus package and other efforts to ease the nation's economic crisis, the budget blueprint will press aggressively for progress on the domestic agenda Obama outlined during the presidential campaign. This would include key changes to environmental policies and a major expansion of health coverage that Obama hopes to enact later this year.
A summary of Obama's budget request for the fiscal year that begins in October will be delivered to Congress on Thursday, with the complete, multi-hundred-page document to follow in April. But Obama plans to unveil his goals for scaling back record deficits and rebuilding the nation's costly and inefficient health care system Monday, when he addresses more than 100 lawmakers and budget experts at a White House summit on restoring "fiscal responsibility" to Washington
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_agenda
crAP:
Obama turns to budget, health care, entitlements
By JIM KUHNHENN and CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press
WASHINGTON After focusing his first month on the economic mess he inherited, ...
Absolutely, wealth can be created infinitely, but liberals believe its finite and worse yet, theirs to distribute "fairly"
Thee you go, letting those pesky facts get in the way.
Obama is DOUBLEPLUSGOOD.
Where's your faith in hope and change?
“rebuilding the nation’s costly and inefficient health care system”
“Rebuilding” is not the word I would use.
They will tear down the HC system. The technology and development will come to a screeching halt.
The only consolation is that nurse labor groups will get it the worst, just like in the auto industry.
Bye, bye birdie. Let's see, if corporations are already on the ropes, let's tax the hell out of what is left of their 'profits'. Oh, and let's then brag about how we gave tax cuts to 95% of the American people. It is all black magic.
Do you really think the huge deficits run up by Reagan and Bush were such an improvement, not to mention the shift to blind deregualtion that let those Wall Street fat cats destroy the entire world’s economy. I don’t know if O will do better, but I doubt he will do worse even if he is secretly trying. As you can see deliberately trying to do something “good” has been disasterous, perhaps deliberately trying to do bad might have the opposite effect.
Get out the KY jelly and bend over.
"Hey! That was my idea!" LBJ
Read it closely. There is a statement in it referencing the nationalization of health care.
Of course this protocol has been a disaster every time it’s been tried in the past. But this time Hussein the Great will be in charge, so it’s bound to work like a charm!
“money represents—a value measure of human labor that serves as a medium for trade.”
And this is when it all started to go to h#$%. Big money guys started their leveraged buyouts, arbitrage and bundling paper to unsuspecting buyers, and pocketing huge unearned profits. Getting companies, breaking them up, dumping parts, selling others, not producing anything of value except profits for their own pockets at unbelievably hight rates. A million dollars for one or two days work. This is “honest labor?” The years before Lehman Brothers went belly up the CEO (07) salary was $52 million. In (08) they raised it to $72 million. I guess because the 454 million shares he owned had lost value. [source - Forbes Exceutive Compensation] Maybe this is why they government decided not to bail them out.
Zero is the best friend the state has ever had; he's only the enemy of the rest of us.
Do you really think the huge deficits run up by Reagan and Bush were such an improvement, not to mention the shift to blind deregualtion that let those Wall Street fat cats destroy the entire world’s economy. I don’t know if O will do better, but I doubt he will do worse even if he is secretly trying. As you can see deliberately trying to do something “good” has been disasterous, perhaps deliberately trying to do bad might have the opposite effect.
MASSIVE Tax Increases — now THAT will really help the economy! (sarc)
Obama will accomplish in about a year what none of the enemies of the US has been able to accomplish since the existence of the US: destroy it completely.
Definitely time for a tea party!
This is the only way we will ever get the attention of our elected officiala and the masses- protest!
Freedoms March is planning a million man march on Washington:
Anti-Obama organizations are being united for a million man march on Washington. The permit is secured
From FreedomsMarch:
PRESIDENT OBAMA, WE DEMAND THAT YOU BE TRANSPARENT NOW
We will come together in a peaceful rally. We are proud Americans who fear that we are losing the America we all know and love. The America where millions have served in our military sacrificing and giving their lives so that we remain free. A people who honor their flag and understand what it means to fly it and be so proud to do so. It is time for our voices to be heard loud and clear. Our government is for the people and by the people. Where is that now? We are PRO GOD, PRO LIFE, PRO GUN Americans who see our rights slipping away as we speak. It is time our voices are heard. It is time for us to shout loudly and strongly that we refuse to live under a socialist regime, where our voices are silenced. Lets take this action now before we awaken one morning and our freedoms are nothing more than a memory.
We ask you TO wear RED, WHITE AND BLUE CLOTHING... BRING YOUR FLAGS WAVE THEM HIGH... SIGNS WILL BE PROVIDED.. WE WANT TO GIVE THE GREATEST IMPRESSION OF WHO WE ARE AS WE WILL BE SEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD. UNITED AND PEACEFUL AND WITH CONTROL. WE WILL LEAVE THE GROUNDS AS CLEAN AS THEY WERE GIVEN TO US.
No food or beverage will be provided. Youre welcomed to bring your own.
Entertainment will be provided. We are setting up a wonderful assortment of guest speakers, political and non political,prominent people and many surprises. Major news networks, including CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. Resistnet.com will also attend. MUCH more to come .
Please make your reservations early as hotels and motels will fill quickly.
We are God,s Army. The soldiers of voice and heart that believe in AMERICA for one nation as it stands indivisible with liberty and justice for All. We marched with Dr Martin Luther King and placed our hands upon our hearts as we sang. We knew what was right, what was good and of God. We stand united and strong for we are Right and mighty and proud and in Dr. Martin Luther King,s words, WE SHALL OVERCOME.
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Freedoms first has recently received permission to hold our protest in Washington DC. Our protest will now be held at the lincoln Memorial Reflections Pool in front of the Lincoln memorial ,on a date that will be released on feb 12 2009.
We find this very interesting because just two weeks earlier Washington told us we could no protest in DC for at least a year and a half . But the day the spendulus bill passes we get a call from Washington inviting us with a choice of dates and locations. Folks we take this as a sign that our country if starting to realise the mistake they have made with putting Obama in office.
We will have live speakers and other entertainment for you.
WE would like to see 1 million supporters attend this protest. It is time to take our country back and make our voices heard.
Why are we protesting ?
1. To get the attention of the mainstream media.
2. To demand That Obama Provide proof that he is eligible to be president.
3. To demand that Congress and the Supreme court uphold our constitution.
4. To inform the public on the issue of Obamas ineligibility to be president of the USA.
5. To demand that they can not take our constitutional rights away.
6. To say no to abortions.
Please take the time to sign up so we have an idea of how many people we have attending and to get update emails so you know what to do , where to meet , where to park and what is happening so on and so forth.
Thank you for your attention and patriotism
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