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Obama to Push New Spending
Wall Street Journal ^

Posted on 01/21/2011 4:58:43 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Obama to Push New Spending State of Union Speech to Call for Boosting 'Competitiveness' While Nodding to Need for Budget Cuts

President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.

Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce its budget deficit, must make targeted investments to foster job growth and boost U.S. competitiveness in the world economy. The new spending could initiatives aimed at building the renewable-energy sector—which received billions of dollars in stimulus funding—and rebuilding roads to improve transportation, people familiar with the matter said. Money to restructure the No Child Left Behind law's testing mandates and institute more competitive grants also could be included.

In arguing that U.S. competitiveness is at stake, Mr. Obama plans to use his nationally televised speech to try to frame the spending debate with Republicans that is expected to dominate Congress in the coming months. "We seek to do everything we can to spur hiring and ensure our nation can compete with anybody on the planet," Mr. Obama said Friday after touring a General Electric Co. plant in Schenectady, N.Y. He cited clean-energy manufacturing, infrastructure and education as keys to competitiveness.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; obama; spending
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To: napscoordinator
We have forgiven so many countries debt. We should ask the countries we owe to forgive our debt or just tell them that we won’t pay. I wonder what would happen.

Nothing!

And that is what we should do.

The Bankers don't want that because we wouldn't get anymore credit.

41 posted on 01/22/2011 12:21:20 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (When the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn (Pr.29:2))
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To: Sub-Driver
Intentional Sabotage
42 posted on 01/22/2011 3:40:15 AM PST by unspun (It's the Sovereignty, Stu. | We are Gulag Bound)
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To: unspun

As a loyal nobama subject I am sitting around waiting for my money from his “stash”. Obviously, he is so much more intelligent than the rest of us peons. All praise nobama and his highly intelligent “leadership”. Truly, he is a genius. (My “new tone” has appartently destroyer my brain)


43 posted on 01/22/2011 4:24:39 AM PST by hal ogen (quit fighting these societal vampire DIM/LIB moonbats.)
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To: JPG

You forgot the Unicorns and Skittles... and I agree! JUST SAY NO to the kenyan usurper!

LLS


44 posted on 01/22/2011 4:34:52 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

This gives Paul Ryan a TON of ammunition (PC very much ignored!) for an excellent rebuttal.


45 posted on 01/22/2011 4:36:25 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: screaminsunshine

Emperor Zero is relying on the stupidity of the voters and his slobbering press machine. Don’t underestimate their powers.


46 posted on 01/22/2011 4:54:46 AM PST by Loud Mime (If you don't believe in God, you will believe in government. Choose your "G")
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To: ClearCase_guy; Qbert

Very, very good!


47 posted on 01/22/2011 4:56:34 AM PST by Loud Mime (If you don't believe in God, you will believe in government. Choose your "G")
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To: Qbert; ClearCase_guy

Did he really say that each year?


48 posted on 01/22/2011 5:17:10 AM PST by listenhillary (20 years in Reverend Wright's church is all I need to determine the "content of his character")
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To: Sub-Driver

Obama, tripling-down.


49 posted on 01/22/2011 5:20:26 AM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, than Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Paul Ryan should play this clip during his response to the State of the Union speech:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQAJ5na5Z4&feature=related


50 posted on 01/22/2011 5:23:43 AM PST by csmusaret (Q: How do they say incompetent failure in Kenya? A: Barack Obama)
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To: Sub-Driver; All

51 posted on 01/22/2011 5:30:28 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Sub-Driver

...anyone expecting anything different from this evil **** is just not listening, or paying attention.


52 posted on 01/22/2011 5:40:12 AM PST by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: listenhillary
Did he really say that each year?

It's from memory, so it's not a precise quote, but it's darn accurate, and he has said it pretty much the same way repeatedly since early in 2008.

I noticed it in an early debate, before the economic crisis hit in Sept 2008. This was probably back in June 2008, when the biggest issue was reducing deficit spending (nasty George W. Bush had an outrageous deficit of $160B!!). So, they asked Obama and McCain where they would cut.

Now, McCain went second, and his answer was pretty short: "Defense". Isn't that nice?

But Obama's answer on cutting the deficit was more detailed. He made it very clear he was cutting. He didn't like deficits. He wanted a smaller budget. And he proposed to achieve these goals "by investing in roads and bridges, investing in education and health. Most importantly by investing in green technology and alternative energy sources."

And he has been remarkably consistent since that campaign. His "solutions" are carved in stone. The problems change -- cut the deficit, or stimulate the economy, or create jobs, or seek bipartisan agreement, whatever you want -- the solution is always "infrastructure, jobs, green tech".

53 posted on 01/22/2011 5:45:53 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

Out of curiosity, why do you cite your ethnicity? Why not just say you’re an American male?


54 posted on 01/22/2011 5:48:40 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: RED SOUTH

That’s 22 mnonths away... if the US was suckered once into electing him, it can be suckered again.


55 posted on 01/22/2011 5:49:42 AM PST by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: marron

“We did not send these guys to Washington to help Obama govern; we sent them to stop him.”

Exactly!!! They had better not buy into this whole play nice, let’s sit together at the SOTU crap. Do everything you can to stop this jackass from doing any more damage and do everything you can to reverse what he has already done.

Ps: Can I please steal your post for a new tagline?


56 posted on 01/22/2011 5:54:20 AM PST by Batman11 (Sarah Palin: "Illegal immigrants are called illegal for a reason!")
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To: Sub-Driver
Republicans majority need to tell Obambi to stick it where the sun don't shine.

Obambi latest public promises to GE (carbon credit accomplice) are a set up.

No more spending ... that's not how jobs are created.

57 posted on 01/22/2011 6:05:35 AM PST by xtinct (The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you..Be Strong Patriots!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Seems like we’ve heard this before. Didn’t he talk about infrastructure and so forth in numerous other speeches?


58 posted on 01/22/2011 6:28:20 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Sub-Driver

This must be a head fake. Obama is not this stupid. I don’t think he is going to call for additional spending.


59 posted on 01/22/2011 6:29:53 AM PST by KansasGirl
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To: DoughtyOne

DoughtyOne wrote: “While we have overspent for decades, it should be pointed out that the national debt when Bush took over was about $5.5 trillion. When he left it was around $9.65 trillion.”

..... Just a footnote. Having done the math on this, it emerges that (IIRC) about 60+ pct of the increase in the national debt during the eight years of the W presidency was incurred during the last two years, when the Spendocrats controlled Congress.


60 posted on 01/22/2011 6:40:58 AM PST by Senator John Blutarski (The progress of government: republic, democracy, technocracy, bureaucracy, plutocracy, kleptocracy,)
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