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“President Obama is expected to use his budget unveiling today to flesh out his threat last month to curb runaway college tuition increases - potentially by withholding federal student aid from those colleges that fail to keep prices down,” the Boston Globe adds. “Making a direct appeal to middle-class voters, Obama used his State of the Union address and a key swing-state appearance days later at the University of Michigan to strike a theme that resounds with nearly every parent, college student, and laid-off worker seeking continuing education.”
“Chinese heir-apparent Xi Jinping’s trip to the U.S. this week will focus on building relations with local officials clamoring for investment and export markets, expanding a second front for bilateral ties as anti-China rhetoric rises in Washington and on the campaign trail,” Bloomberg writes. “Xi, set to arrive late today in the U.S., will travel to Iowa and Los Angeles after meeting President Barack Obama at the White House. The visits coincide with an explosion of city-to-city and state-to-province ties, a surge in U.S. local governments setting up trade offices in China and increasing demand for foreign investment as U.S. unemployment remains at historical highs.”
“President Obama's effort to accommodate the Catholic Church by altering his administration's rule on birth control coverage has not appeased the church, congressional Republicans or GOP candidates trying to take his job next year,” USA Today writes.
Today, per an upcoming press release, the Obama campaign is announcing “the launch of the Truth Team, a new national effort by President Obama supporters online and on the ground to promote the President’s achievements, respond to attacks on his record and hold the eventual Republican nominee accountable. More than a million people took action as part of the Fight the Smears initiative during the 2008 campaign; the goal of the Truth Team is to double that number, reaching two million grassroots supporters who will communicate the President's record and fight back against attacks before the Democratic National Convention this fall.”
More: “Truth Teams will be announced today in many states including Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina and Wisconsin with events being held in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio and Virginia.”
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So while Athen’s sifts through 46 buildings burned down by progressives pissed that their freebies have run out, President Obama introduces a budget which looks to be the blueprint of Greeces collapse – the fourth consecutive TRILLION dollar deficit plan.
Obama’s incompetence can not be understated. He and he alone maybe remembered as the one person that brought this great nation down. And a good chunk of our population supports him and cheers him on. God help us.
What's even more sad is this thread will get very few posts. Instead the moonbats will flood a story about Santorum's sweater vest with inane and stupid comments.
Rob, when you have boned up on the differences between Greece and the US over the past 100 years and how that has affected the two countries economically, get back to me.
Would be nice to have a new tax structure for the country... Or even do a simple thing as go back to where it was under Clinton... I'd prefer Eisenhower, but Clinton will do just fine...
Ideology,
I heard some folks on tv this morning talking about Greece. They figure by 2013 both Greece and Portugal will be out of the Eurozone, but the Euro will be stronger. That's when they see real problems in the US - maybe even the same kind of rioting as being seen now in Greece. What say you to these ideas?
Phine, If money keeps flowing uphill in the US then rioting is possible. For the US to say we are too broke to invest in infrastructure (and that includes education and healthcare) is a recipe for failure. I see conservative policy as wanting to put the patient in a coma in order to excise a boil.
America needs to start producing things other than mostly exotic financial instruments which suck up just about every dollar out there.
Rob in ma-3189632==Are you related to Spanky or Bob + a lot of numbers?
cut 4 trillion over 10 years? wtf? over That is not even close
great comment! his own committee gave him a plan to cut spending
and he wouldn't even read it! but then again Pelosi said you have to
pass it to know what's in it! really Nan? then he should've passed it uh?
This is an election year. Neither side is going to do one single thing regarding any budget plan - no matter who offers it. Get a grip folks. Let common sense slide in.
Phinephancy, I agree with you this will just be a continuation of the political fight for the upcoming election. Nothing will be accomplished and we will continue operating with continuing resolutions.
What I find pathetic is that Jack Lew, the President's Budget Adviser doesn't even know what the Budget process is. I believe he said on "meet the press" that the Senate hasn't passed a Budget and won't again because the Republicans will only filibuster so why try.
I guess he isn't aware that the Budget can not be filibustered in the Senate. Further the law requires the Senate to submit a budget, rather they pass it or not, but then Harry Reid really don't care. The Democratic controlled Senate is a joke, hopefully the Republicans will take control this election.
the government waste more money on education and it's done no good!
and he's already given enough money to the big unions and his friends
with stimulus money on fake shovel ready jobs that didn't exist!
this is the same old Obombo record but now it's skipping!
Been sleeping in the kitty litter of late Cosmo?
Still slobering on Obama's knob I see idealogy?
JFK-2112 ... Still hoping for Obama to lose? You guys just like to slobber on a dead knob.
Why do you care you aren't even a US voter
It is good Mr. President that you are presenting a budget, however the GOP/RNC are unable to read. The "Really Not Competent" (RNC) have a difficult time understanding information read or said to them. "Crazy Cain" made it clear that the "Gross Odd People" (GOP) want leaders not readers. The GOP/RNC poltically will never compromise with the President. "Mickey Mouse Mitch McConnell" made the GOP/RNC message of "Mental Madness" very clear. Too destroy an American Presdent at all costs. "Crazy Cantor" is still dancing around the floor of the House with rotten tea bags around his ears. At least once a week "Crazy Cantor" breaks out his Clown Suit, and his "Cronies" like to drink as much "Romulian Ale" as they can. Now in "Quiet Rooms" the GOP/RNC Lobbyists like to talk about extending the Bush Tax Cuts. Toasting "Richie Rich Ryan" and his "Economic Evil" Plan to destroy Social Security. Which was already destroyed by the voting of the GOP "Hoodlum's On The Hill." "Bonehead Boehner" has likes to say NO to alot of poltical, economic, social, and cultural policies. This makes his master "Darth Rove." AKA. Karl Rove very happy. "Crazy Cantor" has been in last place all of poltical life. His IQ Scores have always been in last place. Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! The Party Of NO has got to go!!