Posted on 02/09/2016 8:15:07 AM PST by DCBryan1
President Barack Obama is sending Congress his eighth and final budget, proposing to spend a record $4.1 trillion on a number of initiatives. They include launching a new war on cancer, combating global warming and fighting growing threats from ISIS terrorists.
The new spending plan, for the budget year that begins Oct. 1 -- just 3 1/2 months before he leaves office -- is facing heavy fire from Republicans who hope to capture the White House. The proposal had dim prospects of winning approval in a Republican-controlled Congress.
In all, Obama's budget would increase taxes by $2.6 trillion over the coming decade, nearly double the $1.4 trillion in new taxes Obama sought and failed to achieve in last year's budget
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Obama’s Budgets always end up as Toilet Paper for the Poor
Don’t blame Obama on this one. ‘pubs have a huge HOR majority and they caved on the budget without even a skirmish. Blame it on those ‘pubs for trusting Ryan as Speaker.
My wife would spend, spend, spend except for my efforts to limit her spending. Of course we cannot print money and borrow unlimited funds.
Cloward-Piven!
I don’t see the word “unexpected” in the story.
Something must be wrong...
He’s projecting a GOP win, and getting his blame points in ahead of time.
Final year “scortched earth” policy is now in full power.
“Obama Budget”, there’s an oxymoron if I ever heard one.
At this point he's just twisting the knife more, as he enjoys that.
War on cancer? Great. The government is encroaching even further into the realm of our health. Hopefully this war will be more successful than the war on drugs. But it won’t.
Exactly.
If the government really wanted to wipe out cancer they’d tax it.
This is a distraction, I believe the last several 0bama budgets didn’t even get democrat votes.
It is a piece of toilet paper from the 0val 0ffice.
So the question is...what is all the discussion distracting us from?
He will get what he wants. The republicans can let him have what he wants or the government will be shut down right before election day and there will be no election. That’s probably what Obama wants.
The republicans’ only hope, and the country’s only hope, is impeachment.
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