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Posted on 08/23/2013 12:07:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Casting an eye toward upcoming fiscal fights, President Barack Obama warned Republicans Friday against trying to defund his signature health care law as he vowed to protect spending on education, scientific research and America's infrastructure.
Taking questions from college students in central New York, Obama decried the Republican approach as "penny-wise and pound-foolish," predicting the U.S. will fall further and further behind other nations in decades to come unless it prioritizes creating opportunities for young people.
"When Congress gets back to Washington, this is going to be a major debate," Obama said during a town hall at Binghamton University.
He said it's the same debate he and lawmakers have been having for two years; the difference now is that the U.S. has made progress in cutting deficits.
"My position is going to be that we can have a budget that is sensible, that doesn't spend on programs that don't work, but does spend wisely on those things that are going to help ordinary people succeed," Obama said.
These and other testy issues will come to a head in the fall, when Congress will face deadlines to increase the federal government's borrowing limit and to continue funding the government.
Obama reserved some of his harshest comments for GOP lawmakers seeking a government shutdown over his health care law, arguing that those lawmakers are not offering an economic plan. More than a third of House Republicans are urging their leader to take such a step this fall.
Instead, those lawmakers should focus on the "pocketbook, bread-and-butter" issues that affect Americans, Obama said...
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So his rich cronies are more important.
That means it is exactly the right thing to do.
More stern words from the ONE.
But of course the GOPe will cower and cover as usual.
...progress in cutting deficits...???
Shut the damn thing down.
Buuuuump!
I’m with Ted Cruz, too, on this.
Shut down the government and give us all a vacation from THEM!
What an incoherent, prevaricating mess of a speech. No one with the slightest bit of sense would believe a word of it.
I agree. Shut it down until there are weeds growing in the center of Pennsylvania Ave.
obama warns the republicans. Too bad the republicans won’t warn obama.
Stop taxing us for programs to take our liberty!
Amen.
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