President Obama: GOP budget vision 'is wrong for America'

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Source: Associated Press

Launching a week devoted to selling his deficit-reduction plan, President Barack Obama on Saturday drew sharp contrasts with a House Republican budget that he says offers a vision that "is wrong for America."

In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama charged Republicans with seeking to dismantle venerable safety net programs and choosing tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of students paying for college or older adults on Medicare.

"To restore fiscal responsibility, we all need to share in the sacrifice - but we don't have to sacrifice the America we believe in," Obama said.

The criticism echoed his speech Wednesday in which he unveiled a $4 trillion deficit-reduction plan over 12 years, a goal he says he can achieve with a blend of spending cuts, changes in major government health care programs and tax increases.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110416/ap_on_re_us/us_obama

[nyy1998]

1. It's refreshing to see the President finally use the bully pulpit on the Republicans nt

[deacon]

4. + 1

[peacebird]

2. I wonder if the people who paid to put the "Help overturn Obamacare" ad on DU

think they are going to win converts over here?

(This ad shows up for me on the OP's post)

[EvilMonsanto]

3. Good

Tell them GOPers where they can stick it!