Obama makes pitch for budget priorities

[firedupdem]

http://detnews.com/article/20090321/POLITICS/903210413/Obama+makes+pitch+for+budget+priorities

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama demanded Saturday that any budget passed by Congress must cut the deficit, overhaul health care, invest in education and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

After a week dominated by outrage over enormous corporate bonuses at bailed-out companies, Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to turn the focus back on his budget proposal and getting it through Congress.

But even as he outlined his four major requirements for a spending plan that would top $3.6 trillion, there was growing unease on Capitol Hill over a budget that congressional auditors say will generate $9.3 trillion in red ink over the next decade.

"I realize there are those who say these plans are too ambitious to enact," Obama said. "To that I say that the challenges we face are too large to ignore. I didn't come here to pass on our problems to the next president or the next generation -- I came here to solve them."

Republicans, however, slammed Obama's budget as a breathtaking spending spree. As states and families are struggling to cut spending, the president's budget "spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much," said Gov. Haley Barbour of Mississippi, in the weekly Republican address.

[Deja Q]

1. Where were the republicants when G W B was spending like a "liberal"?

[firedupdem]

2. They are fine with spending as long as it's for war and their buddies

can profit.

USA! USA! USA!

Assholes.

[Kdillard]

3. Well hopefully he will get what he wants passed.