Obama’s new approach to deficit reduction to include spending on entitlements

[Better Believe It]

Obama’s new approach to deficit reduction to include spending on entitlements
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
April 10, 2011

President Obama this week will lay out a new approach to reducing the nation’s soaring debt, proposing reductions in spending on entitlements such as Medicare and Medicaid and renewing his call for tax hikes on the rich.

In an effort to go on the offensive in the battle over government spending, Obama will look for cuts in “all corners of government,” senior adviser David Plouffe said on several Sunday talk shows.

But contrasting the president’s approach with what Republican leaders have put forward, Plouffe said Obama would use a “scalpel” and not a “machete” as he seeks to preserve funding for education and other areas he sees as crucial to the country’s long-term economic success.

Still, Plouffe said Obama is committed to doing more to slash the fast-rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid, to roll back George W. Bush-era tax cuts for those earning more than $250,000 and to even discuss changes to Social Security.

Read the full article at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obamas-new-approach-to-deficit-reduction-to-include-spending-on-entitlements/2011/04/04/AFpDoDHD_story.html

[DJ13]

1. Republicans move 10 steps to the right

Obama "only" moves 8 steps to the right, then claims victory.

In the end, everyone not wealthy gets screwed over again.

[villager]

20. +1

n/t

[iwishiwas]

2. damm.

[MadHound]

3. Hmm, since HCR was supposed to be cutting the waste out of Medicare and Medicaid,

What are these cuts going to be doing?

Probably cutting out a pound of flesh, and we're supposed to be grateful since under the 'Pugs it would be cutting to the bone.

Nobody in Washington ever seems to consider not cutting our social service programs, and cutting into the bloated military budget, oh no. Always the cuts have to come out of social services.:puke:

And then there is that little tag line at the end, the little teaser, "He said that though Obama does not think Social Security liabilities are a primary driver of the nation’s deficit and debt, the president would be open to discussing that, too."

Time to bend over, again.

[jillan]

4. Disgusting!

[ProSense]

5. Here is what Plouffe

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[CelticThunder]

26. Why are you so terrified of dissent?

[Me.]

6. Playing His Cards Close To His Vest Eh

:sarcasm:

[Ken Burch]

19. Does he still OWN a vest?

I thought he had to sell if off in the budget deal.

[CelticThunder]

7. Obama administration must REALLY think we're dumb.

[leftstreet]

9. He can't go on the "offensive" if he's going to call them "entitlements!"

Fer fucks sake!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[999998th word]

22. Just his use of the word 'entitlement' speaks volumes.BULLSHIT.

Kinda like he is clubbing us and they're giving him the 'tools'.:wtf: :thumbsdown:

[mmonk]

11. Wow, does Plouffe believe anyone is going to believe the line

"Obama is committed to doing more to slash the fast-rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid, to roll back George W. Bush-era tax cuts for those earning more than $250,000" besides Republicans?

[Tx4obama]

12. The TRUTH on the link below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=650218&mesg_id=650218

[CelticThunder]

17. After all the selling out the Obama admin. has done, why do you believe there is any truth to this?

[Johnny Harpo]

13. And Raising The Deficit Level Helps This How?

[somone]

14. Right on cue and right on schedule

to make another right turn as always

[CelticThunder]

16. And do the right wing's bidding. Like he always does! SO disillisioned so disappointed.

[pnwmom]

18. "And renewing his call for tax hikes on the rich." n/t

[Bluebear]

23. Which he negotiated with Republicans to extend to begin with.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/us/politics/07cong.html

[Faux pas]

24. 'Entitlements'? I don't know about the rest of you but I've

paid into this shit my whole working life. Can I file a lawsuit to get all my money refunded?

[Johonny]

28. +1

[neverforget]

25. how about a war tax, end the wars and bring the troops home?

[newspeak]

27. on the news this morning

they were talking about the repukes cutting "entitlements" and regurgitated the talking point of social security tied to the budget. On another thread someone told me to prove the privatizing of medicare--well, that's what they were talking about this morning. How the repukes want to privatize medicare--you know, those damn corporations have to have their pound of flesh--and how the elderly would suffer even more by having to buy this shite private insurance.