a liberal Democratic wish list of policies

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[h=1]Obama unveils a 2015 tax-the-rich budget with a $3.9 TRILLION price tag: Republicans slam it as unrealistic 'campaign brochure' in crucial election year[/h]

• Wish list is likely dead-on-arrival in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives
• It would formalize a national minimum wage hike while enforcing the 'Buffett Rule' that sets minimum actual income tax levels for millionaires
• Obama has eliminated cuts to Social Security that he promised as part of last year's budget negotiation
• He also wants more than $300 billion in infrastructure improvements, helping labor unions in an election year
• Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, slammed the White House budget, saying it's a 'campaign brochure,' not a practical list

 

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Much of President Obama's 2015 budget proposal won't get through the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, but the White House has unveiled it anyway – a liberal Democratic wish list of policies, many of which the GOP has already nixed or refused to take up.
The White House said Tuesday that the president's budget, all $3.901 trillion of it, would fully fund Obamacare, raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 per hour and index it to inflation, vastly expand infrastructure-repair plans that benefit labor unions, and significantly reduces the size of the U.S. standing army.
House Republicans will object to these and other measures, but the Democrat-controlled Senate has the first hearings on the budget, scheduled for Wednesday morning. White House Budget Office director Sylvia Mathews Burwell will testify.
The budget blueprint claims that $402 billion in savings related to the Affordable Care Act will offset new spending. That number is based on last year's budget, which called deep cuts to Medicare, trimming more than $300 billion from provider payments and another $50 billion from senior citizens.

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Going it alone? Obama spoke about his FY2015 budget at a Washington, DC elementary school, looking isolated on a carpet decorated with cartoonish drawings of the alphabet

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The opposition: House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (L), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (C) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R) will be waiting with knives out when Obama's ambitious budget hits Capitol Hill




But the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office declared in February that the overall cost of the Obamacare law would eclipse $2 trillion over ten years, erasing much of that savings.
Obama presented his budget during a photo-op at a Washington, D.C. school, emphasizing education initiatives that were largely lost in the static about larger spending numbers.

Republicans are already complaining.
The budget proposal 'would hollow out our defense capabilities. And it would do nothing to preserve or strengthen our entitlements,' House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican, said in a statement.

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Obama played with schoolchildren after addressing an ambitious $3.9 trillion budget proposal

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Wisconsin Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP's vice presidential candidate in 2012, has emerged as the budget negotiator for Speaker John Boehner, but some tea party-aligned members of Congress fear that he will give too much away to the Democrat-controlled Senate

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[Willie99]

The least prepared man in the room

The epitome of a clusterfuck

The man is an asswipe, fact (no offense to asswipes intended)

 

[BleedingPurple]

Very Unrealistic

 

[Dave007inVegas]

If I’m not mistaken Obama has never gotten a single yes vote for any budget he has ever submitted.

 

[rolltide]

sorry fellas but this is simply politics as usual. you put some impossible aims out there then negotiate it down. all it really does is give the Wash Post and the RX poli forum something to discuss ... time to talk about the debt ceiling yet? that should be popping up on their Outlook calendars soon then everyone can get into a tizzy and keep avoiding real issues

 

[rolltide]

If I’m not mistaken Obama has never gotten a single yes vote for any budget he has ever submitted.

nor has my wife

 

[scottcarter]

2008 - 2016 darkest era in US politics. Nothing even comes close.

 

[hehateme82]

I'm all about the $300 Billion for infrastructure improvements. That's where we need to be spending money. Not on the camel jockeys:

Country	U.S. Total Economic and Military Assistance FY 2012, $US millions	Economic Assistance FY 2012, US millions	Military Assistance FY 2012, US millions	Aid received per person recipient FY 2012
Afghanistan	12,886.60	3,325.50	9,561.10	423.63
Israel	6,175.10	25.10	6,150.00	813.50
Iraq	2,792.10	783.50	2,008.60	89.69
Egypt	2,705.40	102.60	2,602.80	32.33
Jordan	1,438.90	831.60	607.30	221.07
Pakistan	1,219.70	1,137.70	82.10	6.41
Ethiopia	871.50	864.60	6.90	9.56
Kenya	751.60	745.60	6.00	17.47
Colombia	686.00	543.90	142.00	15.16
Haiti	510.60	510.20	0.40	52.10
West Bank/Gaza	457.40	457.40	0.00	105.57
South Sudan	445.10	395.50	49.70	41.89
Russia	440.90	339.00	101.90	3.09
Somalia	419.60	274.90	144.70	41.61
Tanzania	402.70	399.30	3.50	8.58
Congo (Kinshasa)	388.90	370.50	18.40	5.28
Uganda	353.20	349.40	3.90	10.50
Nigeria	337.80	330.90	6.90	1.99
Lebanon	302.60	141.30	161.20	73.07
Sudan	298.10	298.10	0.00	8.72
Ukraine	282.20	207.30	74.90	6.29
Yemen	279.60	237.40	42.10	11.29
South Africa	276.20	272.60	3.70	5.66
Mozambique	274.40	273.50	0.90	11.67
Bangladesh	260.00	246.50	13.50	1.61

 

[rolltide]

2000 - 2016 darkest era in US politics. Nothing even comes close.

fixed that for ya

 

[scottcarter]

fixed that for ya

thanks. Probably more accurate.

 

[SheriffJoe]