Obama: My budget is not "ideal," it's a "compromise"

[dajoki]

ByJake Miller / CBS News/ April 6, 2013, 10:48 AM
Obama: My budget is not "ideal," it's a "compromise"
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57578261/obama-my-budget-is-not-ideal-its-a-compromise/

President Obama said in his weekly address Saturday that his 2014 budget, due to be released Wednesday, is "not my ideal plan" but "it's a compromise I'm willing to make in order to move beyond a cycle of short-term, crisis-driven decision making."

His plan, Mr. Obama said, would balance investments with spending cuts, allocating money for infrastructure, domestic energy, education and job training while simultaneously reducing the deficit by closing tax loopholes for the rich and implementing spending cuts, including adjustments to Social Security and Medicaid.

Though the budget is yet to be released, Republicans have preemptively slammed the president for the plan's new spending proposals. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, rejected the budget, said it was "no way to lead and move the country forward" and called on the president to reform entitlement programs without demanding additional revenue in return.

Even some liberals have raised objections about the plan's entitlement reforms, which include a reduction in Social Security beneficiaries' annual cost-of-living adjustments. "I am terribly disappointed and will do everything in my power to block President Obama's proposal to cut benefits for social security recipients," said Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who caucuses with the Democrats, in a statement on Friday.

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[nruthie]

1. Obama compromises...

and the Republicans once again call the shots. What was that last election all about anyway?

[JHB]

2. That doesn't sound like "I was bluffing, look how extreme they are!".

"not my ideal plan" is a long way from "I was trolling them, and they took the bait. Can you believe how nutty they are?"

[woo me with science]

15. Indeed. nt

[City Lights]

3. A "compromised" budget should not be the first thing offered.

He should have started with "his ideal plan" and compromised from there.

[OhioChick]

4. Including adjustments to SS & Medicaid does indeed sound like "crisis-driven decision making" n/t

[graham4anything]

5. You do realize FDR didn't get 100% of what he wanted either and he had 4 terms

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. True enough, but FDR was not in the business of weakening

the social safety net either.

[graham4anything]

9. There was no social safety net before FDR, he created it, as did LBJ later on

It's like Babe Ruth might have gotten 1100 home runs, had the leader before him had 1099,
but the leader before him Roger Connor only had 138 and Babe passed him with the 139th.

Barry Bonds needed to get 756 before he passed the current leader

[JHB]

10. Yes, but he worked TOWARD what he wanted.

How does leading off with concessions to repeatedly-and-still intransigent radical Republicans on the "third rail" accomplish that? Or what is he trying to accomplish?

[graham4anything]

12. FDR worked FORWARD. LBJ worked FORWARD. Obama working FORWARD.

To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh of all people- YES, we do want the republican party annihiliated for all time FORWARD.
Complete.
100%
gone.

Instead of instant gratification, it takes time
Took 45 years of going backwards 29 of those 45(and the stop/start basically reset the clock each time and went even further backwards)

Look what happened in the USSR
Gorby tore down the walls
Putin put them back up
because people were in a rush after Gorby tore them down and Putin spoke better and convinced them the old way was better.

Instant gratification just leaves one hungry 10 minutes later.

Dotting all the I's and crossing all the T's makes it next to impossible to overturn.

[KG]

7. I'm thrilled he's so ready to compromise!

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. "Even some liberals have raised objections"

They don't get it, do they? We have a Democratic President, why don't we just roll over and play dead? After all, it's good practice.

[forestpath]

11. It's a death sentence, one he is determined to carry out no matter what.

[Nite Owl]

13. The budget besides being an

economic document is also a moral one. Offering to give up your principles is not moral. Hurting seniors is not moral.

[pansypoo53219]

14. no scompromise. publicans MADE this bill. they have to raise their taxes to PAY the bill.

the credit card party has no say. NONE.