…showed his face again yesterday and delivered the first speech in a long time that made me remember why I voted for him in the first place. He FINALLY called out the republicans ridiculous claims that they are the party of fiscal discipline and “courage” to make necessary cuts. I voted for President Obama because I know he is smarter than me, and because I know he believes in compromise. If you don’t believe me — ask any liberal what they think about the health care bill or his extension of the Bush tax cuts. Both pathetic compromises, but compromises nonetheless, and instead of being grateful and trying to compromise with the democrats — the republicans are acting like the bully on the playground — expecting democrats to cave like they always do and give them what they want. The “Ryan” budget proved this by asking democrats to vote for vouchers for Medicare, essentially taking away the safety net we promised to our seniors and giving rich people more tax cuts. Obama FINALLY stood up and said — “THIS ISN’T COURAGEOUS”. You aren’t fiscally disciplined. Reckless unfunded tax cuts for the richest among us DO NOT create jobs, but they DO create debt. So if you’re serious about debt reduction let’s go back to the tax rates that we had when we were on track to start paying down our debt. The tax rates that fueled one of the biggest economic booms in our history. Let’s eliminate tax loopholes that let a millionaire pay less than me in taxes because he owns 3 vacation homes. Let’s cut defense, seeing as we could cut our defense spending in half and still probably spend more than the rest of the world combined. Defense cuts that have been proposed by the SECRETARY OF DEFENSE and poo-pooed by mostly republican congresspeople afraid to lose defense contracts in their districts. Let’s continue with common sense health reform that rewards health care providers for keeping people healthy instead of giving insurance companies more of our money and expecting seniors to pick up the rest of the tab. And let’s NOT stop funding the things that are small potatoes in the budget but keep our country moving in the right direction like infrastructure, education and clean air.
This was the President I voted for…
Too bad the douchebag republicans in the house will kill anything with ANY tax hikes in it. They say Obama should compromise, but they can’t compromise because they are ideologues with no fucking moral compass. Robots that explode anytime the word taxes is uttered without considering the consequence. This was a day I was PROUD to say I voted for Obama.
If you haven’t already, PLEASE watch the speech. Watch it here…
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/13/president-obama-s-framework-4-trillion-deficit-reduction
