{"id":814,"date":"2013-04-10T16:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2017-09-26T20:13:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T00:13:24","slug":"project-21-members-pan-obama-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2013\/04\/10\/project-21-members-pan-obama-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Project 21 Members Pan Obama Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"
\""Time

“Time is money” with dollar notes and hourglass<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s late.<\/p>\n

President Obama was required by law to submit his budget months ago.\u00a0 He missed the deadline.<\/p>\n

Obama has missed his budget deadline four times<\/a> so far during his presidency.\u00a0 He\u2019s only been in office a little over four years.<\/p>\n

Obama only just got around to unveiling his proposed 2014 budget today \u2014 April 10.\u00a0 It was due February 4.<\/p>\n

Both chambers of Congress \u2014 even the Senate, which had previously not passed a budget for most of Obama\u2019s first term \u2014 managed to pass their own budgets well in advance of the President even unveiling his own plan.<\/p>\n

But this is likely a calculated move by the Obama Administration.\u00a0 Since the House and Senate have already acted, the Obama budget is pretty much dead on arrival.\u00a0 After all, lawmakers on Capitol Hill already did their work.\u00a0 Why should they go back to the drawing board?<\/p>\n

Being so late gives Obama the chance to cherry-pick the good stuff, avoid the bad stuff and do whatever he wants to make himself look good with little fear that his plans are actually going to come to fruition.\u00a0 It is a publicity stunt.\u00a0 His past budgets haven\u2019t been popular<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s new budget is $3.77 trillion, and it proposes $661 billion in new taxes<\/a> to be collected from the richest Americans to the poorest (through a regressive near doubling of the federal tobacco tax).\u00a0 Savings comes from things such as cutting heating assistance<\/a> to the poor and the phantom savings of not being militarily involved<\/a> in Iraq anymore.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s money<\/a> for the controversial F-35 fighter, climate change, alternative energy sources that have already proven risky in the past and more money for the implementation of ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

And Obama even threw in a class warfare mandate to increase the minimum wage to $9 for good measure.<\/p>\n

What Obama\u2019s budget seems to lack is support.\u00a0 Politico<\/em>reports<\/a>: \u201cThere were virually no full-throated statements in support of Obama\u2019s budget.\u00a0 Even Obama\u2019s political arm, Organizing for Action, was silent on his budget\u2026\u201d\u00a0 The Hispanic advocacy group National Council for LaRaza even says the Obama budget will \u201cplace an undue burden on vulnerable Latino seniors and families.\u201d<\/p>\n

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) lamented the my-way-or-the-highway attitude of the White Houseabout the proposal: \u201cI would hope that [Obama] would not hold hostage these modest reforms [in his budget] for his demand for bigger tax hikes\u2026 Why don\u2019t we find the common ground that we do have and move on that?\u201d \u00a0National Economic Council director Gene Sperling already pointedly warned<\/a> the Obama budget is \u201cnot an a la carte menu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Members of the National Center\u2019s Project 21<\/a> black leadership network are speaking out about the Obama budget proposal.<\/p>\n

\"P21DerryckGreen\"Project 21 member Derryck Green<\/a>, for example, a frequent commenter on the economic travails of the Obama Administraion, notes:<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s budget blueprint managed to do something not seen for some time on Capitol Hill \u2014 it appears to have brought both liberals and conservatives together.<\/p>\n

Both sides are dismissing President Obama\u2019s half-hearted and seemingly unserious attempt at submitting a sensible budget.<\/p>\n

For the most part, the Obama budget represents a repetition of more tax increases, reduced deductions, more spending and is devoid of any serious attempt to reign in federal largesse and waste. \u00a0This is a flippant budget proposal by a flippant individual, and the gesture proves once again the President apparently cares more about enacting his ideological vision for a fundamental transformation of our society than he does about America\u2019s economic future.<\/p>\n

\"P21StacySwimp\"Project 21 member Stacy Swimp<\/a> adds:<\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s budget is merely a red herring intended to distract from his continued determination to advance failed socialist policies.\u00a0 He has not relented on his class warfare rhetoric and misguided Robin Hood complex.<\/p>\n

Proposing to cut the budget by less than a trillion dollars over the next ten years, when we are currently well over $16 trillion in debt, is not a plan to succeed.\u00a0 It is a plan to fail.<\/p>\n

The American people needed President Obama to lead. They need him to put special interests such as the radical environmentalists and union bosses aside and do what is right for the nation.\u00a0 Once again, however, Obama failed to deliver.<\/p>\n

Obama is attempting to mask his socialist agenda with soundbites that he assumes he is governing from the center.\u00a0 Neither his budget or his rhetoric have substance.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, I am not fooled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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