Cong. Jesse Jackson: "The budget proposal from President Obama is right from the Republican plan"

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Left is livid over budget safety net cuts
By Charles Riley, staff reporter
February 15, 2011

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a liberal organization that boasts 700,000 members, took Obama to task before the budget was even officially released. "Proposing even more tax breaks for Wall Street banks while slashing and burning necessary government programs is right-wing radicalism, and no Democratic president should be part of it," the group said in a statement.

"This budget freeze will require some tough choices," Obama said Monday. "It will mean cutting things that I care deeply about."

Obama went on lament the loss in funding for community action programs in low-income neighborhoods and community development block grants. "But if we are going to walk the walk when it comes to fiscal discipline, these kinds of cuts will be necessary," he said.

"The budget proposal from President Obama is right from the Republican plan," Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., a Democrat from Obama's home state of Illinois said in a statement. "As the president, he should be the last line of defense for the most vulnerable Americans, instead of the first one to cut."

http://money.cnn.com/2011/02/15/news/economy/obama_budget_left/?cnn=yes

[ananda]

1. Get out of the ME and reduce the Pentagon budget...

... tax the rich, and regulate regulate regulate.

That's an austerity plan I could get behind.

[Badfish]

2. I wasn't aware...

that Obama's budget slashed Medicare and SS...

The two main targets of the GOP. I would imagine the GOP's plan would go after these programs.

JJ jr. can jump in the lake.

[phleshdef]

3. Yea or that the GOP plan attempted to raise taxes on the rich and end oil subsidies.

[Better Believe It]

4. President's budget proposal cuts Medicaid payments to providers by $28.8 billion

"I wasn't ware that Obama's budget slashed Medicare and SS"

It does cut Medicaid. And President Obama proposed cutting Social Security payroll taxes which as you know was passed by Congress.



President's budget proposal cuts Medicaid payments to providers by $28.8 billion over 10 years
February 15, 2011

President Obama released his $3.7 trillion budget for FY 2012 Monday, and it would lower Medicaid payments to healthcare providers by $28.8 billion over 10 years.

http://www.mcknights.com/presidents-budget-proposal-cuts-medicaid-payments-to-providers-by-288-billion-over-10-years/article/196367/#

[Bandit]

5. SS and Mediicare are only a portion of what Republicans want to cut

Republicans want All Social Programs cut. All. The ONLY thing Republicans want government to fund is Military and Police...and of course their own paychecks...

[Better Believe It]

6. And President Obama is more than willing to meet them halfway in the spirit of bi-partisanship