The Obama administration's official response a Republican budget proposal: It's a joke.
After FoxNews anchor Jon Scott suggested that the GOP budget is simply smaller. Let's spend less. We just can't afford all of the things in the president's budget.
Rob Neighbors, the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget, issued Obama's "fair and balanced" response by excoriating the Republican's plan:It's ironic that this budget came out today, on April Fool's Day. Because this is a joke; it's a joke on the American people.Whatever one thinks of the Republican proposal (and I know nothing about it), it is highly inappropriate for the president to treat our elected officials with such contempt and disregard, dismissing a legitimate proposal idea with a school yard taunt.
Not to mention, that if one agrees with the Repub's ideas, the Obama administration is calling you a joke by association.
Yet one more example of how Obama is no leader, and is totally clueless about how to run the country.
Just plan sad.
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But it is a joke. Have you seen this thing? A five year spending freeze in a severe recession? Huge tax cuts lumped on top of the to-be-made-permanent Bush tax cuts? Voucherize Medicare? I don't think calling it a joke is any more offensive than putting out a document like this in the first place, but maybe I'm less inclined to fainting spells than a lot of folks on the right?
The GOP is giving Dr.O what he wanted. He challenged them to make an alternative bill, they did.
Now when his fails and it will. The GOP can say theirs was better.
And I agree with tax cuts during a recession especially the corporate tax cut. That creates jobs.
If the Democrats were sincere than they have to negotiate with the GOP and concessions must be made.
Its a cracked world.
"Theirs was better" how? Seriously, it's laughable. I think the Dems probably are willing to sincerely, (Dems are hacking apart the Obama budget far more effectively than Repubs at the moment) but the Republicans are gonna have to offer up something that's not, well, insane. I'm sure they could do it if they tried.
The argument here is whether massive government spending and increasing taxes are better than reducing spending and cutting taxes.
As I haven't read the GOP proposal, I was more concerned with the immature and unprofessional way that Team Obama responded.
That said, I have one question:
If you were having trouble paying your bills at home, would you take out a second mortgage or get a credit card and take a cash advance to pay your bills?
Likely, you would cut back and take the money you would have otherwise spent and pay down those bills. When you got caught up, you would suddenly have extra cash that is not going to the bills and you can spend again.
That model has worked in the past on a government level. Obama should have at least considered the plan and not cast it off with some juvenile taunt.
Sorry, you lost me there. The government isn't having trouble paying its bills, is it? I mean, I'm not sure I get the analogy. But what the GOP budget is proposing is that (to carry your analogy here) my household should freeze all its spending for five years (during which time my bills will rise, so I'll be defaulting on them in a few years, thus helping to bankrupt my creditors) while simultaneously reducing my income drastically.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't do that. In fact, if you suggested it, I'd ask if you were joking.
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