Republicans Rip Obama’s $3 Trillion Budget Proposal

  On top of President Obama’s $1 trillion stimulus package and the recently passed $400 billion spending bill that should make its way to his desk shortly, and with talk of another $750 billion bank bailout, and also the $75 billion mortgage relief bill, President Obama released his $3 trillion budget proposal yesterday.

 Does anyone still wonder why Democrats are given the title of  “tax and spend liberals?”  I will admit that the Republicans were not much better under President Bush, one of my biggest complaints about the Bush presidency is his overspending, but this goes way beyond anything that the Bush administration ever did.

 But President Obama has to pay for this budget plan and so this budget contains $1 trillion in tax increases, thereby completing the moniker “tax and spend liberal.”

 During what everybody is now calling a recession it is irresponsible to keep spending money that we do not have, it is irresponsible to pile up this debt and hand it down to our children. That is something that the president said he would not do even as he begins to do it. Republicans are taking this opportunity to tear into this budget proposal. And they should, it is time for them to stand up and say enough is enough.

“I have serious concerns with this budget, which demands hard-working American families and job creators turn over more of their hard-earned money to the government to pay for unprecedented spending increases,” said Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell

“I think we just ought to admit we’re broke. We can’t continue to pile debt on the backs of our kids and grandkids,” said House Republican Leader John Boehner.

“The budget outline shows a half-hearted attempt to reduce the trillion-dollar deficits we face, largely through more tax hikes that will only hurt the economy, when it should take this opportunity to exercise aggressive spending restraint,” said Gregg, the top Republican on the Budget Committee.

“But if you begin to look at what’s happened over the last month and what’s being proposed in this budget, the president is beginning to make President Bush look like a piker,” Boehner said.

 Republicans are vowing to get back to the ideal of small, limited government and I hope that they hold true to this pledge. Instead of facing the hard times and make hard decision President Obama is playing the same game as all of the others, there is no change here.

 We need to hope that there are enough Republicans and conservative Blue Dog Democrats to stand up and stop this man from spending us into a depression. We cannot keep spending money that we do not have, we cannot keep borrowing money from China, and we cannot keep just printing it. This is a recipe for disaster and we need to hope that somebody can stop this man. Because he is not going to stop spending on his own. We need to grab the credit card from him and cut it up.

  Considering that 40% of the 8000 earmarks in the $400 billion dollars spending bill just passed by the house belong to Republicans I have to wonder if they have just given up and decided to grab what they can before it is too late.

 Some of our elected officials know this is crazy, don’t they?

 Anybody?