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Obama’s No Budget, No Plan Budget Plan
by Alex Knepper
President Obama has completely lost contact with reality:
Obama said the “vision” portrayed by the Ryan budget “is of an America
where everybody is fending for themselves, a few are doing very well at
the top, and everybody else is struggling to get by.”
Obama added that under the Republican budget, “the government is shrunk
to the point where things that we take for granted as a society — as an
advanced, responsible society — are gutted: education, science and
research, early childhood education, caring for our environment,
looking after our veterans, keeping up with our infrastructure,
rebuilding our roads and our bridges so that they’re safe, food safety
laws, our capacity to enforce basic consumer protections. All of this
is shrunk to the point of near invisibility.”
The Ryan budget, in fact, merely shrinks the rate of growth of the
federal government. It does not actually cut the leviathan down to
size. It should, but it doesn’t.
Paul Ryan’s budget is a base-level acknowledgement that we should at
least admit that we haven’t been living within our means: his proposal
moves the ball down the field, but it’s hardly the end-game for
proponents of limited government. The year-to-year Obama budget
deficits are much larger, even, than the year-to-year deficit-reduction
numbers that Ryan proposes.
Every time a Republican attempts to do anything that might take a
sliver of power from the government, progressives accuse them of
wanting to abolish “roads, schools, bridges,” and that elusive creature
known as “infrastructure.” From listening to the left, an outsider
might believe that these were the only components of the entire federal
domestic budget.
But if these are such overwhelming priorities, then where’s the Obama
plan to improve our bridges? It’s nowhere to be found, because he
doesn’t actually care about bridges: he’d rather use the his time and
energy pushing useless plans meant only to stir up envy toward rich
people.
What of education? The metrics of educational progress that
progressives use consist of two primary factors: the amount of money
being spent by the federal government on our failing school system —
and the number of smiles elicited from teachers’ union bosses. Using
these guideposts, progressives have already shrunk the quality of
education to the point of invisibility. We have some of the stupidest
high-schoolers in the modern world, teachers’ unions have crushed most
attempts at reform, and hundreds of billions have been sent down the
drain under the laughable idea that throwing money at an institution
will make it better. The only way to improve education is through
competition. But no — to Obama, this is “social Darwinism.” Someone
might end up on top. We might as well let the government end up on top,
in advance.
All this outrage, over a budget that merely shrinks the rate of growth
of the federal government. There is a truly vexing question at the
heart of this, though: Is it worse if the president is knowingly lying
through his teeth to his audience — or if he actually believes his own
words?
Source: LibertyNews
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