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Obama to Push for New Spending as GOP Demands Deep Budget Cuts

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President Obama, in his State of the Union address Tuesday, will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research to help boost job creation and remain competitive with other powerful nations, Fox News has confirmed.
Obama is also expected to call for some budget cuts although nothing close to the amount Republicans are demanding.
White House aides told Fox News the best preview of Obama's remarks can be found in a Dec. 6 speech he made in North Carolina where he said this is the nation's Sputnik moment. He called for more spending on American innovation and American products with the same enthusiasm that the country had right after the Russians beat the U.S. into space.
"We need to do what America has always been known for: building, innovating, educating, making things," he said in last month's speech. "We don't want to be a nation that simply buys and consumers products from other countries. We want to create and sell products all over the world that are stamped with three simple words: 'Made In America.' That's our goal."


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I guess he hasn't gotten the memo people are sick of the spending.
 
Infrastructure, research and education are investments. We are able to sustain our current lifestyle because people who came before us spent resources in those areas we use today. That said, we are running a hideous deficit as is. Ideally, we would cut the huge amount of bloat that we feed off today in return for putting money into the future. Realistically, we can choose between raising the deficit or sacrificing the long term. Politics is a devil's bargain.
 
Infrastructure, research and education are investments. We are able to sustain our current lifestyle because people who came before us spent resources in those areas we use today. That said, we are running a hideous deficit as is. Ideally, we would cut the huge amount of bloat that we feed off today in return for putting money into the future. Realistically, we can choose between raising the deficit or sacrificing the long term. Politics is a devil's bargain.

I hate breaking this to you. But most research done to help us. Was money spent by corporations on research.
 
"We need to do what America has always been known for: building, innovating, educating, making things," he said in last month's speech. "We don't want to be a nation that simply buys and consumers products from other countries. We want to create and sell products all over the world that are stamped with three simple words: 'Made In America.' That's our goal."

He's right. What he doesn't get is that Corporate America is the only engine that's going to make that happen. Do it with regulation/de-regulation/concession/the tax code -- not with taxpayer money. Oh, hell.
 
Infrastructure, research and education are investments. We are able to sustain our current lifestyle because people who came before us spent resources in those areas we use today. That said, we are running a hideous deficit as is. Ideally, we would cut the huge amount of bloat that we feed off today in return for putting money into the future. Realistically, we can choose between raising the deficit or sacrificing the long term. Politics is a devil's bargain.
And I forgot to add. It was mainly due to the government giving tax breaks for research done in certain areas. Now if the government did less but more while having less. It would be a great government. But as of the moment, the government is too big and too entrenched in everything. For almost every single issue or statement people look at the President for the answer. Its like he or she is some sort of messiah; for a bunch of people going through a hard time. He is not going to fix your near emtpy bank account or anything like that. But don't let the truth get you down. Politicians love it when people come to them for answers....
 
Won't any of this spending he want's have to get passed by the House?
 
I hate breaking this to you. But most research done to help us. Was money spent by corporations on research.

I think it is more complicated than you say. Wikipedia matches my understanding when it states,

“… [W]ith some exceptions (e.g. biotechnology) government provides the bulk of the funds for basic scientific research. In commercial research and development, all but the most research-oriented corporations focus more heavily on near-term commercialisation possibilities rather than "blue-sky" ideas or technologies (such as nuclear fusion).” — Wikipedia, Funding of science

Basic research is an essential first step in the process of extending our understanding and creating the opportunities that corporations can then develop into new products and services.

But, to the thread topic in general, the American witticism, “The President proposes, Congress disposes” applies and was acknowledged by the President when he reminded us:

“… [T]here should not be any inherent ideological differences that prevent Democrats and Republicans from making our economy more competitive with the rest of the world. If we’re willing to put aside short-term politics, if our objective is not simply winning elections but winning the future … then we should be able to get our act together here, because we are all Americans and we are in this race together.” — President Barack Obama, Remarks by the President on the Economy, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, December 06, 2010
 
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I hate breaking this to you. But most research done to help us. Was money spent by corporations on research.

Wrong. Basic research is primarily done by governments. The high risk and long delay before potential profit makes private companies generally unwilling to risk the money. Corporations primarily take government basic funded research and develop it into usable products. The internet is a prime example. DARPA developed the initial technology needed for the basic system which was then used to create the series of private websites that define the internet today. Very few private investors would have continued to fund a project that took 20 years to produce results.
 
Are people really that unaware that our basic infrastructure is ancient and decaying, and that there isn't some friendly private entity that is going to replace your main water lines so you can continue to take showers in the morning?
 
America must choose between Obamacare and other entitlements or infrastructure. America can't afford both. It must choose one or the other.
 
America must choose between Obamacare and other entitlements or infrastructure. America can't afford both. It must choose one or the other.

I thought America was the richest country in the world? Why can't we afford what others can who make less money than we do?
 
I thought America was the richest country in the world? Why can't we afford what others can who make less money than we do?

America is several different countries with increasingly less in common. There is no longer an American community in which we share some modicum of identity and consciousness.

So screw it. Why should one nation in this country help another nation here that is hostile to it?
 
America is several different countries with increasingly less in common. There is no longer an American community in which we share some modicum of identity and consciousness.

So screw it. Why should one nation in this country help another nation here that is hostile to it?

We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.
 
We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.

He who would be my brother shall be embraced and nothing shall be denied him.

He who is hostile to me shall receive nothing but strife.

If someone wants new infrastructure, it makes sense to be my brother and to drop all hostility to me and mine.
 
We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.

If we are so much wealthier... why are we in such deep debt?
 
He who would be my brother shall be embraced and nothing shall be denied him.

He who is hostile to me shall receive nothing but strife.

If someone wants new infrastructure, it makes sense to be my brother and to drop all hostility to me and mine.

WTF? :screwy
 
If we are so much wealthier... why are we in such deep debt?

Are you denying that the U.S. is significantly wealthier than all European countries with socialized health care?
 
Are you denying that the U.S. is significantly wealthier than all European countries with socialized health care?

Also far bigger so the cost will be huge. So we can have health care like England that they can no longer afford?
 
If we are so much wealthier... why are we in such deep debt?

Because it costs the U.S. so much more to put in the same amount of infrastructure as it does in many other countries... China spends a fraction what the U.S. does on a highway, largely due to labor costs. Even Taiwan, which has higher labor costs than China, has lower costs than the U.S., and thus, we are able to afford the beautiful expressway system that has been built up here largely in the last 15 years...
 
Good thing the GOP controls the house.
 
Are people really that unaware that our basic infrastructure is ancient and decaying, and that there isn't some friendly private entity that is going to replace your main water lines so you can continue to take showers in the morning?

Maybe if the big government would get out of the way of the states, they could take of those things themselves. Instead, the states send them money and they decide who gets it and how much and for what.
 
Corporations primarily take government basic funded research and develop it into usable products

Let me think – electrical generation? – no; Electric light? – no; Teflon? No; Nylon? - no; Kevlar? – no; TV? - no; Radio? – no;

Waste and fraud? YES!! YES!!! The government spends billions on researching frogs, bugs of all kinds, HIV in drunken prostitutes in Brazil, etc. The only things that I can think of that turned into useful products are things developed for war and they were done by private companies using government money.

Research grants to universities are gifts to the universities for pumping liberalism into the students.

Are people really that unaware that our basic infrastructure is ancient and decaying,

Are you unaware that the American people were told by our illegitimate president that the stimulus bill was targeted at immediate repair and renewal of our bridges and roads? You must know that Berry sold his giant spending plan based on shovel ready infrastructure jobs that would put people to work immediately? But instead of spending on the bridges that he so worried about now he gave the money to State and local union workers.

He saved a lot of union jobs for the short term but because he lied and diverted the money the State and local government didn’t get the added income that the infrastructure jobs would have brought them. Now the money in the pockets of unions who refuse to work when they hear about staffing cuts and people die in the snow.

BHO is the worst president of all times and that is saying a lot after the years of suffering under FDR and Carter.
 
We are talking about what America can afford. I find it interesting that people say the U.S. can't afford programs like Obamacare or universal health care when the U.S. is the wealthier than any other nation that has those programs.

It all boils down to the role of the Federal Govt especially in the role of personal responsibility which of course healthcare is. Since I determine what I eat, what I drink, how I exercise I determine my health not the Federal Govt, thus I am responsible for my own healthcare insurance.

As for infrastructure wasn't that the purpose of the stimulus program, to provide for "shovel ready" jobs on infrastructure? Obama hasn't seen a dollar that the Federal Govt. shouldn't spend. His vision of the govt. is the exact opposite of our Founders.
 
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