obama's weekly saturday address, this morning (what used to be called the president's radio address):
Barack Obama: GOP?s deficit plan ?wrong for America' - MJ Lee - POLITICO.com
his newest emphasis:
1. invest---education, student loans, green stuff and infrastructure
2. the m's
3. tax the rich
4. defense cuts
hollow---we'll comb the budget for savings
empty---we must put aside our differences
spurious---we'll build on the savings we started last week
his details concerning entitlement reform---we'll eliminate waste, we'll increase efficiency
upshot---we're right back where we were, except for the augmentation of partisanship and division
leadership, anyone?
WHERE'S THE PLAN?
1. invest---education, student loans, green stuff and infrastructure
then you believe the next generation should be ignorant, dependent on oil imports - such that it taints our middle east foreign policy, and the infrastructure which allows our economy to remain globally competitive should be allowed to decay
i so hope the GOP runs with that platform
2. the m's
as is often the case, this portion of your post was nonsensical
3. tax the rich
if the nation is without sufficient revenue to allow government to do what it needs, then we can either borrow the money or increase tax revenues. since the only category of citizen which has seen an increase in income since the dicknbush era was that of the wealthy, that would appear to be the best place to go for additional tax revenue
yes. i know the GOP proposes to slash the medical budget such that the elderly will be expected to pony up the dollars to offset the $Trillion dollar tax giveaway to millionaires and billionaires, but unfortunately for you, Obama has clued the country in on this unfair republican tradeoff. one huge reason the reich wing is so pissed about Obama's recent address to the nation
4. defense cuts
there are over 700 military installations worldwide (that we know about)
$685 Billion spent on the military last year
[This does not include many military-related items that are outside of the Defense Department budget, such as nuclear weapons research, maintenance, cleanup, and production, which is in the Department of Energy budget, Veterans Affairs, the Treasury Department's payments in pensions to military retirees and widows and their families, interest on debt incurred in past wars, or State Department financing of foreign arms sales and militarily-related development assistance. Neither does it include defense spending that is not military in nature, such as the Department of Homeland Security, counter-terrorism spending by the FBI, and intelligence-gathering spending by NASA.]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
it is believed that the USA, with 5% of the world's population, spends 40% of the the amount spent on arms in the world. our military expenditure is SIX times that of china
we have spent over a $Trillion in a war to oust a dictator we previously propped up. that does not count the 4,447 lives of American youth and in excess of 33,000 wounded. we incurred those losses for no good reason. iraq posed NO danger to the national security of the USA
so, all told, (and all totaled), there does appear to be significant waste which could be eliminated from our defense expenditures to assist our efforts to again balance our nation's budget
you posted it and then pretend not to see it
must be a republican shortsightedness thing