What Obama’s budget means for kids
Yesterday President Obama gave a speech on how the government should raise and spend money in the years to come. Overall, his plan is much better for children and families than the extreme, painful cuts to social services that House Budget Chair Paul Ryan demands (read what we said about the Ryan budget here). But child advocates are still concerned by parts of Obama’s proposal.
President Obama deserves a lot of credit for making taxes a part of the discussion. We cannot simply cut our way to a balanced budget, especially if it’s only cuts to services for children. Obama wouldn’t do budget cuts without taking away some tax cuts, like those for the very rich. But we’re still concerned that Obama’s budget is funded in large part from family programs that most Americans like and our most vulnerable depend upon. Learn more about this, Obama’s “trigger” idea and more in our news release.
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April 16, 2011 at 3:44 pm by comlanvi avoungnassouI find your articles very helpful and eye opening.
September 14, 2012 at 9:54 pm by AdeAri:I am a colleague and fiernd of Mike Maday in CO Springs, CO, whom you mentioned in your book. Some insights that appear to be going unnoticed in CO and especially the bellwether county El Paso County, CO where even though Republicans own a 2-to-1 registered voter base but where El Paso also holds the 2nd highest number of Democrats in the state of CO. 2010 Midterm saw that Bennet won the unaffiliated (independents) in the county 51% to 25% going to the collection of 3rd Party candidates (4 being rightwingers, 2-o-1 in that pool) and Buck receiving 23% of that vote. Furthermore a State Senator, Dem majority leader Morse won re-election with a similar fashion in the county, (actually Morse carried 55% of the unaffiliated’s in his district) and won by 1.1%. Dem’s indeed turned out at a 82% rate in the early vote stage that included the mail votes. Election day voting was way down at 32% of all remaining voters, where Dem’s lost a few percentage points discounting the theory of a late surge. What this is telling me is that independents in CO and El Paso County rejected the Tea Party candidacies 7.5-to-2.5 in a state where there are supposedly more Tea Party affiliated voters. Furthermore the Maes-Tancredo vote has demonstrated a real fragmenting of the Republican brand and party where it appears only 190,000 Republicans are real party loyalists, (same number that McGinnis got in the Rep primary). This represents about 11% of the entire electorate that voted and about 25% or less of the entire registered Republican base in the state. What this means is foretelling going forward. In the end Donkeys remain herded, but the Elephants are splitting up.
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