Right on cue, the right-wing media are echoing their political allies on the presidential campaign trail and in Congress — slamming the President’s new budget with the same predictable and dishonest attacks we’ve heard before.
GOP STATE OF ALTERNATE REALITY:"Obama’s budget doesn’t solve our deficit — and it doesn’t cut spending enough." REALITY:
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GOP STATE OF ALTERNATE REALITY:"Obama’s budget unfairly raises taxes." REALITY:
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GOP STATE OF ALTERNATE REALITY:"Obama’s budget is more of the same failed stimulus policies." REALITY:
If Republicans really believed their own attacks, why did they keep taking stimulus money for their states and districts the last time? |
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- At the end of the Clinton Administration, we were expecting a $6 trillion budget surplus — but Bush Republicans who thought "deficits don’t matter" squandered the surplus and doubled the national debt by 2009. That’s what President Obama inherited.
- Here’s where we are today: in just the last two years our economy has added almost 4 million jobs — despite Republican attempts to kill millions of jobs and sabotage our recovery.
- Half of Americans believe that Republicans are intentionally stalling efforts to jumpstart the economy. Even Republican politicians admit they’re sabotaging the economic recovery just to defeat Obama.
- Three-fourths of Americans, including nearly 70% of Republicans, support the Buffett Rule.
- America does better when the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share.
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