The man doesn’t have a clue – from the Wall Street Journal:
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.
Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce its budget deficit, must make targeted investments to foster job growth and boost U.S. competitiveness in the world economy. The new spending could include initiatives aimed at building the renewable-energy sector—which received billions of dollars in stimulus funding—and rebuilding roads to improve transportation, people familiar with the matter said. Money to restructure the No Child Left Behind law’s testing mandates and institute more competitive grants also could be included…
We’re bankrupt and Obama is going to call for more green energy boondoggles and “shovel ready” projects! Goodness, haven’t we spent enough on this, already? Shouldn’t all the billions from 2009 and 2010 already be getting us ahead of the game on fixing pot holes and building windmills.
Ok, Mr. President, if you want this fight, you’ll get it. There is no money left – its all gone; we’re broke. Other than the vital needs of law enforcement, national defense and keeping body and soul together, everything has to be cut…even if you could say that Project X is a good thing, it will just have to wait until the budget is balanced and debt id being paid down.
This is called “setting priorities” and it is what leaders do…pity we don’t have one in the White House.
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