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Obama’s No Budget, No Plan Budget Plan
by Alex Knepper

President Obama has completely lost contact with reality:

Obama said the “vision” portrayed by the Ryan budget “is of an America where everybody is fending for themselves, a few are doing very well at the top, and everybody else is struggling to get by.”

Obama added that under the Republican budget, “the government is shrunk to the point where things that we take for granted as a society — as an advanced, responsible society — are gutted: education, science and research, early childhood education, caring for our environment, looking after our veterans, keeping up with our infrastructure, rebuilding our roads and our bridges so that they’re safe, food safety laws, our capacity to enforce basic consumer protections. All of this is shrunk to the point of near invisibility.”

The Ryan budget, in fact, merely shrinks the rate of growth of the federal government. It does not actually cut the leviathan down to size. It should, but it doesn’t.

Paul Ryan’s budget is a base-level acknowledgement that we should at least admit that we haven’t been living within our means: his proposal moves the ball down the field, but it’s hardly the end-game for proponents of limited government. The year-to-year Obama budget deficits are much larger, even, than the year-to-year deficit-reduction numbers that Ryan proposes.

Every time a Republican attempts to do anything that might take a sliver of power from the government, progressives accuse them of wanting to abolish “roads, schools, bridges,” and that elusive creature known as “infrastructure.” From listening to the left, an outsider might believe that these were the only components of the entire federal domestic budget.

But if these are such overwhelming priorities, then where’s the Obama plan to improve our bridges? It’s nowhere to be found, because he doesn’t actually care about bridges: he’d rather use the his time and energy pushing useless plans meant only to stir up envy toward rich people.

What of education? The metrics of educational progress that progressives use consist of two primary factors: the amount of money being spent by the federal government on our failing school system — and the number of smiles elicited from teachers’ union bosses. Using these guideposts, progressives have already shrunk the quality of education to the point of invisibility. We have some of the stupidest high-schoolers in the modern world, teachers’ unions have crushed most attempts at reform, and hundreds of billions have been sent down the drain under the laughable idea that throwing money at an institution will make it better. The only way to improve education is through competition. But no — to Obama, this is “social Darwinism.” Someone might end up on top. We might as well let the government end up on top, in advance.

All this outrage, over a budget that merely shrinks the rate of growth of the federal government. There is a truly vexing question at the heart of this, though: Is it worse if the president is knowingly lying through his teeth to his audience — or if he actually believes his own words?

Source: LibertyNews

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