{"id":362,"date":"2013-04-10T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/10\/budget-angers-both-sides"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:28:00","slug":"budget-angers-both-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Budget angers both sides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s the way I look at President Obama\u2019s proposed 2014 federal budget.<\/p>\n<p>If both sides are angry with him, he must have done something right.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/292851-obama-to-unveil-1058t-budget\" href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/292851-obama-to-unveil-1058t-budget\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/292851-obama-to-unveil-1058t-budget<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obama released his budget today to groans from conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. He wants the rich to pay more in taxes because, the president said, he doesn\u2019t want to reignite the economy \u201con the backs of the middle class.\u201d That notion has angered Republicans who think the rich pay enough in taxes already. Obama also wants to overhaul Medicare and Social Security by reducing the rate of growth in both those programs. That proposal has drawn the wrath of liberal Democrats who consider those programs to be immune to any change.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed budget projects a deficit of \u201conly\u201d $744 billion. Think about that for a minute. When did a budget deficit of <em>less than a trillion dollars<\/em> seem like an improvement? But it is, given the size of the deficit over the past half-dozen years or so.<\/p>\n<p>I haven\u2019t yet heard any remarks from lawmakers such as, \u201cThe president\u2019s budget is \u2018dead on arrival\u2019 on Capitol Hill.\u201d At least not yet. Presidential budgets never emerge on the other side in the form they are presented. Congress has the right, indeed the obligation, to tinker and mess with them. This Congress no doubt will do that with Obama\u2019s proposed budget.<\/p>\n<p>But legislating involves making some people angry. President Obama has done that with his budget proposal. He\u2019s ticked \u2018em off on both ends of the political see-saw. <\/p>\n<p>In my view, that\u2019s a positive sign. Barack Obama is learning how to compromise.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the way I look at President Obama\u2019s proposed 2014 federal budget. If both sides are angry with him, he must have done something right. http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/on-the-money\/budget\/292851-obama-to-unveil-1058t-budget Obama released his budget today to groans from conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats. He wants the rich to pay more in taxes because, the president said, he doesn\u2019t want &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Budget angers both sides<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}