Loading ...I wonder if Sen. Jeff Sessions watched President Obama’s press conference last night. If he did, he would understand, that the long-term projections based on this budget are skewed. The long-term projections are assuming that nothing else changes in the next ten years. That we enact this budget and then just sit around and do nothing. That is not the plan. President Obama knows we have to address long-term entitlement spending. The biggest feeder to a growing national debt down the road is Medicare and Social Security. Everyone knows those need to be reformed, but there was no way to tackle everything in one budget.
First, they go after the President for not eliminating earmarks from a budget for the year that began before he became President. Then, they’re after him for proposing too much spending in next year’s budget. Now, it’s that he’s not doing enough to reduce the long term national debt. Which is it people? Do you want him to do more or less?
The only way we’re going to reduce the national debt in the long term is to address healthcare costs and entitlements. The President is beginning with healthcare. Do you really want him to try to tackle social security too? One step at a time people! Projecting this budget out for ten years isn’t fair and it isn’t right. The President is absolutely right, if we don’t invest now in reducing healthcare costs, moving the country to a clean energy economy and investing in education the long term outlook will be WORSE.
I know Senator Sessions has a hard time wrapping his brain around difficult concepts, but this is not about “limited government”, this is about “smarter government”.
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