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Quite frankly, President Obamas budget stinks because it is grossly dishonest and not reflective of the wants and needs of the American public.How many people realize that massive spending and significant budget increases since President Obama took office will be locked in by accepting the current budgetIt is dishonest and disingenuous to have raised government agencys budgets by up to 300 over the past few years larding the agency with employees, new mandates and significant oversight over expanded government grants and then agreeing to a ten percent cut to appease those in the public who do not know better.We need to significantly scale back the size of government, to cut government programs which do little or nothing for our economy or future wellbeing. We need to tell President Obama and his Administration that Obamacare was found to be unconstitutional and it might be illegal to continue on building government infrastructure under its mandate.The real purpose of this budget is to maintain political power by trading the taxpayers hardearned funds for programs which buy government support, support from the unions and support from the special interests.Let us consider what Obama wants the public to know and how he is offering them a chance to express their concerns even though the politicians will do as they have traditionally done, listen to those with the campaign funds, media and voter support the general public you and me be damned.strongemAnother email blast from the Obamacons emstrongtable stylewidth 630px border1 cellspacing0 cellpadding1tbodytrtd width630 valigntopimg srchttpwww.barackobama.comimagesOFAwordmarkemailNewEmailHeaderv1.jpg border0 altOrganizing for America width330 height44 Friend This week, the President sent his budget to Congress.Its a plan to rebuild our economy and win the future a plan that will prepare our country and our children for the jobs and industries of tomorrow.Its a proposal to live within our means so we can invest in our future.But the budget can be complex, confusing, and easy to distort in a partisan environment.President Obama will rely on our help the ontheground organizing we know works to make the case alongside him.Thats why we want your input.strongTake a minute to learn about the Presidents top budget priorities, and then let us know which is the most important to you.strongYour feedback will help guide the work we do and the strategies we employ in the coming months, as the fights in Washington over the budget come to a head.The Presidents vision is ambitious yet responsible. While making the tough decisions on some things we cant afford, the budget also makes targeted investments where we need them to create jobs and secure a brighter future for new generations.strongIt comes down to whether were able to live up to the vision the President laid out in five pillarsstrong strongInnovatestrong Invest heavily in research and development, more than double funding for energy efficiency advances, and put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015. strongEducatestrong Expand the Race to the Top program, encourage school funding reform by rewarding success and innovation, train 100,000 new math and science teachers, and make it more affordable for millions more students to pay for college. strongBuildstrong Create hundreds of thousands of jobs off the bat with investments in infrastructure, bring highspeed Internet access to 98 percent of Americans, and support the goal of supplying highspeed rail to 80 percent of Americans within 25 years. strongBe fiscally responsiblestrong Reduce the deficit by more than 1 trillion over the next 10 years, bring nonsecurity discretionary spending to the lowest levels since Eisenhower, and live up to the Presidents pledge to cut the deficit he inherited in half before the end of his first term. strongReform governmentstrong Embrace competitive grant models that encourage innovation and save taxpayer dollars, cut administrative overhead costs by billions, and establish a process to reorganize government to make it better serve the goal of a competitive America.Whether we can outinnovate, outeducate, and outbuild the rest of the world depends on the direction this country takes right now.And each of us is a critical messenger for this administration.When we talk to friends and family, when we knock on our neighbors doors, and when we discuss the news with coworkers, we communicate so much more than any talking head or political ad ever could.strongWell be the ones making the case in our communities. So weigh in on what part of the Presidents vision you want to see take priority ltlink removedgt strongThanks,MitchMitch StewartDirectorOrganizing for AmericatdtrtbodytableemstrongA little analysis and some common sense strongemblockquotestrongInnovatestrong Invest heavily in research and development, more than double funding for energy efficiency advances, and put 1 million electric vehicles on the road by 2015.blockquoteYes, let us continue the charade of global warming and invest in those technologies which are not sustainable or cost efficient without government subsidies or mandates to pass the costs onto the public in the form of higher energy prices. Consider how worthless those electric cars would have been in cold weather where battery energy output is directly proportional to the temperature of the battery. This is just another stimulus package for the researchers who produce fauxscience findings to promote Obamas progressive agenda. To the special interests, like the heavily unionized General Government Motors who needs subsidies to persuade people to buy their electric kiddycars.blockquotestrongEducatestrong Expand the Race to the Top program, encourage school funding reform by rewarding success and innovation, train 100,000 new math and science teachers, and make it more affordable for millions more students to pay for college.blockquoteBy all means let us continue funding the heavily unionized teachers who have brought our country to the lowest levels of academic achievement and who are failing to educate our children. Let us continue to support educational bastions of progressive thought where children are coerced into parroting an antiAmerica line at the risk of receiving poor grades. Learning multiculturalism, political correctness and political activism instead of reading, writing, arithmetic, history, civics and critical thinking.blockquotestrongBe fiscally responsiblestrong Reduce the deficit by more than 1 trillion over the next 10 years, bring nonsecurity discretionary spending to the lowest levels since Eisenhower, and live up to the Presidents pledge to cut the deficit he inherited in half before the end of his first term.blockquoteWe have seen the dishonest accounting and wildeyed assumptions made to make Obamacare look cheaper. Mostly by breaking out significant costs into other programs which have different titles. These are the guys that wildly inflated the budgets and now want to give us token cuts. Notice how they characterize the saving over the next ten years. A blatant and baldfaced lie. They do not know what will happen in ten years, let alone what might happen next year. So any projected savings are illusory and bogus.blockquotestrongBuildstrong Create hundreds of thousands of jobs off the bat with investments in infrastructure, bring highspeed Internet access to 98 percent of Americans, and support the goal of supplying highspeed rail to 80 percent of Americans within 25 years.blockquoteYes, I have heard that before stimulus II and all that was done was to preserve government jobs and fund projects that demanded union personnel. Why should the taxpayer subsidize highspeed Internet when the carriers milk every drop of profit from the system and reward themselves with bonuses of tens of millions of dollars. Let them invest their own money in a competitive buildout. Whoops, I forgot, the rates for some Internet access are controlled by governmental agencies.About those rail projects which go nowhere and serve nobody except consultants, politicallyconnected special interests and union labor I do not think that a rail line between Disneyland Anaheim, CA and Las Vegas Nevada will do much for California as people rush to gamble out of state. And about the NorthSouth line that visits nonstarter destination cities, whats that about Answer profits in land acquisition by the politically connected.blockquotestrongReform governmentstrong Embrace competitive grant models that encourage innovation and save taxpayer dollars, cut administrative overhead costs by billions, and establish a process to reorganize government to make it better serve the goal of a competitive America.blockquotePlease! Where are the billions to be recovered from government program waste, fraud, inefficiency that both the democrats and republicans have promised year after year decade after decade. Cut administrative costs, surely President Obama, you must be joking. Government is the only sector of the economy which is expanding without significant distress.strongemBottom line emstrongDishonesty in government will continue until We the People elect honest brokers to serve in our name. When we shun professional politicians, celebrities and activists who are pursuing their own agenda. When we force a reform of the democrat party to purge the progressives who have welcomed socialism and communism into the White House and the highest offices of government.Its time to tell President Obama to take that budget and his token cuts and shove it back to the progressive committee who thinks they can continue to fool Americans.Get involved. Demand the the GOP give us real and credible candidates. Not pale progressive imitations of Ronald Reagan who will promote only more of the same political crap we now see in the Obama Administration. Just another new ant on the top of the same old burgeoning dung hill that is government. steve