Interesting Op-Ed piece from the New York Times.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/opinion/cohen-saving-private-romney.html?_r=1

Maybe, this will get President Obama to flush out his plans for the debt a little more. I am not sure what exactly President Obama has in the way of a budget. From my research, though, it is Congresses' job to implement the Federal Budget, the President just give the skeleton of an idea, Congress puts on the nerves, sinew, cartilage, nails, fat, organs like the heart & brain, etc.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process

http://www.researchamerica.org/current_budget_situation

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/opinion/cohen-saving-private-romney.html?_r=1

Maybe, this will get President Obama to flush out his plans for the debt a little more. I am not sure what exactly President Obama has in the way of a budget. From my research, though, it is Congresses' job to implement the Federal Budget, the President just give the skeleton of an idea, Congress puts on the nerves, sinew, cartilage, nails, fat, organs like the heart & brain, etc.


United States budget process - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_budget_process)

Current Budget Situation - Research!America (http://www.researchamerica.org/current_budget_situation)

Which I might add the congress DID, but the senate refused to even discuss it. I might add also that Obama's own budget was voted on and was unaminously defeated in both houses of congress, so not sure why you mention congress' responsiblity. One house met it and the other did not...yet we always criticize the one that did !!!

And would it not be wonderful if the President came clean...he MUST cut, but he will not talk about it...just blame the other guy.

There are surely details as to WHY, of course and that would be an interesting discussion to have...but facts are....the president's budget was shot down, the senate did nothing and the house made a budget and it never got to the floor of the senate, joining so many other bills like the one to stop the stealing of taxpayer money by illegal immigrant !

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From Taltarzac725's link to the NY Times...and what I think is the crux of this thing...

" The Romney gamble is huge because the line of Democrat attack against him and Ryan is so clear: They are the heartless would-be destroyers of Medicare, the health insurance program for retirees (who abound in battleground state Florida), and Medicaid; and they are the architects of a massive redistribution of income from bottom to top at a time when the top, unlike the middle and bottom, is doing just fine. They would offer the Bain blandishments to billionaires but bulldoze America’s social compact. (Contrary to a widespread European view, it exists).

The shape of the Republican counter-attack is equally apparent: Obama, with a little bit of studious this and a touch of worthy that, has no serious plan to stop Americans living on borrowed money. The economy is stalled, unemployment high. The country, to quote Clint Eastwood’s endorsement of Romney, “needs a boost.”

Behind this battleground a mountain stands. It is composed of debt. I applaud the Ryan pick because it places front and center what the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, has called the greatest long-term threat to America’s national security: its debt.

A country in ever greater hock to the Chinese, unable to invest in its schools, vulnerable to creditors pulling the plug, will not resist decline in the 21st century.

This election is about American revival, stupid.

The Obama campaign seems to be so much about personal and so much less about what has to be done !