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Obama's proposal is centrist.

The Republicans will propose something far more drastically right-wing like the conservatives in England.

Obama will find the common ground where he always finds it: halfway between his right-up-the-middle-as-usual plan and the drastic right-wing plan.

The middle class to working poor have been living high on the hog in recent years and need to sacrifice for all of us and Obama's plan addresses that specific problem.

What a sick fucking joke both of these parties are on this one. They should be ashamed of themselves. This does nothing to address the things that are very serious. $78 billion in cuts to defense is a nice start, but it's a drop in the bucket.

And yet Republicans are out there today saying the 12% cuts in foreign aid to pro-democracy groups in Egypt should not be made, go fucking figure, since the Republicans will oppose Obama on everything no matter what. Egyptians are going to sort out their democracy themselves now, and living on just over $100 million from US taxpayers to pro-dem groups instead of just over $110 is part of the sacrifice, hypocritical Republicans.

Newt just gave the most retarded speech I've heard him give blasting the tax-and-spend President, but then today he rails about cuts that Obama is making in money being sent to groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, who the Republicans just know in their gut is evil.

What a fucking farce.

Obama's plan cuts $1.1 trillion, an average of $110 billion per year, while the budget Republicans are proposing to finish off this year will see a savings of only $67 billion.

To the complainers and the fuzzy mathers here, this President put the wars on the books, and that's why his numbers are so off the wall, coupled with about $900 billion in tax spending that Republicans agreed to 7 weeks ago. Obama's deficits sure are high, but they're YOUR wars, conservative friends. Your poorly-planned, never-ending wars of a decade while Egypt fell over for free because they emulate our way of life. So much easier to emulate the American way of life when America isn't bombing your country to bits.

Now it comes time to cut stuff and no one is going after our military industrial complex as well as all the corporate welfare being doled out to entities that don't need it. $46 billion from oil and gas Mr. President? We can do better than that. What about subsidy cuts across the board?

Instead, Obama's plan pretty much raids a little bit of everything while investing some job creation measures, while the Republican proposal doesn't even mention defense spending and just goes after the most popular public programs out there.

If Obama isn't able to actually run on something he's willing to grow a spine over, he's toast, because there is a centrist proposal out there now from him, and a purely right-wing proposal, and no real progressive proposal that would surely go after defense and corporate welfare because yes, the wealth of America for 31 years now keeps moving wholesale from the bottom to the top and not the other away around, ever.

That is problematic if you want to maintain a civilized society and to dominate as a world power.