Members of the United Auto Workers (UAW), former allies in the administration’s bailout of the auto industry giant General Motors and Chrysler, is claiming the president’s proposed budget is an “attack on the middle class.” The president also took a shot from Newark’s mayor.
President Barack Hussein Obama’s 2012 budget drew the ire of UAW and was soundly defeated by a 99-0 vote in the U.S. Senate, according to The Daily Caller in a published story on May 17.
“Early this year, White House officials drafted a bare-bones budget request, but neither they nor their allied Democratic senators have developed a complete budget package for debate in the Senate since 2009,” The Daily Caller reported.
Why were members of the UAW leadership so irate? “‘These proposals (the administration’s) are another attack on the middle class and our most vulnerable citizens,’” said the letter from the D.C. office of the UAW.
“‘They would force the middle class Americans to make more sacrifices while giving larger tax breaks to corporations and wealthy individuals...any serious proposal to reduce the federal budget deficit must include increased revenue from wealthy individuals and corporations,’” the letter stated.
Not to be outdone, one of the Democratic mayors got on the administration’s case. “To me, it’s just we’re getting to a ridiculous point in America, especially that I know I live in a state where pension funds, unions and other people are investing in companies like Bain Capital. If you look at the totality of Bain Capital’s record, they’ve done a lot to support businesses, to grow businesses,” said Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, N.J. on “Meet the Press." He was equating President Obama’s attacks on Bain with Republican attacks on Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, calling both “nauseating.”
He struck a high-minded tone on “Meet the Press” denouncing and equating the campaign tactics that would vilify either Mitt Romney’s former employer or President Obama’s former pastor.
While talking heads stick their collective feet in the their mouths, the nation is suffering from a lack of leadership. And, with all of the political rantings our nation’s indebtedness is approaching $16 trillion.
—Keith Hansen
Comments (8)
Add commentWho is going to pay for it all?
Some readers will be unhappy with this opinion.
Instead of defending the lack of a Senate budget and
The President's budget so out of touch, they will attack
this writer and the column.
People must think it is ok to borrow and have their children
and grandchildren and their children pay for our spending.
Keith O'Hannity Hansen
Is at it again.
There Sadie, didn't want you to be disappointed.
Attn: Copy editor
Re: one of the Democratic mayor’s got...
Not a possessive tense. s/b mayor
But you could add something here: “Meet the Press. (ie: ")
Both in paragraph 6.
pdnet was right. You need to invest in spell check.
hey lefties, give me one good reason for...
hey lefties, give me one good reason for the senate not having a budget and the president not getting any votes towards his budget.
Its pretty obvious our fearless leader called the president is completely out of reality when he cant even get a single left senator to vote for his budget.
idwd:
dysfunction?
Throw them all out and start over. Too many legislators use the office for personal promotion and financial gain. If we stacked up the books they write while in office and when, if ever, they leave, we would have a huge tower of tripe.
studies show:
Congress speaks at the hs sophomore level.
This is replicated by some reporters who write at that level.
BTW Keith..."Mayor Corey Booker" from your column...his name is spelled Cory.
hahaha . . . another person
hahaha . . . another person who uses the Islamophobia card by resorting to the "Hussein" tactic. I guess it could be worse - it could be "Mitt" or"Newt".
Not so Smartguy
Islamophobia? You make it sound like a bad thing. Rather, its a defensive thing if you value the "American way".
Islam is a way of life that most of us would find intolerable.
Islamophobia? We all better have a big dose of it.
If the American way is to
If the American way is to discriminate against an entire religion because of the acts of a small percentage of adherents, then I guess I am as Un-American as they come.