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Ron Paul Issues Statement on Latest Obama Budget...

Submitted by MonsieurObscure on Tue, 02/14/2012 - 18:00

Ron Paul 2012

RON PAUL ISSUES STATEMENT ON LATEST OBAMA BUDGET
“THE DEBT SHOULD BE PRIORITY NUMBER ONE, FOR EVERYBODY. IT IS FOR ME”

LAKE JACKSON, Texas – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul released the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s newly released budget for fiscal year 2013.

“For the fourth year in a row our federal budget deficit will exceed $1 trillion, and President Obama is offering us a budget plan that will continue digging us deeper into this debt hole. This budget contains a massive tax increase, and President Obama’s policies of more debt and taxes will make the jobs crisis facing the nation much worse than the employment crisis we are facing.

“This latest $1 trillion deficit plan is a far cry from the promises President Obama made upon taking office, when he promised he would ‘cut the federal deficit in half’ by the end of his first term. In reality, the President has only increased the deficit he inherited by billions every year he’s been in office.

“Another promise to add to the long list of those not kept.

“I have been fighting the fight against high taxes, bloated budgets, unsustainable deficits, and ever-growing federal government my entire career. And now it seems more people are listening, but the elites in Washington like those in the Obama administration are, if anything, only paying lip-service to the idea of getting this very real crisis under control.

“The debt should be priority number one, for everybody. It is for me. But it doesn’t seem to be for the people in charge.

“Americans should be outraged that I am the only presidential candidate who is taking the debt seriously and offering real solutions to our fiscal mess. My ‘Plan to Restore America’ cuts $1 trillion in spending immediately and gets our economy on the way to much needed reform. But my proposal is rarely reported on by the elite media, and rarely even mentioned by my opponents or those who claim to be concerned about the financial health of our nation...