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发帖数: 6411 | 1 Obama presses GOP to avoid automatic spending cuts, warns that 'people will
lose their jobs'
By Julie Pace and Jim Kuhnhenn, AP White House Correspondent | Associated
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by emergency responders, a group of
workers the White House says could be affected if state and local
governments lose federal money as a result of budget cuts, gestures as he
speaks in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office
building on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. (
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Staking out his ground ahead of a fiscal deadline,
President Barack Obama lashed out against Republicans, saying they are
unwilling to raise taxes to reduce deficits and warning that the jobs of
essential government workers, from teachers to emergency responders, are on
the line.
Obama spoke as a March 1 deadline for automatic across-the-board spending
cuts approached and with Republicans and Democrats in an apparent stalemate
over how to avoid them.
Obama cautioned that if the $85 billion in immediate cuts — known as the
sequester — occur, the full range of government would feel the effects,
from furloughed FBI agents to reductions in spending for communities to pay
police and fire personnel and teachers.
He said the consequences would be felt across the economy.
"People will lose their jobs," he said. "The unemployment rate might tick up
again."
"So far at least, the ideas that the Republicans have proposed ask nothing
of the wealthiest Americans or the biggest corporations," Obama said. "So
the burden is all on the first responders, or seniors or middle class
families."
House Republicans have proposed an alternative to the immediate cuts,
targeting some spending and extending some of the reductions over a longer
period of time. They also have said they are willing to undertake changes in
the tax code and eliminate loopholes and tax subsidies. But they have said
they would overhaul the tax system to reduce rates, not to raise revenue.
Obama's remarks came a day after he returned to Washington from a three-day
golfing weekend in Florida.
Congress is not in session this week, meaning no votes will occur before
next week and complicating the ability to negotiate any short-term
resolution.
Obama wants to offset the sequester through a combination of targeted
spending cuts and increased tax revenue. The White House is backing a
proposal unveiled last week by Senate Democrats that is in line with the
president's principles.
But that plan was met with an icy reception by Republicans, who oppose
raising taxes to offset the cuts. GOP leaders say the president got the tax
increases he wanted at the beginning of the year when Congress agreed to
raise taxes on family income above $450,000 a year.
The White House said Obama on Tuesday would call on congressional
Republicans to compromise and accept the Senate Democrats' proposal.
The Democrats propose to generate revenue by plugging some tax loopholes.
Those include tax breaks for the oil and natural gas industry and businesses
that have sent jobs overseas, and by taxing millionaires at a rate of at
least 30 percent.
A spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner said the Ohio Republican agrees
the sequester is a bad way to reduce spending, but put the onus for averting
the cuts on Democrats.
"A solution now requires the Senate — controlled by the president's party
— to finally pass a plan of their own," spokesman Brendan Buck said.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan proposal Tuesday by co-chairs of an influential
deficit-reduction commission called for reducing the deficit by $2.4
trillion over the next 10 years, with much of the savings coming through
health care reform, closing tax loopholes, a stingier adjustment of Social
Security's cost of living increases and other measures.
Some Republicans, including House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis
., have advocated plugging loopholes, but as part of a discussion on a tax
overhaul, not sequestration.
"Loopholes are necessary for tax reform," Ryan said Sunday on ABC's "This
Week." ''If you take them for spending, you're blocking tax reform and you'
re really not getting the deficit under control."
The sequester was first set to begin taking effect on Jan. 1. But as part of
the "fiscal cliff" negotiations, the White House and lawmakers agreed to
push it off for two months in order to create space to work on a larger
budget deal.
With little progress on that front in recent weeks, Obama is calling for the
sequester to be put off again, though it's unclear whether another delay
would have any impact on the prospects for a broader budget agreement. | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 2 这个大傻逼,这个automatic cut还是他当初自己决定的. | G*******1
发帖数: 6411 | 3 现在Obama对GOP是先奸后杀、再奸再杀。民主党这套...无语了
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: 这个大傻逼,这个automatic cut还是他当初自己决定的.
| l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 "I will veto any effort to get rid of the automatic spending cuts... No easy
off-ramps on this one. We need to keep the pressure up to compromise. Not
turn off the pressure. Only way the spending cuts will not take place is if
congress gets back to work and agrees on a balanced plan to reduce the
deficit by at least $1.2 trillion. That is what they need to do. That’s the
job they promise to do"
- Barack Obama, November 21, 2011 |
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