Cenk Uygur & Katrina Vanden Heuvel: Obama's 2011 Budget

Listen, our system in many ways is rigged through the power of establishment money, through the lobbyists that swamp D.C. every day. But, on the other hand, you can provide leadership that lays out a different narrative. Cenk, we`re having this debate about the budget, completely wrong frame, skewed priorities.

A budget is not just a set of numbers, it`s a moral document. It is also a reflection of a nation`s values and aspirations. And if we`re a nation that is going to balance a budget on the back of the working class and low income Americans to the benefit of the richest, to the multi- national companies with offshore jobs, then we are a nation different than what we`re seeing in the Middle East, but we are a nation in dire need of our pro-democracy movement to take back this country for the people who have built it, who have made it strong. Take it away from those who brought us the financial crisis which robbed trillions from people who have worked so hard over these last decades....it`s going to require people outside of Washington, working with allies inside. Cenk, you said it earlier, no one in D.C. cares? There are allies inside this Congress. And we can ally with them to say hey, enough. There is a disconnect between what is going on in Washington and what this country needs.

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• Cenk Uygur
• Katrina Vanden Heuvel
• President Obama
• Obama moves right

[Unklebillybob]

Just for S' & G's Let's take a look at mr obama's experience

What he learned in school, was:

1) How to read a tele-prompter

2) Dress Neatly

3) BULL-SHIT

Mr Oblama has no experience in; 1) Budgeting, 2) Finance, 3) Businesses - Large or Small, 4) State's Rights, 5) DOD, 6) National Guard, 7) Foreign Affairs, 8) Health Care, 9) Medicine/Medical, Field, 10) Military Matters, 11) Science & Technology, 12) Research & Development. In the real world, he is called a BIG-TIME-BULL-SHITTER

[logan0178]

@AlwaysRight213 I voted, and that's not why I voted, so you are filled with BS.

[AlwaysRight213]

"It was about a lousy economy and joblessness not a disire for big spending cuts that put them in in 2010."

This woman is"intensly" Stupid!

It was the precisely the out of control spending that lost the election for Democrats. Just ask anyone who voted. Or is that too much effort for a journalist to ask?