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In his 2013 State of the Union address, President Obama said that we
must invest in the true engine of America’s economic growth – a rising
and thriving middle class. He said that every day, we must ask ourselves these three questions:
"How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people
with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that
hard work leads to a decent living?"
This morning the President sent Congress his Budget for Fiscal Year
2014, which presents his plan to address each of these questions. He
also spoke to the press about his proposal
in the Rose Garden, and said that while our economy is poised for
progress, we need to get smarter about our priorities as a nation. And
that’s what his 2014 Budget represents -- a fiscally-responsible
blueprint for middle-class jobs and growth:
To make America a magnet for good jobs, this budget invests in new manufacturing hubs to help turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. We’ll spark new American innovation and industry with cutting-edge research like the initiative I announced to map the human brain and cure disease. We’ll continue our march towards energy independence and address the threat of climate change. And our Rebuild America Partnership will attract private investment to put construction workers back on the job rebuilding our roads, our bridges and our schools, in turn attracting even more new business to communities across the country.
To help workers earn the skills they need to fill those jobs, we’ll work with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. And we’re going to pay for it by raising taxes on tobacco products that harm our young people. It’s the right thing to do.
We’ll reform our high schools and job training programs to equip more Americans with the skills they need to compete in the 21st century economy. And we’ll help more middle-class families afford the rising cost of college.
To make sure hard work is rewarded, we’ll build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for anybody who is willing to work hard to climb them. So we’ll partner with 20 of our communities hit hardest by the recession to help them improve housing, and education, and business investment. And we should make the minimum wage a wage you can live on -- because no one who works full-time should have to raise his or her family in poverty.
President Obama's budget also replaces the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester with smarter ones, making long-term reforms, eliminating actual waste and programs that are no longer needed.
And finally, because he is willing to make tough choices and serious
about finding common ground to further reduce the deficit, President
Obama's budget incorporates his compromise offer he made to House Speaker Boehner that
achieves another $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction in a balanced way.
When combined with the deficit reduction already achieved, this will
exceed the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction, while growing the
economy and strengthening the middle class.
Watch President Obama discuss his 2014 Budget below or on YouTube:
Top Ten Obama Budget Facts 2014 picture list with video of speech. GOP leader John Boehner refused the budget before reading it because it closed tax loopholes on the wealthy proving that republicans want to balance the budget 100% on the backs of the 99% and not touch their wealthy bosses.
President Obama
Announces the Fiscal Year 2014 Budget