If you have not already seen this, I encourage you to to check out this video. President Obama has clearly thought the budget through well, as have his advisors. He dispels the notion that this budget is just more unnecessary spending on top of an already staggering national deficit. It is necessary temporary spending to help correct an extreme deficit (following an extreme surplus) caused by the last ten years of irresponsible spending by the federal government. Part of the president's point is that in order to repair a system that has overspent itself into serious debt, that same government will need to add to the national debt temporarily in order to implement repair measures before being able to bring down the overall debt. It is not possible to make repairs to a house in utter shambles and disrepair by spending no money at all for the needed repairs. This, as the president explains here, is the situation that was facing him and his administration when they "walked in the door" last year. So we as citizens of the United States need to exercise much more patience and understanding before we respond with irritation that the government is spending more money for necessary repairs in the short term in order to ensure the overall health of the country in the long term.
Link to the video:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/budgeting-a-new-era-responsibility
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