"Republicans attack Obama's 2013 Budget Proposal" -- what's their alternative?

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"Republicans attack Obama's 2013 Budget Proposal" is the title on the Yahoo News main page, but the article it links to is "Obama sends FY2013 budget proposals to Congress." I'm not seeing what their "attack" is about.

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Associated Press – 20 mins ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion spending plan on Monday for 2013 that seeks to achieve $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade but does little to restrain growth in the government's huge health benefit programs, a major cause of future deficits.

The budget has plans for revenue increases, job growth, deficit reduction, etc. The "huge health benefit program" is largely Medicare, and even there cuts are proposed.

The Obama budget seeks $360 billion in savings in Medicare and Medicaid mainly through reduced payments to health care providers, avoiding tougher measures, advocated by House Republicans and the deficit commissions, which supporters said were critical to the cause of restraining health care costs. The projections in Obama's budget show that he is doing little to restrain the surge in these programs expected in coming years with the retirement of baby boomers. Obama's budget projects that Medicare spending will double over the coming decade from $478 billion this year to almost $1 trillion in 2022.

Medicaid, the government health care program for the poor and disabled, would more than double from $255 billion this year to $589 billion by 2022.

http://news.yahoo.com/obama-sends-fy2013-budget-proposals-congress-145523152.html

What, exactly, is the alternative proposed in the GOP "attacks?"

What would they do to "restrain the surge" from baby boomers' retirement? What's their idea to hold down help for the poor and disabled?

Death panels? Pulling the plug on grandma? Big Government deciding how to spend the money retiring taxpayers have already paid, throughout their lives -- and deciding it's better to put in rich people's pockets than into Social Security and Medicare as promised? Leaving the poor and disabled to suffer (just like Jesus would)?

I'd really like to hear what they suggest.

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1. Yahoo probably just jumped the gun slightly

Republicans attacking Obama's budget (or anything Obama does, says or thinks) is as predictable as the sunrise.

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5. They did muster this.

"It seems like the president has decided again to campaign instead of govern," Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in an interview. "He's just going to duck the responsibility to tackle this country's fiscal problems."

Which is so ironic it's absurd.

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8. Republican 101: Projection

Republicans can't govern, they are in permanent campaign mode.

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11. This guy doesn't seem to understand his job at all

The President doesn't tackle the country's fiscal problems, the House of Representatives does.. The President just signs what the Congress passes into Law or not...

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2. So they want us to accept that elist-snob, Paul Ryan's budget? The one where

the top 1% would get another $210,000 tax cut and everybody else would see Medicare go away?

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6. Yes. Because their allegiance is to Grover Norquist. not to the American people.

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3. If the President put forth a budget that eliminated all social programs and entitlements

The GOP would still have bitched about it, even though that is what they want.

This demonstrates that no matter what, they would attack it.

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9. "The president is doing nothing to cut social programs and entitlements."

I'm sure that'd be their response.

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4. Why is MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Associated Press unable to ask those questions?

Stupidity? Lazyness? Because of a directive from his manager?

AP lost all credibility when Bush Supporter/Apologist Ron Fournier took over as political editor and started introducing right wing editorializing into news stories. He's with the National Journal now, but apparently his spirit still haunts the halls of AP>

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7. I didn't know that about Fournier.

The only one worse was Nedra Pickler. Is she still around?

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12. Nedra Pickler: That name gives me the shivers!

Fournier wrote that article back in 2008 claiming white people were lying to pollsters when they said they were gonna vote for Obama. Per the article, they really weren't going to, but they said they were because they didn't want the pollsters to think they were racist.

He had some lame-ass study to back him up. But when you dug deeper into it, you saw there was not much study, but lots of Fournier spin.

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13. I vaguely remember his "creativity" during the Chimperor years.

But Pickler was totally over the top.

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10. Republican plan

lower taxes, along with lower wages

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14. Bad enough, but what's their plan for restraining growth of Medicare

as the boomers retire, and more poor and disabled people are added?