Now That The Stimulus Is Law, Obama Turns To His Real Domestic Agenda: More Spending
Yippee.
WASHINGTON – After focusing his first month on the economic mess he inherited, President Barack Obama now starts rolling out his own far-reaching agenda with a summit on fiscal policy, his first speech to Congress and the unveiling of his budget for 2010.
This coming week will mark a turning point from what Obama felt compelled to do, to what he wants to do. It also may test how much spending, change and ambition the American people and their elected officials can stomach in a short time. . . .
“If you are going to the country with hundreds of billions (of dollars) of fiscal stimulus, and hundreds of billions of financial-sector rescue, and now more for mortgages and more for the auto industry, it becomes very difficult for them to say, ‘And now for my real agenda: Health care expansion for hundreds of billions of dollars,” said Robert Bixby, executive director of the bipartisan fiscal watchdog group Concord Coalition.
Obama is hailed by his supporter as being someone who will usher in a new age of political leadership. And yet, looking at his policies, it’s all pretty much about spending.
What’s so new about the government balling up wads of money and throwing it at problems?
