Obama Attacks GOP Budget Proposal, Mitt Romney
Slap~!
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama launched a major assault Tuesday on the House-passed Republican budget proposal embraced by front-running GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, calling it “social Darwinism” that would stifle the American dream.
In a speech to a media luncheon, Obama described the measure — prepared by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, and passed by the House — as a “Trojan Horse” that is disguised as a deficit reduction plan but actually imposes a “radical vision.”
“It is thinly-veiled Social Darwinism,” Obama said. “It is antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everyone who’s willing to work for it — a place where prosperity doesn’t trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class.”
He added that “by gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that’s built to last — education and training; research and development; infrastructure — it’s a prescription for decline.”