Obama cuts social programs

It sounds controversial, but the program has been cut previously. This is the program that reimburses states for the law enforcement costs associated with detaining immigrants. Basically, the president is proposing to make it more expensive for states to detain and deport illegal immigrants. A full list of savings, cuts and consolidations is available from the White House website.

Do they seem well-thought out or ill-advised? How likely do you think these are cuts to make it to the budget deadline on October 1st? Visualising Obama's Budget Cuts pic. Source: Government Spending Cuts. Thanks for your interest in purchasing a high-quality poster of this visualization. According to new reports, President Obama is once again offering cuts to popular social programs such as Medicare and Social Security as a bargaining chip in the ongoing sequester debate.

Such a move by the president is one that many progressives foresaw and warned against, saying that deficit fear-mongering would only pave the way for an inevitable "grand bargain. According to White House senior economic official Gene Sperling, Obama "reached out" to lawmakers from both parties on Saturday floating a proposition to cut spending in order to appease Republican demands and the 'deficit scolds' who claim, despite evidence to the contrary, that cutting such programs is somehow fiscally responsible.

Without naming any names he added, "he's reaching out to Democrats who understand we need to make serious progress on long term entitlement reform. This news does not come as much of a surprise to many despite widespread agreement by economists that these "austerity economics" will only further harm our economy and all but "guarantee a prolonged slump. At stake are not just the programs that progressives care deeply about but also the recovery itself and the success of the Obama presidency.

The automated reductions of the sequester are only the prologue to a decade long drama, in which the economy faces one budget squeeze after another, all but guaranteeing a prolonged slump. Of the run-up to the President's weekend conversation, Reuters reports:. Lately, some rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans have been sending signals that they are willing to compromise to end a two-year-old deadlock over tax and entitlement reforms. A few days later, liberal Democratic Senator Ben Cardin of Maryland told Reuters that he had discussed with Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid the possibility of replacing the automatic spending cuts with a mix of entitlement reforms and tax increases.

We've had enough. As all politicians must, President Obama has taken a clear stance on Social Security reform. The question is, what exactly is his stance and what does he plan on doing about it? The answers may surprise you. Barack Obama is all for Social Security reform, and recognizes that the programs need see significant change in order to remain solvent.

As Social Security stands now, the program is facing a significant crisis in the relatively near future if nothing is done to fix the budgetary problems.

He told the press, "It would send a very healthy message to the markets and the American people if President-elect Obama were to simultaneously announce an economic recovery package and the beginning of a bipartisan process to deal with our long-term imbalances.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, who has close ties to the right-wing faction of House Democrats, the so-called Blue Dogs, added his voice to the chorus calling for long-term deficit-reduction measures, going so far as to suggest that the Obama administration might have to follow the example of the Republican administrations of the s, when White House budget officials engaged in across-the-board budget cuts by executive order, a process called "sequestering.

Congressional Democrats opposed sequestering 20 years ago, pointing out that there was no constitutional authority for such executive action without congressional authorization.

It is a measure of how far to the right the Democratic Party has moved that one of its top leaders now embraces such a policy. Robert Bixby, director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group that advocates fiscal austerity, provided an indication of what is being contemplated, saying, "I would analogize it to what the government is doing with the auto companies. Congress said, we'll give you the money but you have to show us a plan for sustainability.

Four years ago, George W.