Senators did not
vote for President Obama's 2012 budget when it came up for a vote in the Senate
Wednesday. Press TV's U.S. Desk asked Paul Craig Roberts, Former Assistant
Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to comment on this issue.
Roberts said, "The
vote against Obama's budget was merely political theatre. It does not mean
anything. The Obama budget that was voted down, was the original budget of last
February, however last month in April, Obama suggested major changes to the
budget. The Democrats are working on the new budget … but are not yet ready to submit it for a vote."
"All of the Republican budgets were
voted down yesterday. In order to cover the embarrassment, the Republicans
brought out the old Obama budget knowing that the democrats would vote against
it because they have replaced it with the new budget that they are preparing. So
it means nothing and it was merely political theatre."
The Republican
budget proposal which was crafted by the Republican House Budget Chairman Paul
Ryan would have turned Medicare into a private program but was rejected in the
Senate.
Roberts said that
the issue before the
Roberts continued
that "the U.S. Dollar was a major source of American power and what the fight
was, currently, was that many of the Republicans voted to continue the wars
which are a threat to the Dollar because of the deficits they cause but to
terminate healthcare for the American people, for the retired and the elderly,
in order to pay for their wars."
"The democrats are not willing to pay
for the wars by terminating Medicare, the health program for the elderly and the
retired. I believe that this contest will be resolved in the next election and
most likely, despite the unpopularity of Obama who has betrayed his
constituents, voters will put the democrats back in power because they fear the
Republicans, making them pay, by giving up healthcare for the Republicans' wars,
so that issue will be settled in the next elections," he concluded.
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