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White House’s Orszag: U.S. budget on unsustainable path
By Gerry Davies || February 23, 2009 at 18:50 GMT
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White House budget director Peter Orzag feels reducing healthcare costs is crucial for restoring the health of the U.S. economy. At a summit on fiscal responsibility the official said “The single most important thing we can do to put the nation back on a sustainable (fiscal) course is slow healthcare costs. It is the key to our fiscal future.”
[...] These people are angry at the government bailouts for multi-national corporations, for individuals who spent beyond their means on housing, and for bloated state governments. These people recognize that, despite the fact that Mr. Obama gave paltry, short-lived tax relief to the middle class, long-term, he is going to have to raise taxes on everyone to finance his reckless budget proposals, which if not addressed through taxation, will codify unending, trillion dollar deficits into law. That is unsustainable, as even one of Mr. Obama’s cabinet members has so eloquently said. [...]