Rooney and West Pan Obama's $3.8 Trillion Budget Request

U.S. Reps. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, and Allen West, R-Plantation, posted quick criticisms of President Barack Obamas proposed $3.8 trillion budget that was released Monday.

Rooney issued the following statement:

President Obamas budget proposal is a missed opportunity, with no new ideas to kick-start our economy, help create jobs, reform the broken tax code, meaningfully cut the national debt, or save Social Security and Medicare for the next generation. The president is stubbornly clinging to the same failed stimulus spending approach while calling for tax hikes that will hurt small businesses and destroy jobs.

This budget is a reminder of President Obamas broken promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term. Were never going to solve our debt crisis by promising spending cuts in the future in exchange for tax increases today. Thats what Washington always does, and we never see the cuts. We need meaningful reforms and real spending cuts right away not gimmicks and phantom savings.

West posted the following comment on his Facebook page:

Listening to President Obamas speech on his 2013 budget ... it is a campaign-oriented address that is populist in nature.

The president is promising everything to everyone. When will he evidence the courage to address the drivers of our debt, mandatory spending. He promised to cut our deficit in half by the end of his first term; $1.42T (2009), $1.29T (2010), and $1.3T (2011) with an estimate for another $1.3T (2012) deficits under his watch as POTUS.

Gotta give it to the president, he has the bully pulpit and uses it regularly problem is, he is becoming less credible. President Obamas FY 2012 budget was such a resounding success that it failed in the Senate, 0-97. Lets see how this repeat budget does; at least it kept the paper and copy machine industry in business.