Why Obama's Budget Is OK
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightThe first-order description has to be that Obama's budget is bad. The domestic discretionary budget is not too big. We should not be cutting?Pell Grants or?heating assistance for low-income families in general, and we especially should not be doing so during a recession.On the other hand, the Budget is a political document. Obama doesn't have the power to enact his priorities unilaterally, so his strategy is to seize the center and portray Republicans as unreasonable. His strategy for doing so r...