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Over the weekend the president gave his weekly radio address and continued to issue his trademark chastisement of Republicans; especially the recently released Republican budget.

The president stated the Republican budget “begins by handing out massive tax cuts to households making more than $1 million a year. Then, to keep from blowing a hole in the deficit, they’d have to raise taxes on middle-class families with kids.  Next, their budget forces deep cuts to investments that help our economy create jobs, like education and scientific research.”

He concluded in his radio address, “Policies that benefit a fortunate few while making it harder for working Americans to succeed are not what we need right now.  Our economy doesn’t grow best from the top-down; it grows best from the middle-out.  That’s what my opportunity agenda does – and it’s what I’ll keep fighting for.”

On Monday, the President spoke at Bladensburg High School in Maryland and stated his polices will be “guaranteeing every young person has access to a world-class education.”  Continuing the president stated, “It means that we’ve got to rein in college costs.”

The sad part is the president places a rhetorical speech ahead of reality.  Last year the president nominated Jack Lew to be his new treasury secretary, while employed at New York University who made annual salaries of $600-800,000.  Hardly a way to rein in spiraling high college costs.

The president again issued the moniker of income inequality, but his own budget was more of the same; spend more and tax the wealthy.

This economic strategy hasn’t worked yet; the country is saddled with the worst recovery since World War II.  Instead of the campaign slogan of “year of action” uttered by the president in January’s “State of the Union” address, let’s truly make this a year of action when both Republicans & Democrats work together in jump starting the U.S. economy. 

That truly would be a year of action.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]