West Statement on President Obama’s Reckless FY2013 Budget Proposal
Boca Raton, FL – Today Congressman Allen West released this statement in response to President Obama’s irresponsible Fiscal Year 2013 Budget proposal calling for new record spending, debt and tax increases:
“The President’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal should be called the blueprint for American decline.
This budget runs a trillion-dollar deficit for the fourth straight year, and spends $47 trillion while increasing our national debt to $26 trillion over the next decade.
It also weakens an already anemic economy with a job-destroying $1.9 trillion dollar tax increase and threatens the retirement security of our seniors.
Instead of making hard decisions and honestly addressing the debt crisis facing our country, the President has proposed a warmed-over menu of budget gimmicks, phantom cuts and more failed spending. Even worse, this budget proposal still includes his plan to find cost savings on the backs of seniors by empowering unelected bureaucrats to determine what procedures Medicare patients can undergo.
I can only describe this budget as a complete failure of leadership by the President, and just the latest example of the President putting his re-election prospects ahead of the future of the American people. We must make real spending cuts and enact serious spending reforms. We can fix our nation’s fiscal situation before we find ourselves in a Greek-style debt crisis, but it requires us making tough decisions and setting spending priorities like protecting our seniors’ retirement security, maintaining a strong military and getting the government out of the way so hardworking individuals and small businesses can drive the economic recovery. I will continue fighting to that end for the people of South Florida.”
