The Congressional Progressive Caucus had created a detailed budget that rationally solves the US problems. This is the budget that Obama and the Senate Democrats should adopt. It is the budget that Democrats, holding a majority in the Senate and the White House should fight for up to and including a government shutdown.
This is the real solution.
This is America's Budget.
The Congressional Democrats should call it "America's Budget" not the "The People's Budget" which is not "patriotic enough" for the US GOP owned media.
Real solutions, not the fake ReaganomicsDum of GOP or the ReaganomicsDee of Obama.
Congressional Democrats Budget Proposal Link
Progressive Caucus People's Budget FY12 Memorandum
Eliminates National Deficit by 2021
Progressive Caucus co-chairs Raúl M. Grijalva and Keith Ellison sent a memo to House Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen April 6 outlining the Caucus' top budget priorities. The letter and attached budget information are available at this link.
The CPC proposal:
• Eliminates the deficits and creates a surplus by 2021
• Puts America back to work with a “Make it in America” jobs program
• Protects the social safety net
• Ends the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
• Is FAIR (Fixing America’s Inequality Responsibly)
What the proposal accomplishes:
• Primary budget balance by 2014.
• Budget surplus by 2021.
• Reduces public debt as a share of GDP to 64.4% by 2021, down 16.9 percentage points from
a baseline fully adjusted for both the doc fix and the AMT patch.
• Reduces deficits by $5.7 trillion over 2012-21
• Both outlays and revenue equal 22.3% of GDP by 2021