Obama: Budget, immigration reform next priorities
after shutdown's end
Category of problem: Economic crisis
Level of problem: National
How does this affect individuals/families? This
affects millions who are affected by the government and the new bills being
implemented.
My views on the issue/policy: Obama is now focused
on bills that should have been passed a long time ago. It’s almost like the
shutdown gave him a second chance to start over and discuss what
American’s need. He wants to focus on investing in education and infrastructure
which honestly is the number one issue that should have taken place back when
he first took office. The U.S. is ranked very low on the educational level
compared to the other countries. He also wants to cut unnecessary spending when
it’s the government who is spending billions and is keeping the U.S. trillions
of dollars in debt. The shutdown cost the U.S. 24 billion dollars and we are 17
trillion in debt and counting as I type. Then he wants to work on a $500 billion
dollar overdue Farm Bill, a year overdue. Senate and House are ‘hoping’ to meet
soon to discuss it. He wants to lower deficits yet the nation’s debt ceiling
just drastically increased and caused almost one million workers their job
security. We should have had a lower ceiling and started paying off our maxed
out credit cards.
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