On top of his strong statement yesterday about the pending SCOTUS decision on the Affordable Care Act, today he goes after the Paul Ryan budget plan that has just been passed by the Republican controlled House.
He calls it "nothing but thinly veiled Social Darwinism" in a talk he will give to an Associated Press luncheon today in Washington.
Stressing the theme that prosperity has never trickled down from the success of a wealthy few; it comes, rather, from the success of a strong middle class."It's a Trojan Horse. . . . Disguised as [a] deficit reduction plan, it's really an attempt to impose a radical vision on our country. It's nothing but thinly-veiled Social Darwinism. It's antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everyone who's willing to work for it -- a place where prosperity doesn't trickle down from the top, but grows outward from the heart of the middle class. And by gutting the very things we need to grow an economy that's built to last -- education and training; research and development -- it's a prescription for decline."
Bravo, Mr. President."That's how a generation who went to college on the GI Bill, including my grandfather, helped build the most prosperous economy the world has ever known. That's why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so they could buy the cars that they made. That's why studies have shown that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run."
Ralph
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