• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper

Milwaukee Times Weekly Newspaper

Journalistic Excellence, Service, Integrity and Objectivity Always

June 23rd, 2025
  • Home
  • Services
    • Advertising
  • News
    • Whats Happening?
    • Featured
    • Christian Times
      • Ministries List
    • Health
    • Education
    • Finance & Business
    • Lifestyles
      • Our History
    • Arts and Entertainment
    • Obituaries
  • Editorials
  • Contact Us
  • Digital Editions
  • Tweet
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

Obama’s budget puts Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block

April 15, 2013

President Obama and BudgetBy Yvette Carnell

You had to know it was coming. Just last month White House aide Gene Sperling said on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Obama was “reaching out to Democrats who understand we have to make serious progress on long-term entitlement reform and Republicans who realize that if we had that type of entitlement reform, they’d be willing to have tax reform that raises revenues to lower the deficit.” In fact, President Obama has been signaling a willingness to cut Social Security and Medicare for years, even though most Obama supporters have ignored his conservative penchant for cutting domestic spending.

As always, the proof is in the pudding, and in this case the pudding is an Obama budget which proposes to cut Medicare and Social Security.

  • Tweet
  • Click to print (Opens in new window) Print
  • Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email

Related Articles:

  • Obama is the best man for the job
    Obama is the best man for the job
  • 0717-obasketball
    President Obama and First Lady celebrate 23 years of marriage
  • obama-black-leaders
    President Obama meets with black leaders
  • trump692017
    Pres. Trump strikes cautiously optimistic tone, promises ‘big surprise’ on health care
  • Former President Barack Obama speaks at North Division High School
    Former President Barack Obama speaks at North Division High School
  • milwaukee-times-weekly-newspaper-logo-200px-tall
    How not to appear ‘presidential’

Filed Under: National and Local News Tagged With: Democrats, Medicare, President Barack Obama, Reform, Republicans, Revenue, Social Security, State of the Union, White House

Primary Sidebar

Latest Issue PDF

Secondary Sidebar

Privacy Policy | Copyright © 2025 · HT Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.