Obama's Budget and Its Discontents

摘要

President Barack Obama's first two budgets were reflexive, emergency-care responses-spending and more spending on stimulus, bailouts, and jobless benefits-to an historic economic bust. He did what he says he had to do. With the budget Obama sent to Congress on Feb. 14, his third, he's grasping hold of the country's fiscal levers to shape the U.S. economy according to his vision for the early decades of the 21st century. In other words: He's doing what he wants to.