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By not in system - AOL NewsLast month the Congressional Budget Office reported that Social Security had begun running permanent budget deficits. Medicare is facing future budget shortfalls larger than the entire budgets of most countries. In response to this looming crisis, President Barack Obama's 2012 budget proposes to ... talk about it. This gave Republicans an opportunity to seize control of the agenda and demonstrate that their new-found commitment to fiscal discipline was more than simple hostility to Planned Parenthood or the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Given this chance, Republicans chose to ... ...
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By David Knowles - Politics Daily"Barack Obama is all talk, no action." That phrase, and all its many variations, has become a bumper-sticker of sorts in our current campaign. It's meant to forward a perception of Obama in contrast to that of his rivals, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. While the former writes the songs that make the young girls cry, the latter two have actually done things that have helped peoples' lives. You encounter this sentiment on message boards across the country. Obama makes pretty speeches, the thinking goes, but doesn't offer real solutions. An examination of Obama's time in both the Illinois ...
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