Photo: U.S. President Barack Obama crosses the South Lawn of the White House after returning from Chicago in Washington on April 15, 2011. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg Outside View: America Strikes Out -- Harlan Ullman, UPI
WASHINGTON, April 20 (UPI) -- How will -- or can -- the United States deal with a superabundance of crises from the budget and looming fiscal disaster to the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistani instability, the so-called Arab Spring and the Libyan campaign?
The Obama White House and Congress agreed to a 2011 federal budget proudly promising and advertising cuts of more than $38 billion -- the largest in U.S. history. Yet, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office concluded that less than 1 percent of the proposed cuts were real -- a scant $330 million. If the government were a corporation, at the least it would be sued for false claims that duped the public.
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My Comment: If you are an American .... and in the mood to be depressed .... read this commentary. As to what is my take .... I also live "outside" and I look at the U.S. from this perspective .... and my gut is telling me that Harlan Ullman's analysis is spot on.
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