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All across the country this morning, Americans are struggling â€" and they’re not getting much in the way of help or hope from Washington. Those who are unemployed or eager to hire are frustrated by the mountain of burdensome new rules and regulations Democrats have imposed on them in the past two years and by the uncertainty that comes with every proposal to create another one. They’re shocked that a White House which doesn’t even try to balance its checkbook would repeatedly propose to raise taxes. And more and more, they’re worried about the consequences of our debt and the President’s reluctance to do anything about it.

But even more upsetting to many Americans is the White House’s repeated attempts to seem as if it’s doing something about these things when it isn’t. That’s just what the President has sought to do in talking about the need to reform entitlements and lower the debt, but refusing to lift a finger to do either. And that’s! just what I fear he’ll do again this afternoon in outlining his ‘vision’ for tackling these problems without so much as presenting a single new idea or anything approaching a workable plan to get us there. 

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