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For years, Republican budgets have under-invested in America’s future, while shifting more cost and uncertainty onto average Americans, in order to benefit people who are already well-off. The Republican 2012 budget marks the high point of this 30 year battle by undermining critical middle-class protections while giving more help to those who don’t need it.

The Republican budget would make draconian reductions to key government services, environmental programs and safety protections while ignoring America’s fraying infrastructure. Medicare inefficiencies and unfairness are locked in for 60 million Americans for the next half-century while everyone under 55 is subjected to healthcare cuts that make a mockery of Republican campaign charges during the last elections.

In the areas of military spending and skyrocketing tax expenditures, Republicans merely nibble around the edges. There is a bipartisan appetite to reduce military spending. The House of ! Representatives has shown this is possible with the bipartisan vote to eliminate the F-35 alternate engine. If Ron Paul and Barney Frank can find $100 billion in military savings, then a bipartisan budget can do better.

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