Sorry i have not written for a week. Apparently school work is a top priority.

Last week, the president introduced his budget. The budget does not cut enough. The Republicans want to go back to the 2008 spending levels. President Obama ignored the Debt Commission that he had hired to tell him what to do. Last week the Gallup Poll released a poll saying 68% of Americans disagree with how the president is handling the economic issues. That was before he came out with his 2012 budget. I am guessing that the number will rise to the high 70's or low 80's, but that is a guess. Obama said while running for president that he was going to be a friend of businesses, yet his budget is going to unload a lot of taxes.

In the budget there is $77 billion for education. What is education doing with all this money? The test scores for schools keep getting worse. They don't need that much money. They clearly are not doing anything with the money to improve test scores. As I said before, Obama doesn't want to get re-elected because he came out with this bad budget. The budget will badly hurt America in the long run. There is nothing good about the 2012 budget, unless you listen to the left lie. Even some people on the left don't think Obama is cutting enough money.

In 2008, then president George W. Bush release his 2008 budget.

Mandatory Spending- $1.788 trillion

Social Security- $608 Billion

Medicare- $386 Billion

Medicaid- $209 Billion

Unemployment- $324 Billion

Discretionary Spending- $1.114 trillion

Dept of Defense- $481.4 Billion

Dept of Education- $56 Billion

Those are just some of the cuts that Bush made in his 2008 budget. You can find some of the other cuts at websites around the internet. Today, February 21, 2011, 48.8% of the American people approve of the president. 45.3% of the American people disagree with the president. Gallup Poll asked people "Who do you regard as the greatest United States president?" The answer that most people gave was Ronald Reagan. How can people not like Ronald Reagan? The top ten include

Reagan

Lincoln

Clinton

Kennedy

Washington

FDR

Obama

Roosevelt

Truman

Bush

Jefferson

I have a problem with people saying that Obama is on the list. He has only been president for 2.5 years. He has not done anything that has been good for America. I think that the only reason he is on the list is because he is the first African American president. George W. Bush was not put on any list while he was president. The current president should not be put on the list.