GAGOP Chairman Everhart Statement on President Obama’s FY 2013 Budget Proposal

ATLANTA –In response to President Barack Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal, Georgia Republican Party Chairman Sue P. Everhart released the following statement:

“For over three years, Georgians have watched as Barack Obama has driven our nation’s fiscal house into utter disarray. Instead of keeping his promise to cut our budget deficit in half by the end of his first term, President Obama will have now recorded four consecutive years of budget deficits in excess of $1 trillion – a shameful record. With a national debt that now surpasses the size of our country’s entire GDP, now is the time to take a step back from fiscal insanity, not continue the reckless policies that have put the very financial foundation of our country in peril.

“Unfortunately, Barack Obama’s FY 2013 budget proposal is more of the same: progressive tax increases, runaway entitlement spending and increased debt-inducing ‘stimulus’ expenditures. After three years of his damaging fiscal policies and endless broken promises, Georgians are acutely aware of the damage that the President has inflicted on our state and our nation. In November, Georgia’s voters are prepared to ensure that this will be Barack Obama’s final budget. It is clear that with President Obama, the buck stops nowhere.”

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