Budgets: The Ultimate Lie-Detector

John Atcheson @ Common Dreams - Budgets have a way of slicing through political rhetoric and revealing the truth.  For example, Obama’s budget choices show him to be a right of center politician willing to sell out progressive principles, notwithstanding the progressive speeches he makes around election time.

The Ryan Budget, a bit of budgetary pornography embraced by the Mitt Romney and the entire Republican leadership, shows them to be advocating a radical agenda leading to a nation of, by and for corporate America and the ultra-rich, using means and policies that would hurt the majority of Americans – policies the people rightly oppose.  Read more.