Obama avoids tough issues of Iran, entitlements

March 7, 2012 07:27


Kicking the can down the road. That’s been the Obama administration’s response on issues from Iran’s nuclear weapons program to America’s entitlement systems. – Washington Examiner

 

By Michael Barone  at Washington Examiner


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I draw the conclusion that Netanyahu will very soon order an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. Meanwhile, Obama is kicking the can down the road, announcing Tuesday that the United States will participate in further negotiations with Iran.

 

Obama is correct in saying that we are in the process of imposing much tougher sanctions that are doing real damage to Iran’s economy.

But he doesn’t mention that those sanctions were produced by a coalition of Republicans and Democrats in Congress, over the opposition of the administration. A coalition that was alarmed by Obama’s policy of, well, kicking the can down the road.

 

The time when Iran gets a nuclear weapons capability seems close at hand, but the time when America’s entitlement programs — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid — become unaffordable is further in the future.

But we’ve already passed the red line when the payroll tax no longer produces enough cash to pay for Social Security benefits. And Obamacare, by expanding Medicaid, is exacerbating the problem.

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