Last week, House Republicans passed their budget for Fiscal Year 2013 without a single Democratic vote. This week, President Obama ripped the GOP budget as one that gives more breaks to the rich, burdens the poor and threatens everything from higher education to Medicare to accurate weather forecasts. Obama called the plan a Trojan horse and claims it would lead to social Darwinism. Missouri Rep. Todd Akin is a member of the House Budget Committee. He says House Republicans are the only ones serious about producing a budget and that the president’s remarks are little more than baseless scare tactics. Akin also explains how taxpayers can be misled by the term ‘spending cuts’ – since some consider cuts actual reductions in spending and others use it to refer to reductions in projected spending increases. And Akin tells us why he’s more than happy to have voters choose between the House GOP budget and the Obama budget that received zero votes in the House.
