WashingtonTimes – Haley Barbour: It’s about policy, not race
“It’s not people don’t like the president, it’s not that they don’t want him to succeed. Now, there’s some people that don’t want him to succeed in passing bad policy, and I’m one of them, but his policies are far more unpopular. He is not unpopular,” he said.
“This is still a center-right country.”
Noting that employment and state revenue “typically continue to decline 18 months after a recession ends,” Mr. Barbour said states that have already pared their budgets to the bone have nowhere else to cut with more hard times on the horizon. The big bill that Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul may present to the states would only add to the burden, he argued.
“There’s nothing about this that is particularly encouraging for state financing, which is why we don’t want the federal government to stick us with a huge unfunded mandate for health care reform,” he said. “Most states can’t pay for it but one way, which is raising taxes. We ain’t got any money. We don’t get to print it like the federales do.”
He dismissed the news that retail sales rose in recent national surveys. “Well, that happens when you sell 700,000 cars,” he said with a laugh, referring to the Obama administration’s “cash for clunkers” auto subsidy program.
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9/18/8
