Obama's Lazy Status Quo Budget

There is something profoundly timid about President Obamaâ??s proposed $3.8â??trillion budget for 2014. Stripped of boasts about â??investmentsâ? for the future and a responsible â??balanceâ? between deficit reduction and economic growth, the budget is a status-quo document. It lets existing trends and policies run their course, meaning that Obama would allow higher spending on the elderly to overwhelm most other government programs. This is not â??liberalâ? or â??conservativeâ? so much as politically expedient and lazy.