By Kevin G. Hall

The Miami Herald/McClatchy

Feb. 14, 2011

"'We are disappointed that the budget submission failed to address the issues that comprise the majority of our debt problem, including Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security and other pensions, and fundamental tax reform,' said Steve Bell, the director of the economic policy project at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

Bell said that Obama and Republicans in Congress are offering window dressing by focusing on smaller domestic programs while failing to tackle expensive but popular programs that are politically risky to cut.

'They really are having a fierce firefight over the tiniest of fiscal landscape. Both of them have decided they're not going to charge the hill, they're going to see if the other guy can do it,' Bell said."

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