Link: http://www.truthout.org/030109Y

In a startling ambitious budget message, President Barack Obama has thrown down the gauntlet to the American Right not only by tying the current economic crisis to the recklessness of the past eight years under George W. Bush but by tracing it back further to the anti-regulatory, anti-labor and anti-government policies of Ronald Reagan. "For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the nation's wealth has been accumulated by the very wealthy,"