It is interesting to watch the mental contortions of Democrat supporters as it becomes more and more plain to see that Barack Obama is looking out for the top 0.1% and not for them

Obama budget proposal cuts are "unconscionable" says AFL-CIO
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/06/obama-budget-proposal-cut_n_3029598.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Nobody else suggested using chained cpi - not even the Republicans. 

The oft banded excuse of blaming the Republicans for stopping the fixing of the economy just does not hold water. 

You do not need Congressional approval to prosecute and jail senior bankers for white collar crimes. 
You don't need Congressional approval to fine the big banks $200bn instead of cutting favorable deals (favorable to the big banks and giving them even more money dressed up as homeowner help). 

Even if Congress approves budgets for an astronomical $1,219bn on the military - you don't have to spend it. 
$1,219bn was the military spend for 2012. 
It is 50% higher than GW Bush ever spent. 
It is TRIPLE what America spent in the cold war against the Soviets and conducting the Vietnam war. 
You don't have to waste over $100bn a year employing mercenaries when using US troops would cost over $80bn less.   

You don't have to exponentially increase the budgets of the DHS and NSA to expand the domestic spying program to collect as much data as possible on EVERY American - including their bank statements.

You don't have to keep all of the over $1.3tn a year of Corporate Welfare. 
You don't have to give even more subsidies to large drug companies - half of which are foreign owned. 
You don't have to sign the Monsanto Protection Act.
You don't have to sign NDAA indefinite detention or extend the Patriot Act either.

You don't have to raise the payroll tax by 2% without giving the tax hike back to the lower paid. 
How could the Republicans refuse if you said you wanted to reduce taxes on middle earners and below? 

You don't have to insist that the $9.6bn a year tax break for the big banks for offshore loans was renewed in the Fiscal Cliff deal. 
You could fight back about the other $1tn a year of subsidies and bailouts to the big banks.