(CNSNews.com) - If your doorbell rings on Saturday, it may be one of the same Obama supporters who went door-to-door before the election, urging you to vote the first-term senator into the presidency.
This time, "Organizing for America" canvassers maycome to your house, urging you to support President Obama's proposed $3.6 trillion budget plan. Organizing for America is a project of the Democratic National Committee.
The grassroots, volunteer network will "let their friends and neighbors know about the President's plan to invest in America's future, improve health care and education, create green jobs, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and cut the deficit in half over the next four years.”
Mitch Stewart, director of Organizing for America, says Americans are suffering and they need the government to improve their lives: "The President has a bold plan to invest in America's future and get our economy moving again, and now he needs our help to turn his budget into law. That's why it's so important for Americans on Saturday to go door-to-door and talk to their neighbors about the President's plan and ask them for their support.”
Stewart says Obama "has made great strides in turning the economy around with passage of his jobs and economic recovery package.” The economy has not turned around, however. Even President Obama and Democrats say it will “take time.”
Stewart said the grassroots effort on Saturday is part of a drive "to put our elected officials in Washington on notice that Americans expect that the change President Obama campaigned for becomes reality."
Republicans say President Obama's budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much from future generations.
“The cost of this new spending will be placed squarely on the backs of small businesses, family farmers, and every American energy consumer,” Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) says on his Web site.
Republicans are particularly concerned about a Democratic proposal to raise billions of dollars through a new tax on energy – the so-called cap-and-trade program that would create a tax on carbon emissions, where no tax currently exists.
On Thursday, Sen. Kent Conrad, a North Dakota Democrat, projected that the federal deficit will be about $1.6 trillion greater over the next ten years than the $7 trillion deficit forecast in Obama’s budget plan.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WIs.), the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, said the Democrats’ budget puts government, not “Main Street” in the driver’s seat. “That’s what they do in Europe, and it doesn’t work very well,” Ryan said in a recent appearance on Fox News Sunday.
Ryan advocates tax cuts to spur the economy, a "sound-money" policy that targets inflation, temporary government intervention to fix the financial sector, and control of entitlements.