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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor just announced that the House will consider another short-term government funding measure next week.
It is expected that this funding measure will be for three weeks. This continuing resolution would keep the government open beyond the March 18th deadline if the Senate passes it.
This three-week spending bill is expected to show cuts of $2 billion per week, totalling another $6 billion in cuts.
President Barack Obama said Friday that he is open to "one more" stopgap measure to avert a shutdown, but he called on congressional leaders to "compromise on prudent cuts" and agree on a long-term budget to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year.
"We can’t keep running the government based on two-week extensions," Obama said during a news conference. "That’s irresponsible."
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Feisty Redhead Roselle, IL
Let's recap shall we?
Repeal Obamacare with a go no where dog & pony show - *check*
Wage war on women's reproductive rights - *check*
Run around the country screaming the sky is falling because of the debt - *check*
Pick the pockets of the working poor to transfer even greater wealth to the upper 2% - *check*
Quart of milk - *check*
Dozen eggs - *check*
Loaf of bread - *check*
Waste eight hours a day arguing over biased political ideology and think I actually accomplished something - *check*
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Let's recap the liberals recap and address the spew.
Repeal Obamacare with a go no where dog & pony show - *check*
Repeal the pig that was rammed down the publics throat...and did not run away to another state when the tough vote came...check.
Wage war on women's reproductive rights - *check*
Stopping the use of taxpayer money to fund the liberal choice of birth control...namely the murder of an unborn child.....check
Pick the pockets of the working poor to transfer even greater wealth to the upper 2% - *check*
Making the puke liberal unions pay a small bit towards their own healthcare and retirement. Stop one set of public sector liberals (unions) from bargaining with another public sector employee (politician) to fleece the ones that pay the bills in America...mostly members of the GOP....check
Waste eight hours a day arguing over biased political ideology and think I actually accomplished something - *check*
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Stopping the Socialist agenda of the poser in the WH...as many hours as it will take to end the madness.
I can't wait to the GOP leader Boner and his merry group of tea bag hags feel the earthquake in our country, but it won't be the ground shaking it will be the uproar of the working class. But then again they own the media, courts, which if all fails their they can have the supreme court overturn the election results in the name of God.
complain, complain, Why does the government have to supply you with a job..... For heavens sake get a grip.
If you want things to get better then look no futher than you own home...
Do this small exercise... check each piece of furniture, lamp, plate, decoration.... write down if it is American Made... Go ahead... get a pen and paper and see how many objects you own has a Made in America stamp.................. keep checking............go ahead, don't be shy........... are you still looking?............................... yep, that is probably next to NONE. Am I right?
If you want jobs, if you want us to recover, don't depend on the government to do it for you... start at home, and buy American made....put our country to work, ask for american made products, do not settle for any other countries products... If we all bought products made right here in our own country it creates jobs, it creates demand and it creates a stronger America!
Stop waiting for government to fix what we can do ourselves.
Maybe if the corporation didn't ship all the factories over seas, we would be able, but no the wealthy must have 10 and 20 million dollar bonus at what ever cost. Do you not think our major companies don't own the factories over seas, ask the guy who had to pack the equipment in crates before they shut down his job, we don't even make the middle class here anymore they import the people from India and China where they value education.
Wrong!! Diane Sawyer has a series on buying American Made products... there are plenty of companies.. not big corporations that make stuff right here in America... at similar prices. you just have to look.. Don't be a sell out! Don't feel you have no choice because you do! That is a cop out attitude... check it out!
oh, and did you check? where is most of your belongings made?
here follow this link
abcnews.go.com/WN/MadeInAmerica/mailform?id=12912252
middle class americans can't afford to buy made in america...I would love to buy only american but I also have to pay bills what you are proposing sounds great in theory but it ain't gonna happen dear
Blame the victim.............for the choices you limited them to making. Much like electric cars, you won't support their creation and certification, and then blame us for driving a car which runs on gasoline.
Everything is about pushing us to the edge of a forseeable "emergency" and then arguing that the RULES by which we have all, supposedly, lived should no longer apply. It is called the "Shock Doctrine" and it is a con game played by the elitists upon the masses.
I watched the promo for ABC too...But the repubs have already let the fox in the hen house....for 3 decades...Corporate Welfare from the wingnuts!
joy -
I am middle class and I try to buy American-made goods whenever I can. On some items, it is impossible to do so any longer - most clothing, coffeemakers, even processed foods are being done overseas now.
The latest item we bought was a Kitchenaid mixer - made in the USA.
But electronics are nearly all made overseas, hard drives, even processor chips.
The stumblebum repubs need to get on with the business of the Nation...quit this pandering to the wealthy!
Look what we get when the right is allowed by the media to lie...Bats in the belfry!
Cut off their pay under the 'pay for results' provision'! Wish we had one! They are rated below 'used car salesman' for heavens sake!
Robert in Ohio,
You do realize...you're proclaiming Obama is crooked because he hasn't straightened out those problems created by Bush economic-Coporate tax cuts creating rising deficit by policies for 8 years effects within his 2.5 year term. Eventhough, those GOPer's voting for those Bush policies are now the very same folks (in general) slowing down his proposals in the House to reverse those effects of 8 years....
Time for you to get a grip....
Reagan (Republican) National deficit after 8 years in office.....$550 billion
Bush1 (Republican) National deficit sfter 4 years.................$385 billion
Clinton (Democrat) National deficit after 8 years in office.....$33 billion
Bush2 (Republican) National deficit after 8 years in office....$5 trillion
case closed.......
Tony
I said he is a corrupt politician like all the others because he lied about what he was going to do.
We are still in Iraq, Afghanistan is now his war and growing, GITMO is still open, he didn't march with the union protesters, he lied
That is all I said
I didn't say he created all the mess at any time
Robert in Ohio,
Marching with thousands of Protesters would be too great of a security risk for any President in today's times.....The Administration isn't stupid. Besides, I'm not sure whether or not Obama can accomplish more by focusing on the National picture instead of Wisconsin's state picture over this issue.
Tony
Not sure he is focusing on the national picture either, even Clinton is calling him out on drilling in the gulf and how he is handling Libya
So besides campaigning for 2012 what is he focused on
President Obama did not lie about what he was going to do; he disappointed his supporters that he did not do enough to stand up to the conservatives whose only agenda has been to prevent his re-election. I think there is too much white envy of a black president who can keep his cool in front of the whistl'n Dixie lynch mob.
dls
I would not like him if he was green or white or blue, I disagree with his policies, ideology and agenda
He said he would close GITMO he did not (He Lied), he said he would march with demonstrators, he did not (He Lied), he said he would never sign a bill extending the tax cuts for the rich, he did (He Lied)
That is not disappointing followers that is lying
I respect him and what he has accomplished, but I do not support his policies or agenda and therefore would prefer another person in the White House and I do not care what color that person is either only that he or she be more conservative than Obama
Robert in Ohio,
Let's think about our Country first (economy) and worry about everybody else later....
This is why we're in the mess we are in......because America has been neglected by it's own leaders for 8 put of the last 10 years........
Tony
More to the point 10 and 1/4 years have been neglected by leaders on both sides of the aisle
Obamamania has done nothing to get us out of the mess that for your enjoyment Bush helped to create
I agree that the Republican Tea Party hate Obamamania has impeded the restoration of America to sane policies.
dls
He is President he is supposed to lead the way not sit on the sidelines complaining about the Congress and there were no tea party members in Congress till January remember.
The TP did not exist until after Obama was elected
Robert in Ohio,
A President being unable to accomplish a particular piece of legislation he had hoped to accomplish before being elected President is NOT corruption (he's already accomplished about 90% of what he intended). Corruption entails conflict of interest issues....of which Obama has NEVER been involved in or a part of........period. I think your definitions are getting criss-crossed.....for political conveniance of your Conservative views possibly. :)
Tony
It was not a piece of legislation that failed he issued and executive order and then reneged on it
He said he would do something and then didn't do it
He named Afghanistan a war of necessity and is enlarging the war and achieving the same or lower level of success there as Bush did
American soldiers are still dying in Iraq
He is faced with Egypt and Libya and really has no clue as to what to do
He is just like all the other except he is not as experienced
Innocence always lacks experience.
dls
True, but so does irresponsible youth
President Obama is one of few adults in DC.
Tea Party chainsaw budget massacre: end funding for Tsunami warning, blame President Obama for the earthquake and inland flooding. Tea Party chainsaw budget massacre: end funding for education, blame President Obama for local school decline and raise in property taxes. Tea Party chainsaw budget massacre: end funding for heatlh insurance, blame President Obama for increasing health insurance costs. Time to end the Tea Party trash and crash social and economic policies based on the Austrian School of Economics. Time to end the 30 year conservative chokehold on America. Let's hope we can still vote in 2012 since Republican govenors are proposing and passing more restrive requirements for voting in their states. Time to end the the Tea Party Tyranny of Republican Karl Rove's one party rule.
Nice little tag line there "tea party chainsaw budget massacre" it will save you the time needed for original thought many times in the future.
The tag line was original. Where is the thought about the consequences of the Austrian School of Economics? It is likely to be debunked by hind-sight politicians, like the conservatives debunk Keynsian and liberals debunk Supply-side.
dls
I graduated from he University of Maryland and have no affiliation with the Austrian School of Economics, you will need to ask someone else about that
How about spreading some of the wealth with your constituent, I would mind if you guy break me off with a little something, something. Spread some joy after all isn’t part of having is in the joy of giving.
The figures are not precise because members of Congress are required to report their assets only in broad ranges. The Center, a nonpartisan research group, uses minimum and maximum asset values to arrive at an “estimated” figure.
Overall, freshman members of Congress have an estimated wealth of $533.1 million and a maximum net worth of $845.2 million.
Blumenthal, who married into a fortune, spent millions to defeat Republican Linda McMahon, herself a multimillionaire, in 2010’s most expensive congressional campaign.
After Blumenthal, the next seven wealthiest freshmen in Congress are all House members and all Republicans. They are: Diane Lynn Black of Tennessee ($49.4 million), Rick Berg of North Dakota ($39.2 million), Blake Farenthold of Texas ($35.8), Scott Rigell of Virginia ($29.9), James Renacci of Ohio ($28.4), Steve Pearce of New Mexico ($23.2), and Richard Hanna of New York ($22.1).
At the other end of the scale, Rep. Joe Walsh, an Illinois Republican, has an estimated worth of minus-$317,498.
Other members of Congress whose minimum worth is less than zero: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah; and Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis.
How to grow jobs, the economy, remain competitive, and eliminate the deficit:
1. Legislatively remove the anti-trust exemption for insurance, The McCarran-Ferguson Act.
2.. Legislatively restrict the wetlands definition of "navigable waters of the United States in the Clean Water Act.
3. Fund and begin construction of power generation and water supply projects necessary to meet future population and industrial demands.
4. Remove all geographic restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling, and use the power of federal money transfers to the States to prevent States and local governments from interfering with drilling.
5.. Remove environmental restrictions and environmental and social impact requirements for all infrastructure and utility construction for the next 10 years.
6.Cut Federal budget by 10% excluding defense, starting with those duplicative items identified in the 3/1/11 GAO report and the President's debt commission, however, maintain current spending for infrastructure construction, repair and upgrade for the next 5 years. Repeal the Davis-Bacon Act.
7. Reduce corporate tax rates by 50%. Reduce Corporate tax rates by 70% on private utilities and transport companies.
8. Reinstitute significant tax and assistance payments for residential and commercial alternative energy instillations, particularly focusing on residential solar. Use Commerce Clause to force all electrical utilities to be reverse metering.
9. Subsidies the further development of electric and hybrid electric cars. Provide significant tax breaks and incentives for the purchase of same, particularly when combined with the purchase of a residential solar instillation within two years of one another. This is no longer a simple market issue, but one of national security as the time to substitution is longer than the economy can withstand when confronted with a supply side shock
10. Eliminate the Ethanol subsidy for any and all processes using foodstuffs. Redirect monies to nuclear and coal. Streamline regulation of new construction of nuclear power plants and provide incentives for same. Open Yucca Mountain as originally agreed.
11. Eliminate any power of the EPA to regulate Carbon.
12. Use the power of the Federal purse to eviscerate Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005) and Tahoe-Sierra Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 535 U.S. 302 (2002),
13. Repeal the Community Reinvestment Act.
14. Hold congressional investigations into the roll of the Community Reinvestment Act, Freddie and Fannie in inflating demand and thus prices resulting in the collapse of the real estate market.
15. Build a wall embedded with sensors and toped with razor wire along both our borders, beginning with the southern one. In the name of national security remove all environmental restrictions and environmental and social impact requirements for the construction of same.
16 Pass legislation that all jurisdictions receiving federal monies of any sort are required to enforce all of the laws of the land, including enforcement of federal immigration laws.
17. Restrict the collective bargaining power of State civil service unions in line with the 1978 Federal Civil Service Reform Act
18. Scrap the tax code and adopt a flat-tax that will build the size of the pie (and thus tax revenues) for everyone instead of the Obama class warfare of trying to redistribute a shrinking one.
Too complicated. Just index the upper tax bracket rates for individuals and corporate taxes on profits over $5 million to the true unemployment rate. If unemployment is 9.5% the upper tax rate is 95%. If unemployment is 6.5% the uppermost tax rate is 65%, etc............it stays this way until the National debt is no larger that 35% of annual GDP. From now on, nobody gets exorbitantly rich unless everyone is working and the National debt is paid down; you have all the incentives that you need.
No matter what budget they ever get through America is in real trouble. We are broke and going down stream fast without a paddle. Without some real serious changes quick we are dead in the water.
You must not be in the top 2%. We are not broke. It’s just that most of the wealth has been transferred to the top 2%. They have never been as rich as they are today. They call George W Santa Claus.
Here is an idea – any American President who balances the budget gets 72 virgins. Not sure if this should be retro-active though. What the hell, make it retro-active.