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Subscribe to RSSRepublicans should not be surprised at the fiscal proposal they received from the White House last night, White House Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, as President Barack Obama has been highlighting the same position on the campaign trail for the past year.
NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro discuss a week that was largely a repeat of past weeks where the conversation continued to swirl around Susan Rice, the Fiscal Cliff and the post-mortem of the 2012 election.
“I was surprised that they were surprised,” Earnest told reporters traveling on Air Force One for the president’s trip to Hatfield, Pa., where he’ll talk about his tax and budget priorities.
Recommended: Obama proposal sends a message to Republicans
Thursday night, Republicans called the White House’s proposal, submitted by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, “a complete break from reality,” citing the White House’s starting line of $1.6 trillion in additional revenue, which they say is twice as much as what was on the table in 2011.
Earnest said figure reflects the goals of higher taxes on the wealthy that the president articulated on the campaign trail.
“The marker that was presented in the context of the balanced approach deficit reduction the president advocated in the campaign was $1.6 trillion in tax revenue,” he said.
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Now that the Repukes are involved, no talk of compromise..Norquist will not allow it and he stations Cantor next to Boehner to make sure of that. It is apparent that Obama must stand tall and let the country go over the cliff.
The Repukes will not play ball...nor help their friends and voters. They will only listen to Norquist. a traitor.
Good. Glad to hear it.
I don't think they care about Norquist as much as their big money donors.
Does anyone know the real reason that Speaker Boyener has the color that he has?
Because hes always half soused?
Most of the GOP are closet Queeeers also.
Wouldnt thier supporters love to know the truth about these folks?
I think it's called "Man Tan"
Does anyone know the real reason why Obama has the color he has? It is red!
because his mother was a Marxist who married another that came from Kenya and then remarried another who whas friends with "uncle Frank" AKA Frank Marshall Davis who was on the FBI Commie list!
Republicans should really not consider that proposal from just Obama, but from THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TOO.
Yes , I agree in 2010 the Dems in Congress were "Shellacked" voted out due to all the crazy spending and huge deficits!
You mean the G bush deficit explosion. That one?
Just another GOP lie that the morons who support them believed hook line and sinker although it was a lie.
Johnny go ahead make my day on this one! you wanna compare W's deficit to Owebama's?
Sure in 2006 the last time Bush had control of the House and Budget the Deficit was 380 Billion in 2008 under Pelosi is was over 400 Billion and then in 2009 thur 2012 under Owebama it was over 1.5 Trillion on average each year!
Easy BrentOC....facts will blow up their little Obama filled heads......
Wow,...
teapublicans are pretending that Nov. 6th never happened..
How delusionally amusing....
Taxes are going up on their well heeled benefactors, and there's not ONE thing, they can do, to stop it...
On that note,.. I think I'll mix a drink...
K1200RS==So tell me what the elections changed? We still have the worse president in modern times in the White House with is same demands tax the rich. Nothing has changed and nothing will change. Let me leave you to ponder this, Obama and the Democrats agreed with the Republicans to have these drastic cuts if they could not come up with an agreement. This was their to punish themselves if they could not come up with a solution. The all agreed to this so blame all of them or none of them. Regardless of what they do it will not be them the will have to pay dearly, either way it goes it will be the American Tax Payers. Are you a Tax Payer or an illegal immigrant because illegal immigrants pay for none of this.
Ummm.... the people elected haven't even taken office yet...
What will change is still to be decided...
My suggestion,... turn off the FAUX News, and the right wing squawk radio...
Good luck...
Smokie- did I dream that for the last 12 months Obama has been saying raise the RATES on the top 2% and was he elected with a majority of the popular vote and a landslide in the electoral college along with polling showing a 60%+ of the public in favor of raising the Rates or was I dreaming.
Elections do have consequence except for RepubliCONS judging by your actions.
demtothebone===Wait, Obama won by only 3% of the popular vote. No mater what the Electoral College did or has done it has nothing to do with the popular vote. The American People are just as nearly split as they were before the election, so nothing has really changed. The consequences of this election is still about 50/50 on any given mater. Obama doesn't have a landslide on anything but his ideas and they are they same ones he had last term. He has nothing else but tax the rich. This term will be like the last one, no budgets from the Democrats, no plans, plenty campaign trips and last minute decisions that have not worked out to well for us. Just look at these screwed up agreements from Obama's last term. Gridlock once again Republicans still own the House.
K1200RS==You must have fallen off that bike and hit your head. No mater what faces are changed come January 1 we still have a Congress divided and a White House with a goof-ball sitting in it. The new faces will change very little. I do think that Obama will lose on this one because he has no other plan other than taxing the rich. Are you rich? How about, do you like Bill Clinton? Because if these agreed to cuts, by both parties, happen we will be right back to Bill Clinton's Tax Increases. I hope you are real young because any amount of taxes you pay for the rest of your little life are spent already.
The President also said to use Simpson Bowles as a starting point, that we have to lower corporate taxes and close loopholes, and says he offered $4.00 in spending cuts to every $1.00 in increased revenues. He has now gone back on each of those points, instead he wants increase taxes on the top 2% which would raise $750 billion and another $1 trillion from we do not know where.
"He has now gone back on each of those points".
Guess you should've taken the deal when you had the chance - your choice, your loss.
If republicans are the party of stability why are they mentally unstable and why do they have a speaker who displays his mental instability by crying so much in public?
Pithy prog. You should be a regular contributor to Mad magazine. I mean, you've got so much to add to a conversation...
prog.1===Your confused the Clown in the White House is the one that is mentally challenged. This is the same guy that thinks all we have to do is tax the rich and the whole world will be better.
He believes if he gets these taxes there will be no more wars and the financial stability for all Nations will magically appear before your eyes. No you see your are mistaken. Look to the White House first then come back with a solution.
1funnygirl, you said "American Girl, please don't be a pompass[sic] A$$ with you comments. This cliff has been created over the years by both sides of the aisle..."
Here's a bit of history for you. When W took office in 2001, the federal deficit was nil and we were on track to pay down the national debt.
And when Obama ended his first term as president, the deficit was larger by over $4,000,000,000,000. Of course, somehow, that's Bush's fault too...
Funny how people just shrug off 4 MILLION MILLION dollars in debt. I don't think they can comprehend just how much that is.
They can't handle the truth It hurts, It is like when you found out Santa Claus was fake!
All the Freebies cannot continue, even if you tax the 2% as much as Owebama wants it only creates about 3% of the Annual Deficit under Obama and all his spending! What a joke! yep the Candyman / Obama is a FAKE too!
Thomase
when Bush became Pres in 2000 he inherited a Dot Com crash and the shoddy intelligence in place under Clinton. Clinton enjoyed the benefits of 8 years of Reagan and 4 with Sr. The Cold War ended so Clinton was able to wind down military spending. Also our economy was the top dog with a thing called the Internet and Emails never heard of before my American prior to the Clinton years. You would have to try real hard to wreck the prosperity of America in the 90's Clinton had absolutely nothing to do with it? he inherited it and it took Gingrich and the Republicans to convince Clinton to balance the budget. Those are the facts I know the Liberals think Clinton was/is the messiah, but he inherited America's prosperity!
Well you are right all the freebies cannot continue in present form (medicaid, welfare, food stamps and corporate welfare). As far as medicaid is concerned I am for reducing it to cover only children, the disabled and the elderly no one else. Welfare and food stamps should be reduced 20% and corporate welfare should be eliminated all together this means no more agri, oil, ethanol, etc subsidies and tax breaks. Medicare & SS are not included as they are funded separately. I am also for cutting the military we don't need to spend 700 bil a year for it this is no longer the cold war era.
gdale, I am in total agreement with what you've written but I'm not on board with the subsidies.. Cutting those subsidies will affect the elderly, children, disabled and poor. The third highest subsidy dollar goes to the home heating oil for all of the groups I've mentioned. President Obama and the GOP tried to cut oil subsides (it was a sticking point of the taxpayers at that time) and the biggest screamers were the Democrats. Especially John Kerry. Most, if not all, of the b!tchers, that wrote letters to Obama, were from predominately New England blue states. Basically they told him to get his grubby hands off those subsidies.
I'm not totally on board with your military cuts either. I believe defense is a constitutional necessity. What I do agree with is that military spending needs to be cut.. Remember when the DoD was purchasing hammers for hundreds of dollars? That's what I'm talking about. And it's not only the DoD that needs to clean up, there are a few other departments that need to adjust their budgets as well. Whatever happened to that "line by line" veto pen pledge??
I'm with you on the Medicaid and food stamp (SNAP) cuts. But it will never happen!! Due to the passage of ACA and it now being "the law of the land" Medicaid is about to explode.. And SNAP will never be brought under control until they start controlling what food items can be purchased. It is very disheartening to watch people, who may or may not be in need, purchase 4 cases of Pepsi and Mountain Dew with their EBT cards. Yet, congress can write and sign into law a bill that limits what our children can and can't have served on their lunch trays.
Both parties spend money but Democrats spend the money to try to help this country while Republicans spend the greatest amount in wars to kill innocent people.
Ok Prog what if we stuck you and your family in a building next to the WTC on Sept 12 ?
and then we did not goto war, a war that even you hero Hillary voted for? based on intelligence from the CIA, FBI and the British that Sadam had WMD's ? Muslims haet us anyway and will continue to do so. in fact they hate everyone! the innocent were the 3,000 killed on 9/11
BrentOC, prog is mindless. You're wasting your time trying to reason with him....
The terrorists who attacked the trade center were from Saudia Arabia not Iraq or Afghanistan and when this country leaves Afghanistan the terrorists will return as if there was never a war. For thousands of years Western white men have been fighting in the Middle East and they have not won a single war there. The wars are a factor and the cause for the wars have to be removed.
Hey RETARD, Al Queda was BASED IN AFGHANISTAN. And have you forgotten the butchery - real, video taped sawing off of heads - that Al Queda committed in Iraq? You should be wearing a keffiyah.
Reagan financed and put the Taliban in power.
prog.1=====And you are how old? You make it sound like you lived through and knew all of this stuff as it happened. You might have read about the history but I doubt if you lived through any of this at a mature age. Your freaking guessing at this stuff, go do your homework.
Under this liberal left administration ....Unemployment among blacks way up, unemployment nationally up, Debt up, Years without a formal budget 4, Food stamp dependency up, Welfare dependency up, Al-queda rising, gas prices doubled and who do the libs blame? Wow!
... anybody but Obama...
And it's going to get far worse over the next two years. Three years from now, I wonder if we'll not be standing in rubble brought about by rioting proletariat.
On Nov. 6th...
The voting American public showed exactly who they blamed...
Perhaps you missed the results....
K - 1200 RS wow shows you are young and ignorant Motor cycle type anyway but here goes
The one who re-elected Owebama are the ignorant and the leaches who want more of the free stuff that Obama has been handing out over the last 4 years, including the Mexican who now get amnesty! it is bribes for votes and apparently the only way this country will get it if for the country to fall flat on its face first and go over the cliff, realize that Obama suggesting that taxing the 2% weathly will hardly put a dent into all the spending and deficits created by Obama and the Dem party!
K1200, the voting American public was so divided that Obummer won by no more than 4% of the vote. Do you get that? Did you take enough math to get through "ratio and proportion" enough to get what that really means?
That's not a rout. It's not a mandate. It's squeeking by, just barely. You JUST BARELY WON. If you're standing next to someone on a bus, there's as much chance that he voted for Romney as there is that he voted for Obummer. Keep that in mind.
Paul w you are wrong on the mandate. Its definition is: a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative and the president did win the election with a majority.
Paul - "You JUST BARELY WON".
Yeah, but we did, and that makes you the loser. It doesn't matter if it was by a single vote, you still lost, and the rules are quite clear about what happens to the loser - deal with it.
If you don't like losing, next time try a platform that doesn't tell half of the country that they have no value.
We don't even know who is calling the shots over on the Republican side of the cliff! As far as most Americans know, it is probably Rush Limbaugh, Rince Priebus, and Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell,
John Boehner is unwilling, or unable, to clarify what loopholes or programs Republicans are willing to cut, which makes it seem like Republicans don't have any plan other than the continued efforts to hold our economy hostage as long as Republicans hold the majority in the House of Representatives and have the power to filibuster every bill in the Senate to block all efforts by Democrats and Independents to pass useful legislation, with the result that nothing gets to the President's desk, so President Obama can sign it into law!
This is just another replay of the last four years, that Americans must continue to suffer under until we finally remove the Republican scourge from the leadership of the House of Representatives altogether.
John Boehner is trying to convince Americans that President Obama refuses to put anything on the table, but Obama has been clear he is willing to cut wasteful parts of Medicare funding, as well as many defense department programs that the pentagon says are unnecessary. There is plenty of clarity on the Democratic side of the aisle, but refusal to negotiate in good faith are the Republicans, like a squeaky wheel on a wagon, who forgot to bring grease along to fix it, but won't stop their wagon or their lies, and would prefer to hear the same squeaky sound over and over again, until the wheel falls off and our nation hits the skids, along with their wagon! Americans should retire the Republicans and the wagon they rode in on!
Obama has been clear on only one thing regarding this particular issue, and it's his "proposal," which is nothing more than the SAME BUDGET that even his own people voted against.
Yeah Ya Right!!
Nothing new here!! Tax the rich and all the problems we have will go away the day after he signs the law. Nothing like black-magic!
Wow,,... Boehner is still orange.... really orange...
In fact,.. he's bordering on "oompa loompa" orange...
I wonder if the condition is serious??? Hmmm......
k1200 RS - so you buy a Jap bike? what is wrong with a Harley ? you know - American
Shows you guys with your "outsoucing" complaints are B S when you go out and buy foreign products
Jesus Christ was a progressive. Hing George III of England was a conservative.
A progressive?
How did He feel about tax collectors?
Prog. You don't know anything about Jesus Christ. You got that off the back of your bottle of meds.
Jesus said for the rich man to give every thing he had away to help the poor.
He also used tax collectors as prime examples of those who were hated by everyone. You should try to actually read the Bible.
Christ taught charity.
He also said it was not charity if given at the tip of a spear.
You still haven't said how he felt about tax collectors.
He approved of govt. tax collectors but did not approve of religious tax collections. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
LOL, that's funny!
You left a little bit out of that quote. ;)
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America was a conservative.
Prog.1 You are NO Jesus Christ!
Ladies and gentlemen........
Can anyone out here tell me how taxing the rich will create jobs? And heal the economy?
Anyone?
What you don't realize is that it is not a revenue problem. In fact, 2012 revenues were up (say it is not so with taxcuts in place!) over previous years....
It is a spending problem...Period....
How do you increase revenues?.....It is simple, create jobs and a dynamic economy.
Everything Obama is doing is hurting job creation and business.
Obamacare is the largest cost/tax increase on America in history.
Over 7000 new regulations are slated to hit businesses.
Threats of tax increases every day.
When you help business (vs hurt business), increase profits and create jobs/higher wages, people get back to work, earn money and guess what......PAY TAXES.
The more people out of work......the less taxes they pay....
Are you getting it yet.
It is the Democrats that have the wrong philosophy, not the Republicans...
Cut spending...put more of our money back in our hands and let us fix the economy....Not the government!
LOST IN SPACE MY MAN. complete garbage
LOL!!!
Sheppy still believes and parrots the Bush admn. Iraq WMD lies..
He's in,... very, very deep....
Johnny....just keep on keeping your head in the sand and drinking the "kool-aid".....
You might want to go ask your employer just what impacts he/she sees on their business....
First...Revenues...take a look at this...2012 revenues are highest since 2008...and with the taxcuts...
Second...Are you saying that when more people are unemployed tax revenues go down?????
Third...Business that are hit by higher costs either raise you cost of goods to offset taxes or begin to cut costs....Labor is the highest line item cost in most businesses...If they can't raise prices they have the cut costs which means cut benefits, wages or lay off workers...Which of those items is a good thing....
Based on your comment, it is clear that your teachers, your father/mother and/or friends have failed to teach you anything about business, finance and the economy....
Hence support for my comment that Obama was re-elected by an uninformed/uneducated electorate......
OOh scarey smart black guy in the whitehouse!
The informed American voter got it right. Thank goodness
Johnny....
Why is it that the rest of the world, except for Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and Iran, are saying Obama was re-elected by an uninformed/misinformed electorate????
I agree with them.....
Where did u hear that? Rush Limbaugh? Perfect
Why is it the rest of the world wanted no part of President Romney?
Truth is the east and west coast (smart folks) voted for Pres Obama while the skin heads from the middle of the country voted against the black guy.
You lose again
Little shep's "world" consists of the clowns on right wing squawk radio....
Time to put little sheppy on "ignore"... Life is WAYYY too short for the blathering hacks...
Source: Pravda.ru - 11/19/12 - Titled: "Obama's Soviet Mistake"
You may want to get away from the MSNBC (aka Propaganda Arm of the White House) and learn a little....
pravad.ru
And you called that a source. Laughable...
If they said the sky was Orange you would be believe them.
Shepherd = JOKE
Hello dummy, oops I mean shepherd...
Did you know pravada is a Russian communist newspaper, founded back in 1997. Google it dumb ass..
And you called that a source.... You're pathetic...
The "HOUSE was voted in with the same so-called mandate Obama was voted in with. The Republicans ran on no taxes...I am sure that is what the people want...for the Republicans to battle for no increases in taxes...That is what they ran on.
Rubbish
Its not an increased tax just the expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Get it?
Romney ran on a very vague platform so there is no way no how that it could be considered a mandate. Oh and by the way. He lost
They lost but that does not matter what matters is that the tax cuts have not done anything to help the economy.
Johnny,
They are no longer the Bush rates. Obama bought them when he was president and urged Congress to extend the Bush rates.
So if we let the Obama reduced tax rates expire, that's still a good thing?
He had to extend them to barter with the Republican nincumpoops.
Yes they have to be done away with.
Period
Johnny,
We agree, allow them to expire for all taxpayers.
The point is we voted for the same thing again. The President does not have any special mandate..if anything it is less than it was in 2008. Also the Republicans do not have a mandate as well. The President said these are the consequences of the Election ...well the American people voted for the Republican House again as well. He has to look at the consequences and work with it as well.
I want all the tax rates to expire... I want everybody who post on this page to pony up and pay their fair share! If the President does not want a balanced approach and compromise...then lets see where his great Leadership takes us.
Obama always wanted the rates extended for the lower brackets and expired for the top bracket.
Nope ...Everybody should pay! What kind of country is this ..we take people with the least amount of votes...and vote them to pay our burden....Nope .....Everbody should man-up and pay their fair share...
The 90% needs the tax break for the cash because they are the people that go out and actually spend the money that drives 70% of this economy.
Re-Elect ..I disagree 100 percent ...The Middle class spends burt nothing like the Rich...that is a proven fact in Economics. The Middle class ..saves and is very smart with their money. They spend when they have too. The Rich ..will spend on more things. They invest very well...but also spend on descresanary goods as well.
The Republicans who signed the "No Tax" agreement 20 years ago should be sued for Breach of trust through a class action lawsuit and an Anti-Trust class action lawsuit for signing an unlawful agreement to monopolize voting power and not representing the Americans that hired them and voted them into office to represent them and not the power groups.
Get real Mike, it's not anti-trust if its the platform you are elected upon.
Republicans dont give a rats ass what they were elected on. Get it?
Any republican who signed the pledge clearly is not interested in being free to do what is best for the country.
Bingo.
What that pledge says is that they are more concerned about thier own ideology even if it is at the expense of every day America. Its insane
Prog,
What's best is a matter of opinion.
Thousands of years of the history tells us that progress going forward rather than going backward is generally best for our civilization. Most conservatives opposed the use of electricity until they saw how beneficial it was.
Yes but when you have rich guys voting for what benefits rich guys what is best means whats best for those rich guys. Wake up man. President Romney wouldnt have been representing you if he won. Why dont you get that?
Johnny,
I hate to be the one to break it to ya but, Obama isn't a poor man.
Or is Biden.
Or are most of the democrats.
There are a many, many wealthy progressives that seek only to control everything around them.
The very programs and handouts sought by liberals are the chains that will bind them.
Prog,
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.
Who penned the above words? If one were to put one's faith in the reliability of the internet, the obvious answer would be Alexander Tytler. Or Alexander Tyler. Or Arnold Toynbee. Or Lord Thomas Macaulay. Or...
For 2000 years conservatives have been preaching that Western Civilization will be destroyed and they have been wrong for 2000 years and I would bet any amount of money that I have that it will not be destroyed in my lifetime.
2000 years? Columbus in 1492 - Declaration 1776
Rome fell ?
As I said, that would be a matter of opinion.
Personally, I feel the republic has already been destroyed.
Where would you say we are in our current cycle?
Its earliest confirmed use is on page 12A of the Daily Oklahoman on December 9, 1951, which attributed it to Tytler. Later references to the quote specify that it's from the book "The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic" by Alexander Fraser Tytler. No record of that book can be found, and nobody can find any other work by Tytler with the quotation.
In other words, it's pure wingnut B.S.
The Roman Republic stood for 536 years before Augustus became the first Emperor.
All the rednecks voted for Romney but this does not mean everyone who voted for him was a redneck but all the bigots also voted for him.
Anyone that doesn't share your opinion is a redneck and a bigot?
Thats pretty harsh. I think he was just being fascitious
Prog... I know how you feel...All the homeless and people waiting for governmental hand outs voted for Obama.Right now that is how Obama liked it..because he buys that vote in bad times. The majority of the people that voted for Romney contribute more taxes and are responsible for more jobs...Yep...Those are the people that you hate right now... they dont give you enough...Get off your ass and do something for yourself.
No one voted for Romney.
Just a bunch of uninformed middle Americans voting against the black guy cause Rush Limbaugh and Hannity told them to do so. Easy as that
Conservatives have a problem maintaining meaningful long term relationships because they are as boring sexually as they are in every other way.
Bring on the Cliff...And could someone please tell Obumer the the Election is over and he won! He can STOP campaining now and maybe doing a little work at the white house is in order
The President has put his proposal out. Now the pressure is on the Republicans.
Campaigning informs the voters.
The voters call their representatives.
Their representatives do what their constituents want so they can get re-elected.
Nope ..it is cowardly and easy to vote your burden onto a group of people with less votes than you....
Everybody should pay their fair share..Everybody on this post shoiuld pay more!
it's time to throw the ball in obama's court and let him jump off the cliff.
In case you missed it, the President's proposal is the ball and it is now in Boehner's court.
Maybe the response should be as rediculous as the proposal. Re-Elect even the LEFT does not like the proposal... Ex.. Allan Combs ... So how can you expect the Right to take it seriously?
"The era of big government is over"
"First, we must balance the budget.
Bill Clinton
January 27, 1996
Bill,
I watched the 1992 Clinton acceptance speech on CSPAN a few weeks ago. Wasn't anything like the democrats of today.
Choice in Education - Don't soak the rich - Smaller Government
It was a real eye opener.
And now for some context:
"The era of big government is over, but we can't go back to a time when our citizens were just left to fend for themselves.
We will meet them by going forward as one America, by working together in our communities, our schools, our churches and synagogues, our workplaces across the entire spectrum of our civic life.
As we move forward with tomorrow's challenges, we also must take care of yesterday's unfinished business. First, we must balance the budget. In the 12 years before I took office the deficit skyrocketed and our national debt quadrupled."
- President Clinton
January 27, 1996
"øur budget would be in balance today were it not for the interest payments"
President Clinton
January 27, 1996
"Though significant differences remain between our two plans, Republicans and I have enough cuts in common to balance the budget in seven years and to provide a modest tax cut without devastating Medicare, Medicaid, education, and the environment and without raising taxes on working families".
President Clinton
January 27, 199
"Let's give the American people the balanced budget they deserve with a modest tax cut and the lower interest rates and brighter hope for the future it will bring."
President Clinton
January 27, 199
Obama didn’t present any new ideas in his first speech since House Republicans rejected Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s proposal that he presented in meetings with congressional leadership yesterday. That proposal included $1.6 trillion in tax increases, $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and other programs, and ending Congress' control of the debt limit.
PO
TUS Obamatoday
Hey Shepherd .... interesting where your information comes from.
Source: Pravda.ru - 11/19/12 - Titled: "Obama's Soviet Mistake"
Wikipedia:
Finally the Communist Party of Russian Federation acquired the newspaper in 1997 and established it as its principal mouthpiece. Pravda is still functioning from the same headquarters on Pravda Street in Moscow where it was published in the Soviet days.
All I can say is Yikes !
Here's another YIKES!
english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/07-11-2012/122728-obama_president-0/#5467
Welcome to the USSA
voice of no reason, I guess if pravda.ru tell you the world is going to END tomorrow. You would believe them.
STupid little fool..
Take your pravada to fox news troll..
Let us not forget it was "Congress" that got us into this mess to begin with. Throw your party allegiance to the wind, cross the aisle, now look up opensecrets dot org and look at the Net Worth on both sides and you'll begin to see where your beloved Congress has set their allegiance. They win, you lose! So now the question becomes "what are YOU doing to set your fiscal house in order as medical premiums increase, taxes increase, food prices sky rocket, cost of fuel increases, unemployment increases, employers start laying off personnel, etc..etc..??" This is not about the President v. Speaker of the House, or you or I, it's simply about wealth and greed inside the political arenas. Tax reform, you're kidding right? They're not about to rob themselves of their own wealth. Prepare for a tax increase to the wealthy with tax loop holes intact, increased government spending, and kicking the ole can down the road. No politician is interested in doing the right thing for this nation.