If we don't balance the budget we will get closer and closer to the situation that Greece is in right now. If we don't start balancing the budget now, when will we?

I'm sorry Mr. President, I don't want you to continue cutting my taxes, or not making me pay my full contribution to Social Security. I want you to lead the movement towards tough choices and shared sacrifice. Every income-earning American should pay some income taxes. Graduated, sure, but everyone should pay something. Cut out all of these credits and tax breaks and lets work towards a balanced budget. And of course, that means we need to reign in our spending.

Everyone complains about the Bush tax cuts and wish for the times of the Clinton Administration when we had a budget surplus. Cool! Let's do it! Put the tax code back to that time and start the budget discussion from that level. Come on people!

If I had a company with John McCain and Lindsay Graham as managers, they both would be “called on the carpet” and “put on notice” for causing too much commotion and disruption, for going beyond any common sense limits in addressing a legitimate issue and thereby creating disruption, wasting time and failing to productively do their jobs. Today this is the standard performance with many politicians', with their total focus being on aggressively faulting, stubbornly blocking and just using a lot of hype to further their political agenda without any real conscience for doing the country’s work or for the costs to the people - just their belligerent “my way or no way” mentality causing constant gridlock. It is absolutely disgusting in being totally, irresponsibly self-serving and simply as if they just don’t care.

Seems that the democrats are from the mindset that losers should get trophies also and even takes it to the next level by giving them to those watching form the stands having a beer. As for the Republicans well they need to accept the fact their team sucks and fold making room for a fresh new team.

Do you see the NFL or NBA handing out trophies and bonus checks to the losing teams every year? Are the paying fans to come to the games?

Geez, the "fiscal cliff" voted in by the congers and seenators and signed by the pres himself, before the last election as both parties could use the fiscal cliff to make the other party look bad.

The govt is spending 1.3 million, er, billion, er, trillion dollars more than it takes in in taxes. ok, some ideas. lets have the 341,500 .3% rich who are the cause of this, get over that, to pay 1.3 trillion more in taxes then at least the govt is spending within its means. so 1.3 trillion divided by 341,500 is an additional tax of per rich person of 3,806,734. So that won't work. Lookit that the bad rich dont make enough money. So the govt should make cuts so what it spends is what it makes. Period. is that going to hurt. You bet. Look at greece.

So bring the troops home in 2013 instead of 2014. We can quit borrowing money. How about cuts to welfare? We have the 4th generation coming up on welfare that never worked. just turned 18 and picked up their check. How about cuts to food stamps? Why not. do you know how much people make on those programs.

I know of three families, well actually three 19 year olds that got three girls preggers and now they are three. In total they recieve $5,500 a month in food stamps and welfare. So that means that each family gets $1833 a month tax free. At my tax rate I would have to make 26,900 a year or $14.01 (pardon while i slobber, must be nice) an hour. Now heres the problem. Neither of these three have the qualifications to get better than a minimum wage job. OK thats $7.25 an hour. So they could get work making $925 a month after taxes. Now explain to me where is the incentive to get off the govt dole? Also explain why i gotta work making less than this trying to pay bills, like a lot of people, and these guys get to sit and watch soaps all day or go fishing. Note to self, get food stamps and welfare, make more money and go fishing. Not worth the trouble to keep working.

I think welfare and food stamps could be cut back without people starving. We gotta make cuts somewhere. well no more cola for retired feds, social security and retired military. gonna bite some but we got to get the spending down.

How about starting with cuts to our leaders who all seem to have their heads up their third point of contact.

President $400,000 plus bennies.

Vice president 230,700 + bennies

senator pro tem, majority and minority leaders: $193,400 + bennies

run of the mill senator: $174,000 + bennies

Congressman $174,000, with majority and minority and speaker getting 193,400.

Nutz im done.. How about some cuts there. a good percentage of these guys are millionares.

If I had a company with Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi as managers, they both would be “called on the carpet” and “put on notice” for causing too much commotion and disruption, for going beyond any common sense limits in addressing a legitimate issue and thereby creating disruption, wasting time and failing to productively do their jobs. Today this is the standard performance with many politicians', with their total focus being on aggressively faulting, stubbornly blocking and just using a lot of hype to further their political agenda without any real conscience for doing the country’s work or for the costs to the people - just their belligerent “my way or no way” mentality causing constant gridlock. It is absolutely disgusting in being totally, irresponsibly self-serving and simply as if they just don’t care.

Tax, spend, borrow. obama is a one trick pony. Those on the government handout wagon, Now over 50%, are willing to ride this sinking ship all the way down...

This country is sooooo broken.

How about this as a very unique concept.

STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DON'T HAVE!

STOP spending the money my grandchildren, who are both still in grade school, haven't even earned yet.

BOTH parties, Republican and Democrat, are nothing more than flip sides of the same corrupt coin. And if ANYONE of you truthfully believes otherwise, I have several bridges and tunnels in the metro NYC area for sale.... cheap!!

obama, what a loser. four more years can't wait. if he can't do any better then the first 4 years then he should step down now, what a loser

The tax cut Obama 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. Really Medicare ,he has already cut Veterans benifits and I don't see seniors have to lose more that what they already have. But then again Middle class, Veterans and Seniors get it stuck to us again.

I see where Obama wants congress to give him their duties.
He wants them to let him make his own laws and to be able to spend all the
money he wants without having to ask them. Kind of puts you in mind of Joseph Stalin
when he took over Russia doesn`t it.Another dictator is born.

Does ANYONE posting here truly believe that this country is on the right track with it's overspending and debt? Has anyone heard of Greece in the news lately? Has the Senate, controlled by democrats, produced a budget in the past 4 years as required by the constitution of this nation? Is this the fiscal cliff approaching, or is the fiscal cliff actually what our kids and grandkids are all going to fall off in the future due to the actions of these politicians, including a huge increase in the debt by Obama? And finally, should the Republicans just give in to Obama on this tax issue for his and his media's talk of working on spending cuts next year, and does anyone here believe there would be any serious budget cuts at that time?

Go over the cliff Prez. Everyone should have to pay a little more. Dems don't like cuts to social programs then pay a little more. Repubs want cuts in spending, that's what they get with the sequester. If $2000.00 more a year is the breaking point for the middle class then there is no middle class. If $167.66 a month breaks the bank in your household believe me you're not in the middle class and if you are you've done a terrible job with your personal finances. The problem is no one wants to pay anything but want everything. I'm a strong believer that if you want a strong government, you want to help the poor, you want to make sure grandma and grandpa are able to retire with dignity then put your money where your mouth is. If the Pres is truly as smart and savy as we're led to believe he has to see that the sequester is the best thing for this country. Sure the economy will take a hit but it will bounce back once the dust settles and we'll be better off as a country. Stop the whinning partisan electorate and do what is best for the country not your pocketbooks.

"Romney won 71% of white male votes (not PC but fact.) What's your point?"

My "Point" is this: Romney's campaign was focused largely on a signle issue: Grow the economy to create jobs. Those who believed that this issue was of primar importance to this nation as whole voted for Romney. Your statistic indicates that 71% of while males held such a belief.

Obama's campaign focused on no single issue. Obama championed entitlement programs, the cause of illegal immigrants, gay marriage, a woman's right to an abortion....yet with no SINGLE issue to hold as primarily important, 93%........NINETY THREE PERCENT!!!!!!!........ of black Americans still shamefully voted for Obama. (the first time he ran Obama carried 95% of all black Americans votes). Clearly their vote was based on nothing more than skin color. I am not a racist, but then neither am I a damn fool not to see it for what it was.

None of the several divisive and polarizing issues which Obama ran on gained such a high percentage of a block of electorate votes.

I am wondering if anyone of you has ever studied German history up to & during Hitler's reign of terror....it's very interesting reading!! You will be amazed at how that man managed to gain control over an entire country and how another leader's "footsteps" are similiarly emerging. The biggest similiarities are getting control of the country's pursestrings, gaining the trust and faith of the young people and minorities, dismantling the military to rebuild his own, and he was an unknown to the majority of the country when he became a leader. Above it all, he is an A-one egotist who firmly believes that he deserves to be the leader of HIS country far beyond the time he is allotted!!

Okay Libbie, listen up and shut up and clam up and sit your fat butts down right now okom. You are the smae now and same as before and will continue to be the smae forever in the way that you behave and react towards others who dont agree with your radical idealogues and your stupid pathetic excuse of a leader in Dictator in Chief bama and his ignorant admin staff he thought was a team but are actually nothing more than a bunhc of fools at a table. Clinto, fired, bama fired, rice fired, reid fireed, frank and dod fired, levin fired, berspanke fired, geithner fired, Gary gensler of CFTC fired, Eric Holder fired. The list should go on some more too of people that are good for ntohing peices of dog doo. So Libbies, grow up shut up and listen up for once in yo lives okom because its something you all have a very hard time doing. Thanks to Bama and his idiot staff and various fools in the agencies, when he is done with eight years of hell for us, wonderful disney land lifestyle for him and his litte kiddies and wifey poo, this country will go into a very very DEep Great Depression that you never realized was there to begin with. Weve yet to begin the second phase the most dramtic pahse of this a three phase Depression and yep it is one contrary to what our dumn idiot Libbi news Media tells us daily. I blame the 51% for what is coming and no one else, period!!!!!!!!!! Capitalism and conservatism works, ask Ronald Reagan friends. Merry Conservative Christmas and a Happy Prosperous no taxed no regulated New year!

Stop spending Trillions and then pretending that taxing people and cutting our Military spending and discontinuing our dollar bill printing to save 4 Billion over ten years will do anything, thats crapp and makes no no sense at all Libbies. Dont mess with our currency okom and dont take away our Militarys ability to protect us at home here in the US and abroad. But do please take away the Socialist Libbies ability to spend freely as they please nomatter if the American people show that it pisses them off, hmmmm???? Okom.

Good days ahead. Rubio and a good VP running mate for 2016

Hey..............You know to tell if Obama's lying ?

Yes, that's correct. His lips are moving.

I'm sure that him and his ho will be all stressed out soon, and need another vacation. Maybe they could go to the South Pole and.......................not come back. Just sayin'.

MOuntainLioness, your play of the race card disqualifies you from inclusion in any continuation of this discussion:

"(Republicans) will continue to lay blame because they still cannot, and will not accept the black man in the White House. Booo Hooo!".

Assinine beyond words. In the future, if you choose to bring race into a discussion, stick to facts and avoid opinion.

Unworthy of further comment.

DISMISSED.

Let the Bush tax cuts expire. Go back to The Clinton era taxes. Many of those that are now exempt from paying taxes will be paying taxes. That is what will happen. I am middle income. If my taxes go up than some who are exempt now should pay more. I have a friend that said that she should not have to pay taxes. But in the same breath thinks that I should. I don't make much more then she does but she is at the level where she doesn't pay taxes. A difference of 5000 dollars a year. I pay 3000 in federal income just so she doesn't have to pay taxes. So if mine go up so should hers and others that should be paying taxes.

Mr. Boehner: The bill to extend tax cuts for people making less than $250K has been sitting on your desk for weeks. It was passed in a bi-partisan manner by the Senate. If you truly believe you have the American people behind you, you will bring it to the floor for an up-or-down vote. No amendments. If you don't we will know you are blowing smoke and holding the middle class hostage to protect the wealthy. Your choice.

All Barry does is campaign. He does nothing. He has NO plan. He is incompetene. We all have to suffer because of the ignorant morons who re*elected a proven failure. He blames everyone else for his failures. What a joke he is as president. The dumbing down of America has been proven by this election.

Excellent point, KLB, should the Bush era tax cuts expire, the ones most significantly impacted will not be the rich, nor even the middle class - but rather it will be the poorest among us, who will go from being the recipients of annual tax refunds to assuming an annual tax debt (get those checkbooks ready folks) of some $2,300. These are the very same people who voted FOR Obama in overwhelming numbers. Wish fullfilled!

Let the dumbocrats hold the middle class hostage over raising taxes, they will rightly be blamed by all normal people. If the idiot in chief Odumbo thinks he has a winner in raising everyones taxes, then go ahead. All of you morons who voted for this fool and the idiotic senate, well done.

Obama is just too stupid to realize that to balance the budget you must cut spending, and the best way to do that is to cut the size of government not increase taxes. The economy would improve immediately.

For 2%ers like me, higher taxes is a done deal, and I can well afford it. But Republicans are determined to raise taxes on the rest of you, too. I don't care, but you probably should.

Obama will be on his way to Hawaii soon for a 20 day vacation-and $4 million cost to taxpayers! How out of touch can he be. Golf, vacations, campaigning with the stars, more golf..can't believe the Dems can't see through him. But then it's probably those thinking they're going to get something more from him. Quit blaming Repubs-the Dems will do nothing to curb out of control spending; and the taxes on his 'rich' will only be a drop in the bucket. Can't any of you do math anymore. Can't keep spending more than you can take in.