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Subscribe to RSSPresident Barack Obama said if congressional negotiators cannot draft a full budget by March 1, they should at least come up with a short-term combination of spending cuts and revenue increases in order to stave off deep federal spending cuts scheduled for that date.
"If Congress can't act immediately on a bigger package, if they can't get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect," Obama said, "then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until Congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution."
Charles Dharapak / AP
President Barack Obama turns towards cameramen and reacts to a sound as he speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013.
The sequester, reached as part of 2011 budget negotiations, was never actually supposed to take effect. Rather, its deep cuts, including almost $500 billion in defense spending over nine years, were put in place as a trigger to get Congress to agree to more comprehensive budget and tax reform.
House Speaker John Boehner released a written statement before Obama’s remarks, blaming the president for the sequester and saying he would not support any additional revenue increases.
“President Obama first proposed the sequester and insisted it become law,” Boehner said, adding, “We believe there is a better way to reduce the deficit, but Americans do not support sacrificing real spending cuts for more tax hikes."
In recent weeks, members of Congress appeared to be playing rhetorical chicken over the cuts, with some suggesting they were resigned to the across-the-board cuts.
“I think it’s more likely to happen,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was quoted as saying by the Washington Post last week.
But the White House has stood firm on the self-imposed cuts, with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney underscoring Friday that the sequester was always intended to be replaced.
“The negative consequences of implementation would be bad across the board," Carney said. "That's the point. So Congress needs to do its job."
And the president hinted that revenues would remain central to all budget negotiations, telling CBS in a Sunday interview that “there is no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit."
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O-abomination has no short fix,,he can't fix a dam thing and you see he don't want to fix anything.. His agenda of why fix anything when you can get filthy rich by exploiting it instead. Now if we can just find any Americans that will finally charge this pig for all his treason and theft of tax dollars. His Arming our enemies with weapons while trying to take Americans rights away so he can destroy our nation like any other they invade and concur. Short fix,, is this idiot really that stupid, I know his followers are all rabid monkeys with one agenda. Crying racist in every situation so they can make their categories, their separation into a divided states of Ameri-Con artist and thefts.. A short fix has been his whole policies, for a long term 30 trillion dollar debt by 2016..F_N idiot,, when do we see charges people for criminal war crimes against this civilian murderer in other lands with his drone strikes. What cowards,, are we going to wait until our homes are his targets because he puts us in the same categories if we don't bow down to his dictatorship and destruction of our liberties. Well maybe the cowards on Disney land rides will wake up when this government invades their homes and when you resist,, they put a drone strike on your family no different than they are doing in Islamic states...F_N stupid people of silent Idiocy. It's called puppet on the string of this criminal governments agenda. OH and cowards of our Disney land ride who can't get off to even help their own children's future
Sounds like another tax hike for all of us that ARE working to me. Doesn't make any difference we are becoming a third world nation at a break neck speed.
OB travels all the time, that's because he has no idea whats going on
at the white house figures let travel i can ovoid looking stupid
The only thing the POTUS is trying to avoid is bringing this great nation back to where it should be.
Look at all the pork and wasted $$$ in the latest bills for Sandy, etc. Congress is continuing spending us into bankruptcy - but those in Washington, their friends, families, cronies and union thugs couldn't care less: they are getting theirs, the rest of us be damned.
@ Patrick: From Post #60.1
The elitist, Liberal, Progressive, Socialist answer to everything. FORCE! This is America. In America people have the freedom to hire others because it benefits their business, and helps their business make money. Not because someone forces them to. That's what they do in all the dirt poor socialistic bananna republics infesting the third world. And we don't want to become one of them. If all the unemployed you would take off welfare by forcing some poor business to hire them had any top notch skills they wouldn't be unemployed in the first place. The reason they became unemployed is because their previous employers (if they had one) felt they could manage without them when the financial situation got bad in this country. And someone who is the genius that you claim to be shouldn't have to be told a thing like this.
And the beat goes on! ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlyelYetLAM => The devil went down to Washington.
frobose, no, the liberal answer is create a country in which people can trust each other. Since the people have failed to do so, it becomes the responsibility of government to defend its people, even from themselves. If that means forcing change down peoples' throats which in the end makes a better community, then as unsavory as the action is, I can live with that.
Also, I'm fairly conservative, I just understand that we don't live in a utopian world and I understand that BOTH the GOP and the Democrats are full of crap and are BOTH stabbing you in the back.
top notch people are automatically employed? Are you a business owner? Obviously not because that is not the reality. Businesses look for any excuse to get rid of expensive employees and replace them with 2 cheaper ones or by automation or by going overseas. That is the greedy climate which businesses have bred together in the wake of the financial crash.
the reality is people are doing everything they can to get degrees and get jobs. The jobs just aren't there. I make 6 figures and still volunteer in a NYC soup kitchen. when job listings come in, people will trample each other trying to get to them. You live off your own ignorance and stew in the bile of partisan filth. Get out and learn the perspective of reality.
You're a disgrace to true Americans.
Patrick, I too am fairly conservative. The country has become so divided that even good ideas are "wrong" if it comes from the other side. We have come to the point that people blindly follow their own group and do not think for themselves. I can say I'm from one party and the sky is blue. Those behind me will agree without looking up and those against me will say it isn't so without looking up. I honestly don't know where we will go. There is a balanced attack, but no one will listen. The line has been drawn and continues to divide for years and years. Like I said, I'm a conservative and therefore lean republican, but I know bull when I hear it. Most people don't. I really don't know how it will turn the other way.
Lean libertarian or green if you want to lean conservative. I haven't seen a truly conservative republican since 96. I was fine with moderate republicans. Now we just have hypocritical neoconservatives and whacko social conservatives like Bachmann and Santorum, and paul ryan running the show. Like I said in another post...the rockefeller republicans and lincoln and reagan are all turning over in their graves at the state of the current GOP.
I can't argue with your last sentence. The problem with smaller parties in our current voting system is that while they do have a lot of good ideas, it's almost a waste of a vote. As I stated earlier, too many people blindly follow a party which doesn't give "fresh new parties" a chance. I understand there are a few who make it here and there, but they still are in such a minority and can't get to the place of a powerful voice because people do not educate themselves on the issues. They just do what they are told to do or what they have always done. Our current system makes it very difficult for any real change. Bills should stand on their own with no more back door deals and add ons allowed. As much as there does seem to be a movement, I still don't see the two party system and electoral college being abandoned in our lifetime. That is what makes minor parties hard to back. It's almost like we have to vote the lesser of the two major evils.
Mr. TC
Banning pork on bills and any other attachments which do not directly affect the issues the bill addresses, would mean the end of money in politics. Though it is a necessary permanent step, you need independents for such an idea to pass.
And never, ever give into the notion of voting between two evils. Every vote for an independent increases the federal allocation of campaign funds for that party.
Point taken.
Patrick, I enjoyed our conversation once we got past the rocky beginning. However, gotta go now..... Todd's gotta eat! Hope you continue to prosper. Just remember, keep taking the high road and making your points. Some people can not be reached. However, there are a lot of those really looking to educate themselves from multiple areas. Keep your audience and don't run someone away who really might be able to be moulded. Can't stop radicals from posting.... that's what they do, but they won't be the ones making real change anyway.
Best wishes to you sir.
Patrick, still spewing all your BS lies I see. Same old stories over and over. You are a pathetic person
update-mccain joke racist?- hate speech-msm that's right msn poll 68% (253,000+) said no. does that mean that 2/3ds of those that post on this blog are irrelevant?
Tom:
Pretty much!
No, it's just the question was poorly phrased. racist is not the right word. Detrimental to U.S.-Iranian relations and possibly endangering to both the citizenry and the troops? Hell yes.
lets do some math shall we...our taxes were just raised...
115,000,000 housholds...median income of that is 50,850...aprox tax increase of 100.00 per month... thats 11.5 billion dollars a month o138 billin a year... national debt increases 3.8 billion a day or 114 billion a month...
in 1975 the average salary of a congressman was $44,600 today $174,000 but if you add benifits the average is $285,000( dont forget we have to pay this after they retire as well) in 1975 Average salary for you and me was 33,145 today 50,850... get the picture.
they need to reduce spending especially in the salary and pension arena... increase revenue by creating more jobs so we pay out less in handouts... and more would pay into the system...best way would be to start drilling all over the US...thats a real win win...have our own oil, lower energy and fuel prices creating hundreds of thousands of jobs... thats a start
Great logic, but logic does not compute in Washington D.C.
Opened his mouth again, and immediately the market went south. Will he ever learn to keep his mouth shut.
All the major market indices are up....
@ Re-Elect Obama 2012. But they are always further up until he opens his mouth. Watch the market response, it always drops off its high once he opens up his mouth.
So this is what Obama and the dems cooked up to corner Republicans over the last debt ceiling battle? If Obama was only as half as genuine as he tries to be in front of a camera, we might be getting somewhere.
The left wing action on capitol hill is no way inline with their narrative they deliver to the media. he stirs up the hronets nest, and then says "take me out of the debate". I think that quote will live on for centuries.
Obama.... Bag of hot air.. Ya got your tax on de rich... Now what do you want? More taxes... Where are the cuts? Nowhere, just keep kicking the can down the road..
Yep, Pelosi, queen smug, clearly stated the dems are not done wasting time on tax increases. Democrats have been the party of distraction lately.
wilman, the deficit has fallen by almost 100 billion a year for 3 years straight. That's the 1st trillion in cuts which obama agreed to when he got into office! Now that the iraq and afghanistan war deficits are due to disappear entirely, you're going to see another 200 billion of the deficit go bye bye. We have a revenue problem and too many people on welfare because businesses aren't actually hiring. If you moved 12% of the population off of welfare and foodstamps (the real unemployment percent) the deficit is reduced to 142 billion as of right now! Add in additional 12% tax revenue and the deficit is just a paltry 873 million! Get a clue we have a revenue and economy issue not a spending issue!
Yes, can never collect enough taxes... As long as someone else is paying for it...
But heaven forbid, they let the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone....
We have a spending problem...
Defense budget is bloated, Education budget is bloated, foreign aid is bloated, benefit packages for government workers are bloated...
Even though the wars are supposed over, how much aid will we give these countries?
If the deficit supposedly has dropped by 100 billion for three years, how is this one trillion?
Same as the millionaires and billionaires who make $250,000 a year in Obama's world?
education is bloated? Foreign aid should be non existent, DOD should be halved (just cut back on nukes, we have way too many). Congressional pay and benefits are bloated. But education? It's less than 5% of the total budget! And frankly a country which doesn't invest in and give comprehensive feedback to its teachers will always fall behind.
And I became a millionaire in 7 years making 300,000. If you can't do it in 10 making 250,000 annual salary and doing smart, small investments, then that is your own fault.
And wil, basic math. 1.4 trillion - 300 billion =?
Answer 1.1 trillion.
Education is bloated... Where else can you make $100,000 a year for 150 days of work and have no accountability for results?
If you make $300,000 a year, the government takes close to half in taxes between federal, state and city tax. If you live in New York, it isn't that much money...
wilman, teachers work year round. How can you even say that? They have to make new curriculums every year, attend seminars the state doesn't pay for to maintain their certification, in addition to actually making enough money to live while not being paid. And all of this while also having to grade papers and tests in the evening hours while most others are with their families. You have no perspective on how hard good teachers work or the amount of time spent. You're delusional.
Also, I live in Troy, dirt cheap and good housing quality.
Please, teachers are required to work 150 days a year.... And they sometimes grade papers after they come home at 3? Wow, must be tough to grade a sixth grader's test... How many people work two hundred forty days a year, for more than eight hours a day?
instead of 8 or 9 to five, most teachers work 7-3, with a 40 minute break, then have to grade papers, write curricula, write out discipline reports, setup meetings with parents, formulate tests, double check their lesson plans. You are so delusional.
Not to mention once again, having to attend seminars on child psychology and modern teaching practices to maintain their teaching licensures. You really have no idea what goes into being a teacher. There's more red tape to jump over than any business.
And add up all the extra hard work you profess teachers do.... Does it add up to 240 days of work a year? I think not.. Have students' grades gone up in New York City with all the extra money thrown into education? And the answer is...... NO
I see Obama is using the long arm of HIS DOJ to punish the Dow Jones for lowering the US's credit rating. With all the other rating companies in the world who said the housing boom was okay, why did Herr HitObama choose to have his brown shirters sue Dow Jones????????
It was because they were the only ones to down grade HIS government and he can't have that now can HE????
And the amount he is sueing for just about matches the profit that Sen Chris Dodd and Barney Franks made by forcing the banks to make these loans in the first place!!!!!!!
Isn't it grand when the government which is here to protect free speach comes up with a law suit that has been created to curtail free speach, which is what a rating company is exercising when it makes a CALL on the soundness of our government!!!!!!!!!! It is just an opinion given by a company/news group that sees HIM and his group for what it is-------an unsound business venture!!!!!!!!
Ooooops, they'll be coming after me for expressing my opinion!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I see Obama is using the long arm of HIS DOJ to punish the Dow Jones for lowering the US's credit rating"
All I can say to this is ...
Huh?
Hey Feisty, how much do they pay you to spout off your nonsense?
$100 of food stamps a month.. Never worked a day in her life.
Wh*re....
LOL...
@Fred - Feisty is Jen Psaki - in 2009-2010 she was given a pay increase of $37,000 PER YEAR on top of what she was already earning which was $113,500.00 - That was a 33% pay raise increase. She was deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of communications.
"If Congress can't act immediately on a bigger package, if they can't get a bigger package done by the time the sequester is scheduled to go into effect," Obama said, "then I believe that they should at least pass a smaller package of spending cuts and tax reforms that would delay the economically damaging effects of the sequester for a few more months until Congress finds a way to replace these cuts with a smarter solution."
NO, You've had enough time to do it properly.
NO more interim measures.
NO MORE EXCUSES.
Do your job, or quit and get out of the way.
We have already spent the money and the credit card payment is due. Welfare etc is a pay as you go thingy based on the needs of the people. With more jobs and a better economy spending on "entitlements" will be reduced. Cutting everything in site but the Pentagon budget isn't going to solve anything. It needs to be a balanced approach. They need to seriously look at what we are spending and how we are spending it based on the current needs of the people. They need to look for waste, cut pork-barrel projects and if that means across the board, so be it. At the same time we need revenue increases with the caveat that the increases are to pay existing debt not for things that don't currently exist. When you start two wars and put them on a credit card believing that "deficits don't matter" the result is going to be a bad one.
If you had a bunch of expenses due to someone in the family with a major illnes, for example, and your insurance compay won't pay for it, if you can afford insurance in the first place, now the bill is due. How are you going to pay for it? Are you going to default, borrow money to pay existing debt only to have more debt later on for yourself and your kids, or are you going to find ways to cut what you can on discretionary spending while, at the same time, getting a second job to cover the already encurred debt? More revenue and spending cuts will reduce the debt faster than either alone if they would reduce it at all.
feisty, how is it you are the 1st turd out of Obamas as* everytime ?
Who else can sit in front of a computer all day waiting for articles on her beloved leader, but the fat and unemployed?
those working at a quantum computing lab waiting on algorithms to finish?
she probably gets a email for the white house were posting at 915am about this bam
shes there never have i seen here other than 1st post
Yes I am sure that's it... I sit in front of a computer most of the day and post on websites instead of doiny my job... LOL
My job is to compose new methods to solve big problems in less time and try to break out of exponential time to polynomial time. The program can still take an hour to do the task I designed it for (which if it beats the 1.5 hour design of the next best, then that's a massive win).
Is your alternate screen name Feisty? Since this was how this first began...
No, simply run an IP trace, if you have the skills to. she's somewhere in Illinois outside manchester. I'm here in Troy, New york.
Just kidding...
@ Patrick: From Post #78.1
Your opinion of me notwithstanding because I really don't care about it. And for your information all it takes to be a "REAL AMERICAN" is citizenship. And guess what? I qualify whether you like it or not.
Across the board cuts. We have had ENOUGH increases. Increases like the 1982 TEFRA agreement where we got the Democratic "tit" (Tax Increases), but never quite got around to the Republican "tat" (Spending cuts). Why in the world would anyone believe them now?
I direct your attention to (www.cfda.gov/) This is the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Programs. There are 2,184, or 2,242 of them depending on who's numbers you believe. Count them if it's important to you. The top five issuing agencies are Health and Human Services, Interior, Agriculture, Education and Justice. They account for 1,249 programs, leaving another 993 programs scattered hither and yon across the governmental landscape.
Check it out, and when you do keep in mind that it is Y-O-U-R hard earned money that supports every one of these programs, and the large, inneficient, and probably corrupt beauracracies charged with giving away what's left of your money after they take their cut.
The question of how much we spend on Federal Domestic Assistance Programs is almost unanswerable. But for the sake of argument lets say that we go through them with a fine tooth comb, and eliminate enough to reduce the Federal budget by 5%. Nothing drastic Just 5%. That's all. 5% of a 3.8 Trillion dollar budget is $190 Billion dollars. => www.snspost.com/federal-domestic-assistance-programs/ => wastefraudandabuse.org/
If you look through this catalog, and can't find SOMETHING that the U.S. government can't live without then you can definitely rank yourself among the "Loony Lib's".
Then there are the 185 Federal Means Tested Welfare Programs that suck down $927.2 Billion per year. Let's say we trim them by 1%. Just 1% that's all. That would save $9.272 Billion per year. => en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_States => cnsnews.com/news/article/welfare-state-grows-nearly-19-under-obama-almost-1-trillion-year
Also:
1) - Get the United States out of the United Nations. That would save about $4.04 Billion per year. => www.betterworldcampaign.org/issues/funding/how-the-us-funds-the-un.html
2) - End the Afghan War. That will save about $86 Billion per year. => csis.org/files/publication/120515_US_Spending_Afghan_War_SIGAR.pdf
3) - Cut military spending by 25% across the board. That should save about $176.875 Billion per year. (Without a war to fight this should be easy.) => en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
4) - End Farm Subsidies. That should save about $22 Billion per year. (No more paying farmers to not grow things. => washingtonexaminer.com/depression-era-farm-subsidies-should-end/article/702816
5) - End Alternative Energy subsidies. That will save $24 Billion per year. (If a technology is economically feasable it will stand on it's own.) => money.cnn.com/2012/03/07/news/economy/energy-subsidies/index.htm
6) - End traditional Energy Subsidies. That should save approximately $30 Billion per year. (Let them compete in the marketplace.) => www.eli.org/Program_Areas/innovation_governance_energy.cfm
7) - Get the United States out of G.A.T.T. That will save 12 Billion in Tariffs. => www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-913738.html
8) - Get the United States out of the W.T.O. That will save about 13 Billion. (And we won't be bound by their trade, & tariff restrictions.) => www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2012/september/US-contributes-funds-WTO-trade-facilitation
9) - Get rid of Homeland Security. That will save $57 Billion. (We already have the FBI, and the CIA. National security is the job they were created to perform. Let them do what we're paying them to do.) => www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/budget-bib-fy2012-overview.pdf
10) - Cut the current $58 Billion per year foreign aid in half. That will save $29 Billion per year. (STOP giving foreign aid to countries that aid our enemies altogether.) => www.foreignassistance.gov
There ... I took ten minutes out of my busy day, and just saved the U.S. $653.187 Billion dollars PER YEAR. (That's almost three quarters of a trillion dollars) If our government has the juevos to actually do it.
Here are a dozen more suggestions that will save vast ammounts of money as yet to be determined because I do not currently have the relavent numbers at my fingertips.
1) - End China's "Most Favored Nation" trading status.
2) - Raise Import/Export tariffs (So that it costs a company the same to manufacture goods in China as it does to make, and sell them here.)
3) - Legalize, and tax marijuana.
4) - Free non violent prisoners. (Stop turning high school potheads into hardened criminals.)
5) - Institute the Line Item Veto. (No more "Bridges to Nowhere", "Cowboy Poetry Festivals", & Cow Flatulence studies).
6) - Tie Congress, and the Presidents Salary, and benefits to the nations economic condition. (Economy good, Pay & bennies go up. Economy bad Pay & bennies go down.)
7) - Fire ALL unconfirmed Czars, and shut down thier departments. (This one should save B-I-G money.)
8) - End all government office year after year budget increases. (If they can't run on the ammount they got last year let them publicly make thier case for the increase).
9) - NO MORE NO-BID CONTRACTS WITH THE GOVERNMENT.
10) - Institute a 1% per year reduction across the board in everything that's left untill the budget is balanced. (Yes, I mean EVERYTHING.)
11) - Dismantle the Federal Reserve Bank. Ban Fiat currency. Go back to Gold as per Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. (Look it up).
12) - Ban fractional Banking. (Shut down the big bankers "Con Game").
I'll tell you what! You Liberals can have Obama's tax increases. As long as these spending cuts, AND the spending cuts that were promised in 1982 are FULLY implemented F-I-R-S-T. Not one dime in increased taxes untill A-L-L promised spending cuts are
F-U-L-L-Y implemented. Fool us once; shame on you. Fool us twice; shame on us.
There ... Now you have a "Plan". are you Happy? Can you PHHHUUUUULLEEZE finally join us in a serious effort to improve this countries financial situation instead of jumping up, and down like a bunch of trained circus Chimpanzees screaming about beating up on the rich? You know that's not going to work. We know that's not going to work. And the politicians know that's not going to work. So just S-T-O-P.
Instead of beating up on the rich, and each other we should A-L-L be beating up on the politicians in Washington D.C. Demanding that they actually DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE for a change. Because if we don't we are A-L-L going to be very sorry; very soon.
However, if you Liberals still think taxes are too low feel free to add a few zeroes to your next IRS bound check. I'm reasonably sure they won't mind. The rest of us are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY.
Millions of people will lose work if they cut defense spending. Companies will close. It is already happening because no one will invest or even keep employees waiting for the congress to make anything other than temporary nonsense.
When OBAMA takes your retirement, and your Social Security and taxes you so he can give away money to the ones that won't work, I guess everyone will still believe him whatever he tells you. I've never seen so many people that are like sheep lead to the slaughter and you still believe this liar. He doesn't want a budget, he probably has never seen one and he certainly does not need one when he has the TAXPAYERS money that he can spend as he wants too. He can spend millions of our money on vacations when we cannot afford to go on a vacation. He is a sponger off the TAXPAYER just like these women that have all these kids for the TAXPAYER to support. He needs to be impeached, as does Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and all their cronies, kick them out of the government send them home with no retirement, no ss, no security and see how they like it. Let them try to live like the TAXPAYERS are having to do. If they had to live like us they would fix everything in 15 minutes, Warren Buffett has the fix for all of it, but they won't listen to him because he has term limits, no retirement paid for by the TAXPAYER and no insurance let them be on OBAMACARE if it is so good. Frankly, I'm sick and tired of the liars, cheats monkeys to the people that they owe, its pitiful what AMERICA has become.
as one who makes 6 figures AND volunteers in an NYC soup kitchen, I have news for you. PEOPLE WANT TO WORK! THE JOBS JUST AREN'T THERE!
People almost trample each other when a volunteer comes in with a list of various job openings in the city. those people are often right out the door renting a suit (if they can afford it) or getting washed up and heading to a flea market FOR a suit for the interview. You are screwed up if you think people aren't majorilly willing to work. the issue is lack of available jobs thanks to the oligarchs in big business turning their backs on the people and economy which made them great in the first place.
And people who are homeless are just people without homes..
And the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale...
It seems like a common thing for Conservatives to claim that all the people without jobs, needing assistance are what are causing the problem, when it is the other way around. lack of good jobs with livable incomes is the problem, and the people needing help is the result, not the cause...
thank you Ed, and I AM a conservative, something the GOP hasn't been since 96.
It seems that a common thing for Liberals is to claim that all people without jobs want them, should automatically make x amount of money regardless of skill or education.
sonja,
W/Obama's 30% approval rating going to the polls, Bozo the Clown could have beat him by a landslide. The fact that Romney lost by a substantial margin puts him way below Bozo in terms of being fit for the presidency in the eyes of the American people.
The Republicans simply don't have a candidate so Obama wins by default. Even though over half the voters disapprove of him, they pulled his lever anyway (holding their noses) as a vote AGAINST Romney/Ryan.
Hee Haw
everyone should be able to make enough money to subsist. Beyond that takes more skill than just manual labor alone requires. But I actually volunteer and help the homeless and jobless. You don't. you have no idea just how despreate these people are or how hard some of them really try to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. We don't live in an economy or business environment which makes that easily doable. this is the result of vulture capitalism going unregulated.
donkey, it's 50% according to even fox.
Not everyone can be as skilled and smart as you Wilman, but they still need a wage larger than welfare, to survive. ...It seems as though some, WANT uneducated, unskilled workers out there so they can pay them very little..Well, there you go, little income, little income tax...They are getting what they asked for
Ed, please make sure you direct your comments with a name.
No one owes you a living... You have the ability to get a free education, learn a skill. It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
Patrick,
Well said. This donkey is also a conservative trying to take back the Republican party. America needs a real conservative party like the one that got women the right to vote, the one that started the National Park System, the one that freed our brothers and sisters from slavery; not the one that passes the Patriot Act, starts 2 unfunded wars while cutting taxes, and gives tax incentives to export nothing but our jobs.
Hee Haw
wilman, education is free up to the high school level, or did you forget that? You need a minimum bachelor's degree nowadays usually just to subsist. either fund college education and mandate it be free for those who qualify by national testing like the europeans do (those who fail are mandated into serving the armed forces for several years, meals provided, but work required in the civil engineering sector) or get a clue!
No one ever said you were owed a job Wilman, stop making things up. All I am saying is that if some styles of capitalism fight labor in the name of higher profits for themselves, then low taxes is what they will get. They reap what they sow. To put into place a system that creates low wages, and then complain about not having enough tax revenue is wrong.
Still going to be heehawing when all tax cuts are allowed to expire and your taxes go up?
If we hadn't had tax cuts in the first place and hadn't bailed out wallstreet in the first place, we wouldn't be in half this mess! Then again if we hadn't had to pay for 2 wars and a bloated, pork-infested medicare Part D bill...less than half the mess.
If you do well in free school, then maybe you have the chance to get a scholarship, apply for aid, and get a good job... Or doesn't that work in Troy?
Well look at it this way. If every single person that you are complaining about, magically got smarter and more skilled, would there be enough jobs for them?? Nope, not even close....The only abundance of jobs that are available are low paying jobs, ones that don't even pay as much as welfare ... created to help someone make more profit....So in my mind, they have a lot of nerve complaining the government doesn't have enough money
And there are many employers out there who are not able to fill jobs, as the applicants don't have proper skills....
I disagree..not enough to employ all the poor people of this country, all the minorities in the inner cities, not enough for the all the people you are complaining about...AND, not all have the ability to do so anyway
"No one ever said you were owed a job Wilman, stop making things up"
(and then he says "not enough to employ all the poor people of this country, all the minorities...)
Yes, you need SKILLS and INCENTIVe....
Abraham Lincoln - greenbacks
James A Garfield - bimetalism
JFK - 1110 Executive Order
What do these Presidents have in common besides a free U.S. monetary system? (void of centralized banking and Federal Reserve)
correction> 11110 Executive Order
they were liberals?
they were assassinated
2 things in common then...
Does anyone know what congress does for a living?
I thought they were suppose to pass a budget to control spending so we don't crash through the debt ceiling. So as we crash through the debt ceiling we say it's OK because we're also passing a law saying congress now definitely has to do their job or we get the sequester.
So w/the sequester looming does anyone think this congress could find their own butts with both hands?
Hee Haw
if they don't the people will rise up. there's only so far you can push a mule before it kicks you.
Short term fixes soon turn into long term problems, they are a significant part of the way we got where we are today.
"And the president hinted that revenues would remain central to all budget negotiations, telling CBS in a Sunday interview that “there is no doubt we need additional revenue coupled with smart spending reductions in order to bring down our deficit."
And just where is this going to come from Mr. President? You already have a tax increase from the Fiscal Cliff debacle.
Where are the cuts?
Oh yeah, that's right, they got kicked down the road to this point in time.
We could always collapse china by tariffing them and forcing manufacturing to come back here since we buy most of it anyway. If it's cheaper to sell by making it here, the money whores will come right on back.
I think the American public is to used to the George W. Bush administration ramming their budget through a Republican controled Congress. The fact is it's up to Congress constitutional authority to come up with a budget that will advance or country forward into the next fiscal year (and beyond) without bringing the country into an economic disasater. It is the president's constitutional authority to veto the budget if the president feels that the budget will bring on disaster for our country.
What did we hear throughout the healthcare debates? the power-of-the-purse; the-power-of-the-purse, Congresss will just defund the program if they can't repeal it and replace it with the status quo. What, then, do we hear of all of the budgeting fiascos from our congress? It's the president; it's the president, he isn't coming up with a budget for us to sign on to.
No, dammit! The Congress needs to stop inverting the government by putting their own authority over top of the president. Do something for the whole country Congresspeople, or get the F-uck out of Congress. Okay?
Right, and that is why there is a law that is "supposed" to force the President to turn one in yesterday.
By the Constitution, Congress is a check/balance on the President.
Here David, educate yourself.
Congressional consideration of the federal budget begins once the President of the United States submits a budget request, which is formulated over a period of months with the assistance of the Office of Management and Budget, the largest office within the Executive Office of the President. The budget request includes funding requests for all federal executive departments and independent agencies.
That being said, the President's budget proposal is largely a political document that Congress will kick around for another year before anything actually gets done.
Wrong, Sonmanvb, The "budget" that the president submits to Congress is his blueprint of what he believes is the best budgetary course for the country. All of our 44 president's "budgets" have been laughed out of Congress by all of the 113 congresses. Even George W. Bush's budgets were scoffed and laughed out of Congress's even though those four congresses implemented about 99.5% of his budget requests. Congress has the power of the purse, the power to raise revenue, or the power to allow the country to default or fall into an economic abyss due to the budgetary inaction.
Note: Also The Iraq and Afghanistan conflagrations were never in Bush administration budgets. They were always funded by supplemental budgets.
Hey, JoDepper, a budget request IS NOT a budget. Educate yourself, or call Reince for further instructions (troll?).
Davey, did he get your little panties in a bunch? Temper, temper lil liberal
Another short term fix for a long term obama crisis. GO OBAMA! FORWARD!
It's Congress that's stalling.
re-elect, back away from the Obama / liberal kool-aid machine. You sound pathetic in your little posts. Pull your head out of his lying azz for a minute
Lock every member of Congress in a closet until they fix the crap they've visited on this country. There isn't a single one of them worth the powder it would take to blow them up.
Can't. Obama and the dems don't want any thing fixed. As far as they are concerned, every thing is all hunky dory as long as the repubs play along. Move along, nothing to see here. Our economy is fine, unemployement is not 7.?% for the last 5 years, We are not $16.4 trillion in debt.
Let me give you guys an Economics lesson. There are a lot of people on here who are ignorant about how it works.
1) Government cannot create wealth. All it can do is take it from one sector of the economy and distribute it to another sector.
2) The majority of jobs in a healthy economy are in the Private Sector. The Private Sector creates a product or provides a service that people from their freedom pay for. The willful exchange of money for goods and services and the demand for that is what causes jobs to be create and good healthy economic growth.
3) The job of the Federal Government is to protect our Freedom and to maintain order in society. The smaller the govnerment and the less burden the government is on taxpayers, the better the private sector is able to do. Yes we need governent and yes we need tax revenue. But not Big Government and high taxes.
When Big Government prevails and wealth starts to be redistributed it stifles economic growth in the Private Sector.
And that is where we are as a Nation right now.
These things would get our economy moving if Congress and Obama would only do them.
1) Keep taxes where they are.
2) Make the Necessary cuts in waistful spending to get us to a balanced budget.
3) At least modify ObamaCare and get rid of the parts of it that will stifle economic growth, in particular those part that will add to the deficit such as the bureacrats the taxpayers will have to be paying to support ObamaCare.
Its frustrating to know what we need to do but knowing that the voters voted in people that won't do them because they are stubborn clowns that think their way is going to work. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. And that is where we are as a country right now.
Great post Noah, but most will ignore it because it does not fit into thier BIG GOVERNMENT idea and that gobverment can and will solve all of thier problems.
Yeah, nice post Noah. I think Reince should pay double for this one, at least, 4 cents instead of 2 cents? If I were you I'd hold out for 5 cents for this post. I dunno? What is the going rate now for the troll posts on the web? Back in the beginning days it was just a penny a post, but I heard when Reince took over he awarded all the good trolls with a 100% pay increrase to two pennies a post. So is it still two pennies a post? Demand four cents for the last post Noah. You the man.
How about getting rid of Obama care entirely?
And making real changes. I would start with torte reform and changing the ways people get their prescription drugs.
Driving down costs is the only way to make it work. Having more people pay more to an industry that isn't going to stop increasing it's profit margins will never solve this problem.