Comments on: Obama’s deficit reduction – a measly $400 billion over ten years

By: momofthecastle

momofthecastle — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:41:31 +0000

“Deficit” is a made-up word for “being in the red.” I don’t want to reduce the red number, I want it turned to black!!

By: carolina

carolina — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:10:27 +0000

obama is being spiteful. He wants to force higher taxes on the ‘rich’.

By: etlib

etlib — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:31:34 +0000

In agreement but want to note that when people hear $100 millions they think that it’s a lot (and it is if you’re talking about individuals). part of the problem is that there’s no sense of how truly bug the federal budget, deficit and debt are.

Breaking it down per peson might help but there’s no way the liberal leaning media and any liberal politician is going to do that and there seems to be little hope that the republican leaders will either.

By: glaucon

glaucon — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:04:13 +0000

Obama’s Democrat buddies on Wall St. (like Jamie Dimon) are making a killing on facilitating and issuing all of the debt. Bring down the system and make billions at the same time, what a scam.

By: glaucon

glaucon — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:59:59 +0000

…but the jokes on us.

The deficit needs to go to zero, and then we can work on the debt! Anything less is a joke. Across the board cuts is the only way to do it.

By: glaucon

glaucon — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:18:31 +0000

Unfortunately, many Americans don’t know the difference between the annual budget deficit and the national debt. It’s all accounting tricks until someone starts talking about debt reduction. Of course Obama’s proposal is nothing more than a joke that the media reports as if it is really doing something. We want zero deficit Obama, anything short of that will not do.

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:52:53 +0000

If we really want to show the impact of these numbers they need to be put into relevant perspective that people can really grasp in terms of their daily lives.

By: scmom

scmom — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:43:55 +0000

it is like being $1500 in the hole every month, and having your spouse tell you how proud he/she is that they will do without $40 of their lunch money… for a while… untill you can find a way to put it back in, because it is a real sacrifice…..

1.5 Trillion = 1,500,000,000,000
40 Billion = 40,000,000,000

By: Repair_Man_Jack

Repair_Man_Jack — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:14:12 +0000

all of yours. Tell him his option is to cut it all or stay ceteris paribus. He can do the following.

A) Stay ceteris paribus and demonstrate the extent to which he is an existential fraud.

B) Take it all and perpetually piss off those who campaigned their hearts out for him in 2008.

C) He can make some sort of a rational counter-offer.

We take C, we laugh at him and make it a centerpiece of our campaign to oust him if he takes A, I have no clue what happens if he takes B. Perhaps B gets him re-elected, but then again, at this point, it’s the best possibility of the 3 available.

By: jonaf

jonaf — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:09:19 +0000

Like most liberal politicians, Obama knows when it’s time to start sounding conservative because he knows that wins people over. When will conservatives start realizing that not only sounding conservative, but actually being conservative, is a distinct advantage?

It’s time to explain the budget plan and how it relates to conservative principles of getting people working for the private sector – maybe even for themselves. Have the guts!

Jon
www.gutfeelingbook.com

By: rivahmitch

rivahmitch — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 13:59:09 +0000

Obummer is the “inside” man in the Cloward-Pivens plan to destroy America. While his Union and “Community Organizing” Marxists attack from the “outside”to “overload” the system, he’s insidiously working from the inside to break it. His “budget reduction” is just another farce to further burden the productive and empower the parasites who support him. Personally, I’m sickened by those who who continue to attribute good faith to this b@$t@rd. He is an ENEMY, pure and simple (not “the opponent” as some RINO wusses profess.)

Churchill said it:
“If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Dole and McCainhave pretty much killed the more optimistic possibilities.

By: popster

popster — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:42:52 +0000

They have to start thinking in terms of 100s of billions to even make a dent. There can be no sacred cows in this effort, everything has to be on the table.

By: skicougar

skicougar — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:18:59 +0000

These Republicans that attempted to come out with a 23 billion dollar cut and now opped that amount to 100 billion remind me of the high schollo or college classes we have all taken that when we started the class, we anted an “A”; and just a few weeks later, we were figuring out what grades we needed on the exams to pass with a “C”.

If I were a new congressman, I’d be burning up the printers printing federal department dugets over the past 10 years and be on every House’s open floor speeches tell anyone on Cspan which departmenta have doubled their budgets over the past ten years.

For instance, the Community and Regional Development department?s obligations increased by 342% in 5 years. Did your salary go up 342 % in the past 5 years ? I didn’t think so, and there’s rises like that all over, besides just defense.

Don’t tell me there’s just 100 billion that can be cut. I know it hasn’t been raining on my leg since GW’s second term.

By: carolina

carolina — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:18:07 +0000

The govt will spend 35-45 Trillion over that time. This 1.1 trillion cut is still a pittance. obama is failing wide open again.

By: lineholder

lineholder — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:13:33 +0000

This article from NYT includes more specifics about Obama’s proposed cuts. Got some questions about the water treatment plants idea, but wondering about details.

Supposedly this will be announced tomorrow.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/us/politics/13budget.html?_r=2

By: lineholder

lineholder — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 17:53:59 +0000

Just out today, Obama has raised amount to 1.1 trillion, per Reuters. 2/3 from spending cuts and 1/3 in tax increases. Defense cuts included.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/13/us-usa-budget-obama-idUSTRE71B1QU20110213

How valid is this?

By: Socrates

Socrates — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:53:19 +0000

I even did a blog post linking to this comment.

http://teapartisan.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/obama-takes-tweezers-to-budget-finds-nothing/

By: nycenterright

nycenterright — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:52:00 +0000

http://xkcd.com/558/

By: Common_Cents

Common_Cents — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:37:45 +0000

the numbers should be broken down in to more understandable terms such as by each taxpayer or household.

Obummers ‘savings’ are like when your wife comes home after spending $1500 at the mall and bragging on how much she SAVED you!

By: jmimac351

jmimac351 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 16:06:23 +0000

Republicans are struggling to find $100 billion in cuts from a $1.4 trillion deficit. As it stands right now you could have substituted “Republicans” for “Obama” and it would be just as true. Unless the Republicans follow through with dramatic spending cuts they won’t have a leg to stand on and this clown will be re-elected because enough of the electorate will be demoralized and give up.