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“House Speaker John Boehner said the U.S. House won’t act to replace automatic federal spending cuts until the Senate “gets off their ass” and passes a plan.”
Of course Obama got away with a lie in the debates about this latest sequester mess. It was his staffs idea before it was not then it was till it did not poll well and now that it is not as big it is no longer his mess?
It would be nice if the Republicans went through with their 2010 mantra of a “laser-like focus on jobs.” So, of course, they didn’t want to go through with Obama’s instrastructure repair proposals (because it would make O and the economy look good…can’t have that!).
Heard a person talking about the problems between Israelis and Palestinians and he said, “They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” ^ The number of billionaires increased 16% since last year. There are now 1426 of them. Corporations are sitting on money. Pay for people who actually create things like food, power, or provide services is miniscule while people who gamble on the value of currencies make fortunes. ^ Mr. Heller makes an excellent point that Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehnor are standing too close to in the art to see. Jobs. Workers pay taxes, buy products, increase demand, and in doing so, create jobs. So much needs to be done, but so few people with money or access to money are willing to do things. The Carnegies, JP Morgans, and other magnates of history – despite their misdeeds – loved this nation and invested in it. Our leading capitalists now don’t care about this nation, and invest their money in oversea accounts. ^ I would like to see a really high tax placed on the rich, however, I would like to see THEM decide where the tax should go. Perhaps there is a bridge near their home that needs repair. Perhaps the city in which they live needs more police or firemen or teachers to educate the workers the wealthy need to work in their corporations. Maybe they would be willing to invest in a pipe line to take water from a river prone to flooding and move high water to areas in drought. Maybe there are very wealthy people who love wild places and would invest in parks and wildlife preserves. ^. Our nation needs heroes with money. We have heroes sweating blood and tears but they can’t change a nation without the resources with which to work. If the job creators won’t help out of self interest or patriotism, they need to be compelled. No one has the right to have ALL of the money as long as money is finite, and the only way things get done. Respectfully, C.
Boehner goes on the Sunday shows and lies that the president doesn’t have a plan, lies that the senate Democrats don’t have a plan, lies that his congress passed a plan (they haven’t, that was last congress and he no longer has the votes), and he’s Howie’s “hero?” That explains a lot about the continuing downgrade of the Republican brand.
Since when did you party, not the name but the philosophical party care about blacks, not to mention minorities of any color or race? Certainly not in the recent generations, if ever.
Bohner a leader? harley you really need to lay off the stuff you get from your freelance recreational pharmaceutical representative. That stuff has rotted your brain.
As I have written in the past, President Obama can lead the Congress to a solution that benefits the masses of Americans but he can’t make the republicans agree if it doesn’t disproportionately benefit the über-wealthy. On the other hand bohner can get “98% of what I wanted” and still not get his party to follow him. Okay that was a little unfair, but you can’t honestly deny that bohner hasn’t failed to garner the support of his own party for republican led bills that came up for vote or were waiting to come up for a vote and that was just recently.
Bohner can’t get his own party to agree to the demands they had just made and you call him a leader?
I think you forgot one crucial part of that “last congress.” It does not matter what was passed during the last congress, it is by law dead, no longer a viable actionable bill. So they could have passed it in the last hour of the last day they were in session of the last congress and say they passed the bill, but knowing it was impossible for the Senate to take it up makes it useless anyway. I’m not saying that is what they did but it’s not out of their realm of behavior. Unless bohner can pass the same bill now, with enough time for the Senate to bring it up, pass it and send it the President, it is irrelevant what they do.
And you know the funny thing is, this half-truth and procedural falsehood has been debunked with truth and facts time and again on the “liberal media” but I still hear/read it from the righties from time to time since bohner said it.
this is another liberal I want some one else to create jobs while I go to walmart and buy imports. Building roads or bridges does not help if the money goes to walmart then china.
How does building roads and bridges in America send money to China? . You are getting all wrapped up in the party and forget to use common sense. . Are we going to import Chinese labor and pay them to build our infrastructure?. You are not making sense. . But then….
LOL at “the President Has a Plan” . Lengthy article, but all informative. But you can stop reading once you get it. .
When President Obama put out his “balanced” plan to avoid the automatic sequester cuts, no one noticed. Which is probably just as well for Obama, given how embarrassingly unbalanced it is. . Last week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how Obama “hasn’t actually come up with a proposal to avert sequestration, let alone one that is politically plausible.” . Turns out, Obama did have one, although Brooks can be excused for not knowing it, since the administration hasn’t exactly been promoting this so-called plan. . That, too, is understandable, since it isn’t a plan at all, just a list of numbers with little to back them up. . There are no details, for example, about the $200 billion in cuts to defense and domestic discretionary programs, other than that Obama wants them split evenly. . And while he offers $400 billion in “health savings,” 30% are lumped in a bucket labeled “other.” . Worse, Obama’s “balanced” plan actually counts hundreds of billions of new revenues from taxes, fees and rebates as “spending reductions.” Examples: . • His plan to “strengthen” unemployment insurance is labeled as a cut, but it’s really a $50 billion tax hike.
• The $35 billion from the federal worker retirement programs involves boosting worker contributions.
• Most of the $35 billion in Medicare savings comes from charging wealthy seniors more. . • The $140 billion in “reduced payments to drug companies” are in fact rebates Obama wants drugmakers to pay Uncle Sam for selling drugs to poor seniors. . • Then there’s the $45 billion in spectrum fees and asset sales that Obama lists as spending reductions. . Viewed correctly, it turns out that more than $300 billion — about a third — of Obama’s proposed “spending cuts” are actually revenue increases. . As a result, instead of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts called for by the sequester over the next decade, Obama would add more than $1 trillion in revenues, while cutting outlays only about $600 billion. And much of those aren’t real cuts, but tiny reductions in projected spending growth over the next decade. . And in the end, his plan, such as it is, will do nothing to forestall the nation’s oncoming debt crisis. . Investors.com http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022813-646267-obama-labels-new-revenues-as-spending-cuts.htm#ixzz2MgOWI38Z
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ConserveGov said, 3 months ago
I’m betting that O’s next “crisis/distraction” will be that illegal aliens must be made citizens immediately or else.
Never mind that black unemployment is at 14% and the most Americans in history are now on food stamps and/or disability.
Good job prez.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
wheel of morality turn turn turn, tell us what lesson we learned,
Never let a crises go without a lot of Hype and blame.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
This is what a real leader sounds like.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-26/boehner-accuses-obama-of-using-military-in-cuts-debate.html
“House Speaker John Boehner said the U.S. House won’t act to replace automatic federal spending cuts until the Senate “gets off their ass” and passes a plan.”
Of course Obama got away with a lie in the debates about this latest sequester mess. It was his staffs idea before it was not then it was till it did not poll well and now that it is not as big it is no longer his mess?
Radish
said, 3 months ago
Next is money/trade wars between countries and then war.
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
It would be nice if the Republicans went through with their 2010 mantra of a “laser-like focus on jobs.” So, of course, they didn’t want to go through with Obama’s instrastructure repair proposals (because it would make O and the economy look good…can’t have that!).
Respectful Troll said, 3 months ago
Heard a person talking about the problems between Israelis and Palestinians and he said, “They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
^
The number of billionaires increased 16% since last year. There are now 1426 of them. Corporations are sitting on money. Pay for people who actually create things like food, power, or provide services is miniscule while people who gamble on the value of currencies make fortunes.
^
Mr. Heller makes an excellent point that Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehnor are standing too close to in the art to see. Jobs. Workers pay taxes, buy products, increase demand, and in doing so, create jobs. So much needs to be done, but so few people with money or access to money are willing to do things. The Carnegies, JP Morgans, and other magnates of history – despite their misdeeds – loved this nation and invested in it. Our leading capitalists now don’t care about this nation, and invest their money in oversea accounts.
^
I would like to see a really high tax placed on the rich,
however, I would like to see THEM decide where the tax should go. Perhaps there is a bridge near their home that needs repair. Perhaps the city in which they live needs more police or firemen or teachers to educate the workers the wealthy need to work in their corporations. Maybe they would be willing to invest in a pipe line to take water from a river prone to flooding and move high water to areas in drought. Maybe there are very wealthy people who love wild places and would invest in parks and wildlife preserves.
^.
Our nation needs heroes with money. We have heroes sweating blood and tears but they can’t change a nation without the resources with which to work. If the job creators won’t help out of self interest or patriotism, they need to be compelled. No one has the right to have ALL of the money as long as money is finite, and the only way things get done.
Respectfully,
C.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
The phrase will never be: ‘responsibility in government’ as long as the current white house occupier is there.
ARodney said, 3 months ago
Boehner goes on the Sunday shows and lies that the president doesn’t have a plan, lies that the senate Democrats don’t have a plan, lies that his congress passed a plan (they haven’t, that was last congress and he no longer has the votes), and he’s Howie’s “hero?” That explains a lot about the continuing downgrade of the Republican brand.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@ConserveGov
Since when did you party, not the name but the philosophical party care about blacks, not to mention minorities of any color or race? Certainly not in the recent generations, if ever.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
Bohner a leader? harley you really need to lay off the stuff you get from your freelance recreational pharmaceutical representative. That stuff has rotted your brain.
As I have written in the past, President Obama can lead the Congress to a solution that benefits the masses of Americans but he can’t make the republicans agree if it doesn’t disproportionately benefit the über-wealthy. On the other hand bohner can get “98% of what I wanted” and still not get his party to follow him. Okay that was a little unfair, but you can’t honestly deny that bohner hasn’t failed to garner the support of his own party for republican led bills that came up for vote or were waiting to come up for a vote and that was just recently.
Bohner can’t get his own party to agree to the demands they had just made and you call him a leader?
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@Ms. Ima
The phrase “Responsibility in government” was NEVER there in the last administration either.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 3 months ago
@ARodney
I think you forgot one crucial part of that “last congress.” It does not matter what was passed during the last congress, it is by law dead, no longer a viable actionable bill. So they could have passed it in the last hour of the last day they were in session of the last congress and say they passed the bill, but knowing it was impossible for the Senate to take it up makes it useless anyway. I’m not saying that is what they did but it’s not out of their realm of behavior. Unless bohner can pass the same bill now, with enough time for the Senate to bring it up, pass it and send it the President, it is irrelevant what they do.
And you know the funny thing is, this half-truth and procedural falsehood has been debunked with truth and facts time and again on the “liberal media” but I still hear/read it from the righties from time to time since bohner said it.
ronald rini
said, 3 months ago
@Respectful Troll
this is another liberal I want some one else to create jobs while I go to walmart and buy imports. Building roads or bridges does not help if the money goes to walmart then china.
Stipple said, 3 months ago
@ronald rini
How does building roads and bridges in America send money to China?
.
You are getting all wrapped up in the party and forget to use common sense.
.
Are we going to import Chinese labor and pay them to build our infrastructure?. You are not making sense.
.
But then….
ansonia
said, 3 months ago
@ARodney
LOL at “the President Has a Plan”
.
Lengthy article, but all informative. But you can stop reading once you get it.
.
When President Obama put out his “balanced” plan to avoid the automatic sequester cuts, no one noticed. Which is probably just as well for Obama, given how embarrassingly unbalanced it is.
.
Last week, New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote about how Obama “hasn’t actually come up with a proposal to avert sequestration, let alone one that is politically plausible.”
.
Turns out, Obama did have one, although Brooks can be excused for not knowing it, since the administration hasn’t exactly been promoting this so-called plan.
.
That, too, is understandable, since it isn’t a plan at all, just a list of numbers with little to back them up.
.
There are no details, for example, about the $200 billion in cuts to defense and domestic discretionary programs, other than that Obama wants them split evenly.
.
And while he offers $400 billion in “health savings,” 30% are lumped in a bucket labeled “other.”
.
Worse, Obama’s “balanced” plan actually counts hundreds of billions of new revenues from taxes, fees and rebates as “spending reductions.” Examples:
.
• His plan to “strengthen” unemployment insurance is labeled as a cut, but it’s really a $50 billion tax hike.
• The $35 billion from the federal worker retirement programs involves boosting worker contributions.
• Most of the $35 billion in Medicare savings comes from charging wealthy seniors more.
.
• The $140 billion in “reduced payments to drug companies” are in fact rebates Obama wants drugmakers to pay Uncle Sam for selling drugs to poor seniors.
.
• Then there’s the $45 billion in spectrum fees and asset sales that Obama lists as spending reductions.
.
Viewed correctly, it turns out that more than $300 billion — about a third — of Obama’s proposed “spending cuts” are actually revenue increases.
.
As a result, instead of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts called for by the sequester over the next decade, Obama would add more than $1 trillion in revenues, while cutting outlays only about $600 billion. And much of those aren’t real cuts, but tiny reductions in projected spending growth over the next decade.
.
And in the end, his plan, such as it is, will do nothing to forestall the nation’s oncoming debt crisis.
.
Investors.com http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022813-646267-obama-labels-new-revenues-as-spending-cuts.htm#ixzz2MgOWI38Z