Obama and Louise

[CrusaderFrank]

You're familiar with the end of the movie where the 2 girls drive the car off the cliff, right?

Obama is spending the USA off the Cliff and he and the Dems are cursing Republicans for not doing more to make sure there were longer roads (raise the debt stealing and tax the fuck out of everybody) and in response we're in the passanger seat yelling,

STOP SPENDING!!

 

[Care4all]

on what? a blank ''stop spending'' is just hot air blown imo.

 

[Care4all]

so repubs hold the purse in the house, and this is obama spending? kinda like it was bush's spending during pelosi?

 

[Samson]

on what? a blank ''stop spending'' is just hot air blown imo.

Indeed.

After you spend $14 trillion dollars, what else could really matter?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

You're familiar with the end of the movie where the 2 girls drive the car off the cliff, right?

Obama is spending the USA off the Cliff and he and the Dems are cursing Republicans for not doing more to make sure there were longer roads (raise the debt stealing and tax the fuck out of everybody) and in response we're in the passanger seat yelling,

STOP SPENDING!!

I'm fairly-certain most people quit listening to you rubes, when you first started yelling....

 

[Mr. Shaman]

so repubs hold the purse in the house, and this is obama spending? kinda like it was bush's spending during pelosi?

.....Not to mention Republicans raising taxes (during The Clinton Years)....and saving our economy....after Daddy Bush's economic-debacle.​

 

[Care4all]

on what? a blank ''stop spending'' is just hot air blown imo.

Indeed.

After you spend $14 trillion dollars, what else could really matter?

14 trillion is just the nation's debt..............we've spent a heck of a lot more than the 14 trillion accumulated in national debt !!! never ending things to spend on....:just ask all of our congresses...

 

[Trajan]

so repubs hold the purse in the house, and this is obama spending? kinda like it was bush's spending during pelosi?

care- as it stands now the paradigm has changed as to future spending, the baseline spending on bills extent, from 2009 and 2010 ( built in increases ) require a new vote cut them out, they need the senate to vote also, to accomplish this....thats why we just had the dust up to close the budget for this year, 2011 which was rolling along on CR's ( continuing resolutions).... there is no dem. budget as of yet submitted to the house for 2012. That is supposed to start with, the president. *shrugs*

 

[Trajan]

on what? a blank ''stop spending'' is just hot air blown imo.

Indeed.

After you spend $14 trillion dollars, what else could really matter?

14 trillion is just the nation's debt..............we've spent a heck of a lot more than the 14 trillion accumulated in national debt !!! never ending things to spend on....:just ask all of our congresses...

yup.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Throw in another 62t in unfunded liabilities that were promised, but monies that we don't have, and you can start to get the picture as to why most of us don't want to participate in the unicorn dreams ie through more taxes.

 

[waltky]

Hillary gonna spend even more money...

Central America drugs war: Clinton pledges more funds
23 June 2011 - Hillary Clinton urged businesses in the region to pull their weight in the fight against drug-related violence

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has pledged more foreign aid to fight drug cartels in Central America. Mrs Clinton told a regional security conference in Guatemala that the US would increase its aid by more than 10% to nearly $300m (£187m). Analysts say the figure is still small, given that more than two-thirds of cocaine sent from South America to the US now passes through Central America. In total, some $1.8bn was promised to support the region's security. The World Bank is to provide $1bn in the coming years, said Pamela Cox, the bank's vice preident for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Inter-American Devleopment Bank (IADB) will also offer $500m over two years. Announcing the increased US funding, Mrs Clinton said Washington was committed to helping the region. "Everyone knows the statistics, the murder rates surpassing civil war levels," she said in remarks to the Central American Security Conference (SICA). Mrs Clinton said funding to tackle transnational organised crime in the region would be increased from $260m in 2010 to almost $300m this year. But she stressed she expected Central American nations to pull their weight. "We will be your ready partners but it must begin with you and led by you," she told leaders from across the region.

Fight across borders

Mrs Clinton said governments had to work together to beat the drug cartels, which are behind much of the violence blighting the region. "The cartels and criminals are not contained by borders and so therefore our response must not be either," she said. But Mrs Clinton did not only call on governments to increase their efforts to fight crime. She said businesses also had a role to play. "Businesses and the rich in every country must pay their fair share of taxes and become full partners in a whole of society effort. True security cannot be funded on the backs of the poor," she stressed. Efforts by presidents in Central America to raise taxes have faced opposition in the past.

El Salvador's President Mauricio Funes' plan to impose a new tax to raise money for security programmes has been opposed by many in El Salvador. Central America has long been used to smuggle drugs from producer countries such as Colombia and Peru to the main drug markets in the United States. But with Mexican President Felipe Calderon declaring war on drug gangs in his country, Mexican cartels have increasingly been moving into Central America and running smuggling operations there. In March, police in Honduras for the first time uncovered a cocaine laboratory in the country. Security officials said it was a first-rate facility, probably run by Mexican gangs, which they said indicated that some of the cocaine production was being moved there.

BBC News - Central America drugs war: Clinton pledges more funds

 

[boedicca]

on what? a blank ''stop spending'' is just hot air blown imo.

How about we roll back spending to 2007 levels? As most Americans have had flat incomes since then, it's reasonable to expect the federal government to hold spending to that level...$2.7T. Just roll budgets back to the amounts of that year. And then for further cuts, eliminate some functions altogether.