OBAMA calls for "leadership"--THEY need to do something--LOL

[Avatar4321]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

When are you Democrats going to start taking responsibility for your policies?

When are you going to look to history at what actually worked in getting us out of Depressions and what prolonged them? Cutting spending, taxes, and needless regulation put us in recovery and economic growth. Government interference, micromanaging the economy, increasing the tax burden, increasing the government spending prolongs it.

Government isn't the answer, it's the problem. The people are the answer. They always have been and they always will be.

 

[grunt11b]

This was the dems issue to deal with before the 2010 elections, but they "As obama accuses the gop of" kicked the can down the road, they knew their outrages spending would have to be reigned in, so they kicked the can down the road and left the budget crisis to the gop to deal with, so they "The dems" would not have to make the tough choices that need to be made to save this country, and it is a political tactic because they knew choices like reigning in medicare and what not would have to be made, so they used that to demonize the gop, and all the gop is trying to do right now "The conservative part anyways" is trying to save this country.. And if this is not enough to piss people off and convince them to kick these bums from office I dont know what is.
Also, has anyone even trhought that maybe the whole problem with this budget not getting dealt with might be because the DEMOCRATS in office that want to save their jobs wont go along with Bammie and they are the real problems here? Food for thought.

 

[grunt11b]

…the CONGRESS has spent the money"--and that THEY--need to show some LEADERSHIP-and fix this mess.

Certainly the House, since the GOP was responsible for the December 2007 recession.

Otherwise Congress is constitutionally mandated and authorized to take the lead with regard to taxing and spending issues, not the Executive.

I agree 100%, so why didn't the democrats do it in 2010 like they where supposed to? Why did they kick the can down the road?

 

[grunt11b]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

Delaying what type of recovery? A recovery that sees every American child and grandchild with the same liberties we have been fortunate to have? Or a recovery that would change the face of this nation and sell our children into serfdom? Because if it's the latter, we are heading that way unless Obama and his failing policies are reigned in. Stop blaming the GOP for failed progressive leftist policies. You can't blame Bush anymore, Obama has been in office for 2-1/2 years now, and has not done shit to help this economy and has only passed policies that have been destructive instead.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

Ok lets play with this claim that Only Congress is to blame, shall we? In 2008 no budget was passed, both houses controlled by Democrats. In 2009 only a continuing resultion was passed, again both Houses controlled by Democrats, in 2010 no budget was passed, again Dems controlled both Houses of Congress, in 2011 the House has passed the budget , controlled by Republicans, and the Senate refuses to even send to committee any of those bills, who controls the Senate? The Democrats.

Now remind us how the Republicans are the problem.

 

[LoVE]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

Ok lets play with this claim that Only Congress is to blame, shall we? In 2008 no budget was passed, both houses controlled by Democrats. In 2009 only a continuing resultion was passed, again both Houses controlled by Democrats, in 2010 no budget was passed, again Dems controlled both Houses of Congress, in 2011 the House has passed the budget , controlled by Republicans, and the Senate refuses to even send to committee any of those bills, who controls the Senate? The Democrats.

Now remind us how the Republicans are the problem.

you do realize that your post will recieve cricket noises from the democrats don't you?

 

[L.K.Eder]

There are 18,000 babyboomers entering social security/medicare DAILY which will continue for the next 15 years. Resulting in another 64 TRILLION in unfunded liabilites on top of the 14.3 trillion we're at now. Which equates to $534,000.00 per household in America to pay this tab.

Really? 98,550,000 boomers? Want to double check that number maybe?

Do you want to read the post, because 98,550,000 is a number that doesn't appear until your post.

it helps if you know how to multiply.

here: 18.000 daily for 15 years.

 

[Sallow]

he didn't mention the two trillion he pissed away. did ya notice that?

Well they he didn't mention it..why don't you? And you might want to at least itemize how this money was spent.

From what I've read the stimulus was not 2 trillion.

So basically..I am calling you on this bullshit.

 

[Sallow]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

Delaying what type of recovery? A recovery that sees every American child and grandchild with the same liberties we have been fortunate to have? Or a recovery that would change the face of this nation and sell our children into serfdom? Because if it's the latter, we are heading that way unless Obama and his failing policies are reigned in. Stop blaming the GOP for failed progressive leftist policies. You can't blame Bush anymore, Obama has been in office for 2-1/2 years now, and has not done shit to help this economy and has only passed policies that have been destructive instead.

What "failing" policies?

From where I sit there have been lots of sucesses. And what "serfdom"? We are no longer an agrian culture and have not been for over a century.

And the GOP IS COMPLETELY reponsible for the troubles in the economy.

-Enron happened under Bush.
-Worldcom happened under Bush.
-Tyco happened under Bush.
-Bear Stearns happened under Bush.
-Bernie Madoff happened under Bush.
-Lehman Brothers happened under Bush.
-TARP happened under Bush.
-The GM bailout happened under Bush.
-The mortgage "meltdown" happened under Bush.

Any ONE of these things would have been deemed a disaster for a President. And this is just the short list.


Bush defunded regulators, gave tax holidays to offshore profits, started the department of homeland security, medcaid part d, two wars and gave tax cuts for the wealthy.

And the massive job losses happened shortly after President Obama was inaugurated between the months of January and Febuary.

What did republicans do? Were they contrite? Did they man up and say "We got some work to do to fix our mess and help the President?" Nope. They changed their stripes. They became the "Tea Party". All of a sudden..before the President even had a chance to breathe they were blaming him for the deficit, TARP, the auto bailout, the wars and calling him unamerican, a marxist (hey..just like you), accusing him of corruption, and filibustering a record number of bills. They were damning all their own ideas!

-Cap and Trade - Republican idea.
-Health Care Bill - Republican idea.
-Stimulus Plan - Crafted largely by Republicans.

And then, laughably, they started saying things like Obama was going to kill Medicare by cutting 500 Billion from it. Really? Those savings were found in removing redundancies and fraud. Something you'd think Conservatives would applaud. They were able to successfully scare seniors along with promising a better way to generate jobs..so they won the midterms. Jobs..and saving Medicare..that was the platform. What happened? Soon as the "Tea Party" candidates sat their asses down in Congress they started putting up nonsense bills like an attempt to squash the healthcare plan, and multiple bills trying to reverse a woman's right to choose. Great stuff boys. AND THEN, they tried to KILL MEDICARE.

You guys are lunatics.

Seriously.

 

[California Girl]

…the CONGRESS has spent the money"--and that THEY--need to show some LEADERSHIP-and fix this mess.

Certainly the House, since the GOP was responsible for the December 2007 recession.

Otherwise Congress is constitutionally mandated and authorized to take the lead with regard to taxing and spending issues, not the Executive.

Your stupidity is showing, again.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

You voted for it--You got it.

....Kinda the (same) way Republicans were soooooooo anxious to kick-some-ass, in Iraq, huh?​

March 25, 2011​

"But for more than a decade now, we’ve waged war as if it were free, keeping our wars off the budget and, rather than paying for them as they were fought, slapping them on the national credit card. Paying as you go, after all, is hard. It forces you to make decisions about competing priorities. When you don’t pay up front, those decisions become easy. And war should never be easy.

But before we can start paying for war, we need to account for it properly. You might recall Lawrence Lindsay, director of President George W. Bush’s National Economics Council, being taken to the woodshed for estimating the costs of the Iraq War at $200 billion when the administration was trying to sell the invasion as a $50 billion venture. Both those numbers were tossed around like they were price tags for the entire war. They weren’t. They were estimates of its first six months. That’s one way we lowball the costs of war: estimating them only a few months at a time. The Congressional Budget Office now says the tally is likely to total a trillion dollars.

Even that estimate, however, is far, far too low. It primarily counts “direct costs” — what will be spent on soldiers and supply chains and weaponry over the course of the war. But what about the long-term care for veterans who return with brain injuries or mangled limbs? Or the expense of replacing the equipment that is destroyed or worn down in combat? What about the costs to the broader economy when the price of oil soars?

A few years ago, Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz set out to construct a more holistic estimate of the costs of the Iraq War. They ended up nearer to $3 trillion, and they were trying to be conservative. For those playing along at home, that’s about equal to every dollar of debt George W. Bush piled up in his eight years as president."

Start Paying For War​

Seriously.....Republicans feel they have some kind of authority to educate everyone-else on Leadership??

 

[RetiredGySgt]

You voted for it--You got it.

....Kinda the (same) way Republicans were soooooooo anxious to kick-some-ass, in Iraq, huh?​

March 25, 2011​

"But for more than a decade now, we’ve waged war as if it were free, keeping our wars off the budget and, rather than paying for them as they were fought, slapping them on the national credit card. Paying as you go, after all, is hard. It forces you to make decisions about competing priorities. When you don’t pay up front, those decisions become easy. And war should never be easy.

But before we can start paying for war, we need to account for it properly. You might recall Lawrence Lindsay, director of President George W. Bush’s National Economics Council, being taken to the woodshed for estimating the costs of the Iraq War at $200 billion when the administration was trying to sell the invasion as a $50 billion venture. Both those numbers were tossed around like they were price tags for the entire war. They weren’t. They were estimates of its first six months. That’s one way we lowball the costs of war: estimating them only a few months at a time. The Congressional Budget Office now says the tally is likely to total a trillion dollars.

Even that estimate, however, is far, far too low. It primarily counts “direct costs” — what will be spent on soldiers and supply chains and weaponry over the course of the war. But what about the long-term care for veterans who return with brain injuries or mangled limbs? Or the expense of replacing the equipment that is destroyed or worn down in combat? What about the costs to the broader economy when the price of oil soars?

A few years ago, Harvard budget expert Linda Bilmes and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz set out to construct a more holistic estimate of the costs of the Iraq War. They ended up nearer to $3 trillion, and they were trying to be conservative. For those playing along at home, that’s about equal to every dollar of debt George W. Bush piled up in his eight years as president."

Start Paying For War​

Seriously.....Republicans feel they have some kind of authority to educate everyone-else on Leadership??

Wait, according to the left Bush piled up 8 trillion in debt, yet here you post only 3? Which is it?

And your hero Obama is doing the exact same thing. We do not have a budget so the wars can not be part of it, and we havent had a budget yet under Obama.

 

[Steelplate]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

Ok lets play with this claim that Only Congress is to blame, shall we? In 2008 no budget was passed, both houses controlled by Democrats. In 2009 only a continuing resultion was passed, again both Houses controlled by Democrats, in 2010 no budget was passed, again Dems controlled both Houses of Congress, in 2011 the House has passed the budget , controlled by Republicans, and the Senate refuses to even send to committee any of those bills, who controls the Senate? The Democrats.

Now remind us how the Republicans are the problem.

Who said only congress was to blame for the whole mess? I seem to recall Obama saying that Congress was to blame for the stalemate on raising the Debt Ceiling. You are the one who wants to throw in the kitchen sink.

 

[Steelplate]

BTW... You guys do love your right wing Circle Jerks, don't you? Let me know who wins.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

BTW... You guys do love your right wing Circle Jerks, don't you? Let me know who wins.

As compared to what? The reach around that Obama is giving you?

 

[Mr. Shaman]

OBAMA calls for "leadership"--THEY need to do something--LOL

Gee....I guess.....

....It WORKED!!!!

LOL!!!!​

 

[oreo]

BTW... You guys do love your right wing Circle Jerks, don't you? Let me know who wins.

As compared to what? The reach around that Obama is giving you?

Directly after Obama's speech that THEY need to fix this mess--Obama got on his plane and went to another fundraiser--LOL

Has this man ever put in an honest day's work in his entire life? I don't think so--and it should have been obvious. What do community organizer's do? They delegate work to others and that is exactly what he has done since he walked into the oval office.

President Barack Obama was “incredibly irresponsible” to criticize Congress for inaction when he is doing virtually nothing to help solve the debt crisis, conservative darling Sen. Jim DeMint tells Newsmax.TV in an exclusive interview.

But GOP members would go along with Obama and vote to raise the debt limit if they knew they never would be asked again, DeMint said.

“Republicans would help the president if it is the last time we ever have to raise this debt ceiling,” the junior senator from South Carolina said.

“If we get a balanced budget amendment and serious cuts, we’ll work with the president, but not if his idea is just raising gas prices and raising taxes and just nominally cutting spending. We’ve got to send a lot of functions back to the states that we can’t afford to do well in Washington and we need to be serious.”

DeMint to Obama: We'd Lift Debt Ceiling If . . .

 

[OohPooPahDoo]

Since Jan. 1-- Barack Obama has gone golfing 17 times--and has been to 33 fundraisers--and today was out getting some basketball tea-shirt with his name and number on it.

OK. So what? He's still not a member of Congress.

Of course--raising taxes was his theme--but I sure don't know how he's going to fix this mess with raising taxes?

You don't know how to help fix a government deficit with revenue increases? How far and how often did you mother drop you on your head as a child?

There are 18,000 babyboomers entering social security/medicare DAILY which will continue for the next 15 years. Resulting in another 64 TRILLION in unfunded liabilites on top of the 14.3 trillion we're at now. Which equates to $534,000.00 per household in America to pay this tab.

And that's Obama's fault? You really are a clueless moron.

 

[oreo]

Since Jan. 1-- Barack Obama has gone golfing 17 times--and has been to 33 fundraisers--and today was out getting some basketball tea-shirt with his name and number on it.

OK. So what? He's still not a member of Congress.

Of course--raising taxes was his theme--but I sure don't know how he's going to fix this mess with raising taxes?

You don't know how to help fix a government deficit with revenue increases? How far and how often did you mother drop you on your head as a child?

There are 18,000 babyboomers entering social security/medicare DAILY which will continue for the next 15 years. Resulting in another 64 TRILLION in unfunded liabilites on top of the 14.3 trillion we're at now. Which equates to $534,000.00 per household in America to pay this tab.

And that's Obama's fault? You really are a clueless moron.

It's Obama's JOB to work with the congress and senate to come to an agreement on this oncoming train wreck. YOU voted for Barack Obama to LEAD--and he's NOT leading. We have a debt ceiling looming on Aug. 2nd--when supposedly and according to Obama--the sky is going to fall in. And he heads to the Golf Course--the fundraiser event or the sports arena.

FACTS must really bother the crap out of you--LOL

 

[oreo]

Pubs doing a great job scaring the hell out of people and delaying the recovery- great job, Boooshies!!

Ok lets play with this claim that Only Congress is to blame, shall we? In 2008 no budget was passed, both houses controlled by Democrats. In 2009 only a continuing resultion was passed, again both Houses controlled by Democrats, in 2010 no budget was passed, again Dems controlled both Houses of Congress, in 2011 the House has passed the budget , controlled by Republicans, and the Senate refuses to even send to committee any of those bills, who controls the Senate? The Democrats.

Now remind us how the Republicans are the problem.

Who said only congress was to blame for the whole mess? I seem to recall Obama saying that Congress was to blame for the stalemate on raising the Debt Ceiling. You are the one who wants to throw in the kitchen sink.

Barack Obama just spent 1 trillion dollars--and BLAMES the congress for it. In fact he has added another 3 TRILLION in spending -- and states--THEY spent it--now THEY need to fix it--LOL.

Obama has no problem saying---THEY--THEY--THEY--when someone is looking for him to do something--but has absolutely no problem--saying--I I I while passing massive spending bills-that he likes-