Obama was given the option to decide where the cuts should be. He p./assed
Why should he be required to do the job of Congress?
Obama was given the option to decide where the cuts should be. He p./assed
Look at you still pretending that the President's budget carries any weight when it comes to how Congress spends money.You mean like write a budget that can even muster one vote from his own side?
Look at you still pretending that the President's budget carries any weight when it comes to how Congress spends money.
Why should he be required to do the job of Congress?
Great 1000th post! I almost thought you were serious.I hear you Ryan. Why should anyone expect leadership from the President?
After all, didn't he invent "Leading from behind" with his Libyan policy? Just ask the ambassador how that worked out.
You and I know that Obama isn't responsible for anything don't we? I mean he won the election didn't he? Doesn't that make him in charge? So why are all the little people expecting him to be responsible?
You and I see the big picture. And the big picture is that all of those people that voted for Obama are expecting their payoff. After all, you can't expect them to work for their own Obama phones can you?
And how is Obama going to give back to his supporters if he can't raise taxes?
So what part of "Just shut up and pay more taxes" are these little people having a problem understanding?
Uno
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And the big picture is that all of those people that voted for Obama are expecting their payoff. After all, you can't expect them to work for their own Obama phones can you?
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I hear you Ryan. Why should anyone expect leadership from the President?
After all, didn't he invent "Leading from behind" with his Libyan policy? Just ask the ambassador how that worked out.
You and I know that Obama isn't responsible for anything don't we? I mean he won the election didn't he? Doesn't that make him in charge? So why are all the little people expecting him to be responsible?
You and I see the big picture. And the big picture is that all of those people that voted for Obama are expecting their payoff. After all, you can't expect them to work for their own Obama phones can you?
And how is Obama going to give back to his supporters if he can't raise taxes?
So what part of "Just shut up and pay more taxes" are these little people having a problem understanding?
Uno
Democrats will be forced to find cuts on their social issues, and Republicans are going to have to give in when it comes to revenue increases. That is simply the way it is going to be.
Obama is for cutting spending only when it is politically benificial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQUU2ZL6D8
That sure sounds differen't then Obama 2013
My friend who works for a contractor lost his job because the entire program with the navy got slashed. He along with 40 people on last Wednesday. Apparently, his company is getting rid of 2% of their workforce due to military cuts. Sound like a REAL IMMEDIATE IMPACT to me.
See how easy your reply was dissed and dismissed when you provided direct evidence that the sequester had an immediate impact? Well, here in Hawaii hundreds of workers just got their layoff and furlough notices too. And that's just for starters. But no big deal huh? Their jobs needed cutting anyway? Really? How easy it is to pooh pooh the loss of your friend's and other's jobs when it not THEIR OWN jobs being cut/furloughed.
One has to wonder why that only the conservatives in this thread seem to be jumping all over your post. One also has to wonder about the folks in this thread who are defending their Repub leaders how they'd feel if THEY were directly and immediately affected from having THEIR jobs getting cut because of the political brinksmanship that's going on at present. Would they still feel exactly how they've expressed themselves in response to your post? Just asking.
You need to look at how many military projects get cut. Hint - it's most of them in war time. Unfortunately we don't fund wars separately, so much of the cost of deploying and maintaining troops and equipment must come from canceled projects. This is why we have troops flying planes and operating armored vehicles that are commonly older than are they and in some cases older than are their parents.I'm not really sure if what he was doing related to "wasteful military spending".. all i know is that he, along with other people, lost their jobs because of the sequestration. I mean, if a program gets cut, does that mean it wasn't necessary or it was wasteful spending? I'm not sure if I can just make that assumption. The military, along with the rest of the government had to make cuts across the board. It's not like there was any wiggle room to perform an analysis of the various programs within the military on what to cut, right? They were force to make cuts because Congress couldn't come up with anything. That's the way I'm looking at it.
So, were you for cuts in military spending before you were against cuts in military spending?See how easy your reply was dissed and dismissed when you provided direct evidence that the sequester had an immediate impact? Well, here in Hawaii hundreds of workers just got their layoff and furlough notices too. And that's just for starters. But no big deal huh? Their jobs needed cutting anyway? Really? How easy it is to pooh pooh the loss of your friend's and other's jobs when it not THEIR OWN jobs being cut/furloughed.
One has to wonder why that only the conservatives in this thread seem to be jumping all over your post. One also has to wonder about the folks in this thread who are defending their Repub leaders how they'd feel if THEY were directly and immediately affected from having THEIR jobs getting cut because of the political brinksmanship that's going on at present. Would they still feel exactly how they've expressed themselves in response to your post? Just asking.
So, were you for cuts in military spending before you were against cuts in military spending?
Anyone who thought the effects would be felt immediately is an idiot. He's just explaining this to the average American idiot.
We had the Great Depression.
Then we had the Great Recession.
Now, with the obama, we have the
Great Delusion.. and psychotic liar trying to distance him self from his own policies. The stink is on the obama.
This is close to how embarrasing it was when we got our debt downgraded. Obama, is happy to lead, er, take this charge.
Obama: I lead when we got our debt downgraded
Obama: I lead when Sequestration went into effect.
-John
You are so fucking clueless!
Just because you idiots say Obama is a dictator doesn't make it so.
"Jessica, I am not a dictator, I'm the president," he said while speaking to reporters in the White House Press Briefing Room. "Ultimately, if Mitch McConnell or John Boehner say we need to go to catch a plane, I can't have Secret Service block the doorway."
"I know that this has been some of the conventional wisdom that's been floating around Washington, and that somehow–even though most people agree that I'm being reasonable, that most people agree I'm presenting a fair deal–the fact that they don't take it means that somehow I should do a Jedi mind-meld with these folks and convince them to do what's right," he added.
Obama went on to say that those leaders are elected and have their own responsibilities. For his part, the president said he the best he can do is "make the best possible case for why we need to do the right thing" and "speak to the American people about the consequences of the decisions that Congress is making or the lack of the decision-making by Congress."
"But ultimately it's a choice they make, and this idea that somehow there's a secret formula or secret sauce to get speaker Boehner or Mitch McConnell to say 'You know what Mr. President, you're right'...I think if there was a secret way to do that, I would have tried it. I would have done it."