Obama Took a Stand This Week

[30ashopper]

I wonder what the interest is on ten trillion dollars.

 

[Geo]

Grow up, America. You ALL deserve to have your taxes raised- not lowered. NONE of you deserve to pay historically low taxes with the economy looking like it does.

Shame on you, politicians for making this seem like it should even be called into question.

WATCH THIS->

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-12-2011/ryan-s-private-savings---path-to-prosperity

 

[30ashopper]

The good news is that the GOP plan that just passed the House for 2012 would have us at a surplus.......by 2040....(see page 3).

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc12128/04-05-Ryan_Letter.pdf

House passes GOP budget plan for 2012 - The Washington Post


The Ryan budget just passed in the House. I wonder how they end up reconciling the mismatch. This should be entertaining to say the least.

 

[Will B]

There's a fundimental flaw with the original statement about things getting better under Clinton and worse under Bush. The House and Senate were controlled by the Republicans (the last 6 of Clinton's 8 years) under Clinton, and he was forced to come to center so he wouldn't be a one term President. Bush's House and Senate started off as Republican controlled and wound up as Dem controlled. Things went down the toilet for Bush after the wars and after the Dems had control.

Both were complicit in the outcomes, though, as both signed loads of bills.

That being said, you can't simply label the periods with the associated Presidents. You should give all the info.

 

[Will B]

House passes GOP budget plan for 2012 - The Washington Post


The Ryan budget just passed in the House. I wonder how they end up reconciling the mismatch. This should be entertaining to say the least.

It's all part of the Politricks. The Republican know that the bills have no chance, but by passing them along they can say, "See...we offered up a plan to balance the budget, and the Democrats killed it."

It goes both ways. I would bet a year's salary that if the tables were turned the Dems would do the exact same thing.

 

[scooterbug44]

I think it's great they passed something that somewhat addressed the issue, but find the constant favoritism of corporations at the expense of people a disturbing trend.

I think everyone, including the rich and corporations needs to be sacrificing to fix the issue.

And I really worry that continuing to ignore dangerous infrastructure issues to continue military spending and tax breaks is going to come back to bite us in the arse.

We need to be fixing fiscal problems, reevaluating our priorities, AND planning for the future.

 

[AlphaCrab]

Oh Jeez....I just read that Medicare is solvent to 2029 and Social Security is solvent till 2037.. If we end two wars and cut into the defense budget we can expand medicare yearly until we have a single payer plan. The defense budget nears 700 billion, nearly 900 billion spent in Iraq and Afganistan and were talking about cutting medicare....then, tax the glutenous super rich 1% club and we'll all be just fine.

Glad Obama has stopped ignoring the progressive base of his party!!!

...and, on a congratulatory note to the Teapubs...Paul Ryan is a mutha freakin' hottie , he really need to be a Liberal Dem.

 

[BeachSiO2]

House passes GOP budget plan for 2012 - The Washington Post


The Ryan budget just passed in the House. I wonder how they end up reconciling the mismatch. This should be entertaining to say the least.

Considering what I posted was the CBO's response to Ryan's proposal, there shouldn't be a mismatch. However. the Progressive's say their version that failed would have had a surplus by 2021.

 

[30ashopper]

Considering what I posted was the CBO's response to Ryan's proposal, there shouldn't be a mismatch. However. the Progressive's say their version that failed would have had a surplus by 2021.

So if they could combine the revenue generation the democrats want and the long term entitlement reforms of the republican's budget we'd probably be in pretty good shape. Something tells me though that aint gonna happen.

 

[AndrewG]

Grow up and stop spending money we don't have. The lack of fiscal discipline is killing us and will ruin us. Entitlements will be gone either way. Dump them now while we still have a chance.

Even if taxes were increased by 50% we wouldn't be able to balance the budget. I bet many of you didn't know that.