Posted on 01/10/2009 9:10:12 PM PST by stevie_d_64
In my exclusive interview with Barack Obama airing tomorrow on This Week, the president-elect told me that fixing our economy over the long term will require sacrifice from every American and scaling back some of his campaign promises.
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don’t work, and making things that we have more efficient. But I’m not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace we had hoped," Obama told me in his first interview since arriving back in Washington, DC as president-elect.
I asked the president-elect, "At the end of the day, are you really talking about over the course of your presidency some kind of grand bargain? That you have tax reform, healthcare reform, entitlement reform including Social Security and Medicare, where everybody in the country is going to have to sacrifice something, accept change for the greater good?"
"Yes," Obama said.
"And when will that get done?" I asked.
"Well, right now, I’m focused on a pretty heavy lift, which is making sure we get that reinvestment and recovery package in place. But what you described is exactly what we’re going to have to do. What we have to do is to take a look at our structural deficit, how are we paying for government? What are we getting for it? And how do we make the system more efficient?"
"And eventually sacrifice from everyone?" I asked.
"Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said.
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I forgot to add the “barf alert”...
...sigh...
If by “giving” he means giving up an entitlement, then Mr. O and I could get along better than I expect (which isn’t saying so much). That seems to be the way this thing reads, although I’m obviously jumping to conclusions.
There goes the tax cuts for 95% of the people.
He would have known this if he gave his senate appointment any attention.
He lied to get elected and he knew all along it was a scam.
Indian Giver.
"Our challenge is going to be identifying what works and putting more money into that, eliminating things that don’t work, and making things that we have more efficient.
Goodbye 90% of Washington.
That'll be the end of attempts to do anything of course.
I guess now, the saying is - if you are breathing, you will pay! NO surprise here.
Give? Yeah give up your Kenyan birth certificate.
Sounds like the free market to me. If only.
Yes.
Don't even try to hide it any more...full scale Communism.
Anyone who thought this clown was actually going to cut anyones taxes should have been denied the Franchise due to mental incompetence.
L
It’s time to be patriotic and pay more taxes. Also we can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times. (/sarcasm)
Didn’t you hear, Obama appointed Joe Biden to find the middle class because he and Biden didn’t know any middle class people. Biden is going to let us know when he finds them. All the people that he and Obama know are going to have their taxes raised.
Obama lied.
The rats control both the house and senate. There will be no giving up of any entitlements.
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