[freespirited]

Prepare for a final bill next week.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

If the Republicans in the House and Senate vote for this, I will NEVER vote for a Republican again.

We need a third party if this crap happens.

It’s going to raise taxes on me and other productive people to fund the waste. NO.

[muawiyah]

Since the Constitution prohibits appropriations for a period longer than 2 years these ten year plans are ALL BULL DROPPINGS ~ totally useless.

Senators should by now have figured out that we are not fooled, nor amused, by this sort of shallow and transparent chicanery.

[wilco200]

“more senators are now coalescing around a new proposal that would cut the debt by as much as $3.7 trillion over the next decade.”

...and against the American people.

Hey, I thought is was $4 Trillion. And big whoop anyway. Less than a trillion a year over the next ten - when all bets are off in 2012/13

This is crap political posturing. Time to burn the phones again. Congress must crush this “deal”

CC&B or NOTHING! let’s cut 45% in government spending. Take that to the voters. Big win!

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

Coburn, Crapo and Chambliss, TAX RAISERS and corrupt criminals of the worst sort.

[Jane Long]

That's great, Coburn, Crapola and Alexander...raise taxes on the ONE group that already pays the most taxes! Way to spur the economy...not.

Fools, all.

[Doogle]

"Senators in the Gang of Six - Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Coburn.....psssst must be Odumbo's accountant, there's only 5 there"

[Doogle]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2750814/posts Dumbo likes it, the amount of money over a ten year period won’t cover the interest alone.....and of course it means no more wasteful spending right?

[Aevery_Freeman]

It would exempt programs aimed at low-income communities.

Now there's a rigid standard.

[combat_boots]

How dare they.

[Tublecane]

“deliver real deficit savings in entitlement programs over 10 years”

Why, praytell, are we supposed to believe this?

[combat_boots]

Gee. $3.7T. Where have we heard that number before?

The 2012 0bama budget proposal that was rejected unanimously:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/budget.pdf

0bama’s $3,800,000,000,000 budget request:

“The complexity of (his) budget make the numbers difficult to verify.”

“Overall, the debt would grow under his plan from just over $14 trillion now to nearly $21 trillion in five years.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/14/obama-unveils-37-trillion-budget-blueprint/

[Tublecane]

“deliver real deficit savings in entitlement programs over 10 years”

Why, praytell, are we supposed to believe this? And why 10 years? It’ll give us tax hikes right away, no doubt. I’ll never understand, outside of vote-grabbing, why cuts can’t come right away, too. Then again, I really don’t need any alternative explanation than vote-grabbing.

[anoldafvet]

So, instead of going a further $17 trillion into debt in the next 10 years, we'll only go $13.3 trillion more?

If we send it, they will spend it.

[NormsRevenge]

Politico covers this ‘DarkHorse’ lovefest but ignores ‘Fast and Furious’.

[esoxmagnum]

“including shifting to a new consumer price index to make cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security. “

I’ve read this can cut SS payments by as much as $700 per month. If so, R’s will get the blame on this, and it will sink the R party for decades to come.

The Dems and the media will posture it as if the R’s shifted money from the “lockbox” to kill Granny for the rich.

I don’t expect I will ever see SS. I never expected to really “retire” in any sense of the word either, but there are going to be a ton of folks already on fixed income, who have given everything to this nation, who are going to be hurt like no tomorrow.

[rokkitapps]

This is our last chance to save the republic. No debt extension. Cut govt off.

[Iron Munro]

A proposed cut of $3.7 trillion over 10 years means that there will be little if any actual cut in spending.

We need more than $3.7 trillion cut over the next two years.

[newzjunkey]

Here's your traitor, GOP:

[A CA Guy]

So 37 cents this year and 4 trillion in the tenth year?

[PieterCasparzen]

IMHO...

My own little proposed spending cuts - a starting point - in 2011 spending levels, in Billions, without touching Social Security, Medicare or Defense (this all can be cut in ONE YEAR):
_________________________________________________________________________

Education__________________ $129.8 billion
Transportation (I propose
a limit of $10 billion)_________ $84.5 billion
Basic research______________ $18.7 billion
Agriculture, forestry
, fishing and hunting _________ $32.8 billion
Fuel and energy_____________ $26.9 billion
Pollution abatement_________ $10.9 billion
Protection of biodiversity
and landscape_______________ $13.9 billion
Housing development_______ $35.5 billion
Community development_____ $25.7 billion
Recreational and
sporting services_____________ $4.1 billion
General Government
(I propose cutting the
current amount in half)_______ $16.6 billion
Welfare (eliminate)_________ $495.0 billion
Grants to States
for Medicaid________________ $276.2 billion
R & D Health
(includes NIH)______________ $36.1 billion

Total reduction to annual
spending_________________ $1,206.7 billion
_________________________________________________________________________