0bama making his promised house payments, putting $8.00 a gallon gas in their cars and keeping up with the data plans and minutes used on the 0bamaphones is not a cheap proposition!
Raising taxes is a stupid idea, does anyone really think taxes are too low? Aren’t we the highest taxed country on Earth?
Spending MUST be cut.
Then again the numbers thrown out are so small that they’d hardly affect the deficits Obama has given us. This shows how unserious anyone in DC is about getting the US fiscal house in order.
Just the opening proposals should give investors and markets the shakes.
Krugman is a moron commie.
How is cutting government spending and not raising taxes going to hurt the economy?
I really think some of these idjits mean government when they “economy”
Lets get this right. It is Obama who is adamant. He will not stop spending and is asking for even more taxes so he can spend more. He has to be stopped (from spending).
Of course the left has the luxury of being intransigent, knowing the GOP will get the blame for the consequences, while Obama gets the praise for avoiding the fiscal crash.
It`s a no-win for the Repubs anyway, so they should simply let all the tax cuts expire and let the chips fall where they may. No more half-assed half-measures. Americans need to feel the brunt of their stupid electoral choices.
The MAIN thing Boehner should have done -
On Wed AM when BO started this ‘attack’ on the R’s in Congress the comeback should have been “Mr. President, WE want to pass a workable budget. I understand that you have submitted budgets in the past which, for some reason never made it out of the Senate.
We would be happy to work with you. Have the Senate send us the ‘approved’ budget you submit and we can sit down and work on it”.
“BTW, the same Senate that voted you down with NARY a YEA vote FOR your proposed Budgets, has tabled ANYTHING we have sent up and, in fact, the Leader had vowed before the election to NOT work with us were we successful”.
That should be the message given the American people on a daily basis....Why we may even win over 1 a day....HA....
Got to pull a Reagan with the several wheelbarrows full of paper brought up before his State of the Union address and saying “Ladies and Gentleman, I thought we would have a budget signing today BUT I received this preliminary paper work for last years budget just this morning”.
Worked for Reagan, should work for anyone with a lick of sense and a backbone.
Granted while Reagan didn’t have an ‘enthusiastic’ press it at least didn’t openly act downright hateful.
As usual what will happen is that Obama will refuse to negotiate, triggering the automatic cuts, etc., and then blame the Republicans for so doing.
The obedient Democrat Media will pick-up on the Democrat lies that it’s all the Republicans fault for being “intransigent” and “not negotiating”.
Same old shit, different day.
Obama could carewles about the fiscal cliff he’s in for four years and he has many changes to make in the gov.
The more poor people the more changes he can make.