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White House doubles down on vow Obama won't agree to more spending cuts
FoxNews ^ | July 28, 2013 | FoxNews

Posted on 07/28/2013 11:41:54 AM PDT by Innovative

The Obama administration dug in Sunday on its vow to reject proposed spending cuts by congressional Republicans in upcoming budget talks, but declined to say whether the president would veto their proposals or allow a government shutdown.

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told “Fox News Sunday” that President Obama will neither sign government funding bills that slash domestic spending nor negotiate with Republicans over spending cuts to reduce the federal debt limit.

He also said the president was not going to accept a budget in which domestic spending is further cut to soften the blow to Defense spending.

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Those on the government dole are his major constituents and he wants to keep them, who cares about those who are paying taxes to fund them.

And we wouldn't possibly want to eliminate funding for such "important" programs such as a "raisin reserve"?! (/sarc)

Why Does The United States Government Need A "Raisin Reserve?"

1 posted on 07/28/2013 11:41:54 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Obama: There is no government waste.


2 posted on 07/28/2013 11:46:13 AM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Innovative

I thought the House “doled” out money. Where did the _resident derive this authority?


3 posted on 07/28/2013 11:47:36 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Innovative

shut it down


4 posted on 07/28/2013 11:51:47 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: onedoug

Call the bast%rds bluff. Put him in a position he can NEVER wiggle out of as he has done sooooooooo many time previously.


5 posted on 07/28/2013 11:52:51 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for SMALLER , HONEST government)
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To: Innovative

The boy can’t help himself. He loves being able to spend other people’s money and get away with it.


6 posted on 07/28/2013 11:56:39 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Let's make it our turn in 2014. Vote early and VOTE OFTEN.)
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The _resident told us he didn't agree with sequester, (after he said he did), so I'm baffled where he ever agreed to spending cuts.

Until recently he was running in excess of $1 trillion dollar per year deficits.  Some years he ran in excess of $1.5 trillion in deficits.  The economy limping along has turned things around a bit, but that was only because things were so bad at one point, there wasn't much place to go but up, then many people have fallen off unemployment and other benefits too.

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7 posted on 07/28/2013 11:57:18 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Kill the bill... Begin enforcing our current laws, signed by President Ronald Reagan.)
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To: Innovative

The last chance for the GOP is the Obamacare vote tied the the CR. If the leadersheep fails Cruz, Paul, et al., they are finished.


8 posted on 07/28/2013 11:58:40 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Innovative

I don’t believe that congress has the balls or intellect to call his bluff/threat.


9 posted on 07/28/2013 12:02:53 PM PDT by Gator113
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To: Innovative

Read his lips, “More new taxes”.


10 posted on 07/28/2013 12:04:59 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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Federal entitlements are driving this spending growth, having increased from less than half of total federal outlays just 20 years ago to nearly 62 percent in 2012. Three major programs—Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security—dominate in size and growth, soaking up about 44 percent of the budget. All three programs are growing faster than inflation, and—when joined with $1.7 trillion in new Obamacare spending—will drain about 18.5 percent of the nation’s total economic output by mid-century. Because that is about the historical annual average of total federal tax revenue, it means all other government programs—national defense, veterans health care, transportation, federal law enforcement, and others—would effectively have to be financed on borrowed money.

Other entitlements continue growing as well. Anti-poverty programs have surged by 49 percent in just the past decade, even after adjusting for inflation. Spending for food stamps alone has more than tripled since 2002. Health programs, including Medicaid, have increased by 38 percent, and housing assistance by 48 percent.

Although these entitlement programs have dominated the government’s spending growth, discretionary spending—spending authorized by annual appropriations bills—also has grown by 40 percent more than inflation, to $1.289 trillion. Spending on non-defense programs has grown 29 percent. These outlays peaked in 2010 due to the stimulus bill, but remain 7 percent higher than their pre-stimulus level of 2008.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/10/federal-spending-by-the-numbers-2012


11 posted on 07/28/2013 12:06:56 PM PDT by kcvl
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Obama behaves like any other socialist that obtains power. Government only expands and is never curtailed. There is no fundamental appreciation how real wealth is created or the value those who generate the wealth.Long term effects of policies, programs and regulations are never considered. Economies stagnate, contract and living standards decline. It happens virtually every time anywhere the Left comes to power.


12 posted on 07/28/2013 12:07:21 PM PDT by allendale
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How about spending cuts to Illegal (Undocumented Democratic) Aliens? Like stopping the EITC tax credits for them and all the exemptions to their nieces and Nephews in Mexico City (and other countries) flowing out of our treasury to the tune of Billions of dollars?

How about it Democrats? Oh, that's how you buy votes isn't it?

13 posted on 07/28/2013 12:11:23 PM PDT by sr4402
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To: Innovative

What if the government shut down and no one noticed?

I guess we will never find out.

But just imagine the heat the Dims would get from the gimme crowd. It would be fun.


14 posted on 07/28/2013 12:15:07 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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Obama knows his economy is a total failure, and its agenda cannot be sustained financially. So what does he do? He forces the HOR Republicans to stand firm, or look like useless wimps and cave. Then he bullies enough of them to cave so he gets his way. Then they still get blamed for the mess because everybody sees that they have neither integrity nor conviction. And the 'pubs will lose, because nobody likes useless wimps.

What's the answer? Stand up to Obama, and stand togerher. They just had a chance to do so by voting down NSA spying on US citizens, and they couldn't even get that one right.....and that's with a lot of democratic votes.

15 posted on 07/28/2013 12:18:35 PM PDT by grania
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To: Innovative

If Obama cannot buy votes with our money he is done for and he knows it.


16 posted on 07/28/2013 12:21:03 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Innovative

Methinks she doth protest too much?


17 posted on 07/28/2013 12:21:11 PM PDT by expat2
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Obama knows his economy is a total failure, and its agenda cannot be sustained financially.

Sorry, but that's exactly backweird. America-hating President You Didn't Build That's goal is to bring the American economy to its knees. I'm sure he's deeply pleased with the progress he and the rest of the "progressive" oligarchy have been making.

18 posted on 07/28/2013 12:22:38 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: allendale

Is that Obama or GWB you’re referring to?


19 posted on 07/28/2013 12:23:25 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Innovative

Eliminate all welfare programs including food stamps!!!

Let the poor die!


20 posted on 07/28/2013 12:25:12 PM PDT by dalereed
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