Obama: Give me ideas on tightening federal belt

Associated Press/Yahoo! ^ | Saturday April 25, 2009, 10:05 am EDT | Philip Elliott,

[BenLurkin]

Obama on Saturday announced a plan for federal workers to propose ways to improve their agencies' and departments' budgets. The president said employees' ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials try to cut millions from the budget and trim the deficit.

[BenLurkin]

To me the answer is simple but -- have at it FRiends!

[SolidWood]

Resign.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Tar, feathers, pitchforks.....

[kabar]

Third post.

[Ancient Drive]

show us the Birth Certificate....

[gwilhelm56]

I got a few Ideas myself ... and most of them begin with that interesting belt that MICHELLE has been wearing, lately!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Wasn't there a big deal made about Obie sending his thugs to DC before taking office so they could evaluate all these government agencies top to bottom and find where savings could be had?????

[NordP]

- RESIGN -

you beat me to it! AGREED!

[counterpunch]

Oh I got it....
STOP SPENDING SO MUCH!
And let the bailed out banks pay back the money and break free from the fascist stranglehold of the government.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Third post.

Taddle tale. :)

[Las Vegas Ron]

He also told agencies they could keep a part of the money they save

That there must be some of that lib logic I've been hearing about so much lately

[avacado]

"Democrats in Congress neared a deal on Obama's budget proposal and inched closer to passing a bill that would result in some $500 billion in deficits."

$500 billion budget deficit! Utter nonsense! Try $1.2 trillion budget deficit! Obama $3.6 trillion budget fiscal 2010 minus federal revenue of $2.4 trillion is a budget deficit of $1.2 trillion!

The AP is outright covering for that asshat with completely false information.

[mulligan]

Cut the budget in half and then resign.

[Pharmboy]

Eliminate the Departments of Education and Energy. They either do nothing or make things worse, usually the latter.

[Spottys Spurs]

Cut all foreign aid, most doesn’t get to where it was intended anyway.. pull out of the UN and end all financial support to it.. send all illegals back to their own countries and disallow any aid programs to illegals..no more Congressional pensions.. let the free markets work the way they were intended.. no more TARP bailouts, none!

[rovenstinez]

End Public Education, give out vouchers, and send Nancy Pelosi to California on Southwest Airlines every 15 days..for 2 days of rest.

[FrankR]

"Obama on Saturday announced a plan for federal workers to propose ways to improve their agencies' and departments' budgets. The president said employees' ideas would be key as his Cabinet officials try to cut millions from the budget and trim the deficit."

Notice that he is only asking his employees, agencies, and departments for advice...who - who wants to keep their job - will tell the "prince" that his policies suck?

[VanDeKoik]

See below:

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Umm....

Let's see, when you took office, the deficit was under 500 Billion dollars under Bush.

By the end of this year, it will be over 6 Trillion as a result of Obamanomics. (Bush's fault) then you say you will cut 2 Trillion off the deficit over the next ten years. (While the interest alone will equal that.)

NO WONDER you have no clue about what you are doing. It was Bush who called the Democrat fiscal chaos, “FUZZY MATH”. It looks to me like a valid observation on Mr. Bush's part.

[TeleStraightShooter]

Turn state’s evidence against your criminal gang of Chicago Politicans (who make US Grants adviser look like saints) as they line their own pockets with the the $1,000,000,000,000 “stimulus”/Porkulus scam