Obama wants to freeze discretionary spending for 3 years

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[Psycho_Bunny]

Complete and total nonsense.

[saganite]

Read military spending.

[highlander_UW]

Would paying the salaries and expense account of Congressmen, Senators and the president qualify as “discretionary spending”?

[MamaLucci]

Good questions....the Republicans should make him put his
money where his mouth is......make him pledge not
to siphon ONE MORE DIME of taxpayer money to Acorn!

[Gator113]

Timing, timing, timing.

Last week Obama gets his teeth kicked in by Brown. The defeat is killing him. His Obamacare dream is down the toilet. Again, the defeat is killing him. His ego is bleeding.

Within 24 hours of being brought to his knees by Brown, Obama marches out and hogties the banks and causes the market to severely drop. Within 72 hours of bashing the banks, he comes up with this.

Obama is acting out. His feelings are hurt and he’s trying to hurt us back. It’s the only way for him to feel any relief from the anguish his is experiencing.

Obama has gone from standing at between great columns of his Greek Amphitheater, in front of hundreds of thousands of adoring fans.... to trying to get through a gig in a classroom of 6th graders.

He is at the “fight or flight” stage and he has decided to fight. This will not end well..... as with any fight, somebody must lose.

[tcrlaf]

ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES...

No Super-majority, and a united Republican opposition means no Deficit Cap Increase, and no new tax hikes get passed.

[LikeLight]

So no more lavish White House parties every 3 days?

Right...

[jilliane]

bipolar

[Fester Chugabrew]

I fail to comprehend how a freeze on dictionary spending will in any way effect the status quo.

[InvisibleChurch]

geez, I wonder how bad it is that he wants to do this ?

[cranked]

Starting when? Given to that the Dems recently passed a $1.9 trillion up on the debt ceiling, probably for this years budget, Barry is up the creek on his “3 year” bit..........

[noiseman]

Listen, when liberal politicians, especially Obama, offer something new it's just like when you walk in to a casino and notice they have a new game for you to play. In neither case are they offering the "new" thing because it's better for you.

It's the same with this so-called spending freeze (as it was with health care, cap and trade, etc.). It's just another flim-flam. As someone already pointed out, very little of the budget that matters is considered "discretionary." Zero thinks we're all too dumb to realize this.

[lovesdogs]

proposing to save $250 billion by freezing all non-security federal discretionary spending for three years, according to two senior administration officials.

1-How much stuff can be crammed into "security" spending?

2-Freezing does not mean cutting.

3-Saving...see number two.

4-Did he have an intervention by Bill Clinton that slightly missed it's mark?

[visualops]

That’s his plan? ‘OK, you older people shuffle off to the old folks home and live on whatever measly benefits you get from SS before that gets cut, and let someone take your place.’

[driftdiver]

Well since China aint gonna buy any more bonds they don’t much choice. Nahhhh they’ll just print more.

[uncle fenders]

triple the debt, then freeze spending....NICE.....

[Candor7]

Obama wants to freeze spending, he wants to control greedy bankers, he wants to rebuild the middle class, he controls GM, he buggers us with the Unions,WTF?

Will comrade Obama please announce his 5 year plan now?

Effin totalitarian parasite. He can control his own dick, but not much else IMHO, if that.

He gotta go and soon!

Grease the rails.

[newnhdad]

Just a distraction.. watch what the other hand is doing.

[jimfree]

YOU LIE!!!

[noiseman]

The Republicans should immediately begin challenging Obama to name specific programs he thinks should be frozen or cut. He's trying to get away with making a promise that is so vague and limited that he thinks it might be a winner for him but at least can't be a loser because it is so non-specific.

His proposal is silly because it presumes that all spending is equally important (or unimportant). The Republicans need to say that when you have a financial crisis, and are trying to bring your finances back into line, you obviously MUST prioritize your spending. Force Obama to admit either that many programs are unjustifiable or that he is completely inept because he can't prioritize in a time of crisis.