Posted on 07/14/2011 3:35:08 PM PDT by yup2394871293
The wounded are especially dangerous fighters. President Obama now occupies the high ground in the debt-ceiling debate, having called the Republicans’ bluff on the debt. He showed that deficit reduction is not now, and never has been, the GOP’s priority. He dare not get overconfident.
After thwarting the deal that House Speaker John Boehner was cooking up with Obama, Rep. Eric Cantor, the majority leader and Boehner’s rival, needs to show he knew what he was doing and recoup political ground. Cantor is likely to present Obama with spending cuts that the president once seemed to endorse as part of a large deal but will have to reject now that the big agreement is dead. There is still a lot of danger out there.
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McConnell is about as cynical as this lefty idiot is.
How did the WaPo conclude this as fact. Hell, Obama has not produced a budget in over two years!
A responsible CEO not sure of where the money is going to come from on August 3rd would have instituted a hiring freeze by now and started issuing layoff notices. The US government is now advertising to hire 19,711 more people at USAJOBS.gov.
A CEO realizes that bankruptcy may terminate his job.
The White House doesn't care about the cliff. All they care about is that every new government employee is another potential Dem activist in 2012.
The BIG LIE in this chart is in what it DOESNT SHOW:
- MEDICARE, #1 spending item
- SOCIAL SECURITY, #2 spending item
- MEDICAID
- UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE and other ‘mandatory’ spending
So, interest is big, but under 10% of total spending, and there are other bigger items.
This idiot and all other idiots in DC are delusional. And I mean ALL!!!! Their arguments are so puny and they just continue to babble! No one wants to take on the facts that there is plenty of money to meet monthly obligations - it’s been reported over and over and over and they are ignoring it without anyone calling THEIR bluff!
Suppose your (or anyone’s) household had a monthly income of $2,000 and obligations of $1,000 - would anyone believe you if you cried that you couldn’t make ends meet?
Washington just doesn’t work or think like the rest of us do!!
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