everyone knows that "future cuts" will never ever happen
Posted on 07/23/2011 1:56:30 PM PDT by lbryce
Hoping to reassure markets in the wake of an angry breakdown in the federal budget negotiations, Congressional leaders raced Saturday to reach a new deficit-reduction agreement that Speaker John A. Boehner told colleagues could cut $3 trillion to $4 trillion in spending over 10 years.
“We are working, and I’m confident there will be resolution,” Mr. Boehner told fellow House Republicans on an afternoon conference call, according to participants. “There has to be.”
Mr. Boehner’s comments came a little more than a week before the federal government risks defaulting on its debts, a fate that could be avoided if Congress agrees to increase the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.
The speaker, who abruptly broke off budget talks with President Obama on Friday evening, said he hoped the plan could be finished within 24 hours. He said the savings would most likely be achieved in two stages and would meet Republican fiscal demands that have led to a Congressional cliffhanger on the debt limit.
He spoke with his colleagues after Congressional leaders met at the White House on Saturday morning at the request of Mr. Obama. The meeting broke up without resolution just before noon, after about an hour of discussion.
Lawmakers and top aides said privately that despite the White House session, the search for a solution was now focused on Capitol Hill, where senior advisers gathered Saturday afternoon to exchange ideas on a plan that could get the go-ahead from top members of Congress.
In a statement after the White House session, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, indicated that he and his leadership counterparts were trying to devise a fallback measure to assure the borrowing ceiling was raised in time.
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Excatly HOW does the Bonehead and GOP plan to reconcile “the need to cut spending now” with “$3-4 trillion in cuts OVER 10 YEARS”?
"Don't go all wobbly on me, George" - Margaret Thatcher to then President George H.W. Bush.
Yeah, and it wouldn’t surprise me if these cuts aren’t really decreases in the increase. That’s usually the way things go in D. C.
Forget the 10 year cut. We know how that goes. The question is: What’s the cut in 2012. Anything else is just make believe.
And I’m betting the 2012 cuts will be close to zero. Obama wants to spend $1.6 trillion or so that he doesn’t have in 2012. That needs to get carved down by at least $400-$500 billion. I’m not holding my breath.
$3-4 TRILLION in cuts over 10 years?
I need a year by year breakdown of exactly how much is cut per year and which specific programs will be cut each year and by how much. Let’s get SERIOUS about this.
Methinks the answer will be backloaded to the extreme. Which means, of course, as it has many times in the past, that few, if any, of the cuts will be made.
3 to 4 trillion over a decade is pure horse crap. We should be asking for 6 to 9 billion a year for ever until no debt. What the hell is the matter with these fools thinking we buy this crap?
Excuse me, but this fool doesn’t understand how your program works.
OVER 10 YEARS IS FRUAD and all of us know it.....
everyone knows that "future cuts" will never ever happen
I think 3-4 trillion is not enough. We are 165 billion short a month if nothing changes. So right off the bat you have to cut 165 billion a month to stay ahead.
Now add in the 500 billion to keep the place running for the next 3-4 months, you have to add another 170 billion the first 3 months then go back to 165 billion a month.
How do we cut 165 billion a month is the question? Obamacare would be about 35 billion a month. If they sell oil leases and open ANWAR, they can probably generate another 10 billion a month in taxes from the economy growing again.
Get rid of FrankenDodd and probably can generate another 10 billion a month in tax revenue that can go to pay down the debt.
I am guessing after that, everything gets cut by 25%.
How close am I?
I am sure that's exactly what they are, plus they won't ever happen
A deal that “could cut” over “10 years”?
“Excuse me, but this fool doesn’t understand how your program works.”
You make up the difference on volume.
The McConnell "backup" doesn't even reach 2 trillion and was panned by Moodys.
This better be a decent deal. It won't be "great" because it hasn't the "teeth" of a Balanced Budget Amendment and no "10 year deal" has any meaning since one congress can't require the next to spend at certain levels going forward.
Cuts need to be made now and they better be over $100 billion like "Cut, Cap & Balance."
No matter what happens, Obama will spin it as a victory for himself and blame Republicans for anything that goes wrong.
“3 to 4 trillion over a decade is pure horse crap. We should be asking for 6 to 9 billion a year for ever until no debt.”
Your plan will take from 110-160 years to work. Not very effective.
There is a huge MOMENTUM and the spending train needs to be ended slowly else we will see Greek style rioting except our “offended” will have weapons. Do you really want to risk that?
Why doesn’t he just pressure the Senate to pass the house bill? Why bother to “hammer” out a new one? Spinless wimp a**ed republican leaders.
There WILL BE immediate FY 12 spending cuts like CCB for FY 12, otherwise the package won’t pass the House and won’t avoid a credit downgrade.
Boehner hasn’t caved to date. He knows his speakership is on the line with his own caucus. The problem is Reid and Schumer; and whether a few Senate moderate RATS will come to their senses - those terrified about Nov 2012.
Boehner has given BO the finger publicly - made him a hollow, empty suit over the last 48 hours. This is unprecedented, and Boehner deserves our appreciation, not criticism. I am not saying that we need to remain vigilant, but Boehner hasn’t caved yet.
If you want immediate cuts, you should be calling your reps and Senators - especially the RATS - to support Boehner.
“$3-4 trillion” looks like a big number. Over ten years, eh? The deficit over ten years is about $15 trillion, if they don’t make it higher next year than this year. The government-dependent (nearly all politically involved constituents) are going to suck every bit that they can out of this debt regime toward certain default.
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