Well, he had to double it before he could slash it in half.
And, no, Liz Sidotti lacks all sense of humor.
He can do it, you know, just by printing more money.
Yes, definitely political humor.
"Say you want a revolution..."
This is so nutty I’m having visions of woody allen’s banana republic wherein the fearless leader announces that everyone will change their underwear every 10 minutes and they’ll have to wear it on the outside so we can check.
That part cannot be more than 3 months away right now.
This is just Alinsky-type propaganda to pave the way for raising taxes and government gaining that much more control of our lives.
If he succeeds in getting his ideas put into action, he will make the Peanut Era look like Utopia.
Yeah, sure. Right after he walks across the Potomac
what else?
Of course the point being that it sounds good. The MSM will naturally laud the effort and eventually claim that it “is working.” Facts will be ignored as usual.
67 MILLION OBAMA VOTERS ARE COUNTING ON YOU TO PAY THEIR BILLS
Clinton 1993, pass stimulus then taxes
Ain't gonna happen, without a war anyway
Yes because its gonna be damn funny when Obama touts a budget cut and tax hikes and then throws Congress under the bus when they refuse to do such!
is working on a plan to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term.
He just added a trillion dollars to our childrens debt. The deficit is what the government spends over what it said itwould in a given period of time. Read additional debt. So all he is saying is he is going to add less debt to our children in 4 years then planned Not much benefit with his trillion dollars he just did add.
Sure, first he’ll quintuple it, then ‘slash’ it in half, leaving it 2.5 times as big as under Bush.
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no wonder Jimmy Carter is smiling, he will not be the worst anymore...
To wit, Clinton's for Smaller Defense, not Smaller Government
"The only part of government really reduced under Clinton has been the civilian work force. Yet even here, to be more accurate, it's not government in general that has gotten smaller, but rather Defense that has been cut, thereby masking Clinton's overall bigger-government appetite.
"* From 1993 through 1999 (estimates), Defense discretionary spending has fallen from $292.4 billion to $265.1 billion -- a 9.3 percent decrease.
"* The Defense accounts absorbed 67 percent (222,800) of the 331,000 FTE reductions in federal civilian employment over the same time period."
So where's Obama going to get the money to reduce the deficit? Taxes on "the rich" and big reductions in defense.
"The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States"
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. Americans are not recruited to be martyrs. (Maybe recruits from those mysterious extra seven or eight states in Obama's America crave martyrdom?)
If in addition to higher taxes on "the rich" President Obama slashes the defense budget to get the savings then screw the President.
Our military have and are developing weapons and have manpower needs that they deem necessary to destroy our enemies now and to be prepared for any future enemy. That is their job.
During the campaign Obama made clear his intention to deny our military. That is treason in this era of war as far as the eye can see.
Sure he’ll cut the deficit in half. He’ll need to install cooling towers at the mint to keep the printing presses from melting, but it’s just a matter of engineering.
This means....TAXES! I would guess lots of hidden taxes so he can claim net CUTs in middles class taxes. The other point to note: His massive spending of trillions in bailouts and stimulus are OFF BUDGET! So he doesnt include that in total of the 50%