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U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P
Yahoo.com via Reuters ^ | 8/5/11 | Walter Brandimarte

Posted on 08/05/2011 5:51:21 PM PDT by GQuagmire

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To: GQuagmire

Zero is toast.


121 posted on 08/05/2011 6:40:26 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: GQuagmire

CNN International reports that massive tax increases, no social security or Medicare for those with savings and defense cuts are unavoidable. O has his victory via S&P.


122 posted on 08/05/2011 6:41:18 PM PDT by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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To: GQuagmire

Conveniently released late on a Friday night.


123 posted on 08/05/2011 6:42:21 PM PDT by ponygirl (Okay, so you're not a racist. Who are you going to vote for in 2012 to prove you're not an idiot?)
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To: silentknight

That is pure ignorance. The Tea Party didn’t create the debt. S & P says the debt deal didn’t go far enought in cutting the deficit. It was the Tea Party that wanted to go further. The media needs to quit spreading blatant lies! Do they think they and their families are immune from the consequences of destroying the US economy?


124 posted on 08/05/2011 6:42:49 PM PDT by KansasGirl
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To: silentknight

Tea Party has only been in office 8 months max (Jan 2011).


125 posted on 08/05/2011 6:43:01 PM PDT by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: GQuagmire

IF zero had a shred of decency he’d resign immediately....that is, if this isn’t actually what he wants.

His Muslim/Kenyan/Marxist/bowing/apologizing self is probably laughing.


126 posted on 08/05/2011 6:43:06 PM PDT by Aria ( "If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.")
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To: GQuagmire
U.S. loses AAA credit rating from S&P!

Will make about as much difference as wiping lipstick off a pig.

127 posted on 08/05/2011 6:43:15 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: Reagan69

I can tell you in three words why we can’t impeach Obama......President Joe Biden.


128 posted on 08/05/2011 6:44:10 PM PDT by Beave Meister (Die Hard Cubs Fan.....if it takes forever.)
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To: rosepetal2010
I realize many of us here haven’t chosen this, but the majority of Americans have chosen it and now it’s time to pay the piper.

Yep. All those handouts don't fall from heaven like magic. NOTHING is "free".
Someone else becomes a slave every time another "free" penny is promised in exchange for a vote.
It's time for the U.S. to start on it's own austerity measures. The freeloaders aren't going to be happy about getting jobs of their own, though.

129 posted on 08/05/2011 6:44:30 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: GQuagmire
Obama, you really effed up when you signed the debt ceiling bill. It was the trajectory, stupid NOT the the ceiling. Shouldn't have signed it. You own it now. (Obama hates it when Sarah and the Tea Party are right.)

When Clinton left office, the debt to GDP ratio was 57%. When Bush left office (eight years later), the ratio was 69%. After 2.5 years of the Obama/Mugabe Rule the ratio is 97%.


Obama = EPIC FAIL.

130 posted on 08/05/2011 6:44:37 PM PDT by Chgogal (WSJ, Krauthammer, Rove et. al., STFU. Thank you.)
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To: JimSEA

The tax part is especially disturbing because inflation itself is a tax. It’s gonna get messy and sad.


131 posted on 08/05/2011 6:45:06 PM PDT by rosepetal2010 (The government is NOT your friend)
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To: AAABEST

“Yes we did know he was bad. Personally speaking, I honestly had no idea that it would ever get THIS bad. “

Remember you ain’t seen bottom yet. We only begun the journey.


132 posted on 08/05/2011 6:45:17 PM PDT by jafojeffsurf (Return to the Constitution)
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To: JimSEA
If you call getting crushed in his re-election a victory, then sure. I hope he enjoys the party while it lasts.

CNN can spin until their wheels fly off, but the average American blames the President for economic troubles. Obama has some time left on the clock to cause more havoc, but it's too late for him now. He's going to pay in 2012, and so will the Democrats.

Unless we dust off John McCain and send him back in for round 2, Obama's officially a one term President, as of today.

133 posted on 08/05/2011 6:45:38 PM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Beave Meister
I can tell you in three words why we can’t impeach Obama......President Joe Biden.

Bite Me might be a blundering incompetent. But, at least, he isn't an anti-American Commie.

In which case, I'd say he's an upgrade...

134 posted on 08/05/2011 6:46:15 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance On Parade)
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To: RegulatorCountry

What was I thinking! You are right. They put the stupid in the stupid party. :)


135 posted on 08/05/2011 6:47:27 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: KansasGirl

Yea, to blame the Tea Party is ridiculous. I agree with whoever said that Obama really needs to resign. But Obama ever doing the ‘right thing’ is only a pipe dream.


136 posted on 08/05/2011 6:47:40 PM PDT by rosepetal2010 (The government is NOT your friend)
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To: JimSEA
CNN International reports that massive tax increases, no social security or Medicare for those with savings and defense cuts are unavoidable

Which is probably why CNN is losing so many viewers. All they have left are the welfare parasites, and crazed liberals still living at home demanding more of everyone elses paycheck.

137 posted on 08/05/2011 6:47:47 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: GQuagmire

From The Hill, 4/19/2011:

‘No risk’ the US will lose its top credit rating, says Treasury’s Geithner
By Michael O’Brien - 04/19/11 10:33 AM ET

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said Tuesday there is “no risk” the U.S. will lose its top credit rating amid a new analysis that revised its outlook on American debt to “negative.”

Geithner took to the airwaves of financial news networks to push back against a report Monday by Standard & Poor’s that lowered its outlook on U.S. debt to “negative,” reflecting political uncertainty over whether lawmakers will reach an agreement to address long-term debt.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/156747-geithner-no-risk-that-us-loses-its-top-credit-rating


138 posted on 08/05/2011 6:48:39 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: randita

1. Still blaming Bush after all these years?

2. If it was not for those Bush tax cuts, this would have happen much, much sooner.

3. Rasing taxes will not work.

4. The stimulus was a JOKE.

5. Again trying to tax your way into sucessful times.

6. You forget, “your terrorist (the tea party) is our (the tea party) freedom fighters.

7. The Democrats trying to PROJECT themselves again!


139 posted on 08/05/2011 6:48:39 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Raycpa

They can all go eff themselves. THe 2008 banking crisis, part real and part very much contrived ala market crashes, were facilitated by the likes of Moody’s, S&P and a swooning, if not self-serving democrat cabal. They ensured 0bama’s election. And they are doing it again to get him re-elected. I will move to Phuket..and I won’t be pronouncing it Poo-ket.

Going Galt.


140 posted on 08/05/2011 6:49:02 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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