Posted on 01/06/2013 6:53:43 PM PST by Nachum
In an interview with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal, newly re-elected House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) opened up about President Obama’s utter unwillingness to cut a single dollar from federal spending. In a stunning admission, Obama reportedly told Boehner, “We don’t have a spending problem.”
Boehner added that President Obama continues to maintain that America’s federal deficit is caused not by governmental overspending but by “a health-care problem.” Said Boehner, “They blame all of the fiscal woes on our health-care system.” Boehner told Obama, “Clearly we have a health-care problem, which is about to get worse with Obamacare. But, Mr. President, we have a very serious spending problem.” Obama eventually replied, “I’m getting tired of hearing you say that.”
Obama may be tired of hearing Boehner talk about a spending problem, particularly when Obama has been re-elected on the basis of ignoring government spending. Nonetheless, America does have a spending problem, which Obama is steadfastly ignoring. “He’s so ideological himself,” Boehner explained, “and he’s unwilling to take on the left of his own party.” That’s why Obama refused to raise the retirement age for Medicare after agreeing to it. “He admitted in meetings that he couldn’t sell things to his own members,” said Boehner. “But he didn’t even want to try … We could never get him to step up.”
Boehner says that there will be no new tax increases over the debt ceiling. “The tax issue is resolved,” he said. And he said that more closed-door negotiations with Obama would be “futile.” It’s a bit too late to recognize that, but better late than never.
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Bronc0 needs to be taken to the woodshed.
The majority of the fools who voted for Obama voted for him to raise OTHER PEOPLE's taxes!
owebama exists in a separate universe where there is no reality - only him...
Obama knows better. Of course spending is the problem.
We don’t have a spending problem, we have a Kenyan problem.
If Obama and regime have a “problem”, it is a “mental problem” because they are the most dysfunctional, pathologically warped people ever to run the US.
We have a narcissitic, egomaniacal reparationist marxist as president, his wife who thinks she is a the “food queen” (I’ll just go with “queen”), a staff of asskissers and liars unparalleled in US history (Gibbs, Carney, Rice, Hillary, Dempsey), and more crooks, crazies, cronies and commies than in any administrator in U.S. history (though Roosevelt’s 2-4th administrations come awfully close, but did have more Soviet spies).
Obama is delusional and America is suffering because of it. But we must also blame the gutless leadership of the GOP and its sheeple members who cave in to the Democrats every time they say “boo”, or “tax raises”, or “healthcare”.
The GOP today has surrendered to the Democrats/Left more times than the French have throughout history. Nothing to be proud of.
If I were a psychiatrist and only treated Obama staff for mental problems, I’d be the richest man in America, if not the world.
Hey Dems: “Being liars, stupid, and insane is no way to go through a normal life”. Dean UpYours
Obama knows better. Of course spending is the problem.
Obama knows better. Of course spending is the problem.
We have a spending problem. Fortunately, there is now a solution!
Please sign the new White House petition
Produce a Trillion Dollar Coin for Every U.S. Citizen for the Purpose of Paying Taxes
Activities and services pledged by the U.S. government exceed the ability to pay based on current tax revenue. The budget deficit is added to the national debt, and federal taxes are used in part to pay for the debt and interest.
“Trillion dollar” coins are being considered to pay the national debt, however, we petition the U.S. Government to mint an adequate quantity of “trillion dollar” coins to pay off the national debt, and enough additional coins to provide one for each citizen of the United States.
These coins can only be used to pay federal, state, and miscellaneous taxes for the lifetime of the recipient. Residual funds from each coin will be available to heirs of the recipients, and will be exempt from inheritance tax.
Irony.....the empty chair is the master of “present.”
“We could never get him to step up.”
See if you can get him to shut up. For ONE day.
Is there any day where he doesn’t tell or sell some sort of big lie to the American people?
That man keeps the WH at 78 degrees in winter and overspent his credit card privately, prior to becoming nationally known. He spends period. Whose money it is doesn’t matter, since someone always comes behind him to clean the mess.
There was a pic and discussion with MO early on in 2008, complete with a picture of the house in Chicago that showed a kitchen table with the fixings of a peanut butter sandwich. MO complained that that man never cleaned up after himself in the kitchen. Open jar of preserves, peanut butter, a dirty plate on the table and an opened loaf of bread.
The man thinks everyone is his servant, including his treasurer. He’s not 50. He’s 5
He needs to stop calling him “Mr.” President. He’s neither.
The answer is very simple: DO NOT appropriate money! If the Republican lead house refuses to appropriate money, there is nothing anyone including Odumbo can do.
Obama is fundamentally stupid ~ the sort for which there is no cure. Education won’t work.
The term we are looking for may well be “MOLLYCODDLED”. From the day of his birth this guy was treated as someone special by his family, and associates.
He hasn’t a clue because of it.
If Zero would go away we wouldn’t have a spending problem!!!
We need to stop thinking they are acting on the same paradigm we are.
Keynesian economics is upside down economics.
Really DUMB RINO File.
Should be another fun roller coaster.
Thanks Nachum.
I think I see the problem here. Boehner evidently STILL fails to understand that Ubama, the African Communist, IS the "left of his own party". Ubama was ranked the most communist senator when he was in that body, and he has not changed at all. Ubama is the President of the Democrats of the United States and that is all he will ever be. He certainly is not MY president.
Good grief, John.... Wake up, please.
Did you see this? I found it interesting.
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/jack-kelly/john-maynard-keynes-the-conservative-668331/
Look, I detest Obama and big government, but he's not crazy or evil. All this controversy about how to run the economy is nothing new. It's the same old split between Milton Friedman and John Maynard Keynes economic theories.
Yes what Obama is doing is extremely alarming and if His Keynesian model turns out to be wrong we are screwed. But for the sake of America I hope Keynes was right. Because Obama is going does that road come he'll or high water.
And yet, Boo-hoo Boehner still gave him another $800B+, of taxpayer money, to ‘play with’.
Some leadership, deserves another go in the seat, THIS time will be different! /s
Affirmative Action personified.
There is no dialogue possible if your opponent refuses to acknowledge basic facts and terminology. In addition Obama’s idealogy is even more extreme than hard left democrats in his party. Obama believes we don’t spend ENOUGH. Since he believes we should be spending more than any deficit we have now is simply because we have not taxed enough. You can not reason with someone like that.
This is scary. Well, my silver is safe for now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/30/opinion/keynes-was-right.html?_r=0
Check out the above link to a column by Krugman. The title is Keynes Was Right.
Ugh!
I’ve read in the past that MOST insane people are actually harmless, but then there’s a certain amount of them that are NOT.
The WH seems to have become a sanitarium for the latter.
See, the GOP keeps thinking that they will change the thinking of the Democrats. Not going to happen. So the work that has to be done must keep this in mind. They are so intrenched in their ways (as are the GOP) that a) they will lie because it will further their cause, b) see a.
Obama truly believes that there is no spending problem (the GOP says it but doesn’t mean it). Therefore, no one has a conviction for any meaningful budget cuts.
Reality Sucks.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100018973
This article above explains what Obama is doing with the Keynesian model. Everyone should read it. Obama is not crazy or ignorant or trying to destroy America. He is committed ideologically to a course that could be disastrous or could work. It’s very alarming because if it fails we are so screwed!
I have this personal philosophy. There is no reason to feel worse then you really need to. It is unwise to believe the very worst, if the worst is not true. What we have with Obama is a very popular, uncompromising, wealth redistributing, big government, underhanded, crafty politician. Thats bad enough. But he is not trying to bring us to rack and ruin on purpose. I am leaving that bit of paranoia behind. And his methods are not madness, they are methods I don’t think will work and God help us if they don’t.
TBP: “Obama knows better.”
No. I don’t think he does. I’m starting to believe the Democrats truly, seriously believe their own propaganda.
To him, we don’t have a spending problem...it’s all part of the far left’s agenda to overwhelm the system - by expanding welfare. They don’t want spending cuts, or their plan won’t work.
The big problem is the GOP is absolutely in zero position to speak up, because they are NOT for US production.
The GOP needs to get with American jobs.
Now.
0bummer has got to be the reincarnation of Razputin. He really believes he can just look you in the eye and make you believe whatever he says.
The Zer0 Syndicate will never cut spending. They want to tax the Middle Class. I have heard the Dems want to impose a Value Added Tax (VAT) on energy. So, if they drive up the cost of energy, a VAT will generate billions.
The Keynesian model has been proven to be another failed theory. Why the Zer0 Syndicate pursues it when they damned well know it is wrong, is a case for impeachment. These thugs have lied about the cause of the 2008 economic collapse, why should they tell the truth about what they are doing.
The truth is, the DemonRATs are killing off America economically. They are using Keynesian economic policy to do it because, by its very nature, it cons the public with its give-aways. While government pretends to be Santa Clause, it is destroying the vehicle of wealth of Capitalism. Why they are doing it when they know better is a matter that my good citizens of American had better get a handle on.
I have to give Boehner credit for something. If I was forced to talk with Obama, I probably would have decked him, or told him to go pound sand And walk away. It is clear Obama doesn’t give a rats behind about America.
I have to give Boehner credit for something. If I was forced to talk with Obama, I probably would have decked him, or told him to go pound sand And walk away. It is clear Obama doesn’t give a rats behind about America.
You would think that the fact the US government is now annually spending more money then it ever has in its past, would at least give Obama a clue.
Whole lotta chooming went on in Hawaii.
YES WE DO KENYAN... OUR PROBLEM IS WE HAVE AN ILLIGITIMATE MARXIST MUSLIM AS PRESIDENT.
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The idea that we do not have a spending problem is a common belief on the left. They don’t have a problem with trillion dollar deficits.
I was talking with an economist at the DOJ and he said the same thing. Then he started bleating about the deficit being more during Reagan years based on percent of GDP, blah, blah, blah. They genuinely believe this Keynesian claptrap.
We need about a Billion dollars to buy time and plead our case, the MSM is going to attempt to crucify the House for only doing what is right.
This President MUST be brought to heal.
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