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.”
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.
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