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Obama: seniors could be hurt without debt deal (Obama scare tactics)
YahooNews ^ | 07/12/11 | Deborah Charles and Jeff Mason

Posted on 07/12/2011 1:19:11 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama raised the stakes in the third straight day of budget talks on Tuesday by warning that senior citizens and veterans may suffer first if the debt ceiling is not raised by August 2. The comments came as top Republicans toughened their stance in the deficit reduction talks. Hours before heading to the White House, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said a "real solution" to the U.S. debt problem was unlikely while Obama was in office.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: debtceiling; debtlimit; obama; scaretactics; socialsecurity
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
IT'S A LIE...AGAIN...is it a law and he has to pay these payments per DeMint on FoxNews Sunday.
21 posted on 07/12/2011 1:41:58 PM PDT by shield (Rev 2:9 "Woe unto those who say they are Judah and are not, but are of the synaGOGue of Satan.")
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Grandma got run over by Obaaama
late in the budge talks this eve..
you may not believe in dear messiah
but he is willing to sacrifice your ma ma
to the cause of big government....


22 posted on 07/12/2011 1:43:41 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: priority

Did the MSM get any file footage on Boehner playing gold with Obama? They can edit Obama out and show him playing gold while the SS checks get spiked by Obama.


23 posted on 07/12/2011 1:53:33 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Linda Frances

I don’t view these as “fear tactics”. I view them as threats. As I have said, a President doesn’t threaten his own people. Note that he has not mentioned “Welfare Checks”. He won’t hurt his people.


24 posted on 07/12/2011 1:54:08 PM PDT by RC2
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To: priority

” Do we not need the House of Representatives, the Senate, the Judiciary or any other representative body to decide and take action “

Evidently not...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2747503/posts?page=17

McConnell: Give Obama new powers on debt limit
Breitbart ^ | July 12, 2011 | Andrew Taylor

Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 2:38:31 PM by La Enchiladita

WASHINGTON (AP) - The top Republican in the Senate proposed on Tuesday giving President Barack Obama sweeping new power to, in effect, unilaterally increase the nation’s debt limit

[Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here]


25 posted on 07/12/2011 1:56:12 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Over she goes: A Paul Ryan lookalike is seen tipping a sweet old lady out of her wheelchair and over a cliff in the advert by the liberal group

26 posted on 07/12/2011 1:59:18 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
SMOKEWAGON
27 posted on 07/12/2011 2:02:25 PM PDT by FrankR ("If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat." - R. Reagan)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Obama copies one of the most famous magazine covers in history.


28 posted on 07/12/2011 2:27:42 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Who’s holding a gun to the taxpayers’ heads now, Mr. President?


29 posted on 07/12/2011 2:52:10 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: paint_your_wagon

Obama has pissed off both seniors and veterans. His disdain for anyone who questions him has finally blown up in his face. Call him melba.


30 posted on 07/12/2011 2:58:23 PM PDT by Lumper20
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Obama's warning that senior citizens -- an active voting group -- could suffer first if a deal is not reached could give lawmakers a nudge ahead of 2012 elections...or maybe not - according to the three other seniors sitting with me in the PT waiting area this afternoon.
They just announced they're not sending out Social Security checks in August, said the lady. I started to shake my head, thinking she had bought the scam.
They're lying, said one of the guys.
The money's there, they just want to borrow another trillion from China, said the other.
They think we're stupid, said the lady.

Maybe the 'rats' bag of political tricks is finally running on empty.....

31 posted on 07/12/2011 3:05:17 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

The GOP should take this deal to close hundreds of billions in loopholes and eliminate tax expenditures, not raising marginal rates, to get trillions in cuts. I don’t give a fig who gets credit frankly if this country is put back on stable fiscal footing.


32 posted on 07/12/2011 3:56:22 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: All; AngelesCrestHighway

33 posted on 07/12/2011 6:58:36 PM PDT by newzjunkey
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

"If you won't do what I want, I'll kill your granny just like I did mine! Don't think I won't!"

34 posted on 07/12/2011 7:00:55 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Notice how our “American?” president want to take money from American Seniors? God forbid that we didn't give money to the UN, the Palestinians or other liberal causes! On who's side is Obama anyway?
35 posted on 07/13/2011 3:25:46 AM PDT by F105-D ThunderChief (That "THUD" you heard was the Collapse of the DemocRats!)
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To: All; AngelesCrestHighway

Check out this chart from Goldman Sachs, and then tell me if you should ever believe Obama again:

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2011/07/12/the-issue-isnt-default-but-government-shutdown/


36 posted on 07/13/2011 9:18:50 PM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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