Posted on 10/25/2013 5:37:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama says he doesn't want to hear about spending cuts By Justin Sink - 10/25/13 04:41 PM ET
President Obama told Republicans in Congress that he doesn't want to hear about additional cuts to government programs after the 16-day shutdown.
The president said the country can afford to make investments in areas like education, and he noted that the shutdown cut into the economy.
“Don't tell me we can afford to shut down the government, which costs our government billions of dollars, but we can't afford to invest in our kids,” Obama said at a school in Brooklyn.
“This obsession with cutting for the sake of cutting hasn't helped our economy grow, it's held us back,” Obama said.
Standard & Poor's has estimated that the shutdown took about $24 billion from U.S. economy. Obama blasted “a small group” of House Republicans for causing what he said was a “manufactured crisis.”
Congress now faces a Jan. 15 deadline for funding the government, and a Feb. 7 deadline for raising the debt ceiling.
A House-Senate conference committee will meet next week to begin negotiations on how to handle those deadlines. Both Republican and Democratic leaders have said they are interested in getting rid of the sequester of automatic spending cuts, while downplaying hopes for a “grand bargain” deal that would cut into entitlements and reform the tax code.
Obama said the site of his speech — the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn — was an example of the type of program that lawmakers should be investing more tax dollars in. Students at the school graduate with both a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
“We need to redesign more of our high schools so they teach young people the skills required for a high-tech economy,” Obama said.
The president noted that during his tour of the school, he had stopped in on a “real world math” class to meet with students.
“It got me thinking, 'Is it too late to send Congress here for a remedial course?' ” Obama quipped.
At the same time, Obama said parties needed to “pull together.”
“We need to work together to grow the economy, not shrink it,” he said.
It was the first visit to Brooklyn for Obama since his election to the White House. The president noted that he briefly lived in the borough during the 1980s.
“Brooklyn is blowing up right now,” Obama said. “When I was living here, Brooklyn was cool, but not this cool.”
Earlier Friday, Obama held a conference call with Democratic leaders — including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.), House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (Wash.), and House Budget ranking member Chris Van Hollen (Md.) — to plot their strategy forward in the budget negotiations.
The 0bastard is saddling them with an overload of debt to fund his arugula, wagyu eating self.
FUBO ! You Epic D-Bag.
.... Well .... can’t say we didn’t see this coming .... this is exactly what happens when the man gets his debt limit raised.
And how many BILLION$ upon BILLION$ has ‘education’ received from the State lotteries across the nation?
There’s a scout troop short a child..
FO U SOB POS!
Someone needs to ask him about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and make him own up to it.
Choom ‘72 where are you?
Actually a variant on what you suggest is for the Republicans to call news conference and propose even more absurd spending while laughing about it and ridicule Obama. In other words just state some 3X Obama proposals and describe what would happen and say why not? If what Obama suggests is so great why not even go further and get 3 times the benefits. Ridicule is a powerful weapon
Obama is not stupid. He might be the spawn of Satan - but everything is moving according to the Marxist playbook.
Well, at least President Obama is displaying the virtue of honesty here.
On the other hand, this flies in the face of his recent claim that he would be happy to discuss anything--he would put it all on the table--if only those Mean Old Republicans would reopen the government and agree to raise the debt ceiling...
“We need to work together to grow the economy, not shrink it,” [President Obama] said.
Translation: We need for the government to spend more money, since it is the federal government--not the private sector--that is the real engine of the American economy...
Then you shouldn't have shut it down, Baraq.
What’s he going to do? Clamp his hands over his ears.
His guide is Satan. I call that stupid.
How much of the budget is education? Very small part. It’s time to start playing games with numbers like these jackasses do. Let’s keep education the same and cut everywhere else. Then we can claim a greater percentage of our budget goes towards education than his.
Why, I’d say that is straight out of the Weather Underground Manifesto from the 70’s. Anyone who disagreed with the Socialist Revolution would be sent to reeducation camps in the southwest. If, after reeducation, they still were noncompliant, they were to be eliminated. Not kidding. I think it was written by BO buddy, Bill Ayers.
WTF ever, yuh putz.
You are the one who spent money to close national parks and monuments.
You are the one who shuttered businesses on national park property that made us money.
You have no credibility.
STFU and take your family on vacation. Somewhere
We were better off with Khrushchev and Idlewild.
Choom gang, a job for 5-O.
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