Obama's deficit-cutters: Lineup named

So what are we to make of this if the GOP boycotts the panel because Grover Norquist tells them to? They've already pulled that trick once with deficit commission legislation, so why not do it again?

http://www.political-buzz.com/

We don't need a stupid commission. JUST STOP SPENDING. He is so full of himself.

COLLEGE DEGREES DON'T OUTWEIGH COMMON SENSE. Obama proves it. We are smarter than him.

Commissions, task forces, blue-ribbon panels, czars for everything.

Am I to assume we are paying a fortune for a Congress and other agencies who don't have a clue about anything they're doing? Now we get to hear from a new panel which has no legally binding authority to give "recommendations" about how to fix it. Recommendations that'll probably be glossed over so the politicians can continue to promise everyone everything in exchange for a vote.

Here's 2 free suggestions:

stop spending money you don't have.

stop using taxes as a way to excuse yourself from your incompetence.

stop raising taxes to cover your incompetence. we don't have the money either.

start learning to say "no, we can't afford it".

GO FIND A JOB YOU'RE ACTUALLY CAPABLE OF NOT SCREWING UP.

Andy Stern of SEIU - gee what a surprise! Scum of the earth.

Yes, Andy Stern is known for cost cutting for everyone. This is another fraud from Obama give a big show and fill the rosters with known crooks like Stern.
Instead of solving problems like jobs or health care or cost cutting Obama has meetings with his supporters and tries to fool the public that he is accomplishing something-he isn't.

It's all kabuki -- I'll give you their report for free: means test social security and medicare. Can I have 1/1000 of their budget now?

On the campaign trail, Obama made fun of McCain for suggesting a commission for deficit reduction. He called it "the oldest trick in the book in Washington".

Now he does it????

Add another couple of TRILLION to it, Then add ANOTHER Czar. Way to go Barry. Let's study this some more. Another dog and pony show by the teleprompter kid.

So Obama ADDS about $1 Trillion (that's $1,000 Billion for you liberals out there) to the budget but adding 25-40% to nearly every line item, and then suggests that we can save 0.025% of that, and only Republicans are at fault they do not do what Obama tells them to do.

Yup, that's Obama -

Now, if libs were serious, which of course they are not when it comes to reducing the size of any government, they would look at REAL cuts.

Thinks like the layers of bureaucracy in all the departments - why do they need all those people in HHS or the Dept of Education filling out forms for state grants? Just get rid of them, and give the money directly to the states.

Cut all grants to universities with more than $100,000,000 in endowments - if the research is important, let them pay for it themselves. What can Harvard do with $40 BILLION anyway? They still charge $42,000 in tuition.

Make it easier to get rid of bad teachers. In any REAL organization, one that wants to be successful, you have to remove those that cannot perform. You want an engineer who cannot add 2 and 2 building a bridge your kids drive across? What should we have teachers teaching our children who are equally incompetent? Yet libs like Obama will NEVER get rid of bad teachers, because they prefer the union to actually teaching children.

The same goes for lots of other departments. Why do we have an FBI, DEA, ATF, Border Patrol,and Secret Service, all as separate entities? Then, you have $40 billion for the Department of Homeland Security. What the heck do they do when you have all the other things going as well? This is a prime example of the BUREAUCRACY running things, instead of common sense.

But Obama will never want to reduce bureaucracy, because that is where political power is.

Obama lies. If he really wants to cut the deficit, then why he doing the opposite and spending more and more and more? When the GOP lost control of the House and Senate, the annual budget deficit was $161 billion. Obama's budget for next year -not including his "stimulus" scam -- calls for $1.6 trillion in red ink. Thus in three years of democratic control the deficit has swelled from 161 billion to 1,600 billion. That's the opposite of "gridlock" that media is using as the excuse for Obama's utter failure -- that is one party rule by the party of massive spending and unlimited pork.

Obama calling for a deficit-cutting commission is like an obese person saying "I'm going on a diet right after I finish these one trillion apple pies."

Charlie Rangel ruling puts Nancy Pelosi in a jam
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When then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) was admonished by the ethics committee in October 2004, Pelosi and other Democratic leaders went on the offensive against him.
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“Mr. DeLay has proven himself to be ethically unfit to lead the party,” Pelosi said at a press conference the following day. “The burden falls upon his fellow House Republicans. Republicans must answer: Do they want an ethically unfit person to be their majority leader or do they want to remove the ethical cloud that hangs over the Capitol?”
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Six years later, the shoe is on the other foot: Republicans have previously called for Rangel to lose his chairmanship over his ethical troubles, and some of them — including Indiana Rep. Mike Pence — renewed that call Thursday night.
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How will Pelosi and Hoyer respond?
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33564.html

Alice Rivlin, who has been doing nothing but calling for tax increases and Andy Stern, president of the SEIU?LOL

Want to bet that this joke of a commision (that is already stacked with more Obama cronies than republicans) will tell the president to raise taxes on everyone including the middle class, while the unions will be "exempt".

What is this no one on the commission from Chicago. No thugs to push people around like his normal way of doing things. He does not need a commission he needs to pull his head out of his arse and stop spending. What a dufus!

Piece of cake:

1. Reform Pension. Pension should be turn into 401K's. With flexibility- meaning when the economy sours, 401K will be temporarily freezed for Federal Employees.

2. Cut Defense spending like Bill Clinton did! Defense is almost 40-50% of our budget! Outrageous, when we have nulcear to deter any nation. Cut 10% to start out with. We don't need $500 toilet seats!

3. Encourage homecare for the elderly to reduce Health care cost. Encourage the growth of small medical clinics that cost you only $75 to see a doctor (programs offered from Walgreen and Walmart). Honestly, why do anti-biotics have to be regulated? Hundreds of countries don't even regulate anti-biotics; you could buy penicilin OTC. Makes no sense.

4. Sell Federal assets. Do we have too much land, ocean front that are not in use?

5. Early retirement for Federal Workers.

We are getting there. . .that's 500 billion of cuts right there! But it's tough because Politicians don't want to cut their cheeses. We want to see cuts before tax increases.

Stern from the SEIU?

Is this a joke?

UNBELIEVABLE.

Ahh, these liberals are sickening.

Hey Captain B+,

A bipartisan budget committee already exists. It's called CONGRESS, champ!

Obama must owe a lot of people big favors ....... He's clueless when it comes to anything other than marketing and photo opportunities.

Is the cost cutting commission in charge of its OWN budget? This is a joke.

Let's see, if you have a spending problem in your personal finance...you hire a team of high paid know nothings, who you are not going to listen to anyway, to cut your spending. Sure, OK

The first deep cut we should make is the education department. If you are going to have these nosepickers and rugrats........you pay for their education or try home schooling. $11.3 billion out of the budget and I am sure that the repubs will agree to vote this entitlment out of the budget.....savings we can all agree on. Remember....God helps those that help themselves.

On the campaign trail, Obama made fun of McCain for suggesting a commission for deficit reduction. He called it "the oldest trick in the book in Washington".

Now he does it????

Posted by: Tim | February 26, 2010 8:57 AM
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If you kept up with the news, Obama did this in response to the GOP boycotting the bi-partisan committee in the House that was to reduce the budget. They had an agreement, but decide to quit it when Obama was going to approve. It only shows politics is first, the American people are second.

I'm betting that once the president announces that investigations into doctors who have run Medicaid and Medicare into the ground by overcharging, the naysayers' tune will change instantaneously! You know that's one of the cards he's holding.

Why worry about deficits now? The time to worry was when you were creating them.

We are going the wrong way and causing costs and deficits that are unnecessary. There is an over-abundance of evidence that our employment lifestyle is oppressive, expensive and dangerous to our health and security and that of our planet.

We could back out of the employment lifestyle that caused our world problems and retire to a garden paradise lifestyle that can solve them quickly, easily, fairly and inexpensively. By simply choosing trees, plants and pets that provide fresh food around us, we can end the pollution of our air, land, water and food that is causing disease; and we can end the energy crisis, war, immigration, reoccurring financial crises, social needs for young and old and have security in natural or man made disasters. It makes the unemployed productive for their families.

The garden paradise lifestyle is the only sustainable lifestyle; it solves problems instead of creating them with the employment lifestyle. This ends a large assortment of government programs that should not have been started in the first place; that is why we have such huge deficits now. That can easily change.

http://www.divine-way.com
God has solutions to world problems we created by ignoring His wisdom.

Hey all you critics, malcontents and nitwits. This was the Republican's idea--they were for it until Obama was for it, then they were against it.

The GOP is acting like a bunch of kids.

SLUSH FUND, CHICAGO-STYLE!!!!!
Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund
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The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama's rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was that industry's best year ever in Washington).
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/obama_the_chicago_boys_and_the_1.html

Someone mentioned the selling of government assets. Great idea!! I say sell the Whitehouse, the Senate Buildings, and the Capitol Building with ALL the occupants included. The only stipulation is that they must be sold to a foreign government of entity and can NOT be returned. It will be Buyer Beware!

Where was the outrage when Dubya and company ran us out of a budget surplus? Where were you when this was happening? Think about that. And then try to spell hypocrite.

Secretary of State Clinton calls the deficit a national security issue, and BO puts Andy Stern on the commission to solve the problem. That's just unbelievable.

RodneyKing,

Not bad. Not sure how you got that defense spending is 50% of the budget. Spending is projected at $3.8 Trillion for next year. I don't think defense uses $1.9 million.

Let's add eliminating department of education sopending on K-12. Let's get rid of any gov't oversight to the highways. Reduce spending on departments of commerce and labor - cut staff by 10%.

Eliminate over the long-term gov't pensions, get them on 401Ks. Gives the employee more flexibility anyway. Definitely eliminate pensions for members of Congress.

The list to go on and on.

The true answer is to privatizec social security and medicare over the next 50 years, but that will never happen.

Obama calling for a deficit-cutting commission is like an obese person saying "I'm going on a diet right after I finish these one trillion apple pies."

Posted by: Guy W
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That gives me an idea,
the name of this panel could be called the "Biggest Losers", just like the lousy made for the fat housewife TV show.
One guess who's the first person kicked off the show...

"Secretary of State Clinton calls the deficit a national security issue, and BO puts Andy Stern on the commission to solve the problem. That's just unbelievable.
RodneyKing,

Not bad. Not sure how you got that defense spending is 50% of the budget. Spending is projected at $3.8 Trillion for next year. I don't think defense uses $1.9 million.

Let's add eliminating department of education sopending on K-12. Let's get rid of any gov't oversight to the highways. Reduce spending on departments of commerce and labor - cut staff by 10%.

Eliminate over the long-term gov't pensions, get them on 401Ks. Gives the employee more flexibility anyway. Definitely eliminate pensions for members of Congress.

The list to go on and on."

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Wow, we actually agreed on something. . .

RodneyKing,

More or Less. When it comes to gov't waste, not too many people can deny it existance.

When the blind squirrel finds the nut, I pat him on the back.