On the Front Page of the Chicago Tribune Tuesday, APRIL 12, 2011 Deficit Showdown

On the Front Page of the Chicago Tribune Tuesday, APRIL 12, 2011 Deficit Showdown

Obama: He wants to raise taxes on wealthy, trim defense
Republicans: They want to target Medicare and Medicaid

Obama plan

Entitlement programs:
Would lift the cap on the amount of taxes paid into Social Security.
Would save on Medicare and Medicaid through imporvements in health care delivery.

Taxes: Would end tax breaks for households earning more than $250,000 a year.

Discretionary spending: Would trim military and other discretionary spending areas.

Source: Hard Copy Chicago Tribune Newspaper

Obama has had NATO handle Libya.........he has pulled out of IRAQ, (We have 50,000 nonactive noncombat soldiers left)

Obama has forced NATO to handle Libya

We are not in IRAN.

Now if Bush were still President you bet your spurs and saddle we'de be in all three still. He would have put us in a ground war in Libya as it is now, Obama is making NATO responsible.

Posted: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:00 am

Obama's debt cutting plan: Everything on the table 0 comments

In short Iraq and Afganistan were Bush's wars he and Obama is trying to finish them and get us out like he promised...........he is the black janitor cleaning up Bush Jr.'s mess.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, plunging into the rancorous struggle over America's mountainous debt, will draw sharp differences with Republicans Wednesday over how to conquer trillions of dollars in spending while somehow working out a compromise to raise some taxes and trim a cherished program like Medicare.

Obama's speech will set a new long-term deficit-reduction goal and establish a dramatically different vision from a major Republican proposal that aims to cut more than $5 trillion over the next decade, officials said Monday.

Details of Obama's plan are being closely held so far, but the deficit-cutting target probably will fall between the $1.1 trillion he proposed in his 2012 budget proposal and the $4 trillion that a fiscal commission he appointed recommended in December.

The speech is intended as a declaration of Obama's commitment to seriously tame the deficit while outlining his long-term budget principles — key components of his campaign for re-election in 2012. After gingerly avoiding any discussion until now of cuts in the government's massive benefit programs for the elderly and poor, Obama will acknowledge a need to reduce spending on Medicare and Medicaid while at the same time tackling defense spending and calling for increased taxes on the wealthy, White House officials said.

If that sounds like a reprise of last week's budget fight that barely avoided a government shutdown, it isn't. The stakes are far higher, the political risks greater and the goals more ambitious. At issue are long-term budget deficits and a $14.3 trillion national debt that many say could threaten the nation's economy.

The cuts accomplished last week were for $38.5 billion over the next six months; the cuts envisioned now are for trillions of dollars over the next 10 years.

Obama's speech, to be delivered at George Washington University, comes as Congress readies for a fierce fight over raising the nation's debt limit. Republicans have vowed to use that vote as leverage to extract greater budget discipline from the Democrats and the president.

Setting the terms of the debate and the likely brinkmanship to follow, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Monday: "What I'm saying is that we support a clean piece of legislation to raise the debt ceiling. ... We cannot play chicken with the economy in this way."

The president's speech also comes amid liberal apprehension over recent Obama spending concessions and a desire among some Democrats to make proposed GOP cuts in Medicare a 2012 election issue.

House Republicans, led by the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Paul Ryan, last week unveiled a plan that would cut $5.8 trillion over 10 years with a major restructuring of the nation's signature health care programs for the elderly and the poor. Meanwhile, six senators have formed a bipartisan group to work on their own plan to rein in long-term deficits by making changes to Medicare and Medicaid and examining a fundamental overhaul of the tax system that would yield additional revenue.

Source: www.idahopress.com...

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Hmmm an opinon piece ! Nothing more nothing less .

reply to post by 13th Zodiac


Believe whatever you need to believe.

Second line

Guantonamo Bay is still open for bussiness.

Authorized assassinations of american citizens.

There are still a few hundred thousand "civilian contractors"(Tax payer funded Mercenaries) conducting combat operations in Iraq.

Illegal and unconstitutional bombing of Libya without congressional approval.

Still conducting Airstikes in Yemen and Pakistan.

Oddly this sounds alot like what Bush was doing.....weird huh?

It's just a good thing that Obama got rid of the Patriot Act.
And didn't spend a billion in Libya.
And is not going to raise taxes on small business owners.
"whew"
He needs a vacation!

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Cool so he put on some new lipstick and rouge, he is still a .....
Their is no difference in the left from the right, they are simply throwing us some table scraps so we do not bite masters hand.
But fear not according to history, they have much worse around the corner for us if we let them.

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Gee George, I wonder which side of the political spectrum YOU are on?

Nothing more to be said really.

wait, are you telling me that you are okay with Obama funding the military operations while NATO handles the command? I can dig up the article that says how much the war on Libya is costing the tax payers if you want, and considering Obama's one and only job is to be commander in chief, well shouldn't that be considered unconstitutional?

Originally posted by beezzer
It's just a good thing that Obama got rid of the Patriot Act.

Of course you're being sarcastic, since Obama did the exact opposite.
www.rawstory.com...

Too opinionated and liberally biased....deny ignorance FAIL!

Originally posted by ofhumandescent

.........he has pulled out of IRAQ, (We have 50,000 nonactive noncombat soldiers left)

Obama has forced NATO to handle Libya

Dealing with just two of the false statements in the OP:

1 - Combat troops are still in iraq. We didn't withdraw them all. We just changed the unit names.

source

The US military and the Obama administration loudly trumpeted the withdrawal of the "last combat brigade" from Iraq last week, but news reports suggest the move is purely semantic: The combat brigades are still there, but under a different name.

2 - NATO is mostly run by the U.S. NATO's commanders are mostly U.S. officers. NATO's forces are mostly U.S. forces. Therefore, the U.S. is still running the Libya war.

Originally posted by ofhumandescent
reply to post by 13th Zodiac

 

Believe whatever you need to believe.

Second line

That, in fact, seems to be the premise YOU are operating under.

Second line

reply to post by g146541


The President is not really running the show.

He is a PR Person..............there is a higher authority.



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Originally posted by centurion1211

Originally posted by ofhumandescent

.........he has pulled out of IRAQ, (We have 50,000 nonactive noncombat soldiers left)

Obama has forced NATO to handle Libya

Dealing with just two of the false statements in the OP:

1 - Combat troops are still in iraq. We didn't withdraw them all. We just changed the unit names.

source

The US military and the Obama administration loudly trumpeted the withdrawal of the "last combat brigade" from Iraq last week, but news reports suggest the move is purely semantic: The combat brigades are still there, but under a different name.

2 - NATO is mostly run by the U.S. NATO's commanders are mostly U.S. officers. NATO's forces are mostly U.S. forces. Therefore, the U.S. is still running the Libya war.

Was too going to address that but this thread is a complete failure, and based off of lies and misinformation~