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Obama To Reduce Budget by 0.00000028%

Posted 34 months ago|30 comments|691 views
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Alex Layton
 Administrator
 Puyallup, WA
It looks like President Obama has heard the April 15th Protesters loud and clear. He is caving into their demands and has asked his cabinet to cut the budget by $100 million. That’s right, he is reducing the $3,550,000,000,000 budget to $3,549,900,000,000 (or 0.0028 of 1%).

Take that, you wreckless-spending liberals!

Of course, this is after Obama passed the $787 billion stimulus bill, then the $410 billion Omnibus Bill a week later. There’s also the fact that many analysts believe the $3.5 trillion budget could create $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years.

And, while all this is going on, the government posted a $950 billion budget deficit, for the first half of fiscal 2009.

But, by all means, limit yourself to reducing the budget by $100 million. I’m sure that will help out my kids, grand kids, and great grand kids.
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Rudi Stettner
Rudi Stettner
 Moderator
34 months ago: At this rate, we can all be millionaires. It reminds me of the bumper sticker "I can't be overdrawn! I still have checks.
Chris D
Chris D
Seattle, WA
34 months ago: Those are some scary numbers. Maybe Texas is right -- maybe secession is the only answer.

Hmm?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia_(independence_movement)
TheLegendTomWing
TheLegendTomWing
 Administrator
 Philadelphia, PA
34 months ago: Well, at least he's done SOME reducing, right?

I'd rather keep that 100 million in debt away from China!
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: Snarky, but unhelpful. Reducing a federal deficit assembled over the course of 75 years isn't going to be done any time soon. Placing the onus on Obama is rather like giving the current population of Egypt credit for having built the pyramids. Meanwhile, when it comes to the tax protesters, I wasn't aware they were protesting the deficit. Did the early colonists toss tea into Boston Harbor to protest King George's deficit? This connection you've drawn escapes me. Moreover, the recent rise in Republican rhetoric regarding the deficit couldn't be more unwelcome considering they had nearly 8 unfettered years to steer the nation in a new course and reduce the deficit and they did nothing. So, there you go.

Finally, I hope secessionists realize they secede with their part of the deficit, they don't escape it.
TheLegendTomWing
TheLegendTomWing
 Administrator
 Philadelphia, PA
34 months ago: Coloranter, i believe the tie-in between the Boston Tea Party and the Tea Part Protests is the idea of taxation without representation, shifted to massive government spending without the consent of the nation.

The only argument against this assertion is that we voted for many of these people, well not the federal reserve people, but government people spending all this money. And a look at the polling, showing overwhelming support to do away with this massive spending, should have given Congress and the president a clue.

On the flip side, if it works and we are brought back to normal, the conservatives will find something else to complain about.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: Tom,
"without the consent of the nation?" We have a representative democracy.

Clowns voted clowns into office. Clowns were happy when clowns brought home the bacon. Now clowns want to complain that the clowns aren't representing them? And the clowns want to protest against taxes and government spending that's being used to pay for the bacon the clowns brought home and that created jobs for the clowns to hold down and supply incomes to feed their clown babies? Where were these clown protesters 5, 10, 15, and 20 years ago? The federal deficit isn't new. As for the government's budget, Clinton and his Republican-controlled Congress, not Regan, neither of the two Bushes, not Carter, not Nixon, not LBJ, in my lifetime, are the only government that balanced the federal budget even creating surpluses in his last two years. Is it possible the Supreme Court not usurped the will of the voters and allowed Al Gore's attempt to get all of Florida recounted that this would have continued and we might now actually be chipping away at the federal deficit rather than sinking into the biggest financial black hole our nation has ever witnessed? Where were these clowns for the last 8 years? I didn't hear of their protests. Instead, these same clowns and their radio talk show carnies were on the air proudly singing the praise of their clown king and his creation of more big government and government spending than his previous 10 predecessors combined.

I'm sorry, but the time has come for the clowns to stand up and admit their role rather than protesting they ought to be self-flagellating.
34 months ago: A hundred million saved is a hundred million earned.
34 months ago: My mistake. Now I know. The U.S. is not a Republic.
34 months ago: Dangerderainger and Coloranter Raver:
You guys hang together.
Dissent of Bush was patriotic.
Dissent of Obama is disingenuous?
Come on Coloranter. You cannot expect anyone to believe there is no difference in what Obama is doing versus what Bush and the Republicans did in the last 8 years. Come on.
Do I have to do the math for you? Take off your blue colored glasses.
Also, your blue colored glasses are making you blind about the Protest Tea Parties. The protests are us average redneck, barefoot Joes' way to say the federal government's stripping away our children's and grand children's liberty SUCKS and to STOP IT NOW.
34 months ago: Coloranter Raver:
Do you want more proof that you are blinded by your blue colored glasses?
Conservatives have been raising holy you know what for the past 8 years over Congress' and the idiotic Republican's deficits.
Pay attention!
(At the same time, we were thanking George W. Bush for saving all our butts too.)
34 months ago: What did i say?!? I am sorry that conserving a 100 million dollars is a bad thing. I was just taking the saying that "a penny saved is a penny earned" and applying it to these cirucmstances.

I have never posted once here about making fun of bush. He does that by himself, he doesn't need my help.

I have never posted that critisizing Obama is disingenuous, just unpatriotic and makes me think you are a terrorist

To be all serious, i have never posted about Bush or Obama here at rantrave. So maybe you want to follow my posts before you characterize me. The only political views i have expressed is that the environment is worth protecting and the Church of Scientology is corrupt.
34 months ago: "...we were thanking George W. Bush for saving all our butts too"

from what?
He didn't stop the planes from crashing into the WTC, nor the Pentagon, nor the field in Pennsylvania.
He didn't stop Sadamm's WMD because they didn't exist.
He didn't stop a war in Iraq but rather caused one.
He didn't stop the Taliban from re-emerging as a political force in Afgahnistan.
He didn't stop North Korea from getting nuclear technology or Iran from getting nuclear technology.
He didn't stop oil prices from going up.
The only thing he stopped was FEMA from going into New Orleans earlier.

There redstateguy, you didn't. You made me make fun of Bush. Happy with yourself? And before you start crying about how i'm not making fun of Obama, he hasn't done anything that terrible that we have been able to see a lasting effect yet. In a year from now, i might have something to make fun of him for. But before then, who knows, hopefully the bailout will do some good. I would rather have good done by the bailout then bad.
34 months ago: dangerderainger
Huh?
I'll see you in my next Bush rave.
34 months ago: Dude, its D-A-N-G-E-R-R-A-N-G-E-R

its not that hard to spell

you combine the word DANGER with the word RANGER to get DANGERRANGER

you don't spell ranger as derainger

I can't even comprehend how you add an d,e, and i into it.

Oh i get it, i'm derainged! Like i'm crazy!

TO BAD YOU MISSPELLED THAT TOO!!!

To spell derainged (or i guess derainger) try spelling it the correct way, DERANGED. There is no "I" in deranged or your made up word, "derainger."

Learn2dictionary/make-up-words-gooderer
34 months ago: "Huh?"

Ha, even you know i'm right with all the things i said. If not you would have at least tried to argue one of them. Dangerderainger win.

"I'll see you in my next Bush rave."

Would you like me to send you a dictionary? So you won't misspell words like "derange?"
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: RedState: I don't hang with DangerRanger, but I wish I could. I like people who are of an independent mindset. Maybe you are too if you are against gigantic federal deficits. Maybe you aren't really red at all. Maybe you are purple like I am. You could be right that I'm looking through blue-colored glasses these days. After 8 years of being forced to see red, what's a good independent to do? And by "red" I mean anger.

Please don't subscribe things I've said to DangerRanger who has his own mind.

I would like to talk about your Bush criticism statement. Do you kindly remember that from the moment Bush moved our troops in to occupy Iraq and the moment he signed the Patriot Act, it not only became unpatriotic to criticize Bush, it possibly became justification to be extraordinarily rendered to a secret prison in a country where torture was child's play. Come on, you cannot have it both ways. One thing I won't tolerate is short-term-memory failure on this issue.

People are free to criticize Obama as much as they want. This is, thank goodness, a country which values and protects freedom of speech in this area. But please remember that, as of yet, Obama has done nothing to warrant a bunch of criticism. He's barely been in office three months. Nobody said "boo" about Bush until post 9/11, and then it was good stuff. He'd been in office and done absolutely nothing but ignore reports of a possible terrorist attack for 7 months. I think history will show that Obama has already accomplished more good for our nation both home and abroad in 3 months than Bush did in his entire second term, but that's just my prediction.
34 months ago: Did any else have to pick up their jaw from the ground after that - independent mindset statement? Please stop with the rainbow colors. Sorry PURPLES. What kind of a off center statement was that? Please. We all know. Don't hide in the (your mind) closet. Your a raving leftist liberal. EOC

34 months ago: Hey DR. Do we need to look back at all of your posts for AHEM, spelling? I do like the dangerranger idea though. What? regnarregnad doesn't work bacwords (SP). But then again neither does the TRILLION + DOLLARS yOBAMMA BUDDY just stuck you with.
34 months ago: iz takez offense at yo makin' a fun a' mai spellern!
34 months ago: Coloranter Raver
Man, we need to try changing glasses.
We are on completely different wave lengths in different solar systems.
Bush and an LARGE international coalition with UN backing (by the way the UN sucks large)defeated a mass murdering, dictator housing and supporting the very terrorists who killed thousands of Americans and Israelis. He had weapons of mass destruction. Ask the Kurds. Do I have to provide links of those discoveries over the past years?

Congress passed the Patriot Act, and it saved lives. And if you weren't communicating with terrorists over seas, what are you worried about? Nobody easedropping cares about you and me.
The secret prisons were brilliant (until the liberal judge kings got involved.)
I honestly do not understand what you contend I have forgotten.

While we're trading glasses, Bush didn't ignore any signs or reports of pending terror attacks. The problem was the idiotic Jamie Gerelick and Bill Clinton procedures not to share information between the FBI and the CIA. I will not blame you for memory loss, but I will blame you for wearing you constantly wearing you blue colored glasses. Good thing I came along.
34 months ago: "He had weapons of mass destruction. Ask the Kurds. Do I have to provide links of those discoveries over the past years?"

Yes, that would be quite nice. The Bush administration and UN inspectors failed to find these WMD. Please show me your links becuase my links strongly contradict these.

"And if you weren't communicating with terrorists over seas, what are you worried about?"

The act didn't define "terrorist" which meant that it could be twisted against american citizens.

"The secret prisons were brilliant"

Stalin would agree.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: A word of respect for all in this thread:

Let's try to avoid getting personal. Let's focus on the ideas themselves instead of the writers.

I know that we all can get along.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: RedState:
Here are the coalition countries:
Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Rep, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, United Kingdom, and Ukraine.

If you consider that a vital list, only one other semi-super power on there, the UK, then I guess that's a "LARGE international coalition".

Second, there was no UN backing, in fact, the UN wanted nothing to do with this. France, Russia, and China were all against the invasion.

It has been proven that there were no WMDs at the time of our invasion. Even George W. Bush himself finally admitted this. Apparently, the sanctions had actually been working despite all reports to the contrary at the time.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: Likewise, there were no terrorists there in Iraq until after our invasion and occupation. That is a plain and simple fact you can ask anyone. The terrorists flooded into Iraq after our invasion, and they've been very effective at killing more of our US service people than citizens were killed in 9/11. Ironically, our invasion made it possible for these people to flood in across the borders. Before that, they were unwelcome, and there is no evidence plus there's no logic that a guy who was willing to take on the ire of the entire Middle East by invading Kuwait would later be in bed with them. It's important to comprehend that (a) not all Muslims are Arab – actually Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim nation, and (b) the Persians (Iran and Iraq) were never historically allied closely with the Arabs.

I agree with DR, please supply your links to weapons of mass destruction being found after our invasion. In fact, the Kurds reported having chemical gases used on them back around the time of the Gulf War.

The Patriot Act, which by their own admission most Congressperson never read, has saved lives? Well, serve me up a steak. I had no idea. Whose lives, exactly has the Patriot Act saved? I'm interested to know, seriously.

There is a truth when it comes to the rights of the people. Never, ever give them up, you'll never get them back.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: Oh, I forgot to mention, I won't disagree that Saddam Hussein was an outrageous and horrendously bad leader for Iraq, but I supposed I don't need to remind anyone that we built Saddam Hussein during the Reagan years to fight our mortal enemy, the evil Iranians that had just taken our hostages for 400 days during the Carter term. You might recall the whole Iran-Contra affair. Just like we built up another leader by the name of Osama bin Laden to fight the evil Soviets and drive them from Afghanistan. I wonder what would happen if we, as a nation, just minded our own business for a few decades.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: I'm sorry, but I don't want to live in a country where anyone in the government can listen to my private phone conversations without a warrant. I have no problem with wire-tapping people. Just get a warrant. And, by the way, the Patriot Act did not give the President or the Executive Branch the authority to wire tap people without a warrant. This was an Alberto Gonzalez idea, and one of the few people to stand up to him, the former CEO of Qwest is about to enter prison on trumped up charges of insider trading that may well have been manufactured by the government when he refused to surrender the phone call data to the government – but I'm not really a conspiracy theorist.
Coloranter Raver
Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO
34 months ago: "While we're trading glasses, Bush didn't ignore any signs or reports of pending terror attacks."

Sir, the fact of the matter is, and you can find much about this online if you search for it, that the highest levels of the Bush administration including Bush and Cheney had a report in their hands in August which predicted that the "enemy" was planning an attack and that it very likely would involved using civilian air crafts. That's an absolute fact. It's a sad one, but true nonetheless. I don't deny that Clinton and previous presidents going back to the God Sent Ronald Reagan for whom I voted twice, did nothing to improve the cross communication of the intelligence agencies. But, that's not the case here. The case here is that there was a report, and the Bush Team sat on it. This is detailed well in a source I'm sure you'll deny, but nonetheless, Fahrenheit 9/11.
34 months ago: ^^^Facts make me so happy....

: )
34 months ago: Man:
Where to start?
Bush's strategy to invade Iraq was brilliant. By doing so, all the terrorist went there to kill Americans, and we could kill them all in 1 place instead of all over the world. Brilliant!
(I wasn't disrespectful was I?)
Screw the UN. I'd be tickled to death if we ran them out of NYC and made them move elsewhere.
A warrant? From a liberal king judge who is intellectually and legally corrupt? While some muslim terrorist is about to kill a few thousand citizens somewhere in the world? That would be irresponsible.
Fahrenheit 9/11? Micheal Moore? Come on Coloranter Raver. I really respect you. Please take that part back.
33 months ago: "Bush's strategy to invade Iraq was brilliant."

Invasion was good. Occupation sucked.

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