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In a Budget Gesture, Obama Will Return 5% of His Salary

gimmmick, give it all back.

take a $1 dollar salary, he has the money.
 
In related news... Obama holds press conference announcing he will buy his own toilet paper - an unprecedented gesture, sacrifice, and display of solidarity with those forced to do the same in these difficult times.
 
I think everybody in public office should take a pay cut, and I think Republicans should have done it first since their party complains the most about spending.

I really don't understand why anybody is attacking the president over this. As much as they have been telling us to sacrifice: pay more taxes, tighten our belts, learn to deal with budget cuts, ect. At least some figures in office are stepping up to the plate and making sacrifices themselves.

It's really perplexing to see some many of you complaining about this, when everybody in office should be doing it.

Though I would love to see the salaries of the legislature and executive slashed like old easter candy in june, that is not the area where we need to slash. We need to reign imn the military. I just read an article where the nave has commissioned 37 billion worth of boats it says are too lightly armored and have too few weapons to be useful in war. Yet they will just keep on going with these because we will give the military any budget it wants to pay lockheed. We could stop fighting for freedom in countries that will elect leadership who hate us. Hell, we could stop fighting wars for other countries all together. We could probably save social security by jumping all over disability and kicking healthy people who can work off the disabled list. We could adjust things like TANF to not give out cash benefits to drive people to get a job if they want bling. We could stop the buy a friend program, or as they call it foreign aid to ungrateful countries who hate us. We could legalize gay marriage and create a revenue generating industry across the country. We could save lots of money by legalizing drugs and prostitution because we wouldn't have to imprison those people anymore, we wouldn't end up paying them welfare because they could report their income, and we could get tax revenue from them. Or we could ask that the president and congress actually do their job and pass a budget that is responsible and avoids furloughs because it is the job we elected them for and pay them way too much to do in the first place.

All those things would generate savings and revenue literally millions of times greater than Obama's little gesture.
 
In related news... Obama holds press conference announcing he will buy his own toilet paper - an unprecedented gesture, sacrifice, and display of solidarity with those forced to do the same in these difficult times.

lol...
 
You guys would complain if he cured cancer, swore off golf, and guided White House Tours himself.

I don't mind him golfing but golfing with Tiger outside of the DC area is quiet dumb. There are perfectly good courses in the area. You have Penn National, Andrews, The Links and so forth I am sure Tiger would forgo many of the tourny's he skips to play with the President locally.
 
Between that 5% and the 10% that I'm SURE he tithes at church, I just don't know how he's going to keep his family from needing to go on food stamps.
 
Oh, I think he is quite capable of curing cancer, but swearing off golf? Guiding WH tours? No way he would ever do that.

So you don't think his salary is going to cripple the country, but you do think his golf games are? Think of it this way, he just swore off 100 rounds of golf if it runs him 200 dollars a round. If he golfs twice per week he just gave back 2 years worth of golf. That is if he golfs twice a week at 200 dollar a round golf courses even in the middle of the snow. Not for nothing, but i am looking for him to find something to cut that is millions of times his golf budget for the year. If he could actually cut some big things and bring our deficit under control he can golf every day for all i care.

This is one of the problems of the right. They piss and moan the gesture is too small and then they suggest a smaller gesture. Thanks for being part of the problem.
 
You guys would complain if he cured cancer, swore off golf, and guided White House Tours himself.

Yeah, and you guys would give him a free pass if you saw him shoot somebody and kill em'. More than likely would blame it on the Gun first then the manufacturer, then the NRA!
 
Not everyone is a partisan hack. I am very pro gun.
Yeah, and you guys would give him a free pass if you saw him shoot somebody and kill em'. More than likely would blame it on the Gun first then the manufacturer, then the NRA!
 
In related news... Obama holds press conference announcing he will buy his own toilet paper - an unprecedented gesture, sacrifice, and display of solidarity with those forced to do the same in these difficult times.

Nah.....he wouldn't do that.
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......As then he would have to answer if the Charmin was 2 ply?
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You guys would complain if he cured cancer, swore off golf, and guided White House Tours himself.

It's really an empty gesture and that's the problem. When you're the leader and you tout a 5% paycut that you're giving yourself while your workers are having to take a 20% pay cut, is that really something to tout like Obama is doing?

Yes, there will be some that will attack Obama no matter what, however, in this case I think the criticism is quite valid. At least take the same pay cut as the people working for you are having to take if you're going to praise it.
 
It's really an empty gesture and that's the problem. When you're the leader and you tout a 5% paycut that you're giving yourself while your workers are having to take a 20% pay cut, is that really something to tout like Obama is doing?

Yes, there will be some that will attack Obama no matter what, however, in this case I think the criticism is quite valid. At least take the same pay cut as the people working for you are having to take if you're going to praise it.

Your Answer Nailed it"" IMO
 
Between that 5% and the 10% that I'm SURE he tithes at church, I just don't know how he's going to keep his family from needing to go on food stamps.

Don't you just find it amusing the way Obama thinks.....here he knows people are hurting. Knows people and the Right are bashing him non-stop over the sequester and what he has been cherry pickin'. Now he thinks that by making such an announcement that all will see that he too is giving something. Knowing the Kool Aid eaters with their Pop Rocks will eat this up. What makes this even better is the Putz didn't even think of this up on his own. It was his Handlers. Nice try with the coming off the Cuff.....he must have forgot that part while all are hurting, and watching him dole out money to Foreigners and their Countries. Although I doubt you will see him want to talk about that.

Running around and talking about.....see Obama is giving up something to. Cmon how can you still fault this guy. He is doing his best. He cares, and he just wants to give his fair share. :roll:

10% of 400k is 40k.....and he sure didn't want to give that up.

Although they did say Obama would have to write them a Check as they will not take it out of his Paycheck. So there should be some sort of transparency on this as to when he actually does write out a Check to the US Treasury. Which should be checked on.....just to make sure he follows thru and doesn't do his usual and Lie about it.
 
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5% of his salary isn't going to hurt him.
 
So you don't think his salary is going to cripple the country, but you do think his golf games are? Think of it this way, he just swore off 100 rounds of golf if it runs him 200 dollars a round. If he golfs twice per week he just gave back 2 years worth of golf. That is if he golfs twice a week at 200 dollar a round golf courses even in the middle of the snow. Not for nothing, but i am looking for him to find something to cut that is millions of times his golf budget for the year. If he could actually cut some big things and bring our deficit under control he can golf every day for all i care.

This is one of the problems of the right. They piss and moan the gesture is too small and then they suggest a smaller gesture. Thanks for being part of the problem.

What on earth are you going on about?

I didn't say a thing about whether his salary...or his golf games...will or will not cripple the country.

Are you sure you know how to read???
 
I think everybody in public office should take
a pay cut, and I think Republicans should have done it first since their party complains the most about spending.

I really don't understand why anybody is attacking the president over this. As much as they have been telling us to sacrifice: pay more taxes, tighten our belts, learn to deal with budget cuts, ect. At least some figures in office are stepping up to the plate and making sacrifices themselves.

It's really perplexing to see some many of you complaining about this, when everybody in office should be doing it.

Because its no " sacrifice" and its political posturing.

His policies have caused real economic pain among millions of middle class families.

Hell, Jay-Z is probably making up the difference for him.
 
What on earth are you going on about?

I didn't say a thing about whether his salary...or his golf games...will or will not cripple the country.

Are you sure you know how to read???

So then you admit you are complaining just for the sake of complaining, and picking the least important of the problems of obama to complain about?
 
Brings me to tears. I can't see why we don't let him serve for at least a third, possibly a fourth term. Golly, what a guy!
 
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I think everybody in public office should take a pay cut, and I think Republicans should have done it first since their party complains the most about spending.

I really don't understand why anybody is attacking the president over this. As much as they have been telling us to sacrifice: pay more taxes, tighten our belts, learn to deal with budget cuts, ect. At least some figures in office are stepping up to the plate and making sacrifices themselves.

It's really perplexing to see some many of you complaining about this, when everybody in office should be doing it.


Well said......also....Obama could have given up his entire salary and his haters would still find fault in what he does.
 
So then you admit you are complaining just for the sake of complaining, and picking the least important of the problems of obama to complain about?

tererun...I've made no complaint. None.

Are you imagining things?
 
He would have been better off not doing anything at all. Ya know I don't get him, or his advisors. Sometimes their political moves are brilliant, and sometime, not so much. This qualifies under the not so much banner.


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Read more @: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/u...cuts-obama-to-return-of-part-of-pay.html?_r=0

Hey i guess thats pretty humble and pretty cool :shrug:[/FONT][/COLOR]

Few thoughts on this...

In a general sense, good on the president. A fine gesture and one the congress..both parties...don't seem willing to make. As a federal employee I haven't really complained about my pay being frozen, reorganizations going on, furloughs, etc....but one thing that HAS bothered me is that each time there's a threat of those things happening, or ACTUALLY happening, congress sits there and gives themselves a raise. So I can appreciate him doing this.

In a political strategy sense, this is a smart move and a no-brainer. He doesn't really need that money given what he gained off his books and what history shows he'll be able to gain after the Presidency. At the same time, it looks like a wonderful frugal selfless gesture. Though I would say he probably should've gone higher than 5%.

(EDIT - Looking at this thread, looks like my political instints may be off a bit on this one. Wow. Though perhaps it will play differently to the every day person out and about)

In an actual nuts and bolts sense, that's nice and all but I'm kind of like Wiseone. Some actual solutions and efforts at finding the best way through this, not just telling us how horrible it will be and then agencies making sure that it's horrible, would be nicer. Especially since this somewhat feels like a cheap attempt to go "I feel ya bro" to all us Federal Workers while ignoring the trips to Hawaii or to Atlantis he and his family can make on the public dime, the golf outings and various celebrity interactions he has, etc. In a lot of ways its the same as when Rodger Goodell took a "$1" salary during the lockout...and made sure to publicize that fact quite a bit, like he was really giving something significant up.

It doesn't help that we routinely here how the money the "top 1%" has lets them suffer a tax hike without really "feeling it" where a normal person would be hurting.....and then watch the President's spin men come out and say he's taking a 5% hit as a move "in solidarity" to federal works who may be missing entire paychecks.

So there's a mixed reaction to this in me. I can respect the action itself, I can respect the political machinations going on, but I can also very much dislike the attempt to utilize it as a political tool and the disingenuous nature of the message.
 
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