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Obama's FY 2012 Budget

That isn't a budget, it is a spending bill that was proposed by the Senate, nothing out of the House. It was an Omnibus spending bill to fund certain departments not the entire govt. until the end of the year.

It's more comprehensive than what we have now :shrug:
 
It's more comprehensive than what we have now :shrug:

It was an example of Democrats shirking their responsibility and Obama's failure to lead in offering a full budget for 2011. They didn't want to give the electorate more ammunition for the 2010 elections. Now they want the public to buy it is the Republicans fault. The brainwashed will buy it, but those with common sense won't
 
Typical spin, Democrats had total control of the Congress and were supposed to offer a budget in mid 2010 for fiscal year 2011 which began in October 2010. They didn't do that and now with control of the Senate and the WH are blaming Republicans for no budget or no compromise. Republicans have a plan, where is the Senate Democrat Plan and the Obama leadership?

The mistake the Reps made was going on record first, publicly making themselves a political target. If they seriously want to help the economy, they should find ways to compromise with the Dems, and do it while there's still time.

ricksfolly
 
The mistake the Reps made was going on record first, publicly making themselves a political target. If they seriously want to help the economy, they should find ways to compromise with the Dems, and do it while there's still time.

ricksfolly

Closing down the govt would be the right thing to do that way the govt. wouldn't be doing any more harm. We have a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit in this fiscal year and you don't think you can find 61 billion to cut?
 
Closing down the govt would be the right thing to do that way the govt. wouldn't be doing any more harm. We have a 1.7 trillion dollar deficit in this fiscal year and you don't think you can find 61 billion to cut?

$1.7 trillion deficit will be covered by the Fed reserve, as it always is, and added to the National debt, and no economist can accurately predict how much the debt critical mass is, or how long it will take to get there.

ricksfolly
 
It took Obama wanting to raise taxes for you to see this? ;)

This is Obama laying out the hoped position of "I'm trying to work with the GOP but they are the party of NO!"

Is this a joke? No one has attacked the Dumb-ass in Chief more than I have right along.
 
$1.7 trillion deficit will be covered by the Fed reserve, as it always is, and added to the National debt, and no economist can accurately predict how much the debt critical mass is, or how long it will take to get there.

ricksfolly

So you think you just print money to cover the deficit? Of course that is the way liberals think. What does that do to the value of the dollar? 1.7 trillion will put us almost equal to the total GDP of the economy. You don't have a problem with that?
 
$1.7 trillion deficit will be covered by the Fed reserve, as it always is, and added to the National debt, and no economist can accurately predict how much the debt critical mass is, or how long it will take to get there.

ricksfolly

Ladies and gentlemen, I present Exhibit #1 to show why the U.S. is going down the crapper. With voters like this, is it any wonder we have the idiots in Washington that we have ??
 
Ladies and gentlemen, I present Exhibit #1 to show why the U.S. is going down the crapper. With voters like this, is it any wonder we have the idiots in Washington that we have ??

Simply amazing, isn't it, and very sad. There is no way any private citizen can operate this was as none of us can print money. Just goes to show how naive, gullible, and easily influenced some people are. Those that continue to buy the Obama rhetoric are truly brainwashed.
 
If you think this is a free market you are badly mistaken. Really our current system is crippled version of a free market. To have a real free market there needs to be only a few rules or regs, no false advertising, no coercion, enforcement of contracts, and property rights is pretty much all you need. Given the sheer size of our legal system you can clearly see we are not a free market as it is supposed to be.
 
Sorry have to point it out again, we are not a free market. Milton Friedman explains what a free market is and why it is the best possible choice. Please check out any of his books or google a video for one of his discussions on the subject.
 
Well we don't have a free market so your question doesn't really apply.
 
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