| Latest Post: Started By: Rank: Category The Sequester is nothing more than small decrease in the rate of increase in federal spending OVER 10 YEARS. President Obama should be the one to choose where the $85 billion in cuts should come from THIS YEAR since THE SEQUESTER was HIS IDEA TO BEGIN WITThe President needs to lead on this issue he created instead of campaigning against it. Member CommentsMunsterPerhaps if you weren't such an ignorant republican troll the rest of us wouldn't have to abide by your ignorance! * * * (we are ohio.co m) Posted 10 days ago. R1KRA8Insurers predict 100%-400% Obamacare rate explosion (Washington Examiner) Posted 10 days ago. KunectdotsI bet Obama WISHES his top 'problems' were still just trying to make issues he organized by failing to deal with the Sequester look like the fault of the Republicans and dealing with that little Imp that runs N. Korea, like the were ONE MONTH AGO. HEY MR. PRESIDENT! "Like sands through the hourglass..." Posted 10 days ago. MunsterFacts ! Just giving the FACTS !Unfunded means just that they aren't budgeted ! Posted 15 days ago. thegreekHe is not talking about private industry. He is talking about Congress and taxpayers funding wars !!Don't change the subject!! Posted 16 days ago. MunsterNot according to Darth Cheney ! His company(Halliburton ) made billions in NO-BID contracts because they already had assets in place ! WOW , how would they possibly know to put all that stuff there ? Posted 16 days ago. BeRightWhat does "unfunded wars" mean? Do you appropriate funds for a war? Posted 16 days ago. BeRightmost economists feel that the government should have spent more on "stimulus" and investment than it did. You forgot the part about "instead of propping up union's". Posted 16 days ago. Munster"The new Majority will be about 'cut-and-grow': cut spending & job-killing government regulations, grow the economy & private-sector jobs" FALSE (Provide real evidence for any of this, particularly the supposed "job-killing government regulations." The fact is, the economy grew like gangbusters under Bill Clinton, did horribly under Bush and the Republicans. Case closed.) 10. "Over the coming weeks we will pass a repeal of last year’s health care bill to remove the strain on job creators" WILDLY MISLEADING (The House can pass anything it wants, it doesn't mean it's going anywhere. This vote will be pure political theater, nothing more.) And this is in the last 24 hrs! Posted 16 days ago. Munster"Government for too long has operated under the flawed assumption that growing bigger & controlling more is necessarily better" WILDLY MISLEADING (Who made that argument? In fact, government for too long has operated under supply siders and Republicans who believed in tax cuts for the wealthy, wars that aren't paid for, and deficits as far as the eye can see.) 8. "Our new Majority stands for a different, better way: a government that controls less & spends less, but accomplishes more" FALSE (As in most things in life, you get more with more, less with less. Cantor's full of crap.) Posted 16 days ago. Munster"The federal government spending spree will stop with the new Republican Majority" HIGHLY MISLEADING (Again, most economists feel that the government should have spent more on "stimulus" and investment than it did. More to the point, the biggest causes of the deficit are: a) the Bush tax cuts, which Republicans just voted to extend; b) the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Republicans have supported; and c) spiraling health care costs, which Republicans have absolutely no plan to deal with) 6. "This is going to be a results-driven Congress." EXTREMELY UNLIKELY (It's already started out with a bunch of made-for-TV gimmicks, like voting to "repeal" health care reform, reading the Constitution out loud, etc. How is that "results-driven?") Posted 16 days ago. Munster3#"For too long, families and small businesses across America tightened their belts while the federal government continued its spending spree." WILDLY MISLEADING (yes, families are tightening their belts, thanks to the Republican Great Recession, but that has absolutely no relationship - if anything, it has an inverse relationship - to what the federal government should be doing) 4. "This self-imposed cut to our own operating budgets in the House will save American taxpayers more than $35 million right away" WILDLY MISLEADING (First of all, $35 million is absolutely nothing in $3.5 TRILLION federal budget; second of all, let's see if they really do it; third of all, will they really apply that $35 million to deficit reduction? highly doubtful) Posted 16 days ago. MunsterOh , do want me to do a little "fact checking" on some of your heros ? Lets look to Eric Cantor !"Imposing net neutrality requirements would shackle broadband industry w/ anti-competitive, job-killing regulations" BLATANTLY FALSE (there's nothing "job-killing" about net neutrality, that's utterly ridiculous) 2. "Federal spending is out of control; we will begin the new GOP Majority by cutting our own Congressional operating budgets" WILDLY MISLEADING (define "out of control"; in fact, most economists believed the "stimulus" should have been far larger than it was) Posted 16 days ago. BeRightCapitol Hill janitors “just got a pay cut.” —President Obama Fact Checker rating: Four Pinocchios, published March 1
Capitol janitors “depend on that overtime to make ends meet.” —White House spokesman Jay Carney Fact Checker rating: Four Pinocchios, published March 6
“There are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips” because of sequestration. —Education Secretary Arne Duncan Fact Checker rating: Four Pinocchios, published Feb. 27 PolitiFact rating: Mostly False, published March 1 FactCheck****: “Exaggerated claims” on possible layoffs, published Feb. 26
If the sequester hits, federal prosecutors will have to “let criminals go.” —President Obama PolitiFact rating: Mostly False, published Feb. 22
Due to the sequester, “people are going to be unsafe. Homes are going to burn.” —Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.) PolitiFact rating: Mostly False, published March 1
“Federally assisted programs like Meals on Wheels would Posted 16 days ago. R1KRA8Charles Krauthammer is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist, political commentator, and physician.
en.wikipedia****/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer Posted 17 days ago. MunsterCharles Krauthammer and faux two of a kind ! Right wing crap slingers of little intelligence ! Posted 17 days ago. Post a Comment |