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#1134379 - 02/23/09 08:56 PM
Dangerous Pledge?????
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has vowed to cut the country's budget deficit in half by the end of his first term. Obama laid out the guiding principle of his budget policy at a White House conference. He said he believes the time has come for "a frank conversation" about the problem and said the deficit, projected to total $1.3 trillion this year, must be brought under control.
If he can do it - more power to him, BUT..... Do the words: Read my lips ring a bell to you?
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#1134384 - 02/23/09 08:59 PM
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he also pledged that it won't be the same old "politics as usual" in DC...
and you know, I think he is right. I'm not aware of any Bush appointees who didn't pay taxes, while many of Obama's don't...maybe it is a new day after all
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#1134385 - 02/23/09 08:59 PM
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cutting it in half from $1.3 trillion? talk about setting a low bar...
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#1134402 - 02/23/09 09:12 PM
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#1134406 - 02/23/09 09:15 PM
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If he can do it - more power to him, BUT..... Do the words: Read my lips ring a bell to you? I'll give you a more recent event - Clinton promised exactly the same thing as Obama, to cut the deficit in half in his first term. Republicans said he couldn't accomplish that, but he did. I don't think Obama's promise is all that dangerous because all he's promising is to cut a deficit that's more than twice as large as any in history by half. So, if in four years he gets it down to what it was in the last fiscal year before the current one (which was $454.8B) he will have cut it by more than half.
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#1134451 - 02/23/09 09:57 PM
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Does he mean cut it from his record defecit or some other President's defecit?
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#1134475 - 02/23/09 10:18 PM
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I'll give you a more recent event - Clinton promised exactly the same thing as Obama, to cut the deficit in half in his first term. Republicans said he couldn't accomplish that, but he did.
While I was walking past the national debt clock in NYC at that time I can not recall it going backwards.
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#1134478 - 02/23/09 10:21 PM
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I'll give you a more recent event - Clinton promised exactly the same thing as Obama, to cut the deficit in half in his first term. Republicans said he couldn't accomplish that, but he did.
While I was walking past the national debt clock in NYC at that time I can not recall it going backwards. I'm more than a little alarmed that someone with 'audit' in their screen name can't tell the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet.
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#1134486 - 02/23/09 10:28 PM
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TI'm more than a little alarmed that someone with 'audit' in their screen name can't tell the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet.
That was my point it is a lot easier to close (or claim to close) a budget deficit than the real problem the national debt
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#1134488 - 02/23/09 10:29 PM
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They covered it up in 2000 because it wasn't designed to run backwards. Time magazine
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#1134492 - 02/23/09 10:34 PM
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Are you talking about the debt or the clock
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#1134497 - 02/23/09 10:35 PM
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the bar really is set too low because he and the congress fully intend to let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2011; that in itself will reduce the deficit by half......
and then when you factor in the military cuts there will be plenty to spend on social programs by 2012.....
and the real timebombs won't be touched --- social security and medicare............
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#1134500 - 02/23/09 10:37 PM
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Are you talking about the debt or the clock He's talking about the clock. The linked article provides an explanation.
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#1134541 - 02/23/09 11:56 PM
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the bar really is set too low because he and the congress fully intend to let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2011; that in itself will reduce the deficit by half...... Why cut spending when you can lay it on the taxpayer to reduce the deficit spending? Of course I still find it funny that Obama isn't going to "raise taxes", he's just going to raise taxes on people that were given tax cuts by Bush.
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#1134550 - 02/24/09 01:19 AM
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... that Bush failed to make permanent.
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#1134553 - 02/24/09 01:54 AM
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... that Bush failed to make permanent. BZZZZZZZZZZZ Wrong answer! That a Democratically controlled congress REFUSED to allow Bush to make permanent.
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#1134639 - 02/24/09 02:12 PM
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He had 6 years to make them permanent with a Republicn controlled Congress.
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#1134677 - 02/24/09 02:49 PM
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so if i understand correctly, letting a tax-cut be rescinded/expire is not the same as raising taxes?
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#1134694 - 02/24/09 02:58 PM
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Since our past President and Congress' failed to make it a permanent cut in the first place, then, no, I do not feel it is the same.
Now that doesn't mean I don't support the lower rate, but I see no legisation currently to raise taxes or rescind a temporary tax cut early.
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#1134709 - 02/24/09 03:02 PM
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this is similar in describing the reduction of growth in social programs as a spending cut........
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#1134715 - 02/24/09 03:04 PM
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I would disagree with that...
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#1134734 - 02/24/09 03:23 PM
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so if today I pay $100 in taxes, but this "temporary" tax break ends and I then will be paying $150 in taxes, that is not a raise in taxes?
Let me guess, it is not a raise in taxes, but an adjustment to the pre-cut break I had?
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