In His Weekly Address, President Obama Calls for Fiscal Discipline

Well, the man must have borrowed Hillary’s brass ones when he sent her to the State department. His chutzpah never ceases to amaze. So now we are to worry about excessive spending and passing debt to our children? And yet we are to pass all his programs, including health care? Good grief, Charlie Brown.

too little too late. This man is unbelieveable!! HURRY and pass that stimulus HURRY and pass that budget, both loaded with billions in wasteful spending but now he is back to spouting the same ol same ol about being responsible in spending and all his loyal followers will say how wonderful he is. BLIND worship is going to be our down fall.

Obama’s hypocrisy is unbelievable. Sure, we’ll have fiscal discipline. As soon as we default on our debt. It’s coming.

It’s not just the money being spent but the increase in bureaucracy and the centralization of more and more government control that is bad.
Obama is a liar!

It’s evidently become pretty clear to Obama that his “followers” will drool over most any outrageous thing he says. He even has the nerve to speak of debt passed along to our children and grandchildren. I wonder how many paper clips and staples we’ll need to save to offset $10 trillion? This could destroy the office supply industry. That’s okay. We’ll bail them out and appoint a “staple czar”.

Oh, O.K. sure Obama. Right after that spending bill and bailout? Yeah, I’m buying it.

He really thinks we are a bunch of fools doesn’t he? Sorry BO but you only fooled the people that voted for you.

I think Obama must have a severe case of dillusional thinking when it comes to the consequenses of the TRILLIONS of dollars he is allowing to be spent, plus, the beauracratic state of dependency it will create. This is sureal.

NOW after giving trillions away to god knows who the administration is calling for fiscal discipline! OMG he is so full of crap!!!!!

freekin’ moron…forget what comerade hussein says…WATCH CAREFULLY WHAT HE DOES……

Words just words. Watch the actions people.

“It’s not just the money being spent but the increase in bureaucracy and the centralization of more and more government control that is bad.”
Excellent point. Thanks to the failure of public education, very few people understand federalism and how our republic was structured. The framers intended LOCAL governments to have the most power, followed by states, and then federal (which was supposed to be as small as possible, staying out of the affairs of the states and the private sector). Everything has completely flipped around now.
We’re moving very quickly toward the structure of a highly centralized, socialist economy. But, then again, that’s precisely what Obama, Pelosi, and Reid intend. We are being destroyed from within. If Americans don’t wake up soon, our great country as we knew it will be gone.

All talk…. anything to make him look good… same as his online spending list… do people really believe that what he puts on line is the truth or just something to make it look like he is living up to his words?
Dont fall for it… this from the government and administration that wants to hide the bank stress tests.
Sorry but I don’t trust this government anymore than I trusted the last one.
What a joke.. lets spend less… he should have thought of that before signing that overbloated stimulus bill.
No more bail outs and no more war and no more foreign aide.

“We cannot settle for a future of rising deficits and debts that our children cannot pay,” the president says….
“Does he even listen to himself? How much did he just add to the deficit & debt since Jan. 20th?”
You’re absolutely right.
But Obama understands the value of words and the vapidity of his followers. He only need say something and then he’s free to do the opposite. His believers are so mesmerized and vacuous that they have no interest in the facts.

I’ll bet Obama is tight with his own money. However, him being from the “Organizing Industry”, where people actually pay you or give you loans just to get you out of their hair or where clever grant writers can get money falling from Uncle Sams pockets is a far cry from real investment that grows and provides income and jobs.
If industry could teach lessons it would be that when times are tough you tend to chop expenses not borrow more money than you can ever repay and spend it. Innovation is why companies grow and prosper. Government, with the power to simply sieze assets for its use has no reason to be innovated and therefore will always be laden with waste and greed.
We all should ask ourselves why politicians, any party, come to DC as fairly successful people-not always rich but always seem to leave with full pockets.

We are not fooled by Obama… He is spending Trillions!!

Stacey wrote: “Thanks to the failure of public education, very few people understand federalism and how our republic was structured.”
Actually I disagree with you. I think our public school systems have been VERY SUCCESSFUL in dumbing down our society.

Posted by: gary | Apr 25, 2009 9:51:50 AM
I hated the way Bush spent. I hated his “no child left behind” garbage. I hated his porous border policy. A lot of it was ridiculous, and this is a major reason Republicans got hammered. They lost their way and there was nothing to support.
And yet none of this is a good excuse for moral equivalence. Obama is going to destroy this country with his financial profligacy.

Trillion schmillion…geez Obama that is sooooooo last year. Next year go for a Quadrillion!! Obama trying to cut spending is like throwing a deck chair off the Titanic to lighten the load.

“They charged $384,010,365 for drugs that cost them only $32,957,226 to provide. That’s a markup of 1,166%.”
Do you know what this money does?
It pays for health care for illegal aliens and for the indigent. Ever see all the people waiting in ER’s? They don’t pay those bills.
It all seems so simple when someone carves out an issue in isolation, but it’s all related.
You could eliminate all those profits, but then the health care stops for the above groups.

It appears that every one of his campaign points has been violated by him. He said he woud eliminate earmarks, but more pork was in the stimulus bill than any saine person could imagine. Now after sending the largest operating budget in history to congress he is talking cost cutting. It looks like the entire federal govt. thinks we are all fools. I sure hope our votes will show them they are wrong. It is time we get some every day citizens in to congress, lets fire these crooks with our votes.

gary said “Where was your concern about deficits when Reagan/Bush I were quadrupling the national debt? Or when Bush II doubled it?”
What? Because we’re calling Obama on it now, you’re assuming that we didn’t call other presidents on it? That is really an illogical assumption.

The TEA Parties were mainly for ALL Americans to express concern about Federal spending. The next TEA Party is planned for Independence Day. Since more people will not need to work, more people will have the opportunity to attend.

That promise for tax cuts for 95% of Americans?
Apparently that has expired too.
Now that Obama has soaked the rich he is coming after the middle class.
What a bunch of poor suckers that trusted this man.

He had the chance to veto much of the
“pork” and earmarks and he chose to
not to do it. That would have proven
he was serious about getting budgets
inline. Same old stuff, different
face. These guys haven’t met a dollar
bill they would not like to spend.
They don’t worry about deficeits because
they just go back to the well ( tax-
payers) for more money.

If This Wasn’t So Serious.
I would be laughing right now. Obama’s hypocrisy is unbelievable. His arrogance is frightning. This idiot believes what he reads and sees on these LOVE OBAMA media outlets. Scarry stuff here people. My biggest regret in life, letting my children go to public school. You leftists freaks have ruined an intire generation of our youth.

The man is a leader.Race and ignorance continue to be a power base for people who have no concern for all people,only for the ones they serve and their family or friends…

Obama wants fiscal discipline. . . and he still did not bow to the Saudi King. . .and the agents in the CIA should sleep soundly.

10 trillion spent, with more bailouts, socialized healthcare, socialized school programs, environmental programs, endless spending that enslaves the country and this man has the nerve to say “fiscal discipline”? This man thrives by throwing out lies to his gullible supporters who believe every word. How much damage before people wake up?

Can anyone tell me how in the heck Gibbs got his job? I have never seen such a ridiculous example of a spokesman in my life!

The President will succeed, this is not wishful thinking, the first half of success is just around the corner, jobless rate is hitting bottom, new hiring will begin, most Businesses will see a small profit at end of this year.

DThinking said “Don’t tell me you haven’t benefited from Public Education. Don’t tell me that your parents or Grand Parents have not benefited from Medicare, Don’t tell me that that you haven’t benefited from environmental laws.”
Well, public education started out at the local level & that is where it should be returned to. I do know that is why we use foriegn oil instead of our own.
Medicare is the reason the healthcare is a mess now.
Environmental laws… uh- I can’t really point to how they have exactly helped me.
Posted by: Thinking

The sheer, brazen hypocrisy of Obama’s remarksis simply breathtaking.
When one has just proposed deficits averaging one trillion dollars per year over the next ten years, one would be well advised to call it almost anything other than fiscal discipline.
Under Obama’s agenda the government share of GDP will grow from 21% to 25, then nearly 30%. Revenues historically have been at 19% of GDP annually even in the most robust times. They cannot and will not materially exceed that level. The government debt held by the public (including China) will increase under Obama to roughly 80% of GDP.
For all I know, this is what the nation wants, and if it does it is entitled to get it. But it should harbor no illusions whatsoever about what lies in store. Any democratic country is entitled to make itself over in the image of Sweden, but once having done so it will be very, very difficult to go back.

lot’s and lot’s of green businesses will soon become Reality, this will become the new economic forerunner.

we_r1 –Thinking green? As in Money? This green movement has become a cancer!

Punk amateur!!

Just curious: Did Obama at all mention the $200M airport that Rep. Murtha built/named after himself and has a total of 3 flights daily? It also got around $800K in ‘stimulous’ funds. I bet that slipped off the teleprompter as well. Meanwhile, I had to write a check to the IRS for $2700 because I had the ‘audacity’ to use my IRA to help pay down my kid’s college tuition. I’m so sick of this liberal rhetoric I cannot see straight.

This is a joke right? If we wanted fiscal discipline, we would have voted for Ron Paul. We voted Obama so he could save us from ourselves, and so we could get free stuff.

Bill..
No I seriously doubt that he would mention the Murtha Airport, isn’t that just convenient?
This from a president who signed an overbloated stimulus bill with so much pork it could feed China.
I also will be paying the IRS next year… my husband lost most of his IRA in the wall street tumble and we had just enough to get us caught up on our mortgage… even though now we have no money for retirement… but you just know the IRS wants their money .. I can just imagine how much we will owe.
I say that if Obama wants to save money, how about he forfeit his paycheck for the next 4 yrs. and let his faithful supporters send him more money so that he can continue to pay 50 grand a year to send his kid to private school.
Obana is still in training and will be for the next 4 yrs… so we all are in for a very bumpy ride..
Just think how much more fun it will be when the Gitmo detainees are thrown to us.

Our Gearest Glorious Smartest Clueless Leader has it all. He is doing exactly what he told ya he is going to do. Don’t you fool supporters be surprised.

You people got to give Pb0 some credits for the exceptional work he’s done.
He knows even you less-educated people can understand 100 is bigger a number than 3.6 out of his budget for the next quarter, which he ordered his cabinet to save.
Pb0 will save more than he spends.

Hmmmm…Credit card? I seem to recall from the debates that it was VP Joe Biden who was on board with the credit card companies to raise the rates and guess who voted for this..YES our transparent new President…oh and they also supported changing the bankruptcy laws to screw the average person and “help” the banks! Please stop the insanity, I can hardly take it anymore.

‘Change we can go into receivership in.’

Environmental laws… uh- I can’t really point to how they have exactly helped me.
Posted by: Thinking
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Try cleaner air, water, better gas milage for starters.

“We can’ afford not to pursue these avenues.”
Wow, thinking, for a minute there I thought you were disagreeing with me!
But you are correct: We can afford not to pursue these avenues.
Or, really, an easier way to say the same thing you said: we can’t afford to pursue these avenues.

” We sure could have used you when Bush was doubling the national debt at the tune of 5 trillion dollars.”
My first advice to you would be that you forget about Bush; he’s gone. Bush did indeed double the national debt in his eight years, to the dismay of many Republicans. But Obama proposes to double it again in five years, and triple it in ten. Think about it: If the debt was X when Bush arrived, it was 2X when he left. Now Obama proposes to make it 4X, then 6X. Is the best you can do in defense of that crazily irresponsible course of action to say that Bush was bad too, although not nearly as bad?
The debt that Mr. Obama has now signed on for is one thing he surely cannot claim to have inherited from Bush, even though he cravenly likes to blame everything he can on his predecessor. This is a burden of his own making, and shouldering it will bring enormous pain and little or no benefit.

“…soon we will be like the rest of the world that isn’t of the western philosophy. A breeding ground of discontent, poverty, ignorance, disease, ruled by dictators, without opportunity.”
That hasn’t happened to us in 220 years without Obama’s nonsense. Why would it happen now?

“There is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.”
– Obama during the campaign.

“…soon we will be like the rest of the world that isn’t of the western philosophy. A breeding ground of discontent, poverty, ignorance, disease, ruled by dictators, without opportunity.”
That hasn’t happened to us in 220 years without Obama’s nonsense. Why would it happen now?
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You have taken it out of context, you didn’t mention that the poster I was responding to was against Public Education, Medicare and Enviromental laws, said we couldn’t afford it. I just pointed out what would happen if we ended it.
To put it another way, it hasn’t happened because we have those programs.

LMAO@OBAMA that facist should have his own comedy show LMAo at spending restraint omg he is a belly laugh a minute

Well I am going out for a run at the lake park developed by the Army Corps of Engineers, breathing that clean fresh air improved by those damn environmental laws and the EPA, Giving thanks to God that I have the time, and health to do so, having received a fairly good “Public” education, benefiting from a number of disease protecting inoculation, mandated by these damnable socialists we have in the various State and Federal agencies.

We’re cranking up a deficit that will collapse the dollar. We’re getting ready to spend trillions that will ignite runaway inflation. Taliban are enclosing Islamabad, and it’s unclear if anyone has a plan to secure Pakistan’s nuclear force.
But as long as you’ve got your clean lake, no problem.

Obama’s out of control spending and pork barrel bills make George Bush look like a miser. This is what you get when you hire a “Community Organizer” to lead a nation. He should have stayed in Chicago and led his army of thugs in ACORN, we would all be better off!
Are we supposed to be happy that this corrupt admiinistration is cutting a measly $100 million out of a 4 TRILLION dollare Budget? It would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic!
Here’s praying that the pig flu will turn out to be our salvation and the idiot in the White House will finally stop illegal immigration, but I’m not going to hold my breath.
2012 can’t come soon enough!

Don’t be stupid…Reps don’t object to these things…a prime example of the Dem strawman argument.
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No They just conveniently forget about them when they talk? These are the stupid qoutes
” socialized healthcare, socialized school programs, environmental programs, endless spending that enslaves the country”
“Environmental laws… uh- I can’t really point to how they have exactly helped me.”
“Don’t tell me you haven’t benefited from Public Education.”
“I did indeed. Not a single penny of it came from the federal treasury. I was in California; no one in West Virginia or New Mexico was taxed to pay for it.”
“we can’t afford to pursue these avenues.”

Mr. Obama is the most BS president our country has ever known. He seems to want everything: cure the world’s hunger, peace with everyone, wealth, health for every man, woman, child and dog.

Just came here to see how the Libs would defend this…of course, wasn’t disappointed.
What we get is an attack on posters over how much the government has done for us instead.
The point is that We The People decide what the government does for us…not just the government.
Or, the government and the ACLU, the Kos Kids, MoveOn, George Soros…

The man is a joke.

The president can lead by example on the notion of fiscal discipline and resubmit a budget for 2010 that exhibits fiscal discipline.

Perhaps you missed the last election “where Obama won more votes than any candiate in history (taking into account population growth, he still won a higher percentage of the population than any non-incumbent president in history). ”
This cuts both ways…Obama is also the only candidate in history to have 60 million people vote against him.

This must be a sick joke.
After piling trillions upon trillons
in future debt on our children and
grandchildren in his first 100 days
in office President Obama is talking
about “fiscal discipline”!
Does this man live in the
Twilight Zone?
Talk about “audacity”!
He’s going to cut 100 million dollars
out of “wasteful programs”.
At this rate we’ll be out of debt by
the year 3,000.

Hey BO- Why don’t you get in touch with your buddies to the north, better yet, do what you do best. Jump on AF 1 and fly up to Ottawa, Canada and see hoe they have managed to get their budget in the black. In case your not aware of what that means, when your budget is in the black, that means that you actually have money still.

Ever notice the “new dog” is named “Bo” – same initials as Barak Obama?

Just came here to see how the Libs would defend this…of course, wasn’t disappointed.
What we get is an attack on posters over how much the government has done for us instead.
The point is that We The People decide what the government does for us…not just the government.
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Get attacked by what the Government does for you? Does it or doesn’t it do something for you? io body is attacking you about it.
Yes the people decide, right now your group is in the minority, would love to come to sort of compromise, but your group has decided no. It is all what they want and nothing of what we want. Sorry can’t work that way.
You act like children.

Obama land isn’t as much fun as i thought it ould be.

LMAO@OBAMA that facist should have his own comedy show LMAo at spending restraint omg he is a belly laugh a minute
Posted by: Breaking News | Apr 25, 2009 3:49:00 PM
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How about a reality show…. we will call it
THE NEXT REPUBLICAN LEADER
Here’s the plot….. You will have a cast of republicans like
Palin, Steele, Limbaugh, Hannity, Rove, Pawlenty, Jindal, Cheney, Sanford, and others
trying to be presidential in a country that is critical of them because they have no ideas and no clue of how to lead. Their party is in a tailspin and it is up to the party to pick its new leader.
yeah… that would be a new gimmick the GOP haven’t tried yet. the tea parties didn’t work too well.
yeah… maybe that could give the GOP some prime time publicity. till now they have been, as Hannity says, “underground in exile”
that should be a hilarious show.

All talk and no substance.

GROW UP YOU JERKS
Barack Hussein Obama is YOUR PRESIDENT.
Support him (which is supporting your country)
or
SHUT THE HELL UP

You know what’s really scary?
Teleprompter boy a.k.a. Barry the Bower, isnt even legally qualified to be president in this country.
Yet the courts all the way up to the SCOTUS have all sold their souls to the devil.
Hey Barack, who seals their birth certificate, and college records? And why?
So much for that mantra of “TRANSPARENCY” eh?

ellsbells
I think the Dems had a lot to complain about …. the debt doubling, soldiers falling for a ill advised war, executive office corruption e.g. scooter libby et.al
I for one gave bush a honeymoon until he pull that axis of evil crap out his butt. it was all down hill after that…. but that was two years in his presidency.
here you are squawking nonsense TWO MONTHIS in Obama’s presidency. Sure exercise your freedom of speech …. i didn’t get the memo that there was freedom of lying included in that. sorry
you know its apparent to me that you guy are not going to agree with anything this guy does… even down to his choice of dog.
you know the saying …. if a tree falls in the woods with no one around, does it still make a sound. the real question is does it matter.
the fact of the matter is the tree has fallen. the republican party has fallen and it doesnt matter if they make a sound or not …. they have fallen.
bush loves to cut wood…… he made a mistake and cut the gop tree down. don’t be mad at obama …be mad at bush … he screwed you party up.
he made it irrelevant

Obama won by 9,529,918 votes, the 6th largest margin in US history. If that isn’t a landslide, I don’t know what is.

Once again, Much of the country didnt vote, and those who did were bamboozled by the 24 / 7 pro-Obama propaganda blitz.
I mean who in their right mind votes for a Chicago hack who spent 20 years in a racially polarizing radical left churck, and who befriends, and does business with radical left anti-american terrorists?
Who in their right mind votes for a fraud who presents a phoney COLB while sealing his vault birth certificate, and college records?
A dummied up, manipulated, and brainwashed public, thats who.

“I mean who in their right mind votes for a Chicago hack who spent 20 years in a racially polarizing radical left churck, and who befriends, and does business with radical left anti-american terrorists?”
Who in their right mind would vote in another corporate stooge who just panders to big business, when it was graphically demonstrated by the financial crisis that they aren’t competent to run their own businesses let alone the government, through their Republican puppets?

Posted by: Skip | Apr 26, 2009 9:38:47 AM
Thanks to the left, America wanted change in the worst way and that’s exactly what we got.

Obama should call it his “Weakly Address”

Omentum – EXCUSE ME!!! You are accusing me of lying? Exactly what am I lying about? How dare you!
You think you had good reason to complain while Bush was in office? Well I think I have good reason to complain about Obama. There are only two things he’s done that I have agreed with so far. 1) His not attending the “racism” conference and 2)calling the credit card companies to task (I think it’s really stupid on their part to make it so more people default by raising interest & raising minimum payments- it’s a self-perpetuating idea)…oh- wait, there was a third thing…He kept his promise to his kids about the dog & they chose one as a family, rather than pander to the public.
Otherwise, I am fundementally opposed to everything else he has done -so of course, I’m going to complain.

These Obamots are absolutely hopeless. They could find 40 bodies buried in Obamas back yard, and theyd still drunkenly defend him. The only thing that should be coming out of their mouths is , Baa, Baa, Baa. Obama in 90 days has already outspent, and outborrowed more than EVERY PRESIDENT COMBINED. He lied about transparency, lied about taxes, lied about Lobbyist, lied about earmark spending. Hired a tax cheat to monitor tax fraud. No red flags there, eh? Obama is a disgrace, or is it Soetoro? This racist idiot befriender of anti-american terrorists, and ideologues needs to climb into a cesspool, and swim.

The budget reality is bad enough, you don’t need to start making up stuff like “He’s outspent every president combined”

To all the Obama loyalist who are struggling economically just keep chanting “Yes We Can” and things will get better.
By the way Obama is taking away the $14 a week he just gave us.
Yes We Can!

Skip, when you wrote, “Who in their right mind would vote in another corporate stooge who just panders to big business, when it was graphically demonstrated by the financial crisis that they aren’t competent to run their own businesses let alone the government, through their Republican puppets?,” who on earth did you think this description fit? You were responding to someone’s characterization of Obama, so I assume this is suppose to represent McCain. However, this is so far from who McCain is that I have to assume you are referring to someone else. Who? And why?
And it’s striking that you would howl about people not being ‘competent to run their own companies’ since the Obama administration seems bent on taking that burden away from so many– the CEO of BofA seems destined to follow the CEO of GM out the door because the administration wants to prove they can
“fire” the leaders of american corporations== a terrifying prospect if you ask me. Wagner was as much a part of the solution as he was part of the problem, and I did not see Gettlefinger’s head rolling along beside his, now did I?

In His Weekly Address, President Obama Calls for Fiscal Discipline
whatever……..

Is this a Saturday Night Live skit? Did they know that this just looks like bad satire after the stimulus and budget bills?

SNL rarely makes fun of Obama.
It’s on NBC you know.

Fiscal responsibility? When? What part of his own record-setting spending plan does he not understand? Why are we paying to bail out banks that made bad decisions? Why are we about to pay for all of the people with bad credit card habits? My local banks are fine. The “normal” states (everything not on the west coast and northeast) are doing fine. Texas is thinking like never before about seceding from the Federal Government.
Our federal government is out of control. Go look up the federal spending since 1900. Great Depression spending and World War II barely show up as blips on the graph compared to today.

Obama asks for fiscal discipline? Wow, teleprompter is making him say stupid things once again!

i am still laughing at this headline. Does Obama really think all Americans are this stupid? What a joke. Fiscal discipline coming from Obama….that’s a good one.