President Obama to Push 3-Year Spending Freeze on Non-Security Discretionary Spending

It’s never too late to do the right thing. Why wait until FY 2011–October??

Get ready for more states to have huge deficits as more of our money is transferred to military contractors, banks and other corporations. Maybe if Obama ended these bogus wars and reversed Bush’s tax cuts to the top 1%, the deficit would not be so high. How did we end up with this FOOL, when so many qualified people were running?!

Hey Look!!! Gobbermint is gonna tighten their belts! I guess they will do without….snicker snicker…snort snort…ha ha..(wait I can get control) BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…..
Yeah, I believe em. Wink Wink Nudge Nudge.

Good move, President Obama, may it help the nation.
Sadly, I can’t help but be suspicious, because Pres. Obama has abused my hopes all this year. All his actions have aimed low, serving partisan politics over the national interest.
Will it rescind or at least freeze raises and benefit increases by government workers? It should, and be retroactive for the two budget years Obama signed last year.
What spending will it freeze in, say, Rep. Murtha’s district? Haha, we shall see.
The Devil, I fear, will be in the details.

“…what people think about when they say they want Washington, DC, to rein in spending, a senior administration official said. They don’t mean Medicare, Social Security, or defense spending, the official said.”
Really? Because I mean those things. Military spending is necessary, but not to be used as make-work corporate welfare (like the redundant C-5 Galaxy’s or whatever that was). Socialist security, medicaid, and medicare need to be abolished and replaced with an absolute minimal safety net for those who really need it.

With the money I am forced to pay in to socialist security, I could have instead invested and made far more money than I will ever get back after retirement, if at all. Social security can not last perpetually because the system is unsustainable, the best thing to do is phase it out, continue to pay those retired or soon to retire who payed in to it but eliminate it for future generations.
And it was the C-17 Globemaster, it looks similar but not identical to the C-5 Galaxy. I always mix those up.

This is madness….We need more fiscal stimulus, ie, government spending to stimulate the economy.
Why not a WPA for the 21st century, rebuilding and improving our infrastructure—highways, railroads, bridges, airports, schools and more.
We need government spending to create jobs now

Obama goes from wanting to spend another trillion in stimulus… to… wanted to freeze all discretionary spending… in one month!!!! — Hmmmm, that election in MA must have caught their attention!!! — Too late dirtbag, America’s awake now!!!!

Government spending can NOT create wealth, because the money must first be taken from the citizens who would put it to more productive uses. You should look in to the parable of the broken window.
It is argued that the depression was prolonged by the New Deal’s wealth redistribution and economic engineering, and didn’t end until after world war two (and not just because of war production) when some of the new deal policies were repealed.
A major influence leading to this recession was government policies like tax credits and market manipulation that promoted more home mortgaging than there should have been.
Economic slumps end gradually when markets adjust and assets are put to more productive uses.

. Hillary is doing considerable good work out of the media glare, and Biden is a big mouth who is providing a stable hand on Iraq, which is far from settled.
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Yeah, she’s done such a great job with the Iran sanctions and traveling to Russia. Biden? Awesome work as well. Only a series of bombings today. Hysterical…

Funny how we’re still hearing from Osama bin Laden wanting to blow up Americans. Maybe if Bush and Co. had finished the job in Afghan. and went after Bin Laden instead of turning their back and heading to Iraq for that good ole oil, we might be rid of the guy by now. The repubs have done ZERO in the past year except to try to make the dim-witted American public believe it’s all Obama’s fault. Funny, I haven’t forgotten the Bush years. Actually, it’s all the repubs fault. And are they trying to right their wrongs. No, they’re trying to win elections. Disgusting bunch of traitors.
Posted by: pamp205 | Jan 25, 2010 8:28:05 PM
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Flights weren’t cheap, either. Fifty-nine House and Senate staff flew commercial during the Copenhagen rush. They paid government rates — $5-10,000 each — totaling $408,064. Add three military jets — $168,351 just for flight time — and the bill tops $1.1 million dollars — not including all the Obama administration officials who attended: well over 60.
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And ABC would rather comment on what Obama’s pick is for the NBA than post a real story
Obama and pelosi are so out of touch that no matter what Obama says… his actions are what we will judge him on. And right now, this Copenhagen junket is not looking good for him or Pelosi.
ABC start doing real reporting and quit with the fluff stories.

No, they’re trying to win elections.
I remember how hard they tried in NJ, VA and Mass…

This admin did inherit a bad economy and have made it MUCH worse!
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Dude, relax. So the unemployment rate in in double digits. Big deal… They’ll just print more money, borrow more from China and raise the debt ceiling while taxing banks. Heck, if you don’t buy gubbmint health care, they’ll get some more money from you too. Relax, go enjoy some golf…

Freeze the budget at these levels?
I think most Americans would agree that is a fast path to the insolvency of the federal government.
First, scale back federal spending to 2008 levels, subtract the Iraq savings, and freeze spending there for a decade.
We need journalists that will do a little more than eat-up the garbage this administration feeds us.

Governments don’t stimulate the economy, businesses do —–
HoosierValues | Jan 25, 2010 9:19:20 PM
Yeah, look at how worthless that government pork funded internet project turned out to be for businesses. Or the useless interstates. And Hoover dam – what did that white elephant every do for business?

Reagan ran up a massive deficit. And after Clinton turned it into surplus, Bush/Cheney ran it up again. Cheney infamously said “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter” in his quest to get another big tax cut for the super rich. Obama has to do what Clinton did and get the financial house under control.
That initial stimulus bill was such a huge disappointment. Great things could have been done with such a big chunk of money but it was the equivalent of Bush’s dump of money into Baghdad after Saddam’s fall. Obama should’ve studied FDR. When 250,000 people were hired by the CCC to do conservation work, for instance you could see that 250,000 people had jobs! And they were engaged in productive work that produced a real legacy of improved infrastructure. WPA built roads and bridges and put people to work. You shouldn’t need an internet site to show how many jobs were created or have to do comprehensive studies! I thought the stimulus bill would be along New Deal lines, but it was just more DC political voodoo. This is why people get upset.

Thus demonstrating that he still doesn’t get it. War and the preservation of ongoing neverending war is not the top item on our agenda. It is the top item on the GOP agenda. The top items on the rank and file democratic voter’s agenda is not losing everything they spent a lifetime working for and on that issue Obama prefers to be completely deaf. That and his apparent neverending often stated admiration of past GOP leaders who started the ball rolling on the disastrous policies which put us in the situation that we’re currently in inevitably leads one to speculate which party Obama actually identifies with.

I’ll admit that I voted for Obama. And when he first took office, I was actually kind of impressed with the way he seemed to want to reach across the aisle and bring about bi-partisan discussion.
But hey Barry…it’s time (past time, actually) to give it up. Republicans aren’t interested in the good of the country. They’re only interested in saying “No” to anything you, your administration, or the Democratic party ever says. They don’t care what. If you’re for it, they’re against it. If you’re against it, they’re for it.
This isn’t “an attempt at bi-partisanship” anymore Barry. This is pandering. If I’d wanted to vote for a Republican presidential candidate, I could have.

So we’ll keep the useless wars going and billions of foreign aid but cut the Americans stuff!!
So keep all the stuff for the rich and the war dogs and take more from our country.
We’ll all have to go threw naked body scanners while the border remains wide open!
Makes me want to vomit!
Dems and Reps ruin everything they touch!
NO INCUMBENTS 2012! Unless It’s Ron Paul
OBAMA END THE WARS AND END INCOME TAXES AND YOU’LL BE THE MOST POPULAR PRESIDENT EVER. But you wont- you’ll be a Jimmy Carter

Candidate Obama was against this sort of stuff. Guess he has saw the light or it polls well to say it.
The fact remains that federal spending has been unreal and while roughly 20 percent of the poulation is unemployed, underemployed or working two or three part time jobs to make it, the federal government has given raises, bonuses and even done some hiring…this is sort of like a ponzi scheme called social security, sooner or later the people getting benefits exceed the number of tax payers funding the “services”. While this freeze is good news to us serfs one wonders why it has taken this long and why has there not been a hiring freeze or reduction in wages like the rest of us.
And spending a million for Nancy and her posse to travel to the climate change farce is proof of how low we have sunk.

Obama had a different opinion of spending freezes in the debates

The way I heard it, that won’t amount to much. It just makes for good rhetoric.

Watch, Obama will Re-Define “Discretionary Spending” to include everything from continued Acorn support to who knows what, the guy is two faced in every aspect of who and what he is.

At first I thought that President Obama had been visited by the ghost of Ronald Reagan or somehow looked into the future to see what will happen in Nov 2010 if he didn’t change his tune. Then I remembered that he increased all spending, including discretionary spending, at an astronomical rate during his 1st year in office and I realized that a spending freeze on a tremendously excessive rate of spending isn’t much of a freeze. It really won’t be much help in the long run.

A freeze just slows the rate of decline, the ship is still sinking because the government borrows 40 cents of every dollar spent.
Taxing businesses is disastrous to consumers and jobs, retroactive taxes are even worse!
If a corporation or business is taxed for every 1000 units of taxation the company’s product or service must include not only the 1000 units but a markup for paperwork and handling.
The end result is that corporate and business taxes are no more than hidden taxes for the consumer and job loss is collateral damage. So the bottom line is fewer jobs,higher prices and lowered government revenue, do the math!

An Obama freeze,artifically locks in the hugh spending base line,So do not fall for the smoke and mirrors.It also is an attempt to keep a newly elected congress from imposing roll backs on the current spending spree. Obama needs someone else to do his math,it is apparent he fail that subject in college.

I think he should cut funds, ACORN. AMERICORPS, which he gave 5-billion dollars, and national serve Gov.

Freezing spending is in reality doing nothing. Spending needs to be cut. Government needs to cut staff numbers and salaries now. Foreign aid needs to go to zero now. Entitlement programs need to get reduced. Pelosi’s megabucks plane needs to be grounded, and these junkets need to be stopped. Balance… no rather get a surplus so that the deficit can be paid down. NOW people NOW.

The fact I can only find six things horribly wrong with his plan is an improvement. However, most likely, it’s because I spent more time watching basketball. Unlike Obama’s promises, the game’s over in two hours and the result never changes.