President Obama: I Believe Government Should Be Lean

From the man who gave us TRILLION dollar plus deficits as far as the eye can see??
Now, that’s good comedy.

Man people are delusional. The last president to post a surplus was Bill Clinton. Reagan,Bush, and BushII had deficits are far as the eye could see . You can try to rewrite history bit there will always be those of ua that remember. Bush was so deceitful he ran two wars if the books of the real budget. Talking about an Obama deficit is dishonest especially since the deficit was firmed and ballooned under BushII.

Someone cue Joe Wilson. He was needed today.

For Obama, saying is believing. Who needs to do it when they can say it?

“They guy that wants the federal government to determine what health insurance every man, woman and child has to have tells us we should be free to make decisions for ourselves.”
Huffing glue again?
Can we have a discussion of real issues versus the made up one of the paranopid right wing?

Ryan C,
Are you simply ignorant of the facts or do you know them and pretend that you don’t? The Health Care Reform bill entitles the Secretary of HHS to determine minimum standards for health insurance, and fines people if they do not have a health insurance policy that meets those criteria.
If companies don’t provide these plans to their employees, they can be fined $3,000 per employee.
Please, do try to be informed before accusing others of being paranoid.
Obama says he thinks people should make their own decisions. Then he signs into laws that require businesses to do what an unelected HHS Secretary feels is proper, and penalizes individuals who personally believe that their health care needs are best served by a health savings plan instead of health insurance. He’s a hypocrite, plain and simple.

Obama said WHAT? “I believe government should be lean; government should be efficient. I believe government should leave people free to make the choices they think are best for themselves and their families, so long as those choices don’t hurt others.”
Besr I can tell Obama has grown government like a weed and the hurt is just beginning.

A Democratic strategy was to keep the Midterm elections “local”. Obama, today in his speech, put his stake in the ground and “nationalized” the MidTerm elections. Dems are worried now because Obama has once again, threw them under the bus. Obama is imploding his base…its evident.

“Are you simply ignorant of the facts or do you know them and pretend that you don’t? The Health Care Reform bill entitles the Secretary of HHS to determine minimum standards for health insurance, and fines people if they do not have a health insurance policy that meets those criteria.”
When in doubt the right wing just makes it up.
The only minimum standards are for insurance companies that wish to be part of the exchange that is being set up not for all insurance companies or individuals getting insurance.
“who personally believe that their health care needs are best served by a health savings plan instead of health insurance.”
Way to work in the lingo…make sure you get a bonus.

the government (despite Bush and neo-con statements) was intended to be lean, efficient, or run as a business! But also the leftist Obama, and his fellow-travellers, should know that the US government was also never intended to take care of every aspect of the US citizens (and illegals here) lives!
For defense, for inter-state disputes, for secured borders, for certain civil insurrections, for certain (carefully written about) commercial regulations. For those reason don’t worry about “being lean”, Obama. For the nationalizations, the police state snooping, the wars without end, the promotion of unAmerican activities, the increased taxation, the aggrandisement of Federal powers, etc please “be lean”!! Both to Obama and the previous Presidents….

…I believe government should leave people free to make the choices they think are best for themselves and their families, so long as those choices don’t hurt others.”
What the hell does that mean? Does he mean anytime someone goes against the grain, government would need to ‘step in’ and take over? What ‘choices’? How does he determine what it is to ‘hurt others’?
I think a little more background on that comment is VERY necessary.

Mary, your statement “Obama (like many liberal Democrats) always acts like a conservative before elections.” reveals that you are living in a alternate universe.
In the runup to an election, the Democrats will attempt to portray themselves to be more liberal (almost) every time.
The problem with the Democrats, and Obama in particular, is that between elections they act like conservatives.

40% want larger government with more services???? WHOA!!! …What happened to that independent American spirit?? Every once in a while even I have a pioneer-style dream where I pack up my family and head out to the middle of nowhere..stake my claim…and live off the land..grow my own veggies, homeschool my kids, raise chickens..beat my laundry against a rock in the river…and then I wake up in a cold sweat…It’s not the lack of toll booths, city hall, union wages, police patrols, a public library or social security that turns this dream into a nightmare..it’s the visual of all that laundry in the river that ruins my dream. I think I could manage without the government- I really do..living without a washing machine is another story.

Ryan, you cut off the sentence, man. It’s either $2,0000 or $3,000 depending on the type of business.
Now you’re just being dishonest. I’m done playing with you. You’re not ignorant, you’re purposely deceptive.

Pres Barry needs some grown ups in the room….he is simply tone deaf to the American people. Trying to talk like a conservative for the next 6 weeks will not fool very many likely voters.
Early this year when his polls tanked, when swing voters fled, when Virginia, New Jersey and then Massachusetts all smacked him upside, they told him to ignore them, and the New Yorker, the New Republic and the liberal bloggers on here all urged him on. Health care would emerge as his passport to greatness.
“Pass. The. Damn. Bill.” They urged on this and other Web sites. He did.
He passed the damn bill, and the People were not and are not pleased.
Inside the bubble (the bunker? the madhouse?), the celebration, and the confusion, go on.

By proudly claiming ownership to the massive health-care plan, Pres Barry removed any doubts about where he stood regarding government growth. He can no longer hide behind the illusion he was an honest broker looking for the kind of common-sense fixes the country wanted.
This is change we can believe:
Every Republican and 34 Democrats said no to the health-care package.
At least the Iraq war was “Bipartisan”.

Flash Override: “The problem with the Democrats, and Obama in particular, is that between elections they act like conservatives.”
LOL!! Hilarious.
That must be why Democracy Corps (Carville/Greenberg) found in their poll that 55% of likely voters believe the word “socialist” describes the president either “well” or “very well.” It must be because, you know, Obama “acts like a conservative” and all. Wow, talk about an alternate universe.

I believe all the eating I’ve done this summer has made me lean.

Pres Barry insisted on Bailouts
Posted by: bl | Sep 8, 2010 9:17:23 PM
The ‘Bailouts’ were bi-partisan and supported by Bush, McCain, Obama and many others from both parties.

“Now you’re just being dishonest. I’m done playing with you. You’re not ignorant, you’re purposely deceptive.”
Right wingers gets nailed lying.
Then projects his behavior on his critic.
Then runs away.

President Obama said, “I believe government should be lean; government should be efficient.”
Bwaaa ha ha ha ha!
What makes this more funny is I think the guy really believes what he said!
Ha ha ha he he he!
But then again, if he did believe that he’d have to resign and hand the Presidency over to an adult.
Which would mean he’d have to have gotten rid of Biden first and then name a fiscal conservative to be the new vice president before he resigned.

Odd and questionable that you quoted the “lean” remarks but failed to quote the following comments, which are far more revealing of the president’s philosphical intent:
“But in the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, I also believe that government should do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves. (Applause.) And that means making the long-term investments in this country’s future that individuals and corporations can’t make on their own: investments in education and clean energy, in basic research and technology and infrastructure. (Applause.)”

Foghorn Leghorn – Agree but he did say lean and these we can do without.

Seems like the President’s had a change of heart in the last 18 months.
Obama, George Mason University, Jan. 8, 2009
“It is true that we cannot depend on government alone to create jobs or long-term growth, but at this particular moment, only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe. Only government can break the vicious cycles that are crippling our economy — where a lack of spending leads to lost jobs which leads to even less spending; where an inability to lend and borrow stops growth and leads to even less credit.”
Obama, Sept. 7, 2010
“I believe it’s the private sector that must be the main engine of our recovery.”

hahahahahahahahahahahahah(Cough, cough!) ahahahahahahahahahahahhahaha!!!!
(Know when he’s lying… his lips are moving!)

If President Obama is being honest in the above statement, then the only possible course is repeal the Healthcare and Financial Reform legislation.
Jake – Why don’t you ask President Obama if he was being honest? Because, based on recent actions, this statement appears to be a TOTAL LIE.

Wow, that’s funnier than him creating a “Carp Czar” with a straight face.
Ignoring his massive overhauls and violations of American principles over health care or the stimulus: How can you say you want small government while appointing everyone under the sun except me and my family as _____ Czars with ridiculous salaries?