Budget Negotiators Reach Tentative Deal To Avert Government Shutdown

Still not enough. Cut the promised $100 billion. Resuscitating the country’s financial health will require HUGE cuts in spending. Start by eliminating ALL federal grants. Then eliminate ALL federal funding of social and environmental programs. Once the country has a balanced budget AND the deficit is gone, then the government can start spending money again on all of their (mostly unnecessary) pet projects.

Cut $33,000,000,000 hmm…. We are already in debt 14,000,000,000,000 and we are headed for a deficit in just 2011 of 1,200,000,000,000.
Let’s see isn’t that kind of like I’m $14,000 in debt to my car and headed to the shop for a $1,200 repair and I think that skipping my $2.75 morning bagel once a month is going to make a difference. Let’s try to be serious here…

The “rank-and-file House Republicans” are America’s best chance right now to slow the spending back to merely outrageous levels. Down from the current lets-break-the-country-so-we-can-build-a-socialist-model levels.

Go ahead and shut it down. We’d all be better off.

33B out of a 3.5T budget is the best they can do.
Nobody in Washington is serious.

Not Enough! Not by even 1% enough. Don’t you people understand this country is about to be taken over by another Superpower and all our coveted Natural Resources will become a thing of the past once that happens? Don’t you realize the property you own is about to be confiscated out from under your feet? That all the tree hugging and endangered species in the world won’t stop the new owners of the USA from sawing them down or drilling in their habitat?
Wake Up America. This Ship is sinking and it will take $Trillions of dollars in budget cuts to stop the gusher. Not just a few pennies.

Time for a third party.

What about Obamacare funding? 105 Billion of it?? This is the reason the Republicans have the majority. Which the current leadership may not long enjoy if they allow the wildly unpopular draconian, abusive, “does not do one thing to help working poor to access health care” law be funded.
A general dissolution of the principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy…. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader…. If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. This will be their great security.
Samual Adams, Brewer – Patriot..

Like those above have said – that is not enough to even get started. $33 billion is a joke. Now if they had said $333 billion, that might be doable – for this fiscal year as long as they don’t stop there.

Wait till China cuts our credit limit. All these clowns in DC will run for the hills.

OK. I will say it if no one else will. Anyone talking about a third party is a socialist. They are Democrats pretending to be loyal Americans.

It the R’s to lose…and they appear intent on doing so.
The R wing and the D wing of The Party have got to go. Time for a second party!

This year’s deficit is $1,400 billion. It’s simple math. Let’s cut $1,400 billion this fiscal year to get to a balanced budget.
Then let’s adopt a plan to pay off the $14.3 Trillion debt over the next 20 years without raising taxes.
We need serious fearless politicians. The kind that are career political jokes.

GOD! Why don’t Republicans quit being scared and just cut what they said they would! Especially DEFUND OBAMACARE! If the socialist democrats won’t do it then let the government SHUT DOWN! Republicans won’t be blamed! Democrats will!!! Defund Obamacare NOW!

14+ TRILLIONS of dollars in debt. All FEDERAL & STATES EMPLOYES take a 30% paycut, and then lay off 60%.
Than shot down the governments for six months , no pay.

We have a annual deficit of $1,650B this year. They are proposing to only cut 33B.
The Republicans are cowards and the Democrats are delusional.
What a combination.

100 Billion or shut down.

NOT ENOUGH! This will not fly….not what we voted for last November.
The people said CUTBACK, they mean CUTBACK.

One thing. If the goverment is shut down do we save any money? If the answer is yes then let’s shut it down for the next two years

Stop the foolish,decade long wars we started, make mulit national corporations actually pay taxes like I do and the deficit is solved. Then we start to slow spending over a decade to address debt

OK, here’s the REAL MATH to show how ridiculously stupid this “cut” is. Using the Government’s math, this $66b cut is equivalent to the following:
Say your INCOME is $50,000/year (average household income in the USA).
Compared to how the US runs in a deficit, your annual SPENDING is $101,626/year.
Compared to how the US runs its national debt, your TOTAL CREDIT CARD DEBT is $323,181.
And compared to this budget cut, you’d be CUTTING A PALTRY $750/year from your annual spending.
YOU’D STILL BE SPENDING MORE THAN TWICE YOUR INCOME EVERY YEAR. Does that seem responsible? You’re making $50k, spending $100k and have credit card debt over $325k. And the BEST YOU CAN DO IS SAVE $60/MONTH?
These people realize that we’re all stupid!

If your still spending more than your earning you’re not really cutting anything! I wish I could run my budget like that! Hell, they’re only doing what Bernie Madoff did but get to enjoy the full benefit of their economic crimes against the taxpayer with no worries of paying for it!!!!! Arrest them all!

No compromise! Screw Em’!

I hope they shut down the government for weeks!! Shutting it down for just one week will save more than $33 billion!! I can live without getting mail for a week! How bout you?

GEORGE WASHINGTON | MAR 30, 2011 6:55:21 PM
…..The senate can’t even agree to cut .13% of the budget. If it is the small deal that some of you say, just sign the bill and move on. To me, its the principle of doing what one says they will (unlike some in the White House who say 1 thing and do the opposite).

@ CHOLLAND (1) If you eliminated the entire civilian workforce, you’d still only put a tiny dent in the $3trillion plus figure. (2) I recently retired out of the federal system, and contrary to what shows up in the press, the vast majority are earning no more than civilian counterparts, often less. (3) With 30 years, a graduate degree, and retiring at one of the higher pay grades, my “outlandish” retirement is $1756 per month. Federal employees go to work just like most Americans, and most (not all, I know – I was there, I saw it) do a decent to outstanding job at what they’re assigned. They have families to feed, house, and otherwise support just like you do. And after 30 years the “generous” retirement that will set them for life is a media myth, unless you consider less than 1/3 (including benefits) of final salary to be outrageous as retirement pay. Why not some of the whole DEPARTMENTS proposed by Reagan, such as Education? How about ending wars that will gain the US nothing but MAYBE some oil, and a lot of animosity and debt? Yes, soldiers would then have to find jobs, but perhaps we could be more productive as a nation altogether. Study your facts before typing idiocy.

Time to identify and support primary candidates to defeat John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell and quite a few other RINOs. There are some great military retirees, such as Peter Pace and Tommy Franks who should move into these districts and get involved, just like Allen West did. This will help cull the presidential candidates early in 12 and send Gingrich, Romney and Huckabee a clear message we don’t want them.

The problem the House Republicans have is that the Democrats still control the Senate AND the White House. Therefore there will be no significant cuts in spending. Period. In fact it sure looks like B.O. will do his best to make sure that there is even MORE spending and borrowing.

At C.R.
I don’t have any problem with govenment employees making a fair wage. The only problem is, is that there is TOO DAMN MANY OF YOU!!!!

STOP this debt ceiling for going any further.
$60 billion is a drop in the bucket!
WE must cut more!

Bring our troops home from all three middle eastern countries and place them on our borders to PROTECT THE US CITIZENS from invasion!
That will cut the spending!
Bring our boys and girls home!
Get rid of illegal aliens that suck the taxes right out of our pockets!

@KEEP — ending the wars today doesn’t come close to balancing this year’s budget.

Still not enough. Lets get some real cuts of 100B-500B or more now.Plus some of the programs need to be eliminated.

I hope the House Republicans vote this deal down and then shut it down! Enough is enough!

I don’t think the democrats will allow anything to really be cut until something terrible happens to us. The republicans still dont have enough control….We are borrowing 40cents of every dollar yet they (the dems) wine incessantly at each and every little cut! They are going to ruin us no matter what! They already have.

Put an incentive pay plan together for Congress. The more they cut the more pay they get. Complete job security if they get us back to a balanced budget.
Give em five years to get there. If not, they all go.

Sheeez, didn’t these so called Republicans hear the people…we need WAY BIGGER cuts.

GOP….
Can’t cut out Obamacare funding?
Shut ‘er Down!
Can’t cut out Planned Parenthood funding?
Shut ‘er Down!
Can’t cut EPA funding?
Shut ‘er Down!
Cant’ cut FCC funding?
Shut ‘er Down!
Can’t get Border Security because the Socialists are holding it hostage for Amnesty?
Shut ‘er Down!
Can’t get a balanced Budget from Obamaland?
Don’t raise the debt limit, Shut ‘er Down!
And if you can’t do any of these things, then you are going home in 2012. Count on it!
We sent you help in Nov 2010 to do these things, NOT watch you capitulate. Better wise up!

Its all a load. We have a very long way to go to wrestle these crooks out of DC.They very well may destroy our way of life before we get them out.
Teach your self and your kids some basic skills like starting a small garden,how to do home repairs,cook meals instead of going out. Find things to do with them that cost little or no money. Dads – make some beer. In tough times those with homebrew will do well.

Replace the Republican leadership NOW.

Any shutdown would be for non-essential government workers.
My questions is: why do we have non-essential government workers in the first place?

Democrats are destructive, disruptive, irresponsible and just down right liars. They had control of the finances of this country since 2007 and look where we are. If anything proves their total incompetence, it is those years the last three years. But in 2008 we went warp speed; they failed to balance last year’s budget while having complete control. Now they blame every body but themselves for a shutdown. This is not a party it’s a criminal organization that would make Al Capone a boy scout. SHUT IT DOWN we know who to blame.

Well, we turned over part of the republican party, now it looks like more replacements needed next election and just take it over.

WE NEED to raise taxes to 45% for ALL Americans. Problem solved!

A 10% across the board cut of all persons receiving tax payer money is a good start. We all share the burden. Government employees, congress people, the executive branch, medicare, social security, medicaid and all government programs. Eliminate NPR, Planned Parenthood funding, UN funding, foriegn aid etc, etc. We could balance the budget in several years with a 10% cut each year for 5 years.

I used to be dis guested with the actions of the democrats. Now I’m disguised with the actions of the republicans.
Apparently there is no need to worry and everything is just wonderful in DC!

Shut it down so the democrats can’t spend any more of our taxes…….make them budget for a change.

As long as the 40% who receive some sort of government benefit in this country continue to vote for
Democrats, who will sell the country down the river for votes and power, we are doomed. Keep electing Democrats and watch your country evaporate.

$33BN is just a rounding error in view of the total debt. What a joke! A lot more people are going to be hurt because the democrats think they can spend their way out of debt and the Republicans are so afraid the press will help their cronies
in Congress pin the blame on them. I hope the voting public catches on, because there’s more pain for everyone coming without significant cuts being made now.

Stop the foolishness. We voted for drastic cuts and this is a joke? The Republicans promised $100 million, and that’s what we expect. Start with foreign aid, but just “do it”. If not we’ll get some people in who will before China forces us to.

That’s not a “deal,” that’s capitulation, plain and simple. Obama himself said it best back in 2006: “… raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.” What we have right now is not leadership or government in any meaningful sense of the words … so why NOT shut it down?

Folks need to make up their mind. Do we truly want to get out of debt? Or just find a scapegoat and punish them? If we really want to get our fiscal house in order, we need to fix the entitlement programs, which account for the overwhelming majority of our budget/debt, and we need to raise taxes. Once we get out of this mountain of debt, then we can lower taxes as long as we cut spending to balance it out. I’m all for cutting government, but that alone won’t put a dent in our debt. We’ve had our cake and eaten it for too long. You can’t fight multiple wars, cut taxes, and expect the debt to do anything other than soar.
As for govt shutdown, do you really want to see our troops fighting for our freedom, putting their lives on the line, while not getting paid, and putting their family in trouble? During a government shutdown, mission essential folks still work, they just work for free.

Hey we are only in 1 actual war..one is a humanitarian mission and the other is a protection force like Japan, Korea, Germany, etc. Either way it still costs money. Why don’t we just do this: Cut everything back to 2005 levels, everything was running well then and no old people were eating dog food.. that is unless they were saving their money for the casino or cigarettes. As to the jobs question how has the picture been since the Republicans ( mostly Tea Party folks) took over the house and Obama has been stalled ?? hmmm

You people just kill me. You have been sold a bill of goods. Your enemy is not the Federal employee but you have bought into the whole class warfare thing by Fox News and Glen Beck. The only difference is that you have been trained to hate the Federal employee not the rich. The rich guys are Glen Beck (rich) and Shawn Hanity (rich) and George Soros (really rich). The guys you should really hate are lawyers, especially trial lawyers. Everything you pay more for is because of a lawyer. Gas,food, medicine, houses and government services is because of a lawsuit. Your president was and is a lawyer. Don’t throw a government employee under the bus (unless he/she is a lawyer), throw a lawyer instead.
Anything that you can imagine from gas prices to insurance prices is due to a court case that ended in a mega million dollar settlement. The lawyer got at least half.
ASK your REP or SEN about contributions from trial lawyers. Dems and Reps both get them (tons of money). They just don’t want you to know it. They offer you class warfare. Don’t be a useful idiot to your party. ASK THE QUESTION ABOUT DONATIONS FRON TRIAL LAWYERS!!!!!

This is an absolute joke..The deficit is 1.65 trillion (or 1650 billion to make an easy comparison) so now they will cut 33 billion from the 1650 billion…that is roughly 2 percent of the annual deficit (which doesnt even touch the 14,000 billion TOTAL debt, or touch the unfunded liabilityies of 50 trillion..THIS IS A DISGRACE

SHUT IT DOWN!!!!
SHUT IT DOWN!!!!

@ JD ZACK
All these pet projects you speak of are peanuts. To make any significant holes in the deficit the government needs to tackle the big three. Defense, Medicare, and Social Security. All talks about budget cuts are useless without starting here first.

Shutting down the government would be a good start to balancing the budget.

Welp, if this deal is true, just means we’ve got a whole lot more people to kick the hell out of office in two years. Can’t wait to see all these idiots patting themselves on the back, tripping all over themselves to say how wonderful this is…
When we all know the deficit for the month of Feb is STAGGERING in comparison to this measly 30 billion. This is all just a big waste of time.

About a week ago, there was a report that we had gone 5 Billion in debt in 1 single day. SHUT HER DOWN!!!

The responsible thing would have been to let the tax cuts for the top 2% expire.

Government Shut-Down” is a total misnomer. Let’s call it what it is, another paid vacation for government employees. They ALWAYS retroactively get paid for all the days that they don’t show up for work during “shut-downs”. A bill should be passed that NO federal employee ever be paid during “Government Shut-downs”. No more of this crap of them being retroactively being paid once the “shut-down” is over.

I am always amazed at the remarks some folks make. Shutting down the government sounds cute, but that is not going to help anyone. Our leaders need to sit down and compromise. The Tea Party is one point of view, but there are other points of view out there to be considered. We need a long term strategy to lower debt and increase revenue to solve our budget problems. We do not need ill informed folks who suggest that shutting the government down is a good idea. We will not solve this problem in one year or one decade. Wake up and smell the coffee folks.

These comments are hilarious.
Conservatives have found Jesus and his name fiscal responsibility. When was the last time a conservative government in this country didn’t increase the deficit? Clinton had a surplus. A SURPLUS!!!! Within three years we were in debt. Every two years conservatives promise to reign in spending, make the hard decisions. Then they get the power and do nothing but go after their political enemies, cut access to women’s health in the name of religion, hand out more weapons while enriching the rich.
What? You voters thought those tough acting commercials were real. They still don’t like you.
You got what you voted for. A war on the middle class.

The power still goes to the dems. And if it were my money, hell yeah I’d take and I would continue to take out for the next century. Last I heard: Reid is holding it up in the Senate..then it goes to the house for cuts…and then back to the Senate and finally to the president. It’s been in the Senate forevar. That process should be changed. :) LOL
Once you cut it, it does not come back in the out years. Well that’s how it use to work.
I laugh when I see people saying that’s nothing…that sort of statement sends the wrong message…the fat lady hasn’t been seen.
Good on yah, now go back get some more. We are coming up on a new fiscal year. It begins Oct 2010. They have to re-hash all of this over again.
Then you have over 100B in seed money for the HC act to pull over and check out.

Republicans don’t have to cut a dime. All they have to do is NOT raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately, Republicans are no different than Democrats when it comes to deficit spending.

P.S. Maybe raising taxes on the super rich, would help a bit.

Let’s dispel a myth too, shall we? The US isn’t $14T in debt. Including the States, it’s a QUARTER QUADRILLION DOLLARS upside down when you include all unpaid obligations at all levels.
This is debt that will never be paid. The budget isn’t broken a tenth as much as the monetary system is.
Let’s wake up, people. They’re ruining us on purpose. It creates dependents.

Cut more.
A partial government shutdown is OK.
Eliminate funding for ObamaCare, NPR, PBS, NEA, Planned Parenthood, United Nations (an anti-USA organization), and so much more.

Why is that when budget cuts are proposed, Republicans never include military spending in that equation? It is always social spending they want to cut. Until Republicans are serious about cutting military spending (we spend more than the next 20 militaries combined), then they are the ones who are not serious about getting the budget under control. Military spending is nothing more than a tax payer subsidized job program for the military industrial complex.

Who let the creeps onto this thread?
All the need for spending cuts is one big lie, save for the need to cut defense spending.
Deficit problem? Roll back the renewed “Bush” tax cuts.
End of problem.

Sorry JD Zach, but our country’s deficit and debt is not, at present, causing harm to the economy. It starts to hurt economic output when it crowds out private investment by making it more expensive for private businesses to borrow money and create jobs with it. This happens through a rise in the interest rates that businesses are charged to borrow money and do create things with it. The current interest rates are extremely low.
The claim that our deficit and debt are dragging down our economy is simply wrong.

Given the dismal track record of Obama and his JOB KILLING policies, may have to wait until November 2012 to finish cleaning house and QUIT THE OBAMA INCOME REDISTRIBUTION, and OBAMA WASTE!
OBAMA IS AFFLICTED WITH THE:
FIRE!
GET READY!
AND FINALLY,
AIM! Syndrome
Then blame others for the sad situation they put themselves in!
At what time do you anticipate his cabinet stars bailing on him? Has anything worked that he has tried??
*Stimulus? (WOULD KEEP US A 8% UNEMPLOYMENT!!!!)
*Cash for Clunkers?
*TARP (Where do we stand on AIG??)
*Cabinet selection (those who do not pay taxes!)?
*Three dozen czars?
*Professor Gates ‘Teachable Moment’?
*Olympic Bid Disaster?
*GITMO?
*Iran & north Korea?
*Jerking DEFEAT from the JAWS OF VICTORY in Iraq and Afghanstan?
* and why did he receive the Nobel Peace Prize again??
*Had a super majority in the Senate and House, and what GOOD did he accomplish??
*Why the reluctance to call TERROR — TERROR? (Ft Hood Mass Murders; Christmas Day Bomber; Times Sq Bomber)
*Activist Justice Department suing a state for trying to protect their borders; suing a school district for not permitting a math teacher for going on a three week trip to Saudi Arabia during the school year?
* Why an open door policy to the unions? MORE MONEY?
*The NYC Mosque fiasco?
*Holding his award ceremony for the most ‘TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION IN HISTORY’ in SECRET on March 30?
*The acquittal of Ahmed Ghailani on all but one of more than 280 criminal charges?
* And now Libya! He makes John Kerry appear as a very deliberate and considered leader who accomplished sound homework prior to making a decision, but THEN STICKS BY IT?
Where would we be were it not for the IRON SKIRTS — Hillary, Powers, and Rice??? It is so apparent now that Obama does not have a clue! DANGEROUS!

No one would notice a shutdown. The bills still get paid as Federal workers stay home and the worthless paper money is torn in sheets hot off the Treasury printing press. The media would have to hunt down one shelter where they say they may have to serve less bowl of gruel.

These comments remind me of Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming”: “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
I realize that most of you commenting don’t know who Yeats was, but I’ll leave you to figure out which one you are.

That’s it! Given the size of the debt, I can only image where $33 billion fits in. More specifically … how many days does it cover the interest?

Let’s see, who was putting 0% down on a $500k house? We the People.

The last 3 Republican presidents and pary are responsible for about 90% of the USA debt. Regan – is their hero for raising taxes 3 times. The Bush dictatorship was responsible for the invation and occupation – with no plan and going on 10+ years at a cost of no less than 3 Trillion. The newly elected majority Repubs had not passed one single bill to help create jobs and have instead pushed for and approved major changes that will raise the dept by over $1 trillion. They oppose affordable health care that would benefit the majority of americans and so and so on and so on. Not sure why some people still believe the Republican spin/lies on everything. Go figure.

my god…30 billion in cuts when we average 70 billion in deficit spending DAILY. our country is in trouble. time for MAJOR cuts, education, energy, HHS, PLEEZ. if illinois is willing to overlook smoking risk to allow smoking in casinos, time to make major cuts to save this country. we arre in desperate times

Boehner over. Time to dust off my Tea Party flag. Time for real conservatives to assemble and demand a new leader in the House. Bachman comes to mind, but we can work on that later. Time to stand up for Liberty!

MauiBucky
You are obviously a Democrat because you have no concept of Economics or Fiscal Policy. Every dollar the Gov’t takes, lessens how much the Private Sector can put into the investments that create jobs. The Empty Suit & his minions are trying to sell us their Green nonsense which will keep us in debt & do nothing to pull the economy out of the doldrums.

Right ON ED M When D Eisenhower was Prez. the top 2% payed 92%.

Just sent an email last night to my Republican senator and congressman to hold firm to the $100 million campaign promise. Received in the mail tonight an invite to a minimum $1000 per couple fund raiser for them. Now I read of this “compromise” (sell-out?). Guess where the invite went?

I find it very encouraging that so many tea partiers posting here are ready to turn on the Republicans. How exactly is the House supposed to cut funding for “Obamacare” when it can’t pass the Senate? Republicans won’t take 60 seats in the Senate for–well, ever. What are you guys going to do when Obama wins reelection in 2012 and Democrats retake the House?

The best way to cut the deficit is to shut down the Federal government. Shut down Planned Parenthood, PBS, The Dept of Education, The Dept of Energy. Shut it all down!

Obamas Health care act is helping hundreds of thousands of children not be rejected for a pre-existing condition. It also is helping thousands of college students look for work while they stay on their parents insurance. Whats the problem with that?

Business is dependent on the Federal Government. If there is no agreement:
Shutdown air traffic – commercial and private. Shutdown the ports.
If they still have not surrendered unconditionally, two weeks later shut down the Postal Service.
Imagine the turmoil if Patents and Copyright were no longer enforced by the Government!
Business is *more* dependent on Government than people realize. Call the Republican’s bluff.
Those who think this budget impasse cannot be solved: just remember that 10 years ago Clinton left office with “Budget surpluses as far as the eye can see”.
Something went horribly wrong after Mr. Clinton. Start by fixing THAT!

Republicans talk tough to get elected but where are they when it counts? At the public trough rubbing their snouts in the garbage they’ve made of our life’s work, right alongside the Dems. Unfortunately, it will have to get much worse before it gets better. Only a sufficient amount of misery will motivate the apathetic worms we’ve become.

John B:
It is time to show your balls. The only person who is showing leadership here is Michelle Bachman. I want $100B in cuts, and also cut the dollars that were passed for Obamacare. Why is Michelle Bachman the only one showing courage. JB – lead or get out of the way. You are the man in the area. Take the stage or exit right and let Michelle Bachman take over. She has Titanium ……… fill in the blanks.

Will all of yu take a deep breath and chill for a moment. I am so shocked at how little you know. Please listen to more than one side of the story and try and make a statement that makes some sense. Being a devoded Dem I am also concerned about the debt, but with all the time it took to get into this mess, I think it will take more time to get out of it.
Please check history and see that this is not the fault of Obama. Gees with two wars and the near crash the R’s caused let’s all try be less political, come together as Americans and try to get through this as patience in the key to success.
By the way Obama is a great Prez and he will succeed. History will be kind to him. How about taking a look at his coolness and compare it to yout foolishness as your talkings are getting very old.
Are you guys suffering byers remorse?

Dems leak “we have a deal” to George when there is no deal.
Then they leak to George the “Republicans backed out because of the extreme tea party element”.
Does anyone believe this anymore?
40 cents on every dollar people. 40 cents on every dollar. 33 billion don’t cut it.

Agree on how much to spend first.. and allocate the agreed upon number.. like the real world does it.

How about our military gets paid and the big wigs try living on a budget with less then 6 digits… That might be a good idea!!

Must be the same people posting here using different names. Not one person suggesting we make the corporations pay their taxes? If we do that, problem solved. Start with GE that paid $0 taxes last year, and shipped 1000′s of jobs overseas. Don’t ask me to pay for them, I don’t think you want to subsidize them either. Think.

Here is some breaking news to all u idiots who aren’t capable of doing some very basic research, its bush that put us in this shithole of an economy and a lot of the deficit. Remember the illegal wars, the tax cuts where we got bread crumbs and the top 1 per cent got everything, and how about the 600 billion Medicare prescription drug reform which was a bunch of bs. Bush spent because he was completely bought and paid for by the rich, but sure u guys go after the guy who has to clean up the mess. If you don’t agree with how Obama is handling the economy today then why don’t you read a book or two on what happened before and after the great depression. Learn a little before you start criticizing.

Saddle the horse Ma, I’m going into town.

In 2010 our federal government spent almost $2.9 trillion dollars. That’s 2,900 billion. Almost half of it is deficit. Now congress, who is addicted to the hope that the American people are stupid, has labored hard and come up with $33 billion in cuts. That’s 1.1% of last year’s spending and a whopping 2.2% of the deficit in 2010. That leaves our deficit at almost 98% of where it was. I for one, want every last soul in the house, senate, and the executive branch that stands for election gone in 2012. No picking who you like or who you don’t like. It will take a huge message from the people to make sure they know who runs the show. This action by congress is an insult to my intelligence. They’re not serious and these clowns are never going to get serious. You can take that to the bank.

I’m amazed that ALL the comments on this site (abcnews.com no less!) are sick of the lack of effort by either party in dealing with our financial mess. Even the Daily Kooks crowd can’t support this.

What a joke! Trillions in debt and the best these clowns can do is cut $33 billion? Throw out all the bums – Dems and Repubs and start over. Maybe we can elect folks who will do what they promise they’ll do like starting with $100 billion!

Or we could just encourage the currently Republican House to refuse to raise the debt limit! No Senate necessary! Then Congress would have a whole new playing field with real-world rules (Can’t spend more than you take in)! This would be REAL REFORM!
Contact your rep today and give them marching orders: NO MORE DEBT!!

Let’s face it. The only thing that will solve the problem of the deficit and the debt is to raise taxes primarily on the 2% of the people in this country that control 50% of the wealth and make responsible cuts to the budget. A lot of people commenting on this board don’t honestly know what the government does for them. Let it shut down and they’ll be complaining about the missing government services. Most people don’t remember the shut down in 1995/1996 so they don’t have a clue of the consequences.

As for the Democrats…they continue to operate in la la land…total fantasy world of non-stop spending. And for the Republicans…you just lost me for good. I have been a life-long Republican. Because the Republicans DID NOT KEEP TO THEIR PROMISE TO CUT AT LEAST $100 BILLION…I hereby RENOUNCE my status and will be officially no longer a registered Republican. I began moving toward becoming an Independent voter during the 2nd Bush 43 term. NOW IT IS OFFICIAL! Hear that Republican leadership! YOU LOST ME! You are just as much a part of the problem as the Democrats. I expected more and got the same old, same old. Now there are two parties in America…DEM/REPUBS is the first and the TEA PARTY Conservatives is the second. I now officially belong to the latter. Good riddance to the two-headed hydra with one body that is working together to drown the USA in debt for good. You are clowns and shamelessly reckless with your positions of power. Corrupt to the core. You have ruined what was a great and noble empire. It has become a house of cards that is now without question going to fall. This was our last chance to stop insolvency. You blew it.

Good lord you people are all sheep. Only in America can you be convinced that cutting Programs that are beneficial to you is favorable to pulling out of useless wars and keeping tax cuts for the wealthy and mega-corporations intact.

They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Let’s start at cutting every possible position that is not required to either defend the country or required by the Constitution.
Vote them all the hell out in 2012.
And continue until they get the message that they work for us, not the other way around.

Wanna cut some spending? Start with oil and gas subsidies and finish with the arms dealer DOD guys. Oh yeah and why don’t we tax those rich corporations while we’re at it! Cutting planned parenthood just shows how un-conservative they really are.

wow. I’ve wandered into a tea party. And, it’s quite mad, to boot.
No wonder your approval rating is dropping like an anchor from a helicopter. Few of you poster have Any idea, at all, what you’re talking about. We’ve got troops in at least two wars and you want to shut down the financial operations of the united states of america??
Lunacy!

what a joke. time to replace yet more politicians who just don’t get it…..

Its not progress – its congress. Pros and cons are opposite. Quit spending ALL the money we don’t have…

Wake up people! These cuts are another GOP attempt to destroy the middle class. Remember not long ago when they famously said that deficits don’t matter?

I would like to think that the shutdown was averted because even the Republicunning finally realized how badly this would reflect on them. But I am not that optimistic.

Like so many intelligent comments above, I whole-heartedly agree – make meaningful cuts or face not being re-elected. No more increases to the debt ceiling while we’re at it. We are borrowing $4 Billion a day! (someone correct me if I’m wrong here). To cut $33 Billion is nonsense.

They republicans had control of congress from 1994 until 2007. That’s 12 years. in jan of 01 william jefferson clinton handed gw bush and the republicans a balanced budget and a projected surplus. Afghan, Iraq, Medicare part d, no child left behind, two tax cuts (at a time of war, no less). For the last decade all these policies have been in effect. None of them however have been paid for. None!
Yet, you voted for these people en masse to “solve” the debt and deficit problem. How delusional does one have to be??

OK, George, lets start here with the budget. Every congressman and senator need to make minimum wage. No free anything like meals, insurance, transportation, vacations,nothing. Let them pay their rent out of the minimum wage, their food, child care, insurance, gas and what we the poor people have to pay. Lets get our oil from the US and tell the rice oil barrons WE DO NOT NEED THEM!!. LETS GET OUR PRODUCE FROM THE AMERICANS THAT SLAVE TO RAISE PRODUCE AND THEN FIND OUT – UH OH, THE STORES
ARE BUYING FROM MEXICO SO THEY CANNOT SELL ALL THEY WORKED SO HARD FOR. Yes, that is a good start. Leave SS alone, we have worked for years to put into that, it’s ours and nobody has asked us if they can use or spend it. Of course it would help to quit giving it to every drunk and drug addict, and all illegals that have never put a dime in it and don’t deserve it.
Middle class America? Where are they? They have been robbed as well as lied to till you are either rich or poor and believe me there are more poor. I never hear anything about them – oh yes, we need to take away more and let them be poorer.
So lets be fair and start at the ones who can sit and gab and argue. Anyone on the street can do that and we don’t need a huge education to make us blind, or greedy and take away from the Americans that really need it.

I am in full agreement that this is drop in the bucket. For political sake, I feel that the Repubs should take this offer if and only if the cuts are real and not fluff. Next week, for the 2012, budget Paul Ryan is going release his plan for reforming Taxes, Medicare, and Social security. Lets keep our powder dry until then. This will be our fight for the 2012 campaign. Don’t get discouraged, this is only the beginning!

Balanced budget: Revenue = Expenses
Why can’t we cut expenses and raise taxes?
Why are we only looking at one side of the equation.
Over the last 30 years, when taxes have been cut Deficits and our debt have risen…
Reagan Cut taxes –> Deficits & Debt Increased significantly…
Bush 43 Cut taxes –> Deficits & Debt increased significantly…
Obama reauthorized Bush 43 tax cuts and the Deficits increased…
Raise taxes and our budget gets to balance…
Clinton is the only President with a balance and surplus budget in the last 30 years. It happened after he raised taxes…

Hi Folks, Congrats to all for at least paying attention, which more than the vast majority of Americans do. That being said, there are a lot of folks commenting here who could do with some history. In 1980, at the end of Mr. Carter’s only term, our National Debt was just under $1 Trillion (depending on if you use 1980 dollars or 2011 dollars). Every administration, both Dems and Repubs, had worked to pay down our WW2 debt since 1946. Carter was largely flat. Then came Mr. Reagan. “Deficits don’t matter.” Remember that? National Debt went from $1 Trillion to $4T. Under Mr. Bush (1), we went to $6T. To give him credit, he tried to do something about it and his base voted for Ross Perot as thanks and we got Mr. Clinton. Clinton took us from approx. $6T and climbing to $6T and falling. Then came Mr. Bush (2), who declared two wars of choice and whose Repub. House and Senate raised Domestic Dicretionary spending by 1/3, all while cutting taxes mostly for the Rich. And passed Medicare Part D, the largest unfunded entitlement since the 1960s. So under Mr. Bush (2) we went from $6T and falling to $12T and flying outa sight. And you folks think electing Repubs is going to fix this. Just amazing. We used to have thoughtful Repubs but they appear to be extinct. William F. Buckley would weep to see the Tea Party folks. If you want to really fix this, close tax loopholes for giant corporations and lower their tax rate so they DO pay say 20% rather than NOT paying 35%. (Corporations used to pay 35% of the total taxes, today they pay 5%. You & I are paying the rest now.) Roll back the Bush Tax cuts for a start. Take a meat axe to the DOD. Do not cut poverty programs — they are the only thing keeping us from a Double Dip recession, as poor folks spend every nickel they get. If we have massive government cuts it will be 1936-37 all over again. So please, more reading, less trolling. My 2 cents…

James-
You got to be kidding. Reagan cut taxes and the revenues increase dramatically over the next ten years, but when the congress see money coming in they just spend more. So when Clinton raised taxes did that balance the budget? Bush lowered taxes, but he had us in two wars and he gave us the Medicare prescription drug plan. SPEND, SPEND SPEND needs to STOP, STOP STOP!!! Obama wont stop either. 1 Trillion in Stimulus. My GOD.

I hate to raise this, but if the house voted to cut 60 billion, 100 billion, 300 billion, etc., it’s dead on arrival in the senate. And if by some miracle, repubs picked up enough dem votes in the senate, it would be vetoed when it reached Brack’s desk.

Well, here we go again. Limp… is an often used expression for Republicans. Wow! $33 billion. What is that as a % or the total? .00000001% Wow! Boy that is on the very edge. Good for the Republicans they sure drive a hard bargain.

HA HA HA!!!!
Read the comments board Boehner! These are YOUR people, and they think the road to the promised land rides through screwing the American people in a govt. shutdown. If you don’t do it, they’re coming after you. If you do shut it down, the rest of us will.
Hey though, these nut cases are only about 20% of the population, so you might think you’re safe going with a compromise and some propagandist BS to quell ‘the base’. Don’t you believe it. They’re also the least rational people in the country and they have the most guns! Hell hath no fury like the ‘Boiling’ tea!

This is laughable. Our government trying to frame 30 Billion, 50 Billion or 100 Billion as being significant is absolutely ridiculous. The so called choice we have in this puppet government is between a $1.4 trillion in overspedning and 1.3trillion in overspending… thats the difference between (R) and (D).

Let’s see.
necessary cuts (deficit) = 1600 billion
actual cuts = 33 billion
Shut ‘er down.

You people need to understand that if we cut too much right now, it’s going to significantly stall the economic revovery, which will only exacerbate the debt because the most effective way to slash the debt is for a robust economic revovery. A strong economy will result in higher levels of revenue coming into the government because more people are working, and thus paying more in taxes. This increased revenue will go much further to getting the debt under control than deep cuts will.

Quick history lesson. Massive government spending during World War II lifted the country out of the Great Depression. Spending cuts put the nation back into recession in 1937 and 1938 as it was climbing out of the Great Depression. In the 1950s spending on projects such as the Interstate Highway program led to economic prosperity in the 1950s. When the wealthy control a disproportionate amount of wealth and income the economy suffers as is the case today was the case in 1929 and during the worst times of the Gilded Age.

Rand Paul’s plan makes sense; sadly these sackless RINOs can’t manage an appreciable fraction of it.

Most posters here seem to have forgotten what is actually under discussion at the present moment: namely a continuing resolution to fund the government for the remaining portion of the fiscal year 2011, which ends September 30, 2011.
That means that only half the annual expenditures are on the table, and of those only discretionary non-security expenditures are being discussed by either party. The total in the proposed budget for these expenditure was $496 billion, of which only one half remains to be spent. The cuts are then to be
measured against the $248 million in discretionary non-security that remains.
A cut of $33 billion would be more than 13%— to be absorbed in the space of six months. Anyone who has worked with budgets for a large organization knows that a cut that size is enormously difficult and the effects uncertain. A cut of $100 billion would mean a reduction of 40% and is simply not possible under any circumstances.
Congress should pass this continuing resolution and get on to consideration of the proposed 2012 budget where they will have more time and more flexibility. Even that budget will not bring the large changes necessary to reduce the deficit since they involve serious policy issues that cannot be dismissed out of hand as so many here want to do.

Gutless, craven, GOP cowardice! If they– UNBELIEVABLY– can’t even defund the $105B “seed” money which will allow the StalinCare atrocity to metasticize, it’s third party time, since the GOP Quislings obviously aren’t even remotely serious about restoring fiscal sanity and freedom to this country after the extreme left’s reign of terror.

Our congress is filled with morons who cant balance a checkbook. Shame on them all.

Why do all republicans want to cut everything that helps real Americans in their time of need, but never even bring up cutting the $787 Billion dollars we spend a year on defense? Really? The clowns in Washington want to cut $33 Billion from the budget aye? Why not triple that to $100 Billion and still have a $687 Billion dollar defense budget? Or even better lets cut that to $300 Billion and save ourselves $387 Billion dollars a year? That’s 1.2 Trillion dollars every 3 years…We balance the budget in short order and still spend more on defense than ANYONE else in the WORLD!!!! Why is that challenging?

Let’s see GE made $14+ billion profit, didn’t pay a penny in taxes, got $3 billion back. Meanwhile the CEO had his salary doubled and paid billions in bonuses. Same story with the majority of Fortune 500 companies. Why not a minimum tax on corporations. And make it illegal to hide profits in foreign countries so they don’t get taxed. Microsoft is hiding billions in other countries to avoid paying taxes. What about all those companies who register their corporate headquarters as a PO Box in the Cayman Islands, keep their profits (even those earned in the US) overseas and pay no taxes? Minimum tax, close the loophose and that’s $200 billion a year extra. Raise the tax rates for those earning over $1 million a year to what they were under Clinton and you’ll add another $50 billion a year. So, there $250 billion without having to cut programs that help the poor. Oh, cut the $1,000,000,000,000 (that’s a trillion) dollar defense budge by 10% and that’s another $100 million. There, I just raised $350 billion in revenue. But people in Congress are paid by these people, so they’ll never go against them. They are a bunch of hypocrites. They know exactly how to more than balance the budget without having to hurt poor people. But their paymaster won’t agree.

Don’t you people get it!!! Obama wants the Government to shut down. WHY, becuaue then he can tell the country that Republicans have shut down the Government. This was the tactic Clinton used, when the government was shut down 1986, not quite sure about the date. The Reps. thought that a shut down would really hurt Clinton,but it back fired on the reps. Clinton blamed the Rep. for the shut down and was re-eleected. I hate Obama and I know something is up his sleeve.

I would like to know what do you expect
them to do when don’t have control over the senate. The Dems won’t cave in. This is only
last years budget that the Dems never passed.
In a few weeks Paul Ryan will have the bill on
floor for the budget. Just wait, and then make a judgement!
BTW.. Boehner got the bill passed in the house.
He has no control over the senate!
Don’t forget Obama has a veto pen and he will
use it!

When the “moderate” GOP reps start their campaigns in 2012….. I hope they remember how they “caved” to prevent a “government shutdown” — actually, I would LIKE a government shutdown for about six months… it would save a LOT of money!!!!

General Electric paid no taxes in 2010 but made $14.2 billion in worldwide profits, $5.1 billion of which was made in America, and paid $0 in taxes. We tax payers gave them tax benefits of $3.2 billion, thanks anti-tax lobbying efforts and offshore tax haven.
Exxon Mobil paid $0 taxes in 2009 and got refunds of $156 million.
Bank of America, recording a profit of $4.4 billion, paid $0 taxes and received a $1.9 billion rebate.
Chevron made $10 billion in 2009, paid $0 taxes, and got a $19 million refund.
Citigroup paid $0 taxes despite after earning more than $4 billion, despite getting a sizeable chunk of the taxpayer-f¬unded bailout.
Two thirds of American corps pay $0 tax but take in billions in refunds; OUR tax dollars—republicans AND democrats.
WHY are we cutting programs that will keep people alive (such as cutting $6 million to Meals on Wheels to the elderly, etc) and education programs that will give us a strong future before we ever begin to talk about the elephant in the room—the corporations, their lobbyist that purchase legislation, and a govt that allows it?
Where is the patriotism of the corporations? Need a talk with Uncle Sam? You want roads and transportation to move your products, an educated work force, and consumers to purchase, right? Don’t kill your own country. Call off your lobbyists and help your country now. YOU are our answer!

After reading about what is going on in Congress, it is quite apparent that the Republicans are not listening any more than the Democrats did. Time to wake up and listen to the people and make CUTS nor cuts. If Boehner can’t handle it, send him off into the corner to cry and put someone in charge who is not afraid to take a strong position. Boehner is a weak leader and deserves to be removed from his position.

General Electric paid no taxes in 2010 but made $14.2 billion in worldwide profits, $5.1 billion of which was made in America, and paid $0 in taxes. We tax payers gave them tax benefits of $3.2 billion, thanks anti-tax lobbying efforts and offshore tax haven.
Exxon Mobil paid $0 taxes in 2009 and got refunds of $156 million.
Bank of America, recording a profit of $4.4 billion, paid $0 taxes and received a $1.9 billion rebate.
Chevron made $10 billion in 2009, paid $0 taxes, and got a $19 million refund.
Citigroup paid $0 taxes despite after earning more than $4 billion, despite getting a sizeable chunk of the taxpayer-f­¬unded bailout.
Two thirds of American corps pay $0 tax but take in billions in refunds; OUR tax dollars—re­publicans AND democrats.
WHY are we cutting programs that will keep people alive (such as cutting $6 million to Meals on Wheels to the elderly, etc) and education programs that will give us a strong future before we ever begin to talk about the elephant in the room—the corporatio­ns, their lobbyist that purchase legislatio­n, and a govt that allows it?
Where is the patriotism of the corporatio­ns? Need a talk with Uncle Sam? You want roads and transporta­tion to move your products, an educated work force, and consumers to purchase, right? Don’t kill your own country. Call off your lobbyists and help your country now. YOU are our answer!

Yes, that’s just what this country needs, more cuts. Hell let’s layoff every public employee. Hey unemployement’s high? Let’s make it higher. It’s not like we need police or fire fighters or teachers or people to clean our parks and fix our roads. Hell, they’re lucky they even have a job and they’d be lucky to have that job tell they die. Who needs money to retire on? And shoot, i hate having clean water and breathing relatively clean air. And having my garbage picked up? Eff that. And parks? we don’t need no stinkin parks. They just places for them lybral commies to go do drugs in. We should just build more housing on those cestpools. I mean we are running out of houses to put peple in right?
You people are off your rockers. You do realize we did not get out of the great depression by making cuts and blancing the budget right? You know, we spent our way out of it. Go read a book!

What journalistic fantasy. the story line hinges around one fact only that the budget negotiators met and Biden called George to let him know he was going to make an appearance to fowl mouth the progress the rest is just assumption and hyperbole, damned near fiction Read between the lines and syphon the facts then the truth falls between.

Well if this is true then I think democrats and republicans need to be refreshed, these ones do not get it. Someone hit f5

_____Gutless, craven, GOP cowardice! If they– UNBELIEVABLY– can’t even defund the $105B “seed” money which will allow the StalinCare atrocity to metasticize, it’s third party time, since the GOP Quislings obviously aren’t even remotely serious about restoring fiscal sanity and freedom to this country after the extreme left’s reign of terror._________George Bush belonged to an “extreme left’s reign of terror?” How did I miss that?

More Rinos have to be replaced.,,Bohner and Canter are at the top of the list.

Any economist will tell you that a recession is when you SPEND money. That’s how you get out of a recession more quickly. And a good chunk of our debt is because Obama finally put Iraq and Afghanistan on budget. Bush financed both wars and didn’t even put them on the books. You want lower taxes and less spending, take a look at your precious Ireland. Lowest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world and by the end of next week the entire banking industry will be socialized, meaning instead of bailing out the banks and getting paid back with interest like we did, the government will literally own the banks. Think of the US Government owning BofA, Citibank, etc. Inform yourselves.

President Coolidge deeply cut spending and taxes in the early 1920′s and almost instantly turned his Depression (as they called them back then) into the economically booming Roaring Twenties. U.S. printing money to pay for enormous deficits and artificially suppressing interest rates just sets up a higher amplitude for the next boom/bust cycle. I guarantee it will be a doozy. If Ireland’s banks operated conservatively instead of liberally they wouldn’t be in as deep a mess. That goes for the US too.

Only in Washington, D.C. is $33 billion considered “good enough”. We are broke. We need to be slashing hundreds of billions of dollars just to break even this year. We need to be throwing millions of people off of the welfare state this year. There is tons of waste, fraud and abuse out there. Obama’s Justice Department stated on “60 Minutes” that there is $70 billion in fraudulent Medicare billing going on annually. Cut the budget!!

The democrats are not serious about spending or anything else in America’s interst.
George S., you LIED for Clinton all those years, as a ‘journ’o'list-er’ you are not credible.

save America
and
SHUT IT DOWN … DOWN …. DOWN

If the government shuts down, many people lose their income…ok, put aside all of the politicians that make too much. I’m talking about our military servicemembers…they will still be REQUIRED to report for duty regardless of whether or not they receive pay. What does that do for those families? What about those still serving to defend our country. A government shutdown has enormous repercussions!

No increase in the Debt Limit without Balanced Budget Amendment…

If Rand Paul could single handedly come up with 500 billion in cuts, you would think that the Republicans could at least get a 100 billion out of this process. 33 billion in cuts is an insult. Shut it down if that’s the best that can be done, and keep it shut until the hundred billion is reached.

How about we make a deal with the Japanese that all of our aid to them be paid back by giving back to us the IOU’s they have from us?

Time to replace republicans that lack performance.

You Republicans are playing with fire.
We will not forget. And YOU WILL BE PRIMARIED.
You can count on it!

That’s it! Cut planned Prenthood, and go to UN-planned parenthood, with young girls making the mistake, with the guy that REALLY loves her, and spending the rest of their lives getting assistance, but that is all the girls fault, so she shouldn’t get any help. Right??? The Republicans who do this don’t look any further than the anti-abortion vote, while cutting all assistance to ideas like making the least wrong choice. They don’t look at the new-born infant who ends up in a garbage can, or the unwanted, neglecteed kid, of an alcoholic parent, because that is one of the entitlements they are trying to get rid of, along with educational help for the young girl who made the mistake. Cut the funding for Obama-care, so that health care can get worse, with more people staying unemployed to at least get Medicaid, and the medical community can continue to grow richer(which will happen no matter what). LOOK AT THE REAL ANSWERS INSTEAD OF FEEDING THE PROBLEM! IT’S COMMON SENSE, but that is trumped by greed, and ignorance.

@”sensible” (last night’s 6:30 post)…LOL…if you think for one minute that this country can be “run” like you do your household budgert..then you are NOT following your “posting handle” and being….LOL…LOL…In any event I am certainly glad that you are not one of our Congreemen or women. LOL…LOL But representatives who “think” like that…are certainly part of the problem now.

Anyone who thinks the Republicans can squeeze more out of the absolutely worthless, corrupt and incompetent Democrats is delusional. They have the Senate and Barry in the Oval Office.
The real fight is in 2012. The American people were not serious about deficit reduction in 2010, otherwise the Senate would not be in Democrat hands.
Keep your eye on the ball.

A history of Republican “fiscal conservatism”
National Debt balance the month that Reagan took office (Jan ’81)=$935 billion.
Reagan and a Republican Senate take control (Jan ’81 to Jan ’87), and the balance MORE THAN DOUBLES to $2.2 Trillion. (205 years to get to $935 billion, and only 6 years to double that balance under “fiscal conservative” Republicans).
National Debt balance, the month that both houses of the congress are controlled by Republicans (Jan ’95)=$4 Trillion. 12 years later, while “fiscal conservatives” control both houses of congress, the balance again doubles to $8 trillion.
LOL….looks like some ignorant voters are got fooled by the Republicans again!

it would be better to shut it down and stop the republians from killing this country!

You have got to be kidding me. Only 33 Billion. There is no more money…and now it’s time to stick with a balanced budget. Screw the compromise. It’s time to cut up the credit cards and live within our means. It will be painful, no doubt. We, as Americans, have been through tough times before and we’ll get through this patch. We all need to just get a stiff uppper lib and gut this thing out. We are out of time!

33B is a joke and an insult to the people who put the house in power.
Ron Paul wants 500B and that is what most of us want for a start. We are going to have to replace many more dems and RINOs in 2012 with Tea Party people who mean business.
Whimps.

Start laying off Federal Employees. That will save billions.

This is as weak as it gets. Obama is spending a 100 million a day in the Lybian war and they cut this measley amount. How about the 105 billion for Obama care implementation for starters, defund half of government agencies that overlap each other. Time to call Boehner’s offivce and let him know he is a failure.
If this was bush or a republian president everyone would be saying bomb baby bomb. as for health care, end the two wars and you would have the money for free health care in this country also stop buying jet engines at a cost of 3.5 billion dollars without cost over runs that the air force doesn’t want, last year thanks to the republians the navy bought 10 new war ships at like 2 billion each less cost over runs, there is yrou money for free health care in this country. Time to get rid of the republian party and the tea party!!!

well come 2012, we will vote these sluggs out to , we will find someone with enough guts to save this country….shut the goverment down until we can cut 500 billion from the budget,,we need real leaders not these smucks….

You people make me laugh, the cuts are insignificant and all you talk about is replacing this group for another of the same on the ballot box. You keep voting the same snakes over and over again, when are you going to realise the whole system is a complete scam.

All or nothing. That means shutting down the government, so what!

Folks, the joke Republican leadership understands that HUGE cuts in the budget = cuts in government jobs and cuts in government contracts… Woah!… cuts in “government contracts” (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, SAIC, General Dynamics, KBR, etc.)….. LOL!
Do you really think that Republicans are going to apply cuts to all those campaign contributors that have contract jobs in their states and districts? These Republicans aren’t stupid. They put on a “big show” for the common folks to vote for them, because they realize that the common folk “don’t know much” about all these government contracts.
They also know the effects that budget cuts will have on contractor jobs, which will ultimately affect their communities.
Lots of “show” from those Republicans, but America, you’re being fooled again by these guys. You can count on it.

Lipstick on a pig. What more evidence is needed to realize that the U.S. is headed for unprecedented disaster? There is ZERO political ability to turn the Titanic. The iceburg is in sight. The iceburg will be hit. This ship is going to sink.

Its a start but certainly not a good start, 33 billion in the face of our debt is a joke. Where is our spineless president (accepting some award somewhere)
He should be leading the charge for massive cuts, but barry can’t be found when it comes to important matters of state. Soros hasn’t pick up the phone and called barry to tell him what to do or maybe he has, and told barry to say nothing.

Oh, shut the government down…who cares…we could all use a break from the scheming banter!

STILL HAVE TO MANY RINOS IN ,GUESS THE REPUBLICANS STILL DONT GET..2012 TRY A NEW BATCH….

Kick every democrat out!.
Kick out RINO republcians as well.
This is just the start.
Tea Party keep replacing these losers with people serious about spending cuts!

Come on! You can cut WAY more than this and you better do it before the dollar is worth absolutely NOTHING!! And STOP PRINTING WORTHLESS PAPER MONEY while you’re at it!!

Cutting the recently enacted $400B in welfare for the rich would seem to be a good place to start.

Is anyone in COngress going through the GAO report that said we could save about $1trillion by simply getting rid of the duplication of laws and regulation and the waste that accompanies it? Probably not, it would make sense, save more money, stream line regulations, and make government more efficient.

I am all for cutting the budget and such I just don’t want to see the shutdown since it means enlisted military wont be receiving paychecks. Like the rest of you guys we have a car payment (we are a one car family) to make and need to buy groceries etc….

This is annoying.. It’s the republicans fault we are in all of this debt anyways. I don’t like Obama but it’s not his fault. The government spending got out of control because of Bush. He stood up the Department of Homeland Security and the TSA. Dissolve those agencies. Unscrew all the Bush era tax cuts, bring all our troops home from the wars started by Bush and that’ll balance the budget. I’m a proud independent. Down with the bickering two party system that is deviding this country!!!

You all must remember that for all the excess there are still vital and essential functions that need to be funded. The armed services are all questioning whether or not they are going to be paid in April. If no budget is agreed to then you could very well have someone on the frontlines fighting with no pay. It is easy to say to shut it down if you are not employed by the government or contract to the govt. If anything at all the defense funding needs to be separated from the regular budget so that this doesn’t happen. There are thousands of contractors and govt employees who being furloughed right now. These things have ramifications for the economy as you will see thousands more applications for unemployment and look for an already tight job market.

Cutting 33 Billion from a deficit of 1,600 Billion. What a JOKE. 2%… TWO PERCENT ?
We are doomed as a Country

Like dropping a pebble in the Pacific. You aren’t going to get a tidal wave of deficit reduction.

Give Schumer his prize, call their bluff and let the “Extremist” Democratic Socialist Party shut it down.
Don’t believe their bogey-man scare tactics. Essential services will continue and only the Govt workers get hurt temporarily – so send’em home, until we get the cuts needed to balance spending/revenues, like all of us taxpayers do in our homes! For proof of their “scary tactic” lies see it here:http://truthandcons.blogspot.com/
at the second headline: “Looming government shutdown anarchy?”
Defeat the Socialists – expose them for who/what they are and vote’em out in 2012. Don’t let them “fundamentally change (ruin)” OUR country, as BOgus said he would! Shut it down, send’em home & vote’em out!

Want to cut $100 billion from the budget? De-fund Iraq and Afghanistan or at least don’t put it in the budget and use budget supplementals like the Bushies did. We got into this hole because of Bush’s tax cuts and continue to bleed money because of them. Bush refused to pay for his wars, Medicare part D and everything else like an irresponsible child while refusing to roll back any of his tax cuts.

I’m sick to death of this. But I can’t say I didn’t see it coming. The upper echelon of BOTH parties are working together in an unholy alliance to either knowingly or negligently bankrupt this country.
How many times have I heard it said that this isn’t an argument about or between Red & Blue? We sit here day after day, year after year, cheering on our respective sides and nothing ever changes. The only logical conclusion is that the problem cannot be fixed if we attack it in the same manner. Insanity, Einstein said, is repeating the same action over and over again and expecting a different result. Well, we are either insane or we are being manipulated. Our enemy is NOT the other guy across the aisle and is not even the upper echelon of either party. Our enemy is…the Federal Reserve. The upper echelon of the parties ascends to power and remains in power at the behest of and is continuously beholden to the Federal Reserve. Dismantle this monstrosity and power will, once again, be restored to the people. Until then, we’re just jousting wind mills.

Isay this we need to vote out obama and get some HONEST men and women in our goverment to over see this country or hell will fill the streets and people will walk on dead bodies of elderly and disabled folks who have done nothing wrong but be born into a world of unjust government that is not to big to fail it has failed it’s citizens and the next time a public official shows his face look hard to see the honesty if there is none there is one less to vote for unjust corrupt and cheating us all is our government we are that spot on earth called hell let the bombs fall bulletts fly all to washington dc and take it over in a civil war it is what this country needs and has needed for a long time