Are you fucking kidding me?

Go read the rest of Wirecutter's rant at Knuckledraggin my life away. He makes a lot of very good points. obama asks, no demands, that we get back on a path that will pay down our debt. This is the same asshole that forced obamacare on us. The single biggest piece of economy killing, job killing legislation ever devised. The same asshole that has increased our debt by 5 TRILLION DOLLARS in half a term as president. The very same asshole that wants to tax the very businesses that employ millions of hard working Americans.

obama would like for you to believe that the Republicans are some how responsible for the mess we are in. That's great, it just isn't true. Before the 2010 elections, the democrats controlled the purse strings for about four years. And let's also remember that democrats controlled the house, the senate and the presidency for the first two years of obama's term.

While all of us out here in the real world have had to tighten our belts, washington has remained on a massive spending spree. They have no regard for the effects their actions have on us, or that our children's children will be paying the price or their recklessness for many years to come.

Keep this in mind when obama talks about Republicans starving Grandma and denying sick children needed care, if entitlement spending isn't brought under control NOW, there will be no money for entitlements for ANYONE in the very near future. We can't continue down this path and obama has no plan except to tax us further and play stupid accounting shadow games. Smoke and mirrors will not fix our economy...

By Wirecutter - Knuckledraggin my life away

"We have to live within our means, reduce our deficit and get back on a path that will allow us to pay down our debt," the president said in a speech at George Washington University a few blocks from the White House. - barrack hussein obama

Live within our means? What in the FUCK do you know about living within my means? Any means?

Motherfucker, my bills are constantly one month behind and one jump ahead of a final notice. I shop for clothes at a thrift shop. I buy my tires at a used tire shop. I grow food in my backyard and not because I enjoy doing it. I keep the fish I catch to eat and you have no idea how much that hurts me - I can no longer afford to practice catch and release. I clip coupons. My heat in the house is non-existent (thank God I live in a somewhat temperate climate) and I don't even consider AC until it's above 90 degrees inside. Meat on the weekends is a fucking luxury as is dinner most nights, and yes I have had popcorn for dinner, you bastard. My TV service was cancelled by me months ago and I dearly miss it at times. Coyote hunting? Yeah right. Not so far this year.

And I make 23 bucks a fucking hour here in in Kalifornia. Seriously.

Obama, one week of your lifestyle would give me and my garden-sharing neighbors a life of luxury for a fucking year...

Obama Throws Down Gauntlet on Tax Hikes, Republicans Blast Deficit Plan

There is so much wrong with what obama said today that I don't even know where to begin.

Let's start with the obvious, obama is a socialist dumbass who wants to make our Country into Europe. Which is funny because Europe doesn't even want to be Europe anymore.

Another obvious point, well, obvious to anyone with half a brain, we DON'T HAVE A REVENUE PROBLEM, WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM. Why do democrats absolutely refuse to see that you can't spend money you don't have? Many of them are wealthy, so maybe in their personal lives they can spend and spend and never run out of cash. It's not the case for our Country, and they are SPENDING OUR MONEY, not their own.

If obama thinks that taxing small business owners is a good idea, he is even more stupid than I thought, and that's pretty damn stupid. Our economy will never grow, people will never be enticed into starting a business and hiring people as long as democrats keep up this anti-business agenda.

Entitlement spending in this Country is out of control. It has been for a long time. Everyone knows it but nobody, until Paul Ryan, wants to address it. Passing it on to the next bunch has been the way to do it for far too long.

obama thinks that kicking the Republicans in the nuts hard and often is the way to bipartisan legislation? He really is out of touch with reality. His fantasy world is dragging our Country further and further from the path set out by our Founding Fathers. He doesn't give a damn about the Constitution. He proves that almost daily.

I don't know if anyone has addressed the duplicate and triplicate programs that were pointed out a month or so ago, but that would be easy pickings toward reducing spending. If we were to halt all aid to corrupt countries, there is another bunch of money. Haiti and North Korea are examples of this. The governments are so corrupt that any aid money we send them goes right into the bank accounts of the corrupt leaders.

How about all the money we give to mexico to help fight the never ending drug war? Again, it is lining the pockets of corrupt government officials and their flunkies.

At some point, all of these associations need to be examined or we will continue to send American tax dollars to places that it does no good. The tax dollars would be better used here, fixing our own problems.

obama needs to get a taste of reality. If he can't or won't, he needs to hire a czar with some sense, somebody that isn't a thug and isn't from chicago...

From FoxNews

President Obama, outlining his latest deficit-reduction proposal, called Wednesday for both parties to work together to balance the budget and put America on a path toward paying down its debt. But the address left both sides digging in on one crucial issue -- taxes.

In a case of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object, Obama said he absolutely would not allow tax cuts for those making above $250,000 to be extended.

Republicans said they absolutely would not accept a new tax hike. "Any plan that starts with job-destroying tax hikes is a non-starter," House Speaker John Boehner said in a written statement.

Based on the response of Republican members of Congress -- as well as several likely presidential candidates -- the address may have served to inflame the debate rather than reset it. Tax hikes weren't the only plank in Obama's budget plan, but they generated the most criticism.

"The only concrete proposal that he proposed was raising taxes," House GOP Leader Eric Cantor said afterward. "That solution falls far short of dealing with the kind of crisis that we're facing."

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., skewered the president's address, accusing him of "exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety."

The response previewed a grueling battle as both parties prepare to trudge through a new set of budget issues in the months ahead. The speech also served as an opening argument for the 2012 campaign, and Obama drew a clear line between his long-term budget plan and Republicans'.

In the speech at George Washington University, he positioned his spending plan as a more "compassionate" alternative to one introduced last week by Ryan. He applauded Republicans for putting a plan on the table to address entitlements, but the praise stopped there.

"The way this plan achieves those goals would lead to a fundamentally different America than the one we've known certainly in my lifetime," Obama said, calling the GOP plan "deeply pessimistic." He suggested Republicans were giving up on basic functions of government.

"It's a vision that says if our roads crumble and our bridges collapse, we can't afford to fix them. If there are bright young Americans who have the drive and the will but not the money to go to college, we can't afford to send them," Obama said of the Republican plan. "It's a vision that says America can't afford to keep the promise we've made to care for our seniors."

The president claimed his proposal would cut $4 trillion from the deficit in 12 years or less. He drew several lines in the sand as he explained how he planned to get there.

Accusing Republicans of cutting services to seniors and poor children while cutting taxes for the rich, Obama said: "That's not right, and that's not going to happen as long as I'm president."

The president's proposal would deal with entitlements like Medicare and Medicaid, but avoid the major changes being pushed by Ryan. The president opposes turning Medicaid into a block-grant program for states and making Medicare seniors purchase government-subsidized insurance, as Ryan proposed. Rather, he vowed to make other changes he claims will extract more than $300 billion in savings from those programs over the next decade. Plus he pushed cuts in discretionary spending, including to defense.

But where Obama departed most sharply from Republicans was his call for rolling back the Bush tax cuts for the most well-off Americans -- meaning a tax hike for households making more than $250,000, or the top 2 percent of wage-earners. Republicans and Democrats had agreed to extend all the Bush tax cuts for two years, but Obama said Wednesday, "I refuse to renew them again" for the top tier.

"The most fortunate among us can afford to pay a little more. I don't need another tax cut," he said.

Republicans have roundly opposed a tax hike for anyone and condemned the proposal, before and after the speech.

"The last thing we should be doing is raising taxes on job-creators, entrepreneurs and small business owners across America," former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a likely presidential candidate, said in a statement.

Ryan said he was "very disappointed" with the president, calling his speech "excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate and hopelessly inadequate."

"What we heard today was a political broadside from our campaigner in chief," Ryan said. "Rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells."

Read the rest at the link above...

Obama to Congressional Leaders: Hurry Up and Strike a Budget Deal

What do you bet Boehner folds again? This guy has way less balls than I thought. He is in a very good position right now. He doesn't have to compromise. He should be able to force the democrats to make some REAL spending cuts. He won't though.

I about half hope there is a shutdown. As long as the government is shutdown there is a lot less stupid spending going on. And if the government does shut down, it will be the fault of both parties. The democrats will try to spin it as unwillingness on the part of Republicans to make a compromise, but really it will be the unwillingness of the democrats to make real spending cuts in an out of control government...

From FoxNews

President obama told the leaders of the House and Senate on Saturday to hurry up and strike a deal on the budget to avoid a government shutdown next weekend, the White House said.

obama made separate calls to House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, urging them to "reach a final solution and avoid a government shutdown that would be harmful to our economic recovery," the White House said in a readout of the call.

Negotiators are discussing spending cuts in the $33 billion range but haven't agreed on where to make them. Talks were continuing through the weekend. Funding for the government expires at midnight Friday.

Boehner is under pressure from Tea Party-backed conservatives to not compromise after the GOP-led House passed a budget bill in February that cuts $61 billion from current spending levels.

During the phone call, Boehner "reminded the president that there is no 'deal' or agreement on a final number, and he will continue to push for the largest possible spending cuts," Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said.