It is amusing to me that during the campaign, some of the Republicans criticized the President because they thought he was “too European” in his approach to economics. But now they want to impose on the US what failed miserably in Europe and made the economy there much worse. What is wrong with these people?

Lets hope Obama gives them hell and they can call it cuts. No program cuts are available.

I hope President Obama starts by telling Mcconnel and Boehner that his starting point is letting the Bush tax cuts for top 2% expire .

“Dynamic Scoring” equals creative accounting.

No cooking the books, please.

WTFs up with McConnell. He should STFU already

it should be “playing” the Wolds Police Depart6ment

LET BUSH TAX CUT EXPIRE.

So the conservative republican perspective was repudiated by the defeat of Mr. Romney. The Market has recovered substantially from the crash. Shouldn’t our institutional investors, including the States and Federal governments be in a little better shape than four years ago? We’re not still bailing out banks and insurance companies. We’ve ended one war and are winding down another. Can’t we find some loose change somewhere to put towards infrastructure and health care. Or are the fat cats still pushing from the shadows and the People be damned? The re-election of Mr. Obama was a mandate folks. Accept it and move on. Pull you heads out of the sand (or where-ever) and get this country moving again. And, while your at it, suck up and admit that Bush cutting taxes for the wealthy while at the same time going off to two wars was as ill advised a move as any president has ever made. Look, we forgive you and want to start going forward. Is that better? Good grief!

“Austerity” – Is that including their lifetime government pension?

We are a nation that is governed by the people. Right? We “the people” are the “EMPLOYERS” and Congress is made up of “EMPLOYEES”. Therefore, we have a right to cut their “government supported” healthcare benefits. How is it that an employee can cut or even controle what is needed by the employer? If we “the people” allow this farce to continue, then we deserve what mess will be created by the “self serving” GOP in the House. Wake up America! We have a right to demand that the wealthy pay their fair share of the cost to keep our ecconomy healthy. If they realize that we can and will excersize our power as “the people” then, mabe they will began to act like they have some sence.

the DEMS are and want to cut 1 $ trillion from defence spending . thats money that the defence never even asked for . but the GOP ding dongs wanted the ANTI-CHRIST ROMNEY to be in the house and add a $trillion to the defence that thy wasnt asking for . and then a 20% tax cut across the board . ok brain dead GOP ding dongs where was that money going to come from ? the GOP ding dongs are a self-destroying bomb for thisd country . and as soon as thy are out of offices can the country then more foward . look how much money the greedy bastards 2% spent to try to buy the house to get the ANMTI-CHRIST ROMNEY in so he and the GOP ding dongs can start diging the grave for the country . picking up where the dirty Bush left off

The potential consequences of an austerityprogram designed to balance a budget through spending reductions to avoid a modest increase in the tax rate applied to the wealthiest Americans is likely to have the same results as the demands for austerity imposed by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on other European countries. That is, the collapse of the economy, record high unemployment, and social chaos.
Our social programs are not the reason for the problems we are having, Social Security and MEDICARE are funded through FICA taxes, not the general fund. Social Security is not only solvent, it is still running a surplus. MEDICARE does use general funds to offset the consequences of the 2003 Part D reform, but that circumstance is not a major factor or the reason for deficit spending and the accumulation of debt.
The United States government was running a surplus in FY2000, that surplus evaporated as soon as the Bush tax cuts were put in place. Pretending that those tax cuts had nothing to do with the resumption of deficit spending is an outright lie. Those irresponsible tax reductions are the reason receipts are insufficient to cover outlays. To make matters worse, the alleged goal of the tax breaks which are, purportedly, designed to stimulate the economy and create jobs, never came to fruition. Smoke and mirrors, deceit, and greed, facilititated by ineffective regulations and financial controls created a bubble that proved to be as flimsy as a house of cards, and that eventually collapsed on its own weight. If that was not bad enough, it produced one of the most dismal job creation records in modern history.
Republicans want us to ignore the root causes of the fiscal and economic crises we are finally overcoming and, incredibly, continue to insist on the retention and extension of some of the fiscal follies that created the worst recession since the Great Depression.
Nobody is proposing to go back to the tax rates that were in place when President Eisenhower was in office, or even the tax rates we had in the Reagan era. What is being proposed is a modest increase in the tax rate for the wealthiest Americans identical to what was in place when President Clinton was in office. Those tax rates, coupled with the benefits of an unprecedented period of industrial, technological and economic expansion, created a record 23 million new jobs and benefitted every segment of our population, including the wealthy.
Suggesting that the way forward is to balance the budget on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens, seniors and the young, so that multimillionaires and billionaires can continue to enjoy tax breaks that for most of them make little difference in their investment portfolios and plans, is mkorally wrong and economically untenable.

What happened to the pursuit of happiness? Technological progress means more people have to work longer, be less healthy, more poorly educated, fearful of old age, have shorter vacations, have lower paying and unsatisfying jobs while a few get stinking rich and guarentee that their children and grand children will never have to worry and can roam the world looking for a good time and/or easy profits? America defeats communism destroys the arts, public parks, the spirit of the common good and decides the “business model” is the new national religion.

Mitch McConnelland the rest I want to know what is the value of one veterans life? What is the cost to the family of one wounded soldier? These are the real high taxes paid by the poor and middle class. This is the first war in American history where the wealthy have not paid their fair share in terms of both money and blood. They have had 10 years of tax cuts and what have we gotten? The rich owe us at least 10 years of tax increases to pay for what they done to the majority of Americans. Our veterans fought and died for decades so we all could have a good life not just a few lucky ones. God blessed us all and those that received more are asked by God to care and support those that received less. Isn’t that what the Bible says?

When they call SS, Medicare and Medicaid “entitlements” it’s a GOP ploy to make it appear to be a freebie. How free are these if every payroll your paycheck is deducted for these much needed programs?

The joke is that if we followed the GOP stream of consciousness, those payroll deductions wouldn’t support a single program Americans need and want but would rather support a Worry Free Wall Street…freebies like no worries about another crash no matter how reckless their gambling on high risks become, freebies like CEO salaries that NEVER EVER stagnate and their bonuses constantly increase all while the taxes they are supposed to pay don’t. This whining about having to pay ANY taxes by the rich is about enough already. What are we doing? Pandering to a bunch of mentalities who demonize those who are struggling to keep the 1% rich? And just how do the 1% do that if not by lowering their taxes and raising ours to pay our federal bills?

They wouldn’t have the world’s highest CEO salaries if they didn’t budget for them before they pay their corporations bills…These Looters don’t get it. They pay themselves before they pay what they owe and then have the gall to demonize those they’ve stiffed and ripped off because there’s no more money to hand them for tax subsidies and our federal debt continues to grow.

Boehner and McConnell just don’t get it. You can’t reduce taxes to 16% for the highest incomes and then somehow, magically, debt won’t grow. Pay your fair share and shut up already.

John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and their conservative colleagues in the republican controlled House of Representatives know very well that their manifesto was rejected by the voters. The Democratic and President Obama’s Manifesto carried the day and that is why the President won the elections with a huge electoral votes and the majority of the votes. The republican can not expect the President to implement a manifesto on which he was not elected. The republicans should therefore co-operate with the President so that he can implement the manifesto on which he was elected and the conservatives can be seen to serve their voters as well.

There is no point procrastinating on this matter for ever and in so doing keeping the country’ economy on hold indefinately. When these conservative/GOPs stand for elections they promise the voters that they are going to work for them. Since 2011, these people have not been working for the voters otherwise the country wouldn’t be talking of a fiscal cliff. The budget cuts they propose have been tried in Europe including the U.K and they have been found wanting. Europe and the U.K are both in double deep recession from yesterday Friday, the 16th November, 2012. Austerity measures or budget cuts don’t work because they take reduce the consummers purchasing power, as a result spending by consumers is curtailed and businesses start to close down. This is what is happening in Briatain and elsewhere in Europe.

The conservatives/republicans need to get over their bunker mentality and start to co-operate with the Democrats and the President in order to serve the electorate who elected them. If the economy does not improve, the President will take the flack, not the republicans, so they need to understand that it doesn’t do anybody any good by sturbonly holding back on the fedral budget and the other programmes that are meant to benefit the majority of the American people. John Boehner looks like somone who spends all his time drinking whiskey and then he goes to the House drunk. Boehner needs to understand that the country can not be held hostage at their whims for ever. During the mid-term elections in 2014, the GOPs/Tea party extremists will be held responible for any failure in government to deliver its programmes. They will pay a price for their procrastination in the House over the issue of spending and budget cuts and the fiscal cliff.

The Israel- Palestinian crisis is a painful thing to see and to read about. Bibi Netanyau of Israel has been itching for war for quite some time now. This war monger benefits from the raids and incursions into Palestine every time there are elections in Israel. Netanyau labelled Saddam Hussein an unstable leader in the Middle East. As a result George Bush invaded Iraq in the guise of destroying weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which were never there in the first place. Since, then Netanyau has focussed his bellicose language on Iran, labelling the Iranian Leader Ahmed Najahdi an unstable mullah who does not recognise Israel. Netanyau has tried for a long time to get President Obama to attack Iran militarily. President Obama has been reluctant to take American troops to unnecessary wars at the instigation of Bibi Netanyau. This is one of the reasons as to why Netanyau in his bonkers and stupid mentality openly supported and tried to campaign for Romney in the recent US elections. Having failed to get the US President to go to war with Iran, and because the Israel elections are due in January, Netanyau had to find a way of dragging Iran into some kind of conflict with the hope that America will respond. Netanyau sent the ever powerful Air force to assassinate the Hamas military leader so that there could be a crisis and Hamas will be forced to use missiles or rockets which Netanyau can then allege to have been supplied by Iran, which is what, is being said right now. Netanyau is a very unstable and psychopathic person. Over time it has become clear that every time elections are due in Israel Netanyau will start drumming for war, in this way he is seen as a strong leader who defends Israel and gets re-elected time and again. For how long are the Palestinian people going to suffer like this? Palestinians have no organised army because Israel has refused to allow them to have their own Army. They have no Air force or a genuine police force. This is why Netanyahu’s forces always find it easy to make incursions into Gaza or even the West Bank. World Leaders need to take the Bull by the horns and say enough is enough, and bring these two sides together to agree on a formula for Palestinian Statehood. The United Kingdom as a former colonial master should take a lead in this matter and persuade the US to support a UN resolution to solve this Middle East crisis once and for all. Israel should be prevailed upon to withdraw its force and to stop illegal settlements from Palestinian occupied territories. The basis of any future peace agreement should be based on the 1967 borders, so that Palestinians can have back some of their homeland back. Britain was the architect of all of these problems in the Middle East and should take a leading role in any negotiations between these two peoples. Israel should not be allowed to descend its military mighty on a defenceless people of Palestine year after year killing and maiming innocent children, women and the elderly in the name of removing rockets threat from the Gaza strip or even the West bank.

I worked 47 years and payed out over $300,000. in FICA taxes. I am now retired and due to bad times since 2008 live entirely on SSI. I will never love long enough to collect all that I paid into this Insurance policy.
This self funded Institution is not a barging chip Mr President. I will not accept any cuts into this program, that I paid into all my working life in order to have what It promised me , Safety from poverty in my old age.

The Republicans are off track again. “Folks (conservatives) in the House are not going to compromise their principles because a Democrat-crafted and media-driven narrative told them to do so.” The reason they should bend is that they lost the election to a citizenry who did not approve of their thinking, and how they did their job. It is quite obvious that these conservatives don’t care about the American people or the harm they are causing their party.

I pay plenty of taxes and will be willing to pay my fair share to cut the deficit, but not if the millionaires get by with murder.

Obamanomics 2.0. Raise taxes on “rich” Americans, give taxpayer money to the unions and Acorn for their vote in 2016. America deserves Democrat leadership.