Article

2009-11-03 Economy

Obama Says U.S. Must Reduce Debt, Spur Job Growth

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred 2009-11-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 He will try to cut debt by raising taxes and gutting the military.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2009-11-03 04:17|| 2009-11-03 04:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Your Honor, I ask for mercy for the crime of murdering my parents because I'm an orphan.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-11-03 06:52|| 2009-11-03 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Personally, I think there's enough now to call for impeachment. However, by the time the majority shifts in both Houses next November, I believe it will not only be too late to stop the damage being created, but that Republicans won't have the stomach for it.
Stock your cellars...hard times a'comin...
Blame your liberal neighbor.
The endgame of all this MUST be to destroy social liberalism, or at least marginalized as much as communism was the past 25 years in this country.
On the positive, every day that passes is another discredit to the social liberal concept and counter-arguments coming from idiots.

Posted by logi_cal 2009-11-03 09:59|| 2009-11-03 09:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Stop printing money?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-11-03 10:02|| 2009-11-03 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 It is quite impressive how Obama! can say one thing and do another - but not in a good way. Three more years to go.

Posted by SteveS 2009-11-03 12:37|| 2009-11-03 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Allow people to keep their money. People will spend money, which redistributes wealth into business and stimulates the economy. Remove FU taxes.

Cap unemployment/welfare payouts. A person can only receive so much assistance within a certain period of time.

Forcing banks to make questionable loans removes the ability of banks to make loans to entreprenuers, small businesses. People and Businesses must prove they are worthy of such loans because banks must make a profit.

Reduce the role of government involvment in the US economy to being an impartial liason between business and consumer.

Government interference in the market artificially changes prices, making the necessary information for people and organizations to make purchases and investments at best unclear.

Dynanism, if that is a real word, can be encouraged by letting business fail. A failed business does not eliminate the demand which existed but allows others to compete for that business.

While people and businesses are cutting expenses, don't increase the federal spending limit. Create a formulat based on the average income with a 10% lower income and 5% highest income eliminated as outliers; based on the statistic 5 years in the past. A certain percentage of must be used to service debt and interest. Income gained above that budget prediction can be set aside for special government programs outside of the required function of federal government.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-11-03 12:51|| 2009-11-03 12:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Social liberalism? Communism? What's the difference? Oh, that's right, with social liberalism you get another election. So we'll see how things go in 2010 and 2012. What I fear the most is a Chicago style election.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-11-03 12:57|| 2009-11-03 12:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Easy. The idiot in chief and his henchmen in Congress simply need to stop pissing money away like they can print it.

Oh wait, they can.

Screw them. All of em. They're putting my generation in debt forever. Republicans too for not having the balls to stand up and fight this hard and publicly.

For my generation just wait till all those koolaid drinking Obama backing fools realize we just got stuck with the bill for the biggest drunken spending binge in the history of the nation and we didnt get damn thing in exchange instead we lost freedoms and gained parasites.

The thiefs can consider themself lucky our generation other than veterans and a few conservatives has no backbone. That includes usleless doper libertarians who all smack talk and no whack walk. Otherwise they would have to worry about trials and a date with the hangman sooner rather than later. But when we wake up and when we get old enough to start running some things its going to change.

The leaders of this theft had better hope they die of natural causes, because if they live enough we will put them on trial for treason.

The day is coming we will wake up and there will be a reckoning.

Posted by Daffy Chaiger7405 2009-11-03 20:24|| 2009-11-03 20:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't believe anything this guy says or does.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-03 21:48|| 2009-11-03 21:48|| Front Page Top

#10 JohnQC, every word out of his (and his minions') mouth is a lie.

Including the words "a," "and," and "the." >:-(

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-11-03 23:09|| 2009-11-03 23:09|| Front Page Top

23:39 USN, Ret.
23:39 tipper
23:34 USN, Ret.
23:28 tipper
23:24 3dc
23:16 Frank G
23:16 Large Snerong7311
23:15 Mike
23:14 Frank G
23:10 Frank G
23:09 Barbara Skolaut
23:03 Barbara Skolaut
23:00 Mike
22:42 logi_cal
22:27 mojo
22:23 gorb
22:20 gorb
22:16 gorb
22:14 JosephMendiola
22:13 lord garth
22:07 JosephMendiola
22:05 gorb
21:59 Chief
21:57 SteveS
Merry-Go-Blog