majority of Americans want Obama's deficit reduction plan

56% of Americans want the Obama deficit reduction plan including a combination of raising taxes and cutting spending. Only 19% want the Republican plan of simply cutting spending. It is time for the Republicans to listen to the American people, rather than continuing to be tools for the corporations and ultra-wealthy.


"The poll found that 56 percent of Americans want to see a combination of government spending cuts and tax increases included in a deal to bring down the U.S. budget deficit and permit a vote to raise the country's $14.3 trillion debt ceiling.

This is the approach favored by Obama and his fellow Democrats to begin to put America's fiscal house in order."

In the poll, 19 percent said the best approach is only to cut existing programs, and 12 percent said only raising taxes would be the favored solution

The Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 31 percent of respondents held Republican lawmakers responsible for the debt impasse, 21 percent blamed Obama and 9 percent blamed Democratic lawmakers.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/ ... Q220110726

The Republicans were placed there by the people to do exactly what they are doing, put the brakes on the Obama spending train before it derails the nation. The election is over John.

PrintSmith wrote: The Republicans were placed there by the people to do exactly what they are doing, put the brakes on the Obama spending train before it derails the nation. The election is over John.

No, the Republicans were voted in based on their promises that they would focus on "jobs, jobs, jobs". How is that working out Jack.

The American people want the deficit reduced by a combination of spending cuts and closing of tax loopholes for special interests and ultra wealthy. This is tried and true remedy for reducing the deficit as practiced by Clinton which lead to one of the best economies in recent history.

And no one is going to be expanding the job market until Obama is gone from the Oval Office. Since that appears unlikely in the next 18 months, the only remaining option is to halt the destruction his radical ideology is doing to the job market. The best way to accomplish that is to put something in place that permanently caps the amount of national production available for the federal government to spend every year. Doing that one thing will lead to more job creation and a larger expansion of the economy than anything else could or will. That's the focus on jobs the country needs. Not short term government jobs that the rest of the citizens have to pay more in taxes to support, not unconscionable raises for public workers while the rest of the nation takes pay cuts. Obama and the Demoncrats funneled most of the SwindleUs money into protecting themselves while the rest of the nation suffered. That money didn't go into shovel ready infrastructure projects, it went to saving the pay raises for the public employee union members. It didn't benefit the citizens of the states, even though they will be the ones ultimately paying for it, it benefited the voting base of the Democratic Party. Despotism in its finest and purest form.

I guess "jobs" got lost in all that special-interest legislation, and the important stuff like gay marriage, abortion crap, and renaming post offices.

Once again Obama and the Democrats give the people not only what they want but what is best for the country and it's economic future
Once again the Republicans say "not so fast"....we are not going to allow the dems to have a victory here, even if it is what is best for the people and the nation. We will dig in our heels and tell you what you will get. And, we hope it will destroy the economy so you will blame Obama. It's all about US.....not the country!

I'm starting to hope Obama says FU Republicans...
take our offer or else. Then let us default and see how long the Rs keep up the fantasy that they are in charge.Obama and the Ds have gone as far as they should have to to accommodate the Rs....no more!

So the CBO just released the economic analysis of the Boehner plan, and it reduces the deficit at best by $1 billion per year. So much for the $1 trillion cut in spending.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011 ... t-year.php

Higher tax rates and 24% of GDP spending is not in the best interest of the country and its economic future, no matter how many times that lie is repeated it will never be true. A $28 Trillion dollar deficit a decade from now will not be in the best interests of the country and its economic future. A $5 Trillion annual federal budget a decade from now will not be in the best interests of the country and its economic future. The tax potential of the nation is 18% max. Limiting the federal spending to less than this amount will be in the best interest of the country and its economic future. It will stop the devaluation of the national currency, it will allow at least an opportunity for the current principle amount of the debt to be paid down over the course of the next 200 years, neither of which continual federal budgets in excess of 20% will ever do.

But perhaps most important, it will return limits to the power and reach of the federal government that have disappeared over the course of the last 75 years, which is the single objective that will best serve the interests of the country and its economic future.

rofllol :rofl This is the funniest thread ever!!! You libs are frothing at the mouth over nothing!! OBAMA HAS NO PLAN!!! Even his press secretary came out and said so! What is his plan? What is the debt ceiling? What are the spending cuts? How much are they? What are the taxes? How much are they? When do they start? On who? What is the timeline for all of this? What loopholes are closed? Do you know? Of course not!! THERE IS NO PLAN OR BILL FROM OBAMA! You guys are such tools of Obama's. What are the 56% voting yes on? Nothing! A bunch of empty promises that he can't keep just like his campaign in which he broke most of them. And you are going to fall for it again? They need to start taking away voting cards!

Keep it up!! Support his plan of.......... oops there isn't one!!! :rofl rofllol