I like when Obama takes a firm stand on something... like this remark to the Business Roundtable...
“You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt.”
Walter L Newton wrote: I like when Obama takes a firm stand on something... like this remark to the Business Roundtable...
“You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt.”
And I just LOVE this one from 2006:
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
Walter L Newton wrote: I like when Obama takes a firm stand on something... like this remark to the Business Roundtable...
“You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt.”
And I just LOVE this one from 2006:
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
Let's see what the right-wing-gun-toting-bible-thumping Washington Post has to say about Obama's statement “You have never seen in the history of the United States the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and nothing to do with the debt.”
The Fact Checker
Clearly, Obama’s sweeping statement does not stand up to scrutiny, even with his caveat. Time and again, lawmakers have used the “must-pass” nature of the debt limit to force changes in unrelated laws. Often, the effort fails — as the GOP drive to repeal Obamacare almost certainly will. But Kowalcky and LeLoup speculate that one reason why Congress has not eliminated the debt limit, despite the political problems it poses, is because lawmakers enjoy the leverage it provides against the executive branch.
Yes and, the sheeple apparently don't care if the man they elected and re-elected lies directly to them while he and the Dumbocrats take away their freedoms "for their own good". Anyone who points out the contradictions is a racist contrarian. If the collective "we" want to sit in their own filth I say let them, at some point maybe it'll dawn on them that the declining state of our Republic needs to be corrected.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
It's not Bush's fault, it's Reagan's. What is funny is how hard these guys will fight for their rich overseers while they go further and further into indentured servitude.
towermonkey wrote: It's not Bush's fault, it's Reagan's. What is funny is how hard these guys will fight for their rich overseers while they go further and further into indentured servitude.
Wow! Reagan was last in power in 1988 and probably was senile by then but decades later he is still wielding more power than Obama, the current POTUS. Viva La Reagan! So our votes haven't counted for the last couple decades?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
Since Reagan was in power, there has been a huge migration of wealth from the many to the few. You just keep on defending your indentured servitude Fred.
You don't think that might have more to do with the 3rd World becoming the developing world? Think as India and China outbid domestic manufacturing for the world's business, our wages wouldn't stagnate?
I am sure lefties were complaining about indetured servitude in the 50's and 60's too.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
