Comments on: Obama Tells Journalists To Stress "Significant" Nature Of Budget Cuts

[boosterprez1]

I never mentioned Bush you did. And never said I was a liberal. I just want to know which REPUBLICAN cut $17 billion dollars from a budget.
Posted by Maddog10

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1. While you never mentioned Bush by name, you implied him when you said that Obama wasn't responsible for the debt (which was actually a budget)

2. You must be a liberal because a conservative would never defend Obama's spending.

3. And if you've never heard about a REpublican trying to cut $17 billion out of anything, you didn't look very hard.

[whosaid1]

Go ahead liberal press....let him write it....WE are not surprised at anything this Chicago lawyer and his thugs attempt to do...

[specialty8]

Obama has a lot of nerve, but then again some people would buy a space ship if he told them to fly to the moon. He won't sleep tonight wondering if he can keep control over the media that put him in there. More damage control will show up tomorrow, maybe a free lunch or tickets to the Oprah show.

[nandrelli]

A lot of people have already said this, but I just want to chime in as well.

For the President of the United States to be telling the press what to emphasize in their reports, and for the press to not jump up and take him to task on that, is scary on several points. I shows 0bama to be extremely arrogant, the press to be totally subservient, and indicates the tyrannical occupation of our country by this phony is well underway.

Let's see if any of the MSM reports indicate any kind of push-back in tomorrow's papers / TV newscasts. I kind of doubt it.

[specialty8]

Now that is keeping the promise of being fiscal responsible!

[Maddog10]

I never mentioned Bush you did. And never said I was a liberal. I just want to know which REPUBLICAN cut $17 billion dollars from a budget.

[boosterprez1]

I know $17 billion is a lot when looking at the $3.55 trillion of debt. However Obama did not create the entire $3.55 trillion woth of debt, and which republican do you know that has cut $17 billion dollars out of any budget.
Posted by Maddog10

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The $3.5 trillion is not a debt number, it's a budget number....OBAMA'S Budget number for FY2010...Bush has absolutely NOTHING TO DO WITH Obama's budget.

Why must you liberals constantly inject Bush into your litany of whining????

Bush is ancient history now....the budget, the wars, the economy - Obama now owns ALL OF IT.

[Maddog10]

I know $17 billion is a lot when looking at the $3.55 trillion of debt. However Obama did not create the entire $3.55 trillion woth of debt, and which republican do you know that has cut $17 billion dollars out of any budget.

[stephand]

Suddenly $17B is a lot of money and very important. Are these the same guys that told us it was nothing when they approved a bunch of earmarks? Unbelievable!

[rbstrcklnd]

Thug.

[jimmyc1955]

I find it alarming that Obama is telling the media how to spin his story - as if they somehow are part of his propoganda machine.

He will do a Clinton when the press starts running negative stories - he will complain about unfair press coverage.

This $17B is pure PR and totally useless in terms of controlling spending. Cut the pork/stimulus spending and you can save almost $600 Billion. But then how would the dems pay back all their constiuents without that vast sea of earmarks and pork spending. Murtha is going to get a new something named after him - sure as heck.

[endurorob]

"It is important, though, for all of you, as you're writing up these stories, to recognize that $17 billion taken out of our discretionary, non-defense budget, as well as portions of our defense budget, are significant," he said. "They mean something." (Here's the White House report on the cuts.)


He is now trying to directly tell the press what to emphasize in their articles.

[endurorob]

Every one knows that the military, federal, and state agencies purchase non essential items at the end of the budget year. "we have to spend this money"
Posted by tcato-2009 at 10:07 AM : May 7, 2009

Yes they do because they are left no choice. If they don't spend all their budget not only are they required to return what they don't use their next years budget is decraesed by that same anoutn and they run the risk of having a budget shortfall.

[whitemale08]

WE DON'T WANT YOU TO 'CUT' ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR THE BAILOUTS TO WARREN BUFFET AT GOLDMAN SUCKS!

[1notrub11]

Clarification to previous post - try making 5% cuts, not 0.5% or less. Hard? I doubt that seriously, if the general public is doing it, why not the govt with our tax dollars?

[endurorob]

$17B is a lot of money no matter how you look at it but so is the $63B he wants to give to the WHO. So is the over $3B that Chrysler is going to default on and we are going to give them another $4.7B loan after that.

[1notrub11]

"Obama budget cut of $17 billion is less than 1/2 of 1% of the entire $3.55 trillion FY10 budget

Point made - these people need to do better than this. The rest of us are going to have to, if we havent already - try at least 5%.

[tcato-2009]

I think the Govornment needs to do is get rid of annual USE IT OR LOSE IT FUNDING. The funding should carry over for 2 - 4 years. It would prevent Major waste from Federal, State, and Local agencies. It would also allow the agencies to compound mulitple years funding to come up with better solutions and have emergency money. Every one knows that the military, federal, and state agencies purchase non essential items at the end of the budget year. "we have to spend this money"