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2011-01-24 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 I suspect he will propose some hare-brained scheme that preys on ignorance.

Posted by gorb 2011-01-24 00:57|| 2011-01-24 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 ..will focus on reducing the nation's deficit and creating jobs in the United States.

The only way to really cut the deficit is to cut spending, not playing accounting tricks like cutting imagined increases. The only way to create jobs without new programs and spending is to cut regulatory obstructions and governmental overhead that adds costs, shutdown the endless legal challenges to new works, curtail tort farming, and end the use of unreasonable and impossible standards for air, water, and species preservation. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Instead we'll be handed another Con job selling swamp land in Florida.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-24 07:26|| 2011-01-24 07:26|| Front Page Top

#3 Meanwhile, back in the real world:
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-01-24 09:21|| 2011-01-24 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 What a bunch of BS. Yeah, he'll probably make a push for more Green, Union jobs. He isn't going to do anything that's actually good for the economy and he certainly isn't going to cut Federal spending. I mean, what's he going to say, everything I've worked for and spoke about up until this point was a joke?

Posted by Jefferson 2011-01-24 12:48|| 2011-01-24 12:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Midnight ~~Basketball~~ Golf

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-24 15:17|| 2011-01-24 15:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Why does this remind me of a fat man talking about the need to cut back on his eating habits at an all-you-can-eat buffet?

Posted by DarthVader 2011-01-24 17:40|| 2011-01-24 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Touche, Darth. Or a dude who first bellied up to the buffet seven times, then sprinkles sweet and low in his coffee.

Posted by Fire and Ice 2011-01-24 18:54|| 2011-01-24 18:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Ok! Who's been spying on me? LOL

Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-24 19:06|| 2011-01-24 19:06|| Front Page Top

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