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2011-07-12 Home Front: Politix
Obama - Pass my debt limit increase or I starve Grandma!
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Posted by DarthVader 2011-07-12 16:05|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Are you telling me, mr president, that when one gets completely dependant upon government, government will use that leverage against the individual?

See, if this was some corporation setup to manage retirement accounts, and the treasurer was boozing it up with personal jet trips to Europe and the ceo was out golfing instead of running meetings, and the corporation ran out of money which was supposed to be dividend distribution to grandma, a person could file a lawsuit and appeal to the justice system where we could have due process by a neutral arbitrator.

Does this mean I can stop paying SS/MC/FICA taxes then? Prediction, they will talk grandma but show welfare peoples getting jumpy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-07-12 16:30||   2011-07-12 16:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Obama wants an excuse to shut down congress and rule the country as a dictator. Only his will is acceptable, everything else must defer. The man is a Chicago Mafioso intent on destroying this country and raising it back up as a Marxist/Socialist nation. Any one of THREE triggering events need to be established as keys to a second revolution:

- The shutdown or suspension of Congress.
- Declaration of Martial Law and confiscation of weapons.
- "Suspension" of the Constitution or any portion of it.

There is nothing in the Constitution about the President having such authority. If any ONE of these events happens, the US Military needs to step in and arrest the President for exceeding his authority and his failure to promote, protect, and defend the Constitution. Such acts would be well-justified.
Posted by Old Patriot 2011-07-12 17:03||   2011-07-12 17:03|| Front Page Top

#3 federal budgets:
2006: $2.66 trillion
2008: $2.9 trillion
2010: $3.552 trillion
2011: $3.82 trillion

Essentially, President Obama has permanently increased federal spending by $1 trillion per year and set to jump again in 2013. Meanwhile, as federal spending jumps, tax revenues are falling employment and wages fall.
Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-12 17:09||   2011-07-12 17:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Bambi's position is simpler than that: I won, you lose.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-07-12 17:33||   2011-07-12 17:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Not to worry, paychecks for the TSA gropers, Dept. of Ed. SWAT teams, and rabbit inspectors will continue as per usual.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-07-12 17:34||   2011-07-12 17:34|| Front Page Top

#6 You can bet your ass the welfare checks will keep on rolling. Same with the funds to the EPA, Education, Labor, etc...

Socialism in action - those who haven't earned it and don't deserve it get it while those who worked all their lives and save for it are fuc*ed over again.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-07-12 17:41||   2011-07-12 17:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Hold up the social security checks and he will most likely lose in 2012. There is a huge elderly voting population--and they do come out to vote.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-12 17:50||   2011-07-12 17:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe JohnQC, but the dhimocrats and the MSM will do everything they can to hang this on the Republicans and we all know how deft the Republicans are at defending themselves.

McConnell's fallback plan is interesting, as it gives Obama all the rope he needs to hang himself on this and during the election cycle.

The only thing is that better have a expiration date in hard stone or that could be a slippery slope for any president to bypass the purse strings of congress.
Posted by DarthVader 2011-07-12 18:06||   2011-07-12 18:06|| Front Page Top

#9 The MSM will spin this as the Evil Republicans once again starving grandma and grandpa so that they will have to eat cheap cat food for the rest of their lives in a cold, dank, unheated, single-room apartment.

The Repubicans need to point out all the projects and expendatures which the Democrats are starving grandma and grandpa to protect. Things like the Abortion Mill Planned Parenthood and Acorn and other bullsh*t programs.

And yes, start calling the MSM and the rest liars to their face on national TV.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-07-12 18:20||   2011-07-12 18:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Another thing the Republicans need to hit him with after this comment is, "So... you are saying that social security IS broke and is not sustainable without massive amounts of borrowing?"
Posted by DarthVader 2011-07-12 18:31||   2011-07-12 18:31|| Front Page Top

#11 What a political Hack!
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-07-12 18:39||   2011-07-12 18:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Do Something!!! I dont care if you have to bleed money out of him just do it... You guys roughly to your GDP have about 5* per person money wise then the rest of the world, and yet... it looks pretty doomed?! Panic! Mass Hysteria! Run! Get some tents! AHHH!
Posted by devilstoenail 2011-07-12 18:43||   2011-07-12 18:43|| Front Page Top

#13 Why isn't ObamaCare on the table in these negotiations? [BTW, Obama lied about his mother's situation in order to garner support for ObamaCare. Her insurance did pay for her cancer treatments. She didn't have to fight with the insurance companies while she was sick.] He's a piece of work.

A"real solution" to U.S. fiscal problems isn't possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday,
Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-12 19:06||   2011-07-12 19:06|| Front Page Top

#14 A"real solution" to U.S. fiscal problems isn't possible as long as President Barack Obama remains in office, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday

Thank God. Hopefully the first hint of an emerging impeachment movement in Congress.
Posted by Uloluger Spans5064 2011-07-12 20:01||   2011-07-12 20:01|| Front Page Top

#15 My guess is Obama will threaten grandma and maybe delay a check to make the point but the Social Security checks will go out and the military or some other group that votes republican will be denied their checks instead.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-07-12 20:23||   2011-07-12 20:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Perhaps more succintly ...

TOPIX/PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > OBAMA:NO SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS WIDOUT TAX INCREASES.

versus

* TOPIX > OBAMA: NO CHANGE[Cut] IN CIVILIAN AID [or Cooperat]TO PAKISTAN.

However, it appears the Pakis have other ideas.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-12 22:58||   2011-07-12 22:58|| Front Page Top

#17 Somehow this calls to mind the scene in Blazing Saddles where the sheriff puts a gun to his own head and says "Stand back! Or the ${person of Afro-American extraction} gets it"
Posted by SteveS 2011-07-12 23:46||   2011-07-12 23:46|| Front Page Top

#18 As was said earlier, piss off the Social Security crowd and they are gonna be pissed. add military vets to that group and that makes a huge voting block he is just setting up to vote anybody but barry.

i kind of like McConnell's idea. brinksmanship and this POS will fold like a Charlie Brown kite in a kite eating tree windy day.
Posted by USN,Ret. 2011-07-12 23:52||   2011-07-12 23:52|| Front Page Top

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