Comments on: Obama orders Cabinet to cut spending by $100M

By: BobF

BobF — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:18:25 +0000

Wow, Obama is such an economist! He should be highly congratuated for his budget cuts. He single handily cut the budget by .002857 percent. That bucket of water he threw in Lake Erie just may cause it to overflow its banks.

By: ablur

ablur — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:38:25 +0000

Yes, we will fall for it again because half of America is idiots, our educational system grantees it.

I took on a trillion as a project. You have got to see how a trillion really looks.

We need serious action at our government level.

I’m with BZ –BRING IN MURRAY BLUM! (great Movie)

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:40:00 +0000

Grrr… I was in a hurry. WordPress needs an edit button on their comments.

By: Concerned Citizen

Concerned Citizen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 19:38:36 +0000

I have some more ideas for cutting money. The Federal government give a lot of that tax money back to the States in the form of Federal grants for stuff like education, highway infrastructure, etc. How about lets reverse the process… All the taxes go to the States first, then the Federal government can submit spending requisitions to the States. The States can remit the tax revenue to the Federal government after approval by their legislature. For programs where the Federal would return the money back to the States, the States can just keep it and eliminate the middle man.

Oh and no Flat Tax. Go to the fair tax and stop taxing income entirely. We need to move to a spending tax system that does not punish investment, savings and hard work. It could incorporate every person in this country, be they legal or illegal, because even those paid in cash still purchase goods. It could be graduated so that stable goods and necessities would have little or no tax while luxury goods would have a higher tax rate. It would eliminate tax evasion (an apparent qualification for Obama’s cabinet) and would not take over 86,000 pages and a team of lawyers to understand.

By: Basti

Basti — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:46:39 +0000

I could spend a million dollars a day, just give me the chance. I could go through 100 million in no time at all.

‘Comrade Obama’ must think Americans are as stupid as he is.

By: Doc Roy

Doc Roy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:33:06 +0000

Awww, really. What a joke. The Bama-in-Chief has committed us to $100,000,000,000 at the G20 conference a few days ago. An interest free present to the Socialists at the IMF.

By: jd3

jd3 — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:54:41 +0000

Well our worries are over…my of my….$100MM….that ought to cover the deficit…..makes you wonder if he can count over 10 with his clothes on…

By: Bloviating Zeppelin

Bloviating Zeppelin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:22:51 +0000

Vigilante’s got it right: start eliminating ENTIRE Cabinet positions and their entire departments. Few people see it, but on the sidebar of my blog I write: “DRILL NOW, BUILD NOW and CUT NOW: Kill Earmarks, balanced Fed & Local Budgets. Bring in Murray Blum!”

Remember Murray Blum (Charles Grodin) from the movie DAVE with Kevin Kline? Dave brought in Blum to balance the budget — a completely uninvolved CPA who knows figures. And that’s essentially all you’d need. Someone who doesn’t MIND ripping and tearing. Everyone’s ox would get gored but the states would be better off. BRING IN MURRAY BLUM!

By: cary - Botan Ichihara

cary - Botan Ichihara — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:10:10 +0000

What happens when a significant portion of the people feel a total disconnect with the government in power?

Revolution.

By: Always On Watch

Always On Watch — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:25:29 +0000

“We…have…a confidence gap – when it comes to the American people,” he told reporters.

I’d say that it’s one helluva confidence gap.

What happens when a significant portion of the people feel a total disconnect with the government in power?