Obama Pitches Pay-as-you-go Plan for Congress

[MrOne4truth]

how's it working so far? what a joke

[DwightSimpson]

Talk is cheap... Now that it has been passed into law, will the Congress be able to live up to their word, or will they once again deceive the American people. This time it is the children of America who will carry the burden of irresponsible government spending. We can have guns or butter, but NOT both... Does Obama mean what he says?

[t8114jg]

Gee! ... Jim Bunning tried to do just what Obama said we should do and look at all the grief he got. Don't you just love the hypocrisy of the Democrats? Liberalism is a mental disease.

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Its funny how some people keep the scare train rolling (bankrupt, illegal immigrants, Canada, UK, socialisms, government take over) and so on.  Grow some balls and try to move our healthcare up the scale. We need a nonprofit option and the private system and then we will see who can provide the best care. I say just get it done and if it doesnt work you can pin it on Obama and say I told you so.

[bittergunowner12]

After outspending all 3 of his predecessors he wants to introduce Pay Go? Bullshit.

[veeseee128]

blk conservative it was Bush ,1st who said we need to Bail out fanny mae and the other loan company. And we did he proposed the first bailout before obama took office. Anyway their is no point in trying to explain to idiots.

[bittergunowner12]

Funny since then Senator Obama voted FOR TARP.

[NOMADdaf]

OMFG!!! did the guy that just printed $2,000,000,000,000 fake dollars really just say that? Thats like Hitler saying "don't be a hater!!!"

[veeseee128]

And their are many like you in this country. Bush can do no wrong cheerleaders.

[veeseee128]

Ufortunately rite4lyfe you are so narrowminded that you cant see past your own shoelaces. I rest my case. Bush jr was the worst president in history. I bet you are a republican. Am I right? hahahah

[blkconservativ]

you say GWB was the worse president in history? so you mean to tell me you've been alive since george washington was president?

[rite4lyf]

Oh yah, well your mother....

[jj85883]

Obviously, you didn't know Jimmy Carter did you?! 24% interest rates, 15% inflation rate, and 10% unemployment !! And lets not forget the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, that's the instrument Jimmy and the democratic congress invented to give loans to people who were un-creditworthy. Sound familiar, its was increase by Clinton, in fact, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were threaten by Clinton's admin to increase it lending!! So can you figure out now where the sub prime melt down came from?!!

[byebushsupobama]

You seem to have forgot what set this crises off to began with. It started with "Worldcom" which was the largest security fraud ever. Then came Enron which contributed more to the Bush campaign than any other corporation.  Then came Harken Energy which was over run by corporate scandal.....the list goes on and on.

[jj85883]

Incorrect, those things did happen, but they had nothing to do with the financial melt down of today, it was lead by the sub prime lending market. Which was what... created by Jimmy Carter, promoted by Clinton and loved by the democrats. Now, it did fuel the housing boom. But when the conservatives where telling the liberals in 2002 that the end was near, all Barney Franks and Maxine Waters did was say everything was cool, lend more! So whose fault was it did you say? Bush, right?

[FluxCapacitor2008]

Byebushsupobama

Jj85883 sound like a bitter McCain voter that is stuck in the past. The anti everything conservative BS is old school and GOP supporters cant handle being in the minority.

We dont need their support or buy in and if they keep fighting change they will fade into the past and lose even more seats in the next election cycle.

[veeseee128]

He has to spend money in order to get us out of the rouble that idiot Bush jr put us in! Wether its borrowed or not , we have money. we still have to spend money, so dont give me that lame exscuse. Ive heard it a million times.

[rite4lyf]

You sound like obama's echo; blame everything he can't handle and doesn't understand on President George Bush. obama is a charade; great public speaker however he lacks the experience, knowledge and common sense to back up his empty words and rhetoric. His very good at pulling the wool over the eyes of the foolish in our society; you are an excellent example of this. Unfortunately you are not alone.

[veeseee128]

All of you who crtisize Obama are IDIOTS. Your just abunch of Rush Limbaugh followers looking to discredit the leader of the free world.

[ladylordess]

The only person who is discrediting the leader of the free world......... is the leader himself. You are just to blind to see the irony in his statement.

[blkconservativ]

@veeseee128: you can define idiot by looking in the mirror. anyway, rush limbagh is a private citizen with a talk show. obama is the CZAR of the united socialist states. who has more power? are you libs that afraid of a private citizen who informs the masses of what you "messiah" is doing to this country? the next time you mention obama and "free" in the same sentence make sure there isn't a taxpayer bailout attached to it.

[blkconservativ]

LOL@ "pay-as-you go" sounds like pre-paid cell phone plan to me. the irony is...we the taxpayers, "pre-pay" the federal government for bad service by the obama administration.

[M1Matt]

It is funny how all the Libtards called Bush 43 a fascist. Now they are blind when they see Obama, who is a true fascist. It is a sad day I think the sun is setting on our once Great Republic.

[ladylordess]

It truly is a sad day, now that we know the supreme court doesn't even care about the constitution!!!!!

[DorjePawo]

Obama's the Antichrist in the White House

Pass this message on to the whole world

Put the video of the Beast's Marks on your channel page like I did.

[TBEau1]

Is this a joke??? Obama has just got through pulling several trillion dollars out of nowhere. Who is he to enforce this?

Hypocrisy at its finest.

[1320crusier]

Hey, obama, tax cuts = MORE FED REVENUE

[tinmarindedos]

Obama has (is) spending more money then all the presidents of the U.S. combined. How is bush to blame? He can only blame Bush for so long. This is Childish!!!

[dewood3]

what a f'ing idiot. only this american idol culture could have voted for this a-hole

[macmillan0883]

For a funny picture of Obama I made on photoshop today check out my Channel

[TBEau1]

lmao

[rite4lyf]

Whoever puts this jerk in the ground will be a hero.

[veeseee128]

George W. Bush is the Reason why the defecit is so high,wasted war on Iraq. Billions.

[cinnamonfantasy]

Bush and Obama are both the reason. They BOTH are to blame. Each one of their idiotic Stimulus Plan or Bailouts for companies that went bankrupt anyways like GM and Crystler.

They BOTH WASTED TRILLIONS of dollars.

Now Obama is saying "pay as you go" he is lying to our faces.

How are we saving money by running up the deficit? We are not, he is only making it worse.

[therealcaptobvious]

and Obama's using that as a stepping stone to crash the dollar.

What is your purpose for lying?

[TBEau1]

Almost every president since Woodrow Wilson is to blame for this mess... the whole system is to blame. We need to reboot this country.

[veeseee128]

You Dummies ! he has to spend money to get us out of the jam the last idiot put us in 8 years ago.

[ladylordess]

WOW!!  Do the Democrats ever have you fooled!!! You must not be aware of HOW MUCH is being spent, or WHAT it is being spent on. I'll say it again, The Emperor Obama and his pals have no clothes. But it doesn't seem to make a difference.

[jj85883]

veeseee128 has no idea what a trillion dollar really is. You need to put it in simple terms he can understand. Hey veeseee128.. a million seconds is 11.5 days, a billion seconds is 31.7 years, a trillion seconds is 31,700 years. Dude, your president and congress throws around a trillion like people used to throw around a billion. Can you see the difference now!!!! Opps, sorry, i forgot,, its Bush's fault

[byebushsupobama]

jj85883.....you're right about one point..It is Bush's fault. Any president that manages to turn a record surplus into a deficit due to an unjust war and tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% in this country, it is their fault......not to mention the deregulation of the financial industry.

[jj85883]

My friend, obviously your lacking in your math skills. There is no way taxing the top 2% will pay for all the crap Obama and the democrats are trying to ram down the throats of Americans. And remember, the reason you had a surplus at the end of Clinton, was because of the republican congress. There is one basis thing you didn't learn from your civics class either. The president has direct control over foreign policy, but congress controls the purse string.

[TBEau1]

Who's the dummy? You can't spend money that you don't have to get out of debt. Watch the movie I.O.U.S.A.... you'll realize that this mess didn't just start with Bush, but it's been going on for the past century.

[FalconX2000]

Hmm. Damn. I responded to a troll. I only saw one post from thereal and responded to it before seeing the rest of his stuff here...

[blkconservativ]

and you clueless liberals are so quick to blame GWB for everything when the liberals were running congress since 2006. liberals had the majority to check bush's spending, but you libs love to use GWB as justification for obama's spending which is more than all the president's up to him combined. obama whines like a bitch about what he "inherited." reagan never whined about all of the crap he inherited from carter. reagan got his hands dirty and cleaned carter's mess up.

[wideawake123]

Amen brother...amen.

[blkconservativ]

obama's pretty words are for his clueless liberal drones who thinks he has things well in hand. we who know obama is doing nothing but double-talking and bullshitting is looking to spend more money and tear this economy down further than it is. those so-called 150,000 jobs he claimed he saved were probably big government jobs because lord knows they were no private sector jobs. obama claimed he's like FDR but he been handling things more like jimmy carter.

[therealcaptobvious]

Obama is a PATHELOGICAL liar.

He thinks that throwing away $7 trillion is going to "halve the deficit", he throws Americans under the bus in France because of the economy yet puts the same crooks to regulate the shady derivative market, not only can he not count the number of states in our country, he doens't get that 10 million muslims in America out of 1.8 billion world wide does not make America "one of the largest muslim countries".

You have to fact check EVERYTHING he tells you.

[blkconservativ]

EXACTLY! obama's running around boasting banks are giving back TARP money but what he won't say is the bank's were forced by the government to take the TARP money in the first place. he's using that TARP crap to cover up his incompetence. tim geithner was laughed at by the chinese last week when he told them their assets were safe. no country ever laughed at the US economy until this fraud "lord barry" came into office. i wouldn't be surprised if his admin have ways to destroy america meetings

[Joeythepug]

im sorry but i dont think he can pull it off we need a TRUE rupublican in the office!

[Democrat2345]

هر ا روپا ئی بر ا ی تفر یح به ا یر ا ن مسا فرت می کند و ا سمش ر ا محقق می گذ ا ر د و یک کتا ب د ر مورد ایران مینویسد که ا یر ان بز ر گتر ین خطر و د یکتا توری ا ست چو ن ا یرا ن تنها کشور منطقه ا ست که مستقل و قو ی است و خائنا ن در دا خل با اجنبی همکا ری می کند

[ladylordess]

Did he end this with the statement of: paying for what you spend is basic common sense? ROTFLMAO............  he is SSOOOOOOOO arrogant.

[Nictusempra]

Paying for what you spend isn't common sense?

[ladylordess]

Nictusempra And you are naive!!! He hasn't done that so far. Do as I say, not as I do???!!! Unless you didn't notice that the emperor obama and his pals have no clothes, I can see why you might think his spending is common sense. You might not think that way when your taxes are raised and you are paying it back STILL at age 98.

[Nictusempra]

You're dissenting against a point I didn't make, because I was responding to something else you said entirely. You called him arrogant for saying that saying we should "pay as we go" is "common sense."

It is common sense, I didn't say anything about whatever the hell you're on about now.

[ladylordess]

And therein lies the problem. You don't understand fully what is going on, so you shouldn't comment, or at the very least be informed BEFORE you vote. You proved the point of QUANTITY of voters over QUALITY of voters.

[Nictusempra]

I understand the situation just fine, I just wasn't referring to it in your CAPSLOCKING argument.

You're not really following.

[Nictusempra]

And look I know you're still all sad that Ron Paul didn't make it into office, this being the internet, but I'm afraid it's simply a reality that government services cost money.

[therealcaptobvious]

you're a LIAR. And Obama is a liar.

Guess like speaks to like.

I bet you're a troll.

[byebushsupobama]

So would you raher pay higher taxes or pay back the insurance companies if you ever need a transplant or care for a disease? Or what if someone loses their job along with their healthcare benefits? There are millions senario's that I could use.  This is called an "investment" for a reason.

[therealcaptobvious]

Obama spent $7 TRILLION in his first 100 days. in that he spent $180 billion on AIG that lost $65 billion in the last two consecutive quarters

Are you a political operative? A troll? Retarded? Obama is throwing out obvious bullshit figures and you're pimping a piece of shit. Literally.

[byebushsupobama]

Its maybe because he inherited such a huge economic mess and realized that certain companies were too big to fail....but just today they were noting that 10 of those banks will start paying back their bailouts and some have turned profits.

[therealcaptobvious]

he's taking the bad economy and using it as an excuse to bankrupt our country.

Soros is his sugardaddy. Soros also made loads of cash on the crash of the British pound and the ASEAN.

I think Obama's purposely trying to crash our dollar.

[FalconX2000]

Perhaps you'd be better served citing how much deficit he racked up, rather than the $7 trillion figure.

Even if that figure is true (and I have my doubts, since it's usually far right wing sites that give out such figures as criticisms [far left sites have different problems]), it would certainly mostly be made up of the normal expenditures of the government.

And of course, namecalling is one of the drawbacks of internet anonymity. There's no need to abuse it.

[therealcaptobvious]

Obama spent $7 trillion dollars on the following:

$1.40 trillion for the bailouts (to corrupt CEO's)

$1.00 trillion for the stimulus

$0.45 trillion for the omnibus

$0.75 trillion for the IMF

$3.50 trillion for the budget

Plus interest and inflation.

[lab6363]

Pay as you go... But first let me spend more then GW ever did. I just hope we can recover from all the damage this man does.

[byebushsupobama]

He will spend more than George because Obama wants every American to have healthcare and afford college. *THAT DEVIL*

[Tigerdish2009]

wow you truely are a fucking idiot.

[ladylordess]

byebushsupobama WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS????? you neglect to mention that part of the utopia world in which you speak.

[therealcaptobvious]

"WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS????? "

the fucking toothfairy that's who.

Bet the obama defenders don't pay taxes yet. Little do they know how badly they stabbed themselves in the foot.

[Nictusempra]

This "fuck you, I've got mine" republican bullshit is why the republicans are out of power right now.

I do pay taxes. No, I don't pull down the six figures I'd need to be making to give a fuck about a tax increase on the upper 2% of the population.

I vote in my self-interest. Welcome to democracy.

[therealcaptobvious]

you're defending a bold faced liar.

"you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

-Abe Lincoln

[byebushsupobama]

I guess you're fooled by the conservatives who say that tax cuts for rich people will save the economy.

[therealcaptobvious]

we defend tax cuts for everybody. His cap and trade and tobacco tax are both regressive taxation.

Regressive taxation is taxing the poor. You don't seem to already know.

[ladylordess]

Your attitude is what will keep you at a lower income for the rest of your life. Why do you think God made the Tax Attorney??? LOL

[Nictusempra]

Ha ha, it's funny because you think it'd be great if liberals were poor!

I make a decent income, but they call it the upper 2% because only 2% of the people in the country make that much. lol :)

[ladylordess]

I don't wish for anyone to be poor. I wish for all to be self-motivated and get off their butts and contribute. I work non-stop, no 40 hours or 80 hours. I work all the time to make sure that my business and employees are moving forward. I wish the same for you. Plus I wish you one day will become enlightened and not just follow the crowd so blindly. The opposite to a problem isn't always the answer.

[imyoursuperior2]

How much longer is this failure going to be president?

[Nictusempra]

For about seven and a half more years :)

[gdernie]

So when do we start getting our monthly payments from the government to pay for all those bailouts? oh!...I forgot, we have to pay the federal reserve , not the other way around....how stupid of me to think we'll be taken care of.

[therealcaptobvious]

WRONG!!!

You don't spend on anything that doesn't produce a return. Like that $180 billion AIG stole from taxpayers. Or that $70,000 date he had with Michelle.

Politics is for greedy people who suck at business...they take bribes to fill their wallets. That's all they care about.

Careful, we're playing with fire.

[Skyman46]

You nazi republicans are such moronic psychopaths...it was perfectly fine for moron psycho bush to piss away 3 trillion dollars in Iraq and tax cuts to the rich with nothing to show for it but it isn't okay for Obama to try to get us out of the ditch that you maniacs put us in??? Morons...

[STiSKeno]

America make as most money when they are at war, so they made more money in iraq then what the spent

[byebushsupobama]

...agree Skyman46

Republicans are honestly the biggest hypocrits on the planet.

[pantherprowl22]

Skyman46:

Who has controlled Congress -- thus, the purse-strings for the past 2.5 years?

You prove you're brainwashed w/your "Bush tax cuts for the rich". Bush gave an across the board tax cut to all -- he had the exact same spread in brackets as Clinton

As far as corporate tax, open your eyes. We have one of the highest in the world. No wonder corporations are moving overseas in preparation for Obama's tax hikes --- including the recent announcement by Microsoft

[jj85883]

Dear Moronic Psychopath,

Bush's put us behind by 450 Billion in 8 years, 2 wars, and 911, Obama put us behind 1.8 trillion in 100 days,, your such a bullshit artist aren't you. But as all liberals, your excuse is "its Bush's fault", just like 911 was Bush's fault and nothing to do with Clinton's piss poor foreign affairs programs, right? And do you have any idea how much a trillion dollars is? Take a billion and multiply by 1000, so do the math.

[byebushsupobama]

Bush has nothing to show for the debt he put us in. Its too early to tell if Obama will have something to show for his spending....if everything goes by plan, he will have plenty to show for it.

[ladylordess]

byebushsupobama: Nothing to show for it?? What do you call the defense spending????? Was there an attack after 9/11 on the Bush/Cheney watch?? You can't even compare on chart the 8 years of spending versus the 6 months of spending. Obama wins the race on that one.

[byebushsupobama]

Only KBR and "Black Water" had something to show from George's spending spree. Obama wants to spend to keep our people healthy. Compare and contrast.

[Nictusempra]

Have you guys really already forgotten that these bailouts started last year, while Bush was still in office?

Really?

[ladylordess]

And after the bush admin tried to save the banks from ruin, (which seemed to work) Obama went overboard and nationalized business and gave them to Unions all the while IGNORING constitutional law.

[jj85883]

Ladylordess, when debating with the likes of Nictusempra and Byebushproobama, remember, they are in their early 20s, babies, zero real world experience. It tough debating with someone who has just entered the political world by only a few years. What do they really know,,, answer,,, nothing but what they can repeat.

[ladylordess]

I am worried about the youth of this nation. They are falling for the BHO rhetoric. I do hold out hope that they will see the light before the next election. Hopefully it will not be too late to reverse the damage. Many have already begun to see the truth, and this makes me feel reassured in America.

[byebushsupobama]

...and don't try to delegitimize my arguements just because I am in my 20's. I worked for the Obama campaign, I read and research all of my information....and most importantly, I use common knowledge and common sense. Either you have it or you don't, and I can see that you don't. You're nothing more than an old white man who can't get over the fact that things are changing in this country. Your party of "hypocrits" are done.

[jj85883]

Once you get in your 40s you will understand what I am saying, i felt the same way when i was your age. Thought I knew everything. But your lack of world experience does have an effect on how you think, and you have had little. Have you worked hard for 25 years, eating beanie weenies, doing without, saving up, watching every penny, to have someone like you want to take it way? When your in that position, come talk to me. Until then, your opinion means little.

[jj85883]

And .... who said I was white my friend. An obvious racist assumption on your part isn't it ! You are exactly what I dislike about Obama and his progressive supporters, you are all a bunch of hippocrates!!!

[jj85883]

Dude, its wasnt Bush who committed the money, who do you think was in controls of the purse strings?!! Bingo, , it was the democrats who control congress!!

[Nictusempra]

You're dreaming, Bush championed this plan. You may have selectively forgotten last fall, but that doesn't change -reality-.

[byebushsupobama]

Its not to fill their own personal wallets, its to pay back the big donors from the campaign.....and Obama paid for that date with his own money....its not his fault that everytime he leaves the White House, the taxpayers have to foot the bill for transportation.

[FatherJudgement]

He paid $400 bucks out of the over $100,000.00 that little date night cost American Tax payers...

He simply paid for dinner and the show....

You need to quit drooling over Olbermann

[byebushsupobama]

Well, how else was he going to get to New York? That comes with being president. Tax payers pay for the transportation wheter by car or plane. Were you making these stupid comments when George was flying back and forth to the ranch?

[jj85883]

Forgot to ask you liberals out there... still think Obama and the democrats aren't gonna tax the crap out of the middle class?! I would hope even you libs, educated in our fine public school systems, could figure that one out,, you damn well bet he is!!

[byebushsupobama]

Actually, no decent American should mind paying more taxes so that everyone in this great country of ours could have healthcare and afford college. There's no wonder why the republican party has the reputation for being greedy. I guess your parents never taught you that it was better to give than recieve.

[jj85883]

Even your own democratic party crapped when they saw a $1.5 trillion bill to insure only another 16 million people, still leaving 36 million uninsured. And you know what, some of the uninsured can be insured, they just don't want to pay even though they can, now that's really fair to make me pay for them isn't it? Look, health care needs reform, but not thru socialized health care.

[jj85883]

Also, just sit back and ask yourself how many program have work efficiently, or at all, with the government in control. Social security, nope, medicad/medicare, nope, postal service, poorly, the list goes on and on. Son, i have put money into SS since I was 12, i will never see a penny of it. This is what I mean by real world experiences. There is nothing I can tell you, you will have to figure it out as you go, just like i did. In 1974, i was a screaming Liberal, wanting to string Nixon up.

[ladylordess]

??? He did not pay for the cost of the security of that date. You did!!! (if you pay taxes). (I don't have a problem with the date, as long as it is occasional). However, a President isn't supposed to BUY VOTES!!!! Essentially that is what you are saying he did. And we all know that he did that with the Unions!!!! hint: think auto industry.

[Nictusempra]

Not to stir up an old debate, it's just that this date thing bugged the heck out of me. Where were you when Bush was spending half of his time at his ranch down Waco way?

[DwightSimpson]

@Nictusempra We were right here complaining then as we do now about out-of-control government spending. Just as the Republicans didn't listen, the Democrats didn't listen then as they don't listen now. It took the tea party movement to bring it to the forefront.

[elitecssplayer]

second !!

[GeminiAzules]

he says after giving away trillions of taxpayer dollars

[Nictusempra]

At least he's doing the right thing now; do you want to be snarky or see progress made?

[AfricanMadman]

I agree!

Don't just pass anything, without at least giving something in return...

[ladylordess]

IF he were doing the right thing NOW the country wouldn't be heading into grave financial peril. He would actually reduce the deficit instead of expanding the government and raising taxes (and calling it other things). He would lower taxes so business in the private sector could expand and hire new employees.

[byebushsupobama]

It is a proven fact that high healthcare cost are more of a financial detriment to businesses big and small than anything else, that is why he is so adamant about healthcare reform, regardless of the debt.

[ladylordess]

byebushsupobama : on top of all of the money he has already spent to EXPAND Government he wants to spend MORE on health care. Yes, it costs an arm and a leg for business to carry health insurance. Where do you think the money is going to come from??????? Someone has to WORK to generate the profits that will go to pay for it. He won't help business, he will hurt them further. AND your health care will be as good as a trip to the DMV. Take a number and wait in line for crap care.

[byebushsupobama]

This "pay-as-you-go" program will help contribute and he will also roll back tax cuts for the wealhiest 2% of American that cost this nation $168 billion dollars during the Bush tenure in office....and healthcare for all would be nothing like the DMV. This just means that people who were suffering from diseases like cancer, can now get chemo. instead of suffering and dying slow.

[SkyDaddy7]

LOL!

Does it make you feel better to say such ignorant comments? Or are you that ignorant?

If you are a FOX News viewer then I understand why you may lack the knowledge to understand what is going on...I would suggest a dose of reality. And watch FOX every now & then for a laugh.

[GeminiAzules]

wow. speaking of ignorant. are you saying that AP has not been covering the "bailouts" that have been going on?

[SkyDaddy7]

The AP has reported on Obama just giving away Trillions?

Both comments define IGNORANT!!

[GeminiAzules]

actually, websters defines ignorant.

Yes, AP has been reporting on the bailouts, including the amounts of the bailouts.

[abarzilai664]

So money being pumped into the banking sector and GM does not count as "Obama just giving away Trillions?"

[Nictusempra]

I don't really think you understand the purpose of the bailouts.

[handsomejfp]

first viewer !!