President Obama on the Status of Debt Ceiling Negotiations

President Obama delivered a statement once again calling on Congress to compromise and avoid defaulting on the Nation's debt. July 29, 2011.

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• debt
• deficit
• negotiations
• obama
• debt ceiling

[TheAtra92]

If each business was aloud one worker from the military to work under the same pay of the government that they are receiving anyways, every business would be able to do more work creating more results.

[TheAtra92]

Dear President Obama,

I am a college student from Merced California. I am not the best when it comes to making people agree on things but what I notice in the pre-med club that I am in, is that when a great idea is brought forward, everyone agrees unanimously. Now why not have a special website set for real ideas to fix our problems and when we see ideas that seem legitimate, put them in a pile until we find something great. An idea I have is make the military work in our businesses.

[johnnycmajor]

Please O B O M B M A just GTFO of the White House before you destroy America.

don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. You lie and lie and lie and lie. Leave now before you get impeached. It is coming. Just go back to wherever you come from.

Go Ron Go

[aSingleDallasGuy]

@lacaliffa1288 ,,,, This is the dichotomy. Certainly a European style social welfare system was never desired by the founders of this country. Yet, it is constantly attacked by those on the inside who want to change these freedoms we have. Every dollar Washington steals from us makes us less free. Every regulation does the same. Every day Congress meets we are all less free than the day before. Liberals keep chipping away every at freedom we have until they get their faux utopia! God help us!

[lacaliffa1288]

@aSingleDallasGuy If I'm as stupid as the American people,making no effort to increase revenue (cut taxes, wage 2 wars, implement unfunded Medicare Part D & ban price negotiations! cap SS contributions at $106,800), then certainly I would expect to be bankrupt. It's past time for the American people to decide if they want these programs or not. If they do, they have to stop electing people who want to dismantle those programs. If they don't, they should elect them and stop whining about it.

[aSingleDallasGuy]

@lacaliffa1288. So what? If you have enough money in the bank until wednesday next week and then you have 37 bills due on Thursday, do you brag about how "solvent" you are knowing the next day you will be bankrupt? What kind of retaded thinking is this? Talking to a liberal is like talking to a wall. Nothing ever penetrates your thick skulls. No amount of common sense can you accept. SS is a ponzi scheme, period. It has no chance of mathematically working out... EVER! Get it? Duh!!! LOL

[lacaliffa1288]

@connorskiing41 Let's not forget the 2 wars that have blown a huge hole in our economy! The President withdrew combat troops from Iraq and is implementing a plan to withdraw from Afghanistan. He focused on pursuit of the 9/11 attackers; gave orders to proceed with the operation that resulted in the death of Osama Bin Laden and numerous Al Qaeda leaders.

There's much that needs to be done, especially with jobs that Republicans promised to make their highest priority. How's that coming along?

[lacaliffa1288]

@connorskiing41 Still not enough? Insurance companies can no longer deny children coverage because of pre-existing conditions like asthma or diabetes. Insurance companies can no longer drop coverage or increase premiums for people when they get sick. Raised fuel efficiency standards in cars for the first time in decades and invested in clean, renewable energy like wind, solar, and biofuels.

[lacaliffa1288]

@connorskiing41 Want more? The President signed 17 separate tax cuts for small businesses. Consumer credit card protection legislation to end abusive practices by credit card and mortgage companies. Tax cuts for 95% of Provided 95% of all working families. Extended middle class tax cuts to prevent a typical working family from facing a tax increase of over $2,000. A 2% payroll tax cut to 159 million workers – providing the typical working family with an additional $1,000 tax cut.

[lacaliffa1288]

@connorskiing41 I believe I did list numerous initiatives that have improved the health, education, employment, & job opportunities for our Veterans. You must have missed it. But I can list a few more:

Affordable Care Act prevents insurance companies from treating pregnant women as if they had a pre-existing condition, end the practice of charging women higher insurance premiums than men. Ended the Bush ban on negotiating lower medication prices, reducing Medicare costs by $500,000 million.