Comments on: Awwww: Obama Wants to Avoid Automatic Spending Cuts

By: askeptic

askeptic — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:16:21 +0000

SF, in delving deep into the psyche of Teh Won, do you use Freudian, or Jungian, principles?

By: Sammy Finkelman

Sammy Finkelman — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:47:08 +0000

Comment by MD in Philly (3d3f72) — 2/7/2013 @ 8:45 am

Anything that looks or sounds like the president being in favor of limiting the effect of the sequester is, like most of his public pronouncements, political manipulation.

Alternative views with reasoning welcome. It would be reassuring to know I am wrong.

He probably doesn’t want to gut the military too much and 50% of the sequester has to come from the rest of teh federal budget. Something I read was of the opinion that Obama is getting really worried – he doesn’t want the sequester, and it’s beginning to show, but he still thinks the republicans will blick first.

Obama’s position is that any changes have to be in the form of replacing half the what is taken from the sequester with other spending cuts and half with tax increases, which he is calling tax refirm. He is now suggesting that some things that apparently many in Ciongress would agree to be enacted and the sequester be put off for some months. (this is the standard balancing off 10 yuears worth of a change in the law with several months of spending. This kind of thing actually makes no budget sense except ijn Washington accounting. The things the House Republicans might aghree to they would agree to in exchange for lowering some taxes – that’s what tax reform means)

Obama talks as if he doesn’t know the argument that’s been going on. Actually he thinks a lot of the audience for his words doesn’t know.

By: MD in Philly

MD in Philly — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:45:39 +0000

The only hard part about this is being willing to consider the previously assumed unthinkable.

The best predictor of future human behavior is past human behavior (barring some specific and profound life changing event or shift).

What has Barack Obama ever done in his life that shows he has respect for the American military and its role in the world? I’m waiting…
I think it should have been clear from the start that the “Sequester” was a trap. The Dems and the President will be happy to gut the military, this has been clear since 1971.

And with no budget and a willingness to use executive orders, will any domestic program that Obama is vested in lose much? No.

We know why there is no budget, do we not? More spending with no accountability, no accountability at spending time, no accountability at election time because you cannot link people to their votes for a specific budget proposal.

Those of us who did not grow up with “Alinsky” and “Cloward-Piven” in our vocabulary had/have/are having a hard time believing we have people in charge of our government who actually believe and practice such things.

Anything that looks or sounds like the president being in favor of limiting the effect of the sequester is, like most of his public pronouncements, political manipulation.

Alternative views with reasoning welcome. It would be reassuring to know I am wrong.