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Home Front: Politix
Obama to push for deficit reduction
2011-01-24
[Iran Press TV] President Barack B.O. Obama says his State of the Union address on Tuesday night will focus on reducing the nation's deficit and creating jobs in the United States.
Tell us more about the "shovel-ready projects" just waiting for an infusion of government cheese...
Obama gave an advance look at what he will ask congress at the State of the Union in a videotaped message sent to the organizers on Sunday.

He is expected to call for unity and cooperation as fights over the handling of the federal budget and the Democratic-sponsored health care overhaul are expected to brew.

"These are big challenges that are in front of us, but we're up to it, as long as we come together as a people -- Republicans, Democrats, Independents," the president was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as saying.

Wisconsin's 1st District Congressman Paul Ryan, who is the new House budget committee chairman, will deliver the Republican's response on Tuesday, following the president's address.

At the State of the Union address, the president lays out his legislative agenda for the year ahead.

The makeup of Congress has changed dramatically since Obama's last address as the Republicans made gains in the November midterm elections.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Ok! Who's been spying on me? LOL
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-01-24 19:06  

#7  Touche, Darth. Or a dude who first bellied up to the buffet seven times, then sprinkles sweet and low in his coffee.
Posted by: Fire and Ice   2011-01-24 18:54  

#6  Why does this remind me of a fat man talking about the need to cut back on his eating habits at an all-you-can-eat buffet?
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-24 17:40  

#5  Midnight Basketball Golf
Posted by: Frank G   2011-01-24 15:17  

#4  What a bunch of BS. Yeah, he'll probably make a push for more Green, Union jobs. He isn't going to do anything that's actually good for the economy and he certainly isn't going to cut Federal spending. I mean, what's he going to say, everything I've worked for and spoke about up until this point was a joke?
Posted by: Jefferson   2011-01-24 12:48  

#3  Meanwhile, back in the real world:
Since the government took over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, taxpayers have spent more than $160 million defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-01-24 09:21  

#2  ..will focus on reducing the nation's deficit and creating jobs in the United States.

The only way to really cut the deficit is to cut spending, not playing accounting tricks like cutting imagined increases. The only way to create jobs without new programs and spending is to cut regulatory obstructions and governmental overhead that adds costs, shutdown the endless legal challenges to new works, curtail tort farming, and end the use of unreasonable and impossible standards for air, water, and species preservation. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Instead we'll be handed another Con job selling swamp land in Florida.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-01-24 07:26  

#1  I suspect he will propose some hare-brained scheme that preys on ignorance.
Posted by: gorb   2011-01-24 00:57  

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