Drama monger!

hik opinionatedlady why sure hire one of us women who have to tighten our belts and let us put congress and the president on a budget and we would soon have the debt down by trillions of dollars too.We would get the US out of debt.

I think that Obama was put into office to actually bring the government to a screeching hault and obviously he is doing a good job of it. Let the people think he is a wonder God and can do no wrong. Yes, please put him in office! We need such as him. Bull! We need him like a heart attack. Idiocy personified.

Well, the deadline has gone. Now we have to watch where they will take these cuts. These cuts can be moved around and quite simply, the could easily make these cuts simply in waste. Now tackle the fraud and abuse, we are talking big money saved. Poor guys, they may have to do their job after all.

I am very disappointed in the way they have raised taxes. It's ridiculous. They are bleeding the lower and middle class dry.

There are a few journalist coming out with reports of the White House intimidating them about their reporting on this. Bob Woodward, the journalist who brought down Nixon was the first. He reports he was told by a White House senior staffer that he'd regret his remarks. Then, Lanny Davis said the same thing. Now there is a third, Ron Fournier from AP said he was told to stop reporting on the President's remarks. I think Obama thought he could lie about this being the Republican's baby and no one would say a word. There was a leaked memo about 'eviserating' the Republican party, was this an attempt to make them the scapegoat for Obama's sequestration, the gutting of the military budget?

They aren't the only ones. When will people wake up and stop thinking choosing a side would've made things better or the other side isn't as bad. Please. The republican leaders have inflated this as well scaring people and calling it Obama's sequester and all. They act like it is the first time this was ever brought up and it is all the Obama administrations fault and blah blah. Just like the administration is blaming republicans. Call it my opinion if you still have complete and total faith in your leaders but: Both sides wanted this. They could have done something. They could have stopped having press conferences, not gone on vacation, etc. They could have both stopped playing the blame game to make their party lines see the other as bad. They could have worked together to figure out a deal. They both could stop spending ridiculously and come up with a budget and a vast majority of them voted for this. These are not the Republican or Democratic parties people used to support and be proud of supporting. Since perhaps 2000 but I think further back then that, they have morphed into "grown men" on preschool playground trying to blame the other for something they've done wrong. My 6 and 4 year olds act a lot better than they do, have been saving all of their money (tooth fairy, christmas, etc.) and they are children. If my children can do it then about 535 members of congress and the senate plus the president and vice president can do it but they don't want to. If people had to tighten their belts for a whole 2%, why can't Washington cut back on 3.8 trillion in spending? Find and compare all the numbers. This country spends a crap load on welfare BUT just not what you are thinking struggling families and a literal few drops in the bucket of welfare abusers. We have foreign aid which might as well be welfare to people that hate us. We have corporate aid aka welfare for "too big to fail" and normal sized businesses. We have special interests groups who love to spend a little to get a nice little pay back in the form of many different things in depending on which members of the congress and senate they are complaining about. They add a few of those things to every last bill they pass. ~ I have to agree with a random post I saw somewhere from an independent voter such as myself - If it were their perks, salaries, bank accounts and any excess money they get from lobbying, insider trading, etc. on the line then they would have budgets done and perfectly balanced within a week. However, that is not on the line and was never on the line. Only the lower and middle class are the ones suffering. Those who are much better off are not suffering. If I had 10 million in the bank and only made an income of 100,000 last year, then all my taxes are on my income of $100,000 not the stores of money I have in the bank unless I was paid interest on them. As a disclaimer since I know someone will want to harp on my reference of people being better off not suffering and say I am jealous of the rich, I am really not. Personally, I don't want to worry about looking over my shoulder to wonder if someone is going to sue me, find a way to manipulate me to placing them into my will, try to "hook up" with me for money or anything like that. Sounds boring to be honest. I want something I have to keep working towards. A goal. A perfect place in my head rather than having everything on a silver platter and letting my children become spoiled with no work ethic but getting hired because of my connections. It seems idealistic to want something that simple in a time where everyone is getting greedier and greedier but meh sometimes I am a simplistic person.