Our elected officials need to the job that they were elected to do and the President needs to stop lying to the American People.

I'm just wondering how well it would be received if we applied across the board cuts to our budgets when we tightened our belts to adjust to the lower incomes we all received. I somehow don't see Monroe Utilities being understand about my telling them I would only be paying 90 percent of my utility bill as I'm cutting my budget by 10 percent - especially if they saw me eating at Longhorns still, just skipping the desert as my obligatory 10 percent cut in that part of my budget. Come on, let's use some good old regular common sense here - cut the fat and stick with the necessary protein, pleeez!

Who cares, they are going to do what they want to do regardless of the out pouring of people concerned. Look at the new Governor of North Carolina is doing.....raming his agenda home regardless of the consequences to over a 100,000 unemployed.....they care? There is the pleez!

Several months ago (and yes it is on video) obama was all for the sequester and claims it is his idea. Now, he has NO memory of this claim or video. (odd how he does that all the time, huh?) Now then let's get the facts correct.
1. Everyone's taxes when up (Especially the middle class. Noticed your check is smaller?) when Obama said only the rich were going see an increase (it's on video folks).
2. This sequester is NOT a spending cut, it's a "we are not going to spend as much as we thought we were. (Yep, you guessed it, it's on video). AND instead of spending $3 billion, they will spend $2.5 billiom, hence the "CUTS". Smoke and mirrors my friends.
3. Nothing is going to happen. No mass layoffs, no shuting down of the military, people will not be dropping dead in the streets it's all a scare tatic and hype by your (not mine) President. Check the last sequester and see how it was handled. It's on the books folks.
4. In a few months no one, will remember this "event" , except the President, the Democrats and the no-information voters.

Just wait and see .......................

R patton - we try to tell this to the liberals and get called liars. It can be on tape, doesn't matter...and there will be some kind of excuse for it. My taxes (including insurance) went up and I make 2000 less than I did when I graduated college 3 years ago!!! It's a matter of "refusing to see" mindset. What is that saying, "None so blind as those that WON'T see?" Stubborness is like pride, you may not see the manifestations of it right away, but the fall will be great when it comes.
Sharon, across the board cuts are what Reagan and Bush 43 did - for Reagan it took several years (due to the mess he inherited) but eventually, and especially during Clintons rein, it came to fruition and we saw the greatest economic prosperity that we've see. Bush 43 did the same in the beginning, and even in war, we saw 5% unemployment. For the life of me, I can't figure out how class warfare folks think that their nanni-nanni-boo-boo economics works when obviously, it doesn't. The best thing this president can do is do as Clinton did in the 90's - look across the aisle and say, "let's try some of what you got". He'll get credit for it even if it was republicans ideas. Clinton gets credit for reaganomics and the Contract with America. But obama has too much pride to do that, and WE pay for it.

Across the board cuts are the only thing that will work because politicians do not have spines, and they will never come to an agreement on cuts in certain areas. They are too worried about losing political points and pissing off the wrong crowd and losing votes or donations. Pretty simple really. It's a terrible solution, but it's the only solution.

Mr. B, that's how communism gets started. The gov't. runs out of people's money, and have to collect from everybody and then redistribute for real (not the partial redistribution set up we're seeing right now). People won't have a choice at that point. They won't have a pot to pee in as it were. Then the government takes it by force. And for those who think this is a far out theory, try looking at history. It has happened before and every time it gets defeated, people have to stay on their guard to keep it out. That's why our republlic had to fight hard FOR IT, and we need to fight equally hard to KEEP IT. I wish those who claim to be patriotic could see that. The analogy of the frog in the kettle rings true today and I'm afraid that if we're not careful, the frog will be neck deep soon. What's sad is that poor frog didn't know what hit him until it was too late (the naysayers). At least there are a few other frogs swimming around in this one kicking up some waves. :)

Something else I thought about as we ponder the loss of our freedoms....right now, liberals are rejoicing at all of the control obama has. How he's going over congress, executive orders, playing dangerously close with the separation of powers etc...to get all of this stuff done that they want done...setting a very dangerous precedent. But how will they feel when his actions and changes made are relegated to the next guy in power? Do you really want the next guy to have the same kind of power? What if he ain't exactly a good guy? That's why we want to protect our constitution and make sure that if changes are made, they are done the right way - through amendments etc... that go through the proper channels, not kingly power.

Love this the Tea party is shaking in their boots.

There will be a Revolution

And I can promise you this Conservative is NOT shaking in his boots.

The blame for this all lies with Obama and his administration....anyone with half a brain can see he is out to destroy captialism and exert his narcissistic, pathological, grandiose, dictatorial Ego. All down through history Dictators like this come to a violent end.....I do hope the military turns on him in a coup......would be the best move this country has made in 5 years.

And Tim, what's really funny is that the tea party is not primarily republican. Democrats, Independents and libertarians make up a large part of it. That's whta made it such a movement - it was a movement of we the people.

Sharon said:
"I'm just wondering how well it would be received if we applied across the board cuts to our budgets when we tightened our belts to adjust to the lower incomes we all received."
Sharon, speaking of tightening our belts, I heard a discussion the other day on obama and Tiger woods. The person made this curious comment. "You know, nothing wrong with golfing with Tiger woods, but it seems when all of us are being asked to tighten our belts and sacrifice, I don't see the powers that be tightening theirs. In fact, when the greatest amount of work needs to be done, it seems they're always on vacation with our money. It's kind of hard to be out of work and see them at lavish parties and vacations. You'd think they'd at least try to look humble".

Yeah, Tim, I got a hoot out of that. lol Typical tactic distracting from the subject at hand because you can't answer the question. The question, broken down, is how are you going to handle the fact that everything that was told to you turned out not to be true and is in fact getting worse? How do you account for, and how can you defend when it was obama's idea to begin with, until it went south, and now he's blaming republicans? That's getting old and I think the average person is finally starting to see it. So, the firefighters and teachers and miliatry that weren't supposed to be touched and now are? Most of those folks are what you call "middle class" - domrlower middle class if you get technical about it (after taxes). Welcome to reality.

These people who claim the President isn't leading blame him for leading. They give him all blame and no credit - it's his fault when gas goes up, but not to his credit when prices go down. It's his fault when the do-nothing Congress sits on its arse, biding time until its next vacation.

Congress passes a bill at the 11th hour and the President signs what may be bad vs worse.

Ultimately, Congress is making the aisles wider, not the President.

Those higher taxes are not hikes. They're the result of the temporary payroll tax holiday not being extended by Congress. T e m p o r a r y.

Executive orders are not the invention of this President. All presidents starting with George Washington have resorted to EOs to carry out and enforce acts of Congress (laws). Go back and look at how often previous modern-day presidents used them. A non-functioning Congress forces their use.

Talk of revolution is more accurately that of treason.

No actually. And in fact, you will probably be there next to me for worshiping the wrong way. If there is such a thing as a god, and it cares about your religious practices enough to punish you for not following them correctly, then how do you know that out of the thousands of religions that have been invented and practiced, that you picked the right one? This is the problem with the so called Pascal's Wager that you propose. Look it up if you haven't heard of it before.

Amen Mr. B....Amen.

Amy, are you a Wiccan?

I agree with you Pittsburgh Paul. I am a Christian also.:)

By the way Amy L., using expletives like you did in your post above violates Patch's Terms of Use. You said "If I believed in things just because a majority of Americans do, I would believe some crazy s___."

Tammy O,
Better check your history:
Economist Mike Kimel notes that the former Democratic Presidents (Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Harry S. Truman) all reduced public debt as a share of GDP while the last four Republican Presidents (George W. Bush, George H. W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford) all oversaw an increase in the country's indebtedness

That's the problem with statistics in general. The economy is too complex to look at a single statistic and blame it on, or give credit to, a single person or group. If people focused more of their time on debating the solutions that are being presented, it would be a much more realistic conversation. Laying blame is the worst of politics because the only answers you tend to find are those that agree with your positions anyway. Much like statistics.

I also wish conservatives would drop the whole "Obama wants to destroy the country" nonsense. Even if that's what you believe, stating that in public doesn't help the debate. It might make you feel good to say it.......but all it shows is that you don't really want to have an honest conversation. As Barney Frank would say (disregarding the fact that he is an idiot) "Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table"

Quite true. Apparently the gloom and doom doesn't resonate well with Americans who do not classify themselves as Conservatives. That same group coincidentally makes up the majority of America.

That guy, you're making good sense.