This is why it is impossible to have an honest negotiation with the Democrats

[SeanL]

Originally Posted by dude1394

How they look at it is( unless they are running a government agency or shilling for the dems is )... The government is scheduled to go up by x percent every year because we haven't passed a budget in 4 years. Now this is not going to go up as much per the graph and everyone is freaking out. I call bullshite.

Well that graph is bullshite because the vast majority of that spending is paid for by tax revenues. Secondly, we were told that out of the 800 billion stimulus that the 535 million lost in solyndra was a lot of money.

Now you are saying that out of the 900 billion dollar deficit, the 85 billion (this year alone!) that will be cut from the budget is insignificant. That is conservative hypocrisy at its extreme.

Originally Posted by dude1394

If the admin wants to change the allocations of cuts bring it on, but Obama is only interested in growing government, he could give a rats ass who he furloughs to get it.

Changing allocations would be preferable to a certain extent, but in the grand scheme of things that is like moving the deck chairs on the titanic. You will be getting 85 billion in cuts either way while the economy is going through sluggish growth.

Anyhow, I thought that the conservative message was that the sequester cuts were all Obama's idea? So does Obama want to cut government or "grow government"? You guys need to get your story straight.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by SeanL

Anyhow, I thought that the conservative message was that the sequester cuts were all Obama's idea? So does Obama want to cut government or "grow government"? You guys need to get your story straight.

You are so full of it. Of course it was his idea, because as he has stated (and his lieutenants have stated) that he didn't think the republicans would be willing to cut defense so much. Obama wants to grow government, always has, always will. He only thought he was o so clever that he had found a way to get republicans to agree to ANOTHER tax increase because they wouldn't want to see our country's defenses compromised, not that he gives a crap about it, nor his liberal constituents.

Even now the libs should be pretty happy with it, they get to cut the military's much more than normal.