pWill the $1 trillion spending cuts be as bad as Obama says?

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No, it's a manufactured crisis

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No, the cuts are a good thing

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Yes, as bad or worse

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384 Votes

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2 hr
TangoDeltaD voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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10 hr
hancel voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Mon
Nonya voted

v Yes, as bad or worse
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Sun
Bjwalker1371 endorsed VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Sun
Carach voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Sun
RealAmerica endorsed S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Sun
Philof endorsed VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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Jun 15

tomincali

v I'm not sure

obama sees no problems at all, he will be wasting 100 million on an un needed trip[ that once again he will charge the tax payers. i don't know how we can have cuts when the president refuses to stop wasting million on things we do not need.

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Jun 15
silentrunning endorsed kramresim1

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping
Jun 14
east2west voted

v I'm not sure
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Jun 14
RepomanGP endorsed S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Jun 13
swh51 endorsed ithink

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Jun 13
EdVet voted

v Yes, as bad or worse
Jun 13
fantasyflygon voted

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping
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Jun 13
skspls voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Jun 11
littlewolf8469 voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Jun 9
Andy2013 voted

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping
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Jun 8
USN-22 voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Jun 8
Smoothbeartoo voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Jun 7
Jreynoso voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Jun 6
Ktulue voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Jun 5
SlimElmo91 voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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Jun 3
Knoll37 voted

v Yes, as bad or worse
Jun 1
rtoberl voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
May 31
tarakitten endorsed Roco

v I'm not sure
May 30
Rpete endorsed VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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May 30
Texasbuzz voted

v Yes, as bad or worse
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May 29
BostonRob endorsed VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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May 28
Avoicenmany voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 28
LEC endorsed ctc

v Yes, as bad or worse
May 27

falco_alba

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

The cuts are in the wrong places. We need them, but not where we've decided to make them.

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May 27

MadAmerican

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

I held off on commenting on this just to show it was a smoke screen. He's still travelling about and having his White House parties so all is good in his eyes. Here at Fort Knox some workers are at a four day work week, however most are military retired so not a big economic crunch. The Post Office is still losing money, but is still enjoying massive bonuses and parties. Yep, Obama got his sequster but the party train for him rocks on even through three scandals which has taken away from his "non existing budget".

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May 26
DebWilliams57 voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 26
bobpii voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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May 24
DemonsAngel13 endorsed S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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May 22
Gatnos voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 21
9MileTrucking voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 20
Glange1 endorsed WMCOL

v Yes, as bad or worse
May 20

Calfkiller

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It still only reduces any increases in spending by a few percentage points. It's a false narrative that they are actually reducing the spending, only the increases.

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May 20
Bill2E endorsed Woody20164

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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May 19
DesignerLM voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 18

BEKennedy

v I'm not sure

The cut back should include entertainment annuities for political figures & their tax payers' paid trips for them & their families & friends to wherever they choose to vacation. The tax payers don't even get that luxury. Pay for your own adventures.

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May '13
DrSilicon voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
May '13

tortdog

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Only if the President wants them to be bad.

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May '13
DanielZ voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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May '13
Obsidion voted

v I'm not sure
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May '13
UrbanRepub voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
May '13

MongoAPillager

v I'm not sure

they will only be as bad s obama and the media want them to be

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May '13
LilliB voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May '13
Fyi1957 endorsed standout

v Yes, as bad or worse

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Jun 15

tomincali

v I'm not sure

obama sees no problems at all, he will be wasting 100 million on an un needed trip[ that once again he will charge the tax payers. i don't know how we can have cuts when the president refuses to stop wasting million on things we do not need.

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May 27

falco_alba

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

The cuts are in the wrong places. We need them, but not where we've decided to make them.

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May 27

MadAmerican

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

I held off on commenting on this just to show it was a smoke screen. He's still travelling about and having his White House parties so all is good in his eyes. Here at Fort Knox some workers are at a four day work week, however most are military retired so not a big economic crunch. The Post Office is still losing money, but is still enjoying massive bonuses and parties. Yep, Obama got his sequster but the party train for him rocks on even through three scandals which has taken away from his "non existing budget".

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May 20

Calfkiller

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It still only reduces any increases in spending by a few percentage points. It's a false narrative that they are actually reducing the spending, only the increases.

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May 18

BEKennedy

v I'm not sure

The cut back should include entertainment annuities for political figures & their tax payers' paid trips for them & their families & friends to wherever they choose to vacation. The tax payers don't even get that luxury. Pay for your own adventures.

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May '13

tortdog

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Only if the President wants them to be bad.

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May '13

MongoAPillager

v I'm not sure

they will only be as bad s obama and the media want them to be

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May '13

URBS

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

First these are not CUTS. They are decreases in added spending. So they are not cuts to anything but the expansion of spending.

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May '13

Goose

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

This man is a bigger liar than Nixon and Clinton combined.

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May '13

rbaker49

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

This has been in the works for quite a while. Hell that's why i live out in the dessert.

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May '13

oldsolder

v Yes, as bad or worse

Hey I am one of those Civil Servants being furloughed, I'm one of the guys that Obama is talking about. I am being furloughed 16 hours per pay period, that's over a thousand dollars a month gone out of my pay check. I still have to pay $480. a month to keep my insurance up for my family. I have cut way back on expenses, I have had to pull my son out of his after school activities and re-budgeted how much we spend on groceries among many other things as well. This is already effecting many local economies, it certainly is around Travis AFB where I work, not to mention it's effecting our ability to do our jobs on the base.

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May '13

Goose

Oh, do you mean you are one of those "non-essential government employees" who stays home whenever there's a budget deadlock?

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May '13

Goose

@oldsolder - I served in the USMC three years, including through one government shutdown. We GIs didn't get laid off. We just worked without pay. Does that answer you?

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May '13

oldsolder

@Goose Three years? Wow, my bad, I did twenty-two plus years active duty and retired an E-8 and now work in civil service as a WS-13 step 5. Got news for you, you may have gone through a government shutdown in your long career but you still got paid, so don't try and lead others that may be reading this to think you just simple worked for free because it didn't happen. In three years you would have barely finished your training before you left service which tells me that you were more of a burden to the Corp than an asset, but I bet you got your GI bill didn't you?

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May '13

Goose

@oldsolder - We worked without pay during the shutdown. A lot of us we broke. Yes we got our backpay later. You can say I was a burden, but I was a burden that the "Career Planner" wanted to see reenlist. You asked if I had paid any dues. I was answering. It's too bad you have to get laid off while we find money to give free F-16s to Egypt. That bunch has some strange priorities. Ans that's the problem - their priorities, not a lack of funds.

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May '13

N0rthman

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

However, Obama will make sure it appears to hurt more than it should, and media frenzy will be all over it like flies on cow chips.

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May '13

JustTheFacts

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It's a damn joke ... $1 trillion in cuts but still spending $3.6 trillion per year :(

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May '13

NoAmnestyEVER

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Once again, the Demoncrats are trying to strike fear into the dumb sheep who blindly drink his Koolaid. He's found all the right cuts to punish the American citizens and drive them into a false sense of fear as he always does. Liberals are despicable people

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May '13

MarkColwell

v Yes, as bad or worse

We have a much greater revenue problem, than we have a spending problem. I'm sure there are some cuts that could be made (like corporate welfare) however the focus should be on increasing government revenue by lowering unemployment, raising taxes on the rich and forcing corporations to pay thier fair share.

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Apr '13

oldman75

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

If congress excludes the sequestration that the sequester demands then it is bad .If their vacation wasn't scheduled I doubt if they would have exempted ATC's from sequestration. Across the board cuts means what it says.Everybody is subject to furloughs,not just the unpopular federal employees ,.

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Apr '13

Jason2012

v No, the cuts are a good thing

The only reason that the decrease in the proposed increase, aka the cuts, is even noticed, is because Barack is creating another crisis and quite frankly, most people do not care like he is trying to say they do. Its kind of like his magic 90% number of Americans who want more gun control. What are they polling 9 our of 10 democrats and the 10th one is on heavy prescription pain killers. These people need to get real, since when is it patriotic to do all of this spending, didn't BO get onto Bush when he was first running, that this kind of borrowing and spending was unpatriotic. Den of thieves, all of them.

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Apr '13

digitalshaman

v No, the cuts are a good thing

Too bad we're denied a chance to vote on where these cuts are made. They're a start in the right direction, but I disagree with some of the places they've been implemented.

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Apr '13

Canoochee

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

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Mar '13

RETUSAF95

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It's not a trillion, more like 80 billion.

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Feb '13

S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

The Quote of the Decade.....: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." ~ Senator Barack H. O...

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Feb '13

VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing

The sequester is a good thing. Not for the spending cuts exactly, but the things they cut which were previously thought untouchable along with actual tax increases that are in fact needed. If there is a way out of this, its not going to be through continuing to stone wall with arms akimbo saying "this is off the table"

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Feb '13

PoliticalSpice

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Obama is trying to scare republicans by talking up the impact on military and scare democrats by pointing to cuts in programs like head start, food inspections and funding for national parks. Its just a tactic those in congress to restore money and continue the status quo, especially military spending. The cuts will cause some problems, but are the only way to get any signifigant cuts to military budgets. I support the sequester. The programs people miss the most will be reinstated piece meal by congress. That will force those spending our tax money to be more selective in which programs they re-instate and which they are allowed to die. Not only will it save money, i...

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Feb '13

mimi57

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

I doubt almost everything the man says, all he has done is use scare tactics and 'invent' more ways to distract and confuse the 'masses'. This is just one more tactic, and it's amazing to me that people can't see through him. All he has done is spend our money and he doesn't care that you can't spend your way out of debt, he just keep taxing us and handing out entitlements...he's a failure, and we are sinking like the Titanic.

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Feb '13

WMCOL

v Yes, as bad or worse

Definitely worse for those millions of people who see direct cuts to their pay. That 1% is who Obama is talking about. Ask anyone who sees a cut in their pay and benefits if it is worse. Only a fool would say no. Rush sophistry comes to mind.

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Feb '13

BelinKS

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

I again say, don't make cuts to domestic spending before all cuts are made of giving money to other countries. They are not our country's responsibility! The citizens of The United States of America are! We need to be able to take care of our own before even thinking about giving one cent to another country.

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Feb '13

ithink

v No, the cuts are a good thing

Yesterday and again in today's paper, I saw the stories that the cuts won't be noticed by most Americans at least not for a few months. The cuts aren't going to cause the crisis Obama wants. They are going to be implemented and most won't notice.

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Feb '13

Woody20164

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

If there was actually a budget, which there is not because the Senate has not passed one in almost four years (thanks, Harry), the 2013 numbers would be about 8% higher than 2012. So if we trim 2.3% now, where does that leave us? Still spending more than last year. The only worry is that the Campaigner-in-Chief can, and probably will, make the cuts in places that cause the most pain to the American public, just to gain political points moving toward the 2014 election. While cuts could be made to monkey sex research farms, California's high speed rail (what a joke) and not giving more money to the Syrian opposition, they would have no effect in fundamentally transformin...

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Feb '13

justapirate

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

So, let me get this straight. We're gonna roll back the budget to where it was a couple years ago. That's STILL an ungodly amount the government is going to be spending. Here in my house the budget has shrunk 80% of what it was three years ago and we still buy our groceries, pay our taxes and own our home and the government says it can't run with cuts that are truthfully a drop in the bucket. I call BS.

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Feb '13

Bobolinsky

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

The "$1 Trillion" in spending cuts would only happen over 10 years and only if Congress doesn't pass a budget in the meantime. . The real debate is about $85 Billion in cuts this year. . Now, considering that our federal government spent about $3.5 Trillion last year... . $86B / $3.5T = 2.4% . Never mind that the "spending cuts" are actually just decreases in increases of spending and not actual decreases in spending... . We can't scrimp and save 2.5 cents on the dollar?

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