Comments on: More Leaks That Obama Will Turn Deficit Hawk In 2010

By: marcopolo

marcopolo — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:04:26 +0000

As with health care reform, Obama was much too timid with the first stimulus package. He should have gone for broke then. It’s simple common sense: when bargaining, reach for the sky, then slowly make concessions as necessary (if necessary).

By: tinman1967

tinman1967 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:05:17 +0000

You’ve got it wrong (as usual). I never voted for Bush or any Republican for president ever. I voted for Obama last year.
Still, the truth remains. You’ve got to pay your bills.

By: Mason

Mason — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:28:01 +0000

This is not the time to think about deficit reduction unless the real goal is to destroy any possibility for economic recovery. The banks still aren’t lending and Main Street is still dead. The signs of a recovery are all due to the Fed’s low interest rates and propping up too big to fail investment houses and banks, plus the cash for clunkers and first-time home buyer’s credit programs. The real unemployment rate is pushing 20% and still climbing. Now is the time to increase spending, not the time to cut spending.

Ask Krugman, Stiglitz, and Roubini, if you don’t believe me. Summers is an idiot. Pity that Obama only has ears for him, the Republican non-factor opposition, and the Blue Dogs. You can say one thing about Obama: he listens to whiners and ignores smart people who know what they are talking about and want to help him.

By: iremember54

iremember54 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:08:58 +0000

If You really want the people who caused the problems back in power, you are more of a problem than they are.

By: mikesong

mikesong — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:37:48 +0000

I know that the article emphasizes domestic spending, but I’m hoping this is the beginning of a PR campaign to sell slashes in defense spending. I don’t see any economic recovery happening in the near future, so I don’t believe Obama will want to make many domestic cuts – I think he’s keenly aware of Keynsian economics and the lesson of FDR in 1937. Let’s declare peace and come home, and then reap the dividend.

By: acramer

acramer — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:20:53 +0000

Well, I am not surprised at all by this.

Based on Obama’s reluctance to do much of anything progressive, and teh way he has to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing, I can’t think of any reason why anyone would be suprised by this. I am really getting the feeling having watched him for a while that he thinks he knows more then we do, and is smarter then we are. If you think back with how he has spoken to progressives in various issues, it is like he can’t understand why we just don’t listen to him.

I am getting very uncomfortable with the man and growing distrustful of his dedication to help the less privelleged and down-trodden. He has the levers to positive things, but his reluctance and language speaks volumes. If he starts to cut spending, then it is time to put the pressure on him full-court press, or run someone against him in 2012, Howard Dean maybe?

He seems to understand nothing about history. We don’t need Herber Hoover or FDR in 1938. If he can’t get that, then we need to run someone against him wh does! I am sick of the man. We voted for him based on who had presented to us as the real him. If he won’t get with his own program, then what is the point?

By: robbep

robbep — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:36:13 +0000

Thank God! I am glad he has decided to become a defecit hawk because that will ensure his economic recovery plan wont work and he and the dems will be out of power by 2013. Seriously, have we ever had a president as double minded as this one? There is not enough money in the private system to sustain our economy and turning off the government spigott is going to worsen not improve the economy. Obama kills me thinking he is going to win over those voters who dont approve of him, his people pleasing is a serious flaw for a president to have. Instead of flip flopping to attract votes in the middle why doesnt he focus on doing what he said he wld do during the campaign? If saying what he was going to do got him elected I wld think that doing what he said wld keep him in office. Obama is too double minded for this job.

By: iremember54

iremember54 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:21:05 +0000

Not just Obama and the Congress but the people don’t understand that the best way to address the debt and deficits is to put the Country back to work, solve and fix our problems, and replace those that stand in the way of that.

Yet here again we are all worried about what is being spent, and no one is thinking of ways to make the money to solve the prolems.

Some of the worst complainers are the ones who caused the problems. The Republican defucit hawks, are the worst.

By: dakine01

dakine01 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:22:27 +0000

Ah, I do so love it when it becomes a “you people” comment.

Of course, as YOU people always fail to mention, we wouldn’t have been in this situation if YOU people had actually stood up for those supposed deficit hawk principles I keep hearing about (but seeing no actual evidence of) when BushCo started pissing away lives and billions on invasions and occupations of choice in the Middle East and Western part of Asia. To say nothing about the trillion dollar bankster bailout that was pushed through Congress with no rules, checks, or balances. Edit: And noting that the bankster bailout without conditions was done under the BushCo wathc before someone mentions PBO.

What say ye, oh Caesar’s wife? Are you only now above reproach or were you just a cheerleader with no principles?

By: tinman1967

tinman1967 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:31:34 +0000

I know you people hate to pay for anything and you love to spend, spend, spend. But eventually there is a limit. That limit will likely be reached before Obama leaves office in 2016. It will not be pretty.