Is Congress planning ANY spending cuts? Or just the same old increases, only smaller?

[Little-Acorn]

Dems and Republicans keep staging these huge "battles" over a few pennies in tax increases. But we don't have a taxing problem. We are taxed plenty enough.

We have a spending problem. The govt spends incredibly huge amounts, and makes promises that amount to even more.

Yet I haven't seen a single proposal to spend less next year than we did this year. Every proposal I've seen, says we will spend even more than we did before, in every government department. Some say that instead of increasing 15% like we had planned to, we'll "only" increase 10% instead. (Some of the sillier politicians and newscasters, on both sides, refer to this as a "cut". That's like saying that instead of chopping off three of your fingers as I had planned to do, I'll only chop off two of them. There, I've increased your number of fingers by one!)

Is there ANY politician, in any party, proposing to actually CUT spending? It's what we desperately need.

[aboutime]

Truth is. There IS NO FISCAL CLIFF!

If there was one. The straw that broke the FISCAL CLIFF'S Back, was the day Obama was Inaugurated in 2008.

Every day since then has been nothing but BOLD reminders to Americans who are capable of Thinking...that every day Obama spends in office, is just another Falling Domino in the destruction of America.

January 1st will be the culmination of the Obama Plan, and the beginning of the New Socialist States of America.

[James]

Truth is. There IS NO FISCAL CLIFF!

If there was one. The straw that broke the FISCAL CLIFF'S Back, was the day Obama was Inaugurated in 2008.

Every day since then has been nothing but BOLD reminders to Americans who are capable of Thinking...that every day Obama spends in office, is just another Falling Domino in the destruction of America.

January 1st will be the culmination of the Obama Plan, and the beginning of the New Socialist States of America.


Have you been taking your meds? America was radically changed decades before Obama took office - when a country decides to tax success, send America's future to die overseas and purposefully inhibit job creation, it's pretty far gone.

[gabosaurus]

Congress DOES want spending cuts. They disagree about what to cut. No one want their pet projects cuts. No one wants cuts in their state or district.
Look at how vigorously Republicans oppose new income that could be gained from additional taxes on the wealthy. That would take money out of their pockets.

Defense spending is biggest pork barrel in the entire budget. We could cut 30 percent and not bat an eyelash. But no one wants to do it.
Instead, they want to scrape the bones out of other projects that have already been cut.

[red states rule]

Congress DOES want spending cuts. They disagree about what to cut. No one want their pet projects cuts. No one wants cuts in their state or district.
Look at how vigorously Republicans oppose new income that could be gained from additional taxes on the wealthy. That would take money out of their pockets.

Defense spending is biggest pork barrel in the entire budget. We could cut 30 percent and not bat an eyelash. But no one wants to do it.
Instead, they want to scrape the bones out of other projects that have already been cut.

Please tell us the specific CUTS (NOT slowing the rate of growth) Obama and the Dems have offered. The bill that was passed has a ration of 41:1 in tax increases and spending "cuts". In addition to the tax increases in the fiscal cliff deal, we also had the tax increases in Obamacare that also kicked in on 1/1/13. Also you continue to dismiss tax increases on the "rich" Maybe you do not grasp as to why they are called the top ! or 2%. It is because there are so few of them and you cannot tax your way out of this problem Gabby.