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1. lbsles

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM

   Anybody expect anything less from the dumbocrats.

   Senate Dem budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes

   The first budget from Senate Democrats in four years includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes but would not balance the budget.

   The blueprint unveiled by Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Tuesday to her Democratic colleagues would also turn off the sequester and replace those spending cuts with a 50-50 mix of tax increases and spending cuts.

   The budget would dedicate $100 billion to economic stimulus in the form of infrastructure spending and job training. Once the sequester cuts are turned off, Murray’s budget appears to reduce deficits by about $800 billion, using the Congressional Budget Office’s baseline. The Murray budget does not contain net spending cuts with the sequester turned off.

   The details of Murray’s budget came hours after House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) released his budget, which reduces tax rates and slashes spending much more deeply that Murray’s budget.

   The Ryan budget would balance in 10 years without raising taxes and by reducing spending over the next decade by $5.7 trillion compared to the CBO baseline.

2. Doug Z

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM

   grasshopper

   usa8888
   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:29 PM

   Seriously–who was the favorite left wing comedian at the Presidents position????

3. Ratboy

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM

   So Doug Z, if you could see into the future what do you see for Zero x 4…………french fry guy at Mickey D’s, pit boy at Uncle Ed’s Oil Change, or living off the government teat? This of course would be AFTER he gets a good job but overspends, gets himself into credit card debt, buys the fancy car that he cant afford, and misses his rent payments 8 months in a row?????

4. 1966

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:34 PM

   monday is open
   msnbc took a beating.

5. AppleStinx

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM

   Dave Sky wrote: “Will someone please tell usa8888 that “Lian” is not a word….”

   This reminds me of the day when I was at a customer overseas verifying equipment they had purchased from us and shipped directly from the factory, and we found it to missing a group of test boards (they were on the PO). My Japanese boss in the US reacted by calling the customer and telling them that nothing was missing and that I was “a lian sacko chit”.

6. Doug Z

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:38 PM

   Ratboy
   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:32 PM

   So Doug Z, if you could see into the future what do you see for Zero x 4

   I bet he will end up like Jerry Rubin of the Chicago 7 , Remember he wanted to kill everybody over 40, but his parents.

   He grew up and his parents bought him a seat at the NYSE .

   Part of the 1% for sure.

7. usa8888

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:38 PM

   The Ryan budget was rejected last year as a face. It voucherizes Medicare and ends it as we know it. It gives huge tax breaks tot he wealthy and closes NO tax loopholes. It mentions no spedning cuts and Lian Ryan refuses to answer where he would cut beyond Social Secutiry and Medicare and several programs for the poor. The GOP has not endorsed it but Fox Fake News has…….

8. lbsles

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:38 PM

   Poll: Obama approval rating, popularity take a hit
   By Justin Sink – 03/12/13 11:08 AM ET

   President Obama is losing favor with the American public, according to a new poll released Tuesday that shows both his job approval rating and personal favorability declining from his post-election highs.

   In the new McClatchy-Marist survey, 48 percent of respondents disapprove of the job the president is doing, versus just 45 percent who approve — Obama’s lowest rating in more than a year. In December, a full half of survey respondents approved of the president’s handling of the job, and it’s the first time the president has held a net negative approval rating since November 2011.

   Voters are also less impressed with the president personally, with 48 percent of voters reporting a favorable impression and an equal 48 percent saying they hold an unfavorable impression. Three months ago, the president led 53-44 percent in that category. Again, the president’s personal popularity was the lowest since November of 2011.

   “You remove the electoral context and post-election celebration, and some of the numbers are returning to the dissatisfaction people had,” said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion at Marist College in New York, in a statement.

   “Any glow from his reelection is starting to fade,” he said.

   The president’s declining poll numbers seem primarily driven by concerns over the economy and disappointment with Washington’s inability to avert the sequester — $85 billion in across-the-board cuts to the federal budget.

   Of the respondents, just 34 percent of voters say the country is headed in the right direction, despite record stock prices and declining unemployment. Moreover, 62 percent of those surveyed say the country remains in a recession, and just 22 percent say they’ll be better off in the next year.

   *******

   The president does continue to outpace Congress, and especially congressional Republicans. Just 26 percent of those surveyed approve of the job that GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are doing, and voters blame congressional Republicans over Obama for the failure to strike a sequester deal by a 45-37 margin.

   Still, voters say they prefer the Republican approach to curbing deficits by a 44-42 percent margin — a sign that the president could struggle to win new revenues as part of a broad deficit deal.

9. lbsles

   Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:44 PM

   Obama’s budget would add almost $1 trillion in debt every two years

   White House spokesman Jay Carney on Monday excused the president’s unprecedentedly late budget submission as a bargaining tactic, and he called for large annual deficits until at least 2023.

   “The broader effort underway here is to try to achieve through the budget process, a compromise” that would stabilize the federal government’s deficit at roughly 3 percent of the nation’s economy, he told reporters during the midday press conference.

   The nation’s GDP is roughly $15.1 trillion, so a 3 percent deficit goal would accept roughly $450 billion in new debt each year. Under Obama’s tenure, the federal debt has risen $6 trillion since 2009, up to almost $17 trillion.

   Carney is “making very clear Americans should not expect a budget that ever balances from this president,” said a midday tweet from Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Majority Leader John Boehner.

   By law, the White House’s detailed annual request for routine and novel agency funding for the next year must be submitted to Congress by the first Monday of February.

   But Obama has instead delayed his budget request until after the GOP-led House and the Democratic-led Senate have introduced and debated detailed, multi-year budget plans.

   The delay gives him and his allies an opportunity to criticize GOP budget plans, while shielding himself from similar criticism.

   Obama’s budget request may also exclude budget-balancing proposals that the president has repeatedly says he would support. The proposals include a revised formula for calculating inflation’s impact on the Consumer Price Index. Over 10 years, the measure could trim the federal government’s budget by a few hundred billion dollars.

   The president’s delay in submitting a budget may lead to yet another fiscal crisis late in 2013 if Obama’s push for tax increases derails the Congress’ complex budget deal-making.

   During the last four years, the government’s annual budgets have been finalized in top-level crisis talks between the White House and the Hill, partly because Democrats in the Senate have declined to propose or debate a budget.

10. lbsles

    Posted March 12, 2013 at 1:49 PM

    Guns and Gear

    Why the Vz-58 is better than the AK-47

    By Andrew Tuohy, LuckyGunner.com

    You’ve probably heard of the AK-47, even if they’ve never seen or held a gun in person. Odds are, even if you’re a “gun person” you probably haven’t heard of the Vz-58, the Czechoslovakian answer to the AK-47 in the 1950?s.

    Essentially every other country behind the Iron Curtain had to fall in line with the Soviets and use an indigenously produced AK-47 variant, but the Czechs’ long history of firearms production gave them some leeway. They had to adopt the 7.62×39 cartridge, but were allowed to develop their own firearm design.

    http : //dailycaller dot com/2013/02/28/why-the-vz-58-is-better-than-the-ak-47/

11. mikey o

    Posted March 12, 2013 at 2:04 PM

    @cathy Understand your concern. He’s nutty as his father and we are not taking it serouisly, I dont trust china either, I think we could get China to make Northern Korea fall inline by USA offering/supply nukes to Japan help defend itself. I bet that would get China to work on North Korea they dont want a arms race in asia. Yes the first cuts from left is also made from Defense which is one of the important function of the government. We had Johnson’s 50 year war on poverty and havent made any progress, just spend more money.

12. Cathy

    Posted March 12, 2013 at 2:21 PM

    Ratboy, UNCLE! He is a child with a smart phone.:twisted:
    Now stop picking on me before a

    Drug and gang related crimes are the number one drain on the U.S. Health System costing $406 billion annually in medical care.

    While, the estimated per year for obesity is $190 billion to the annual healthcare price tag.

    We can save twice as much by tackling crime.