Obama Signs Into Law Controversial $38 Billion Cuts
- Posted on April 15, 2011 at 6:40pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama signed a six-month spending bill Friday that cuts more than $38 billion from the current budget. The legislation averted a government shutdown and was the result of intense negotiations between the White House and emboldened Republicans.
There was no signing ceremony.
In an accompanying signing statement, however, Obama questioned the constitutionality of a provision in the spending bill that prevents the White House from retaining special policy advisers, or “czars.” He also objected to two other sections that block the transfer of terrorist suspects from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the United States or to other countries.
“The prosecution of terrorists in federal court is a powerful tool in our efforts to protect the nation and must be among the options available to us,” he said. “Any attempt to deprive the executive branch of that tool undermines our nation’s counterterrorism efforts and has the potential to harm our national security.”
In an interview earlier with The Associated Press, Obama conceded that he had not make his case with the American public to try terrorist suspects in civilian courts.
The anti-czar provision is not likely to affect any current White House advisers. Still, Obama said any legislative effort to impede his ability to retain senior advisers would violate the constitutional separation of powers. In a challenge to Congress, he said the executive branch would interpret that provision in a way that it does not inhibit his ability to get advice.
The House and Senate approved the spending agreement Thursday.
With that compromise behind them, the White House and Congress are now plunging into a larger debate over long-term deficits and the rising national debt. The debt will reach its ceiling of $14.3 trillion in mid-May, requiring a vote from Congress to raise the nation’s credit limit.
Republicans are using the vote as leverage to extract further spending reductions from the president. On Friday, Obama said more reductions were inevitable.
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temple62
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 9:44amObama’s “off the teleprompter rants” reveals his refusal to accept partisanship and his ability to switch dialects and personalities based on his audience. And he has several:
Report Post »(1. Chicago Ebonics – gettin’ down, talkin’ wit da home boys about der rites, entitlements and b’ball
(2. Little Black Sambo – bowing to dictators,
(3. Street Thug – as shown here when threatening for the other gang to cross into his turf and his best
(4. Pseudo-intellectual – when meeting with white money raisers or titillating female voters or Chris Matthews.
Workforit
Posted on April 17, 2011 at 6:10amObama can question constitutionality all he wants, it doesn’t matter. Obama just makes up his own rules as he goes along with the help of all his socialist buddies, and the new world corporate cohorts he sleeps with.
He is going to do what he is told, and it isn’t general voting public he listens to… That much is obvious.
Report Post »frankee47
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 8:52pmthis ia great picture of evil.
Report Post »JohnnyJT South Philly
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 4:31pmBIG Whoopi
Report Post »temple62
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 1:48pmThe picture says it all, who is laughing over this deal?
Report Post »TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 1:29pmUnder the no-shutdown deal: The d-crat socialists get to keep taxpayer funding for their leftist propaganda organ, npr, they get to keep taxpayer funding for dingy-harry’s Cowboy Poetry, they get to keep destroying American jobs with the out-of-control epa and they also get to keep taxpayer funding for their abortion factory, planned parenthood. Plus the out-of-control d-crat socialist extremists STILL saddle America with $1.65 TRILLION in additional debt this year alone !
If “You Lie!” hussein supports it, can there be ANY DOUBT that this is horrifically bad deal for America?
This is a sham of joke of a hoax of a lie of a “budget cutting deal” made in lunatic-left d-crat socialist heaven. Overall, this is a BAD deal for America – “You Lie!” hussein didn’t give up ANYTHING, while the Ruling Class, out-of-touch establishment Repubs caved in to more economic/social atrocities from the lunatic-left and failed miserably to do the job of controlling the out-of-control lunatic-left spending. Boehner now HAS NO CREDIBILITY whatsoever – he’s in the same cesspool as “YOU LIE!” hussein.
Nov 2010 was just a warm-up to the even more massive political changes in store for Nov 2012.
Report Post »Tyler520
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 11:23amoooh…wow…38 billion
This amounts to nothing – 2011 spending will still greatly outweigh that of 2010 by leaps and bounds
Report Post »PHPotatoe
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 6:15amSimple Government 101
PHASE 1:
-Cut the budget 25% across the board effective immediately. Lean up and make them be efficient.
-Establish competitive corporate tax rate w/o loop holes.
^USA WOULD HAVE INSTANT ECONOMIC BOOM^
PHASE 2:
-Audit government programs to consolidate agencies, eliminate duplicated offices.
-Establish a massive transportation infrastructure to connect US cities. (Making it
possible for a janitor living in Milwaukee to work daily in Chicago)
-Legalize illegal vices that are never going away and tax… Drugs, Gambling, Prostitution…etc
(sorry to much money goes to fight these things and no progress is or ever will be made, better
off taxing and regulating it)
PHASE 3:
Establish a 10 year plan to base the USD on a fair tangible backing in lieu of fantasy
This = win
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 11:34pmliberals are cancer to USA ! they are totally braiwashed and stupid …..if they only learn about the history of communsim and socilism they would spit on themselfs for standing up for poverty, killing of millions of people, hunger, deapair, short gloomy life.. bad food, not prosperty, communsit slavery is very very very dark ……..but the stupid morons do not know that…they think everyone will get the same goodies……..you will be allow to keep enough to buy bad food and bad close and pair of chineese shoes…80% of your earning go to communsit government – a stinking fart such as obama…
Report Post »Liberals are spreading cancer !
HOPEYCHANGY
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:51pmWell,… unspent census money, is NOT a cut, etc,…et al,……The Boehner, and RINO’s sold out for a CBO number around 350+/- million dollars of real cuts…..NOT 38Billion.
Take a five gallon bucket of ocean water out,….any change? That’s what were dealing with.
“I place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” —Thomas Jefferson
Report Post »ltb
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:52pmNo To The Tea Party
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:28pm
blah, blah, blah
—–
Nobody wants to shut you up. Please, keep talking. If I had $10 Million to start a TV show on one of the major networks called “The Primetime Liberal Hour,” which would feature nothing but Liberals like you talking about the virtues of communism, I’d give you the money in a heartbeat. I only wish more people could watch MSNBC without becoming violently ill and puking on themselves at the site of Rachel Maddow, because the more people stick around and listed to what that crazed hermaphrodite has to say, the more the ranks of the Tea Party swell. I want you to speak, I want you to go to state capitols like you did in WI and do $7 million worth of damage while you carry your “WE WANT WHAT YOU’VE GOT” signs, I want you to keep using people like Al Sharpton to call descent Americans “racist” while you turn a deaf ear to Harry Reid calling Obama a water boy, I want your crazy liberal ideas shouted from every rooftop in America, I want taxpayers to see you spit in their faces while you stick out your hands to take whatever Obama will steal from them on your behalf, because free speech is the best antidote for the disease that is called “Liberalism,” you ignorant nut bag.
Report Post »Gypsy One
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:47pmHe had no signing because he is a dimwit. Perhaps he had a golf cart on hold and had to get going.
Report Post »Gypsy One
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:44pmI believe you are delusional. The tea party people have a way of discerning logic from blatant lies that you and your ilk cannot seem to do. For an example, it’s like you adding 1+1=2, and us solving a trig problem. Can you understand that much?
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:26pmRush broke it down today.
It’s all BS and it really amounts to $352 Million.
It’s time to flood DC with TEA! We’ll force the Dimbulbs and
the Powercrats into a minority to the Freedom loving
Tea Partiers.
Long Live Freedom, Long Live America.
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:21pmWow. Didn’t even notice anything.
Report Post »felina g
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:56pmThat`s news ?????
Someone is studying belly button bacteria.
Report Post »roostercogburn
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:52pmWe have to keep their feet to the fire, cut the money off, these dumbocrats are trying to destroy this country, they have been busy trying to do that for years, fraud, waste and abuse, just cut the spending, this “cut” was nothing, we need massive cuts across the board to get things under control, we should easily be able to cut 40% from the budget, if we don’t we are screwed.
Report Post »Whostolemypig
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:51pmObama is the last one that needs to be talking about congress, the constitution and separation of powers, in the same paragraph.
Report Post »annieoakley
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 11:06pmExactly!
Report Post »headbtweenlegs
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:44pmBlah blah …get over yourself..
Report Post »headbtweenlegs
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:42pmDo you think we are stupid?
Report Post »dumboldcontractor
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:12pmThe National Debt, Deficit and Budget Cuts
For Dummies like me!
Look, most of us can’t even conceive of billions, let alone trillions of dollars. So, to put this into perspective in terms most Americans can get their head around, I am going to do two things. First I’ll eliminate 9 zeros from all the numbers. This means $1.00 = 1 BILLION, $1,000.00 = 1 TRILLION. Second most people budget by the month, not the fiscal year, so I will use the fiscal year numbers (converted) in a monthly budget.
O.K. are you with me so far? If not read the first paragraph again.
The National debt will be for this example a credit card with a $5,000 limit
When Bill Clinton left office the budget was balanced but the National debt was 5.6 trillion dollars. So for this example Clinton left Bush our $5,000 limit credit card $600 over it’s limit.
Bush came into office and started running a Deficit, in other words he was making less than he was spending (actually Congress is who does the spending, but this explanation is not about blaming anyone), more than his income ( like a lot of us do). In fact in 2006 for our example he spent $162 more than his income and the credit card had a balance of $8,500 Those late charges and finance charges add up!
Now, the Budget. Fast forward to 2011 (estimated) 2010
Spending ( total U.S. budget)…………………………………..$3,700.00 $3,517.00
Income (total revenues)…………………………………………..$2,000.00 $2,105.00
Deficit (amount added to the credit card balance)…………..$1,700.00 $1,571.00
Balance on the credit card (Total National debt)…………..$14,290.00 $ 13,561.00
Budget cuts agreed to April 9 2011 ( how much we
Are willing to give up to fix the problem…………………….$ 38.00
By the way this is over a period of 6 months
Charges on the credit card for just the 8 days of negotiating
these draconian cuts…………………………………………….$ 40.00
Now let me ask you this. If you had a credit card that was $9,000.00 over the credit limit, of $5,000 , and you had an income of $2,000 a month and were spending $3,700 a month (putting the balance on the card). When they called you to ask for a payment, you told them “ well I’m willing to spend $38.00 less this month, and I’ll pay you a payment, someday, when I get a raise. What do you think they would say to you?
People, It’s time to get serious about this. China an Japan are our credit card companies. One of them doesn’t really like us, the other really NEEDS all the money they can get right now!
Report Post »Paulhgreenbay
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:28pmBoo to your new moniker. Simplistic is an understatement. I want to see something that invokes anger. This one make you seem special. That would explain the posts you have made.
Report Post »Ampleforth
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:28pmEver since the head scar story surfaced I can only think of Barack Obama as Ray Bolger portraying the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:17pmThe only way to stop the socialists agenda is cut the money off we need to stand firm on Not raising the debt limit..
Report Post »FansLogonDOTcom
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:42pm…. that is, no raising the debt ceiling unless we get the “Balanced Budget Amendment” tied directly to it. And even then, only raise it the absolute bare minimum to buy us a little bit of time to start moving spending in the other direction. Otherwise don’t increase the debt ceiling one dollar. Period. Start making cuts boys and girls in Congress!
Report Post »headbtweenlegs
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:56pmGood luck…
Report Post »BIGJAYINPA
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:15pmWhy would we want you off the site? A) You are very humerous in a perverted sort of way and B) Keep your freinds close and your enemies closer. I want you where I can see you. If I can see it I can hit it. Ask 82A1 about that.
Report Post »joe conservative
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:02pmObama is the great divider. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nTMaT_9QGo
Report Post »exdem
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:15pmIs that a scar on his head in that picture or bad lighting?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 7:23pmOf course there was no signing ceremony. Odummer could not stand the fact that the AMERICAN people had spoken out and the congress listened. He could not stand that we the people had not worshiped his every word and followed him like blind sheep.
We must make the call louder and more intense in 2012. We cannot allow the bankrupting of America. We must clean out the Senate and remove ALL the libs, commies and anti-american politicians.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:05pmMaybe it is because he writes like an idiot .. I am left handed and anyone with a brain figures out that if you slant the paper the opposite way as a “righty” … you don’t have to curve your arm to write! If he is such a brainiac why didn’t he figure it out …. my writing is so good no one can tell that I am left handed.
Report Post »donh2
Posted on April 16, 2011 at 12:48amTalk about signing cuts…The scar on Obama’s head draws the Hebrew letter Vav which is also the hebrew number 6 . The scar wraps around the back of his head drawing a letter Samesh which equals 60. I have not seen the entire scar but assume it continues to the other ear drawing a letter resh for 200 and a letter tau for 400 adding his scar up to the mark of the beast 666. He was not born with this mark but it is proof Obama is initiated into a cult of Satan , which has MANY secret members in Washington DC.
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