YES! He shouldn't be offering any cuts to any social programs.
78%
YES! And he will lose support for giving in to the GOP!
23%
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President Obama should not accept the Republican terms of the debate about what is fair and balanced in any discussion of the budget. He should focus first on job creation and creating a tax code that includes excessive income and wealth to address the extreme inequality in America today. We cannot live with "The Dog and the Hay" fable writ large and expect to sustain our democracy.
I'd be willing to bet that very few of those who voted Teapublican think they voted for cuts to their own social programs. Most likely 47% of the voters will be convinced President Obama is throwing Grandma under the bus. You can count on it because the corp. media will place very little emphasis on the fact that the Teapublicans are demanding it as part of the deal. The spin will be that Obama is simply doing it as part of the deal. Wait and see!
In my opinion this could all be very destructive to the Democratic party and the election momentum it now has. Cuts to military spending and making the rich give back some of their illgotten wealth via taxation should be most of the discussion. I still can't believe how far to the right the teabaggers have pulled the Democrats in just a few years! Obama needs to realize that this extremism has been fomented by a few billionaires and has very little to do with what the vast majority of us really want.
YES to both answers!....... or can I vote twice?
I am fed up with Obama caving in to those thieving bastards time and again. Everyone in Congress who is willing to rip off our hard-earned trust fund benefits, like Social Security & Medicare, should have their OWN entitlements sacrificed to balance the budget. Enough already. This is the richest country in the world for chrissakes!! It's not an issue of us going broke; it's more about distribution and priorities. Fiscal cliff? Plll-eeeeezze.
Initially I was wholly ticked off, but as the news is unfolding it looks as though the Republicans are unwilling to accept the deal. So when we go over the cliff they are going to look even worse. Anyway I am hopeful. It makes no sense that the cost of patching the hole in our budget should be born by those who for 30 years have gained the least. It must be born by those who reaped the benefits of Reaganomics.
I don't know what it is with the current governement ..current since Clinton..that they want to totally dismantle the New Deal....the only set of laws put in place by any president that put this country on track as a whole. Or even the banksters...since more general prosperity helps their bottom line as well. If what I heard on Bill Moyers is correct, and Obama persues these cuts, he will likely leave a legacy as one of the worst presidents. Unfortunately it could be many years before another African American will be elected due to the mistrust Obama will leave in his wake as a major sell-out. We need to go over the so-called cliff and go from there.
Republicans evidently did NOT GET THE MESSAGE. The citizens of the U.S. ARE in favor of raising rates on the wealthy. They are in favor of cuts to military spending. They ARE NOT in favor of what Boehner is proposing, and the President absolutely SHOULD NOT CAVE! We TRUSTED him just as he asked us to do. Now it's time to repay us for that trust.