Obama to push domestic spending freeze

[240 is Back]

Here is the first of his response moves to recent GOP success.

What politician is going to come out and criticize Obama for cutting spending?

This will be a popular move with most americans, and it'll look like he's finally getting financially responsible.    And he can now stand up at the 2012 debate and say "I called for slashing spending 3 years ago!"

Facing voter anger over mounting budget deficits, President Barack Obama will ask Congress to freeze spending for some domestic programs for three years beginning in 2011, administration officials said Monday. Separately, Obama unveiled plans to help a middle class "under assault" pay its bills, save for retirement and care for kids and aging parents

AP

[240 is Back]

Krugman gets a lot of love on getbig.... and here's what he has to say:

Climate of Change
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Elections have consequences. President Obama’s new budget represents a huge break, not just with the policies of the past eight years, but with policy trends over the past 30 years. If he can get anything like the plan he announced on Thursday through Congress, he will set America on a fundamentally new course.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/27/opinion/27krugman.htm...



The crazy spending has to stop.  Obama did it for a year and now he's freezing it.

i saw this tnoight, interesting...
"President Clinton left a $237 billion surplus; President Obama received a $1.3 trillion deficit"

[Hugo Chavez]

Obama is a hero of the people.  Now all he needs to do is shut down Fox News.

[tonymctones]

Obama is a hero of the people.  Now all he needs to do is shut down Fox News.

LOL he tried remember? A president that wont give access to a station b/c they are critical of him...hmmm seems like that happened just a little while ago in a country ran by a dictator 

LOL what programs are going to be put on the freeze?

[Bindare_Dundat]

"It's designed to save $250 billion over the coming decade."



 

[Hugo Chavez]

LOL he tried remember? A president that wont give access to a station b/c they are critical of him...hmmm seems like that happened just a little while ago in a country ran by a dictator 

LOL what programs are going to be put on the freeze?

Well he can try again.  And after he gets Fox closed down he can go after all those Nazi's on the radio.

[Hugo Chavez]

Next he needs to snag land that's been horded by the rich so the poor can live a decent life.  And after that, there's a few things he can get on nationalizing ASAP.