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In reply to the discussion: We the people have already lost. [View all]merrily
(45,251 posts)166. Obama on "entititlements" and deficit reduction 2009-2010; Conyers on Obama, 2011
Obama Pledges Reform of Social Security, Medicare Programs
By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 16, 2009
President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare "bargain" with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011504114.html
Stephanie Condon /
CBS News/ February 16, 2010, 6:00 PM
Erskine Bowles, Alan Simpson to Lead Obama's Deficit Commission
President Obama on Thursday will sign an executive order establishing the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (previously known as the deficit commission). He will also announce the commission's co-chairs, according to a senior administration official, CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller reports.
The president will appoint former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles and former Republican Senate Whip Alan Simpson will serve as co-chairs, a senior official confirms to CBS News.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-6214125-503544.html
Conyers on Jobs: Weve Had It. Lays Out Obama, Calls for Protest at White House
[In 1987] We passed the first bill that allowed the government in areas of high unemployment to directly intervene and create jobs. Well, weve got the bill in here again and Ive got nothing from the White House, John Conyers
At a press conference held by members of the House Out of Poverty Caucus Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich), the second most senior member of the U.S. House, was pointed in his criticism of the White House regarding jobs and cuts to Social Security the President put on the table last week.
Weve got to educate the American people at the same time we educate the President of the United States. The Republicans, Speaker Boehner or Majority Leader Cantor did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal. The President of the United States called for that, Conyers, who has served in the House since 1965, said. My response to him is to mass thousands of people in front of the White House to protest this, Conyers said strongly.
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I was the first member of Congress to come out for the 44th President. Weve got to march on him. Hell be before the Congressional Black Caucus on September 21st. Conyers said referring to the annual CBC Gala. The President has addressed the gala each year hes been in office.
http://www.crewof42.com/cbc/conyers-on-jobs-weve-had-it-lays-out-obama-calls-for-protest-at-white-house/
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See Lincoln the Movie. Compromise is how the USA was founded and has worked since
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#1
Please don't insult my intelligence by telling me to see a movie in order to learn anything,
MadHound
Dec 2012
#4
Well excuuuuuuuse me for daring to think that your post, a reply to mine, is actually meant for me
MadHound
Dec 2012
#11
He's been trying to shill this film for over a week. Just another "my team right or wrong"
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#90
The absolute 100% or don't agree is working real well for us- WHEN THE REPUBS DO IT!!!
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#96
the tea party is a great example of both absoulutism and anarchy as one
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#113
First of all, please don't make assumptions about what I am doing, OK, thanks.
MadHound
Dec 2012
#130
there are only two sides. Never a third shall be,unless the repubs leave the ballpark like the Whigs
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#157
Right. If not responding to the OP and not responding to anyone else in the thread,
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2012
#158
I totally agree with you, Tavalon and keep wondering, "Has nobody explained this to Obama yet?"
We People
Dec 2012
#77
Compromise is how this country works according to you and a movie and I don't disagree.
Cleita
Dec 2012
#25
You attitude is a good example of why we are where we are today. We been settling for 10% until
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#26
LBJ is the greatest and worked well to get all those social acts/civil rights/voting rights acts
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#120
JFK authorized Bobby to wiretap Dr. Martin Luther King. and renewed it.
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#128
And what does that have to do with LBJ escalating a war under false premises,
MadHound
Dec 2012
#131
Well, now that I've seen what a poor grasp you have of both history and reality,
MadHound
Dec 2012
#134
And that's what we want. We want the REPUBLICANS to compromise for a change. .
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#106
no, actually, war is how the US was founded & maintained, the very opposite of compromise.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#156
"instead ... we get ... Trickle Down and Voodoo Reaganomics." What's worse, we are now in the
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#62
We (Democrats) need to take an initial position that is so extreme that any movement
bluethruandthru
Dec 2012
#8
Nationalize some industries that are vital for our defense. Like the defense industry and oil. nm
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#28
And what arguments are you bringing to the table? Real Democrats realize that shit stirring is good.
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#33
It's easier than doing the work, babylonsister. Talk is cheap. Cynicism is cool.
freshwest
Dec 2012
#151
as for 'precedent' show me where this President has made cuts to the social safety net
bigtree
Dec 2012
#59
Didn't he appoint Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles to a committee????????
socialist_n_TN
Dec 2012
#129
It's the American way since Trickie Dick and the false 'Gas Shortage '
orpupilofnature57
Dec 2012
#36
I had no illusion. The only thing I felt fairly certain about was the Supreme Court. Everything
still_one
Dec 2012
#54
She's better than the RW Federalist Society judges? Does she want to be? Or be the same?
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#147
With the GLARING monster bill that we give the military, nothing else needs saying.
Gregorian
Dec 2012
#65
All that military stuff ends up in a landfill eventually, just like all the junk we buy from China.
Flatulo
Dec 2012
#114
Some eerie parallels between the immediate appearance of the "Fiscal Cliff" and the "Patriot Act"
We People
Dec 2012
#93
Excellent post. The good part of all this is that the people are no longer as naive
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#116
With so many realistic and optimistic DUers your talents may be wasted here.
great white snark
Dec 2012
#83
The business world's cushy association with Reagan's presidency put a lot of people out of work.
pacalo
Dec 2012
#105
We can pressure Congress, they have a future to think of. And we should do so
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#139
You are right. But I think we were still recovering from the Bush years and people
sabrina 1
Dec 2012
#148
Then people should have fought back harder against Ralph Nader & his lies.
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#141
Now some want to fight China. Instead of embrace new customers and citizens of the world
graham4anything
Dec 2012
#143
Agree completely, but make it the last *fifty* years that that lesson has been learned.
eomer
Dec 2012
#162
Obama on "entititlements" and deficit reduction 2009-2010; Conyers on Obama, 2011
merrily
Dec 2012
#166
+1 Whatever crumbs are ostentatiously handed to the 99 percent after this debacle,
woo me with science
Dec 2012
#171