Obama Won't Get Budget Blame, Says Gallup

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The only people being asked to take something off the table are the GOP. Taxes have to be included, no they do not! Increase fees at national parks. Increase tariffs across the board by 1%. But don't put this mess on the backs of the America people.
Is Obummercare on the table no! Are any of his social programs on the table? NO!
Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants, in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. Alternatively, scarcity implies that not all of society's goals can be pursued at the same time; trade-offs are made of one good against others.
So is taking MY property to give it to someone else that has a want a good thing? I think not.

Larry of CA 5:58PM July 19, 2011

The American public has stated repeatedly that it wants bipartisanship out of Washington. So Obama has tried to work with Boehner and McConnell. The Republicans, having gained their House majority with Tea Party votes, feel they can compromise on very little right now. Is it any wonder that voters are angrier at the Republicans than at the president? This is a miscalculation by the Republicans. Gallup should not be surprised by its findings. The president has actually governed toward the center (to the chagrin of some on the left) and so I'm not surprised his poll numbers have remained so stable at just below 50%.

AmericanLady of CA 5:34PM July 19, 2011

The American public has stated repeatedly that it wants bipartisanship out of Washington. So Obama has tried to work with Boehner and McConnell. The Republicans, having gained their House majority with Tea Party votes, feel they can compromise on very little right now. Is it any wonder that voters are angrier at the Republicans than at the president? This is a miscalculation by the Republicans. Gallup should not be surprised by its findings. The president has actually governed toward the center (to the chagrin of some on the left) and so I'm not surprised his poll numbers have remained so stable at just below 50%.

AmericanLady of CA 5:30PM July 19, 2011

What matters is who did the right thing.
Going further and further into debt is NOT the right thing.
If the debt limit has to be raised, which it does, then every dollar of increase should be tied to 4 dollars in spending cuts, and NO program is off the table, period. And NO new taxes. I pay way more than I should now and for what? I just paid a 300+% increase in my payroll deductions for having a very good month that was the result of a lot of hard freak'n work. Just imagine what I could have done with that money? But instead it went to the government to just pizz away. I can't wait to work my azz off again. It feels good to support these morons from both parties.

larry of CA 4:36PM July 19, 2011