Poll: Americans Split on Ryan, Obama Budget Plans

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I can't begin to say how fed up I am with the lies, threats and blackmail coming from the Office of the President. Our President hasn't followed through on one item from his agenda and yet he is still pushing to spend more. As a country we cannot continue to spend....this is the time for cost cutting.
We are at 34% increase in deficit and if we go on with the current plan will be at 52% by the end of 2012, is this what our our Founding Fathers fought for? I don' think so, they would tell us to tighten our belts and make sacrifices as they did. We cannot continue down this path, our "stimulus plan" did nothing for 95% of America, we are going to kill small businesses through the changes to healthcare and taxation.
We are not hurting large corporations, nor are we hurting the "wealthiest" but we are going to harm those on the cusp and we will cause more people to loose their jobs and cause small business hiring to come to a halt. As large corporations continue to cut jobs we will be seeing losses from both sides and then who will pay taxes? Many of those "wealthy" people are the former employees of high tech firms and financial services companies that have lost their jobs.
The cut, cap and balance was passed by both sides and yet our President said he would no sign it, that is because he wants only his agenda. If our President wants to play hardball, I say let's get to it. If we don't make some hard decisions now our country no longer be the leader of the free world and eventually all but the very rich will live in poverty.
Right now decisions need to be based on facts, not emotion. We must be fiscally responsible and create an environment where logic and common sense prevail over rhetoric or a simple "change" statement.

J Randall of FL 9:34PM July 25, 2011

He is consistently deceitful and lying in his proposals. He moves numbers and time periods around to confuse the issue and make his campaign look good. He gets away with this because about 50% of Americans don't even bother to read the news and get informed. The rest dine on sound bites blasted at them by the liberal and biased lamestream media.
Our conutry is doomed with this jackass as president. Paraphrasing Michelle, I am not proud of my country anly onger since her husband and his pitiful policies have been railroaded through!

Citizen of WI 2:21PM April 29, 2011

So it's Ryan's "Path" versus Obama's "vacuous"? Not so fast, Peter Roff. Your meeting of deadlines is admirable, the way you do so not always.
The one glimmer of hope is that Obama has now made defense spending part of the mix. Ryan certainly didn't, preferring instead to lay waste to domestic programs and areas long on the Republicans' hit list. Defense he gave only a nod to despite the evidence of budget bloating in all of National Security since 9/11. One SuperPower foreign policy decision after another, since WWII as a matter of fact, has forced funding extravagance in all five areas of National Security: National Defense, Homeland Security, Nation Building, Veterans Affairs, and Foreign Aid designed to gain the cooperation of other countries. Obama just might--I wish it were a sure thing--be on the trail of interconnectedness of the five and just might be back to Nobel Peace Prize winner having learned the cost of flexing SuperPower muscle in places like Libya.
Spending in support of projecting power everywhere on earth, something no other country attempts or, apparently, cares to since we've volunteered, is quite an extravagance for a nation deep in debt and professing interest in changing that fact. Just maybe Obama's appointments of a few days ago signal a new direction and with it fiscal sanity in place of foreign-policy-induced national debt and annual deficits. Spending more than the rest of the world COMBINED on National Security, over a trillion dollars a year, seems to me a tempting enough target for spending cuts and long-term downsizing.
"Vacuous," Peter Roff?

Ron W. Smith of UT 1:14PM April 29, 2011

"CBO Projects Obama’s Budget Would Add $9.8 Trillion of Debt"
http://www.swifteconomics.com/2010/03/15/cbo-projects-obamas-budget-would-add-9-8-trillion-of-debt/

Bill Hedges of MO 12:33PM April 29, 2011

Absolute balderdash, that informed vote for Ryan. How des Roff produce that bit of information? I am 83 and believe me I am pretty well informed and those that vote for Ryan are not aware and have OLD WORLD EUROPEAN VIEWS. That is my surmisal ,as I have talked to a good many people , and most have views of great inflation that occurred in Germany after W1 and other similar countries and believe me there are many of that ethnic back grounds in Wis.That is simply their experience. Well that is not what has to happen when raising the debt limit . What is important is that the debt payment will be going in the direction of being paid down and that can be accomplished with Ogbamas' plan. We , as he states do not have to take an axe to cut . We must do it surgically and not on just the low income , seniors ,or other s that have lost out on the time of recession or before.

WH of WI 12:11PM April 29, 2011

Obama doesn't have a budget plan. The Democrats irresponsibly failed to pass any budget for this country in 2010, even though they controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. Then, this Obama half-hearted, simplistic, and undefined "budget" is merely a reaction to Paul Ryan's highly detailed budget.
Not only does the Ryan budget make real cuts in spending that are going to be required if this country is to fiscally survive--much less prosper--but it addresses entitlements which, because of escalating costs and the aging demographics/population of this country, will unilaterally bankrupt the U.S. if they continue on their present course.
Of course, rather than come to the table with honest proposals or suggestions or even realistic counter-proposals, the Democrats have chosen to demonize the Ryan proposals and suggest (falsely) that the Ryan budget would take away benefits for seniors currently on Medicare or Social Security. It is a travesty that the Democrats would foster this kind of blatant lie.
What seniors may not understand is that thanks to Obama's easy-money policies, inflation is beginning to eat into seniors' savings--gasoline, food, clothing, and commodities are all skyrocketing--while at the same time, this same easy-money, low interest rate Obama policy is also ruining the value of the dollar (which is helping to cause these price increases) and, for all practical purposes, stealing from seniors' savings--as interest rates are so low, that seniors can no longer get income from the interest on their savings.
Obama's plan is to make those who were or are productive in society pay for those who are not--with duplicative government programs, benefits for everyone, and a disincentive to work hard knowing that you're going to get taxed to death if you do well.

Sherlock Holmes of NH 11:05AM April 29, 2011

And so,frankly I donot prefer either one! So,this senior citizen disabled person,
independent voter living in Phoenix AZ says to both GOP Congressman Paul Ryan
and Democrat Kenyan Wonder Barack Hussein Obama and both the total idiotic
incompetents of the Republican & Democrat Parties Go Back To The Drawing
Board and stop your trying to budget the budget,elminate the huge national debt off the backs of all of the senior citizens and disabled or plan on your becoming unemployed and totally unelectable or un-reelectable and completely
un-employable! Since all of you total incompetent losers have not only lost your
blooming bloody minds and deserve to be thrown out of the White House and our US Congress,if you cannot do any better then this total crappola and just
remember that all of us,Senior Citizens Vote and Vote in great numbers then
anyother group of voters. And keep in mind that Senior Citizens and Independent Voter now hold the real political power in America today! And so,
therefore do not force us to man the pitchforks and torches here now then.

Ralph of AZ 10:46AM April 29, 2011

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cbo-obama-push-public-debt-above-20-tril
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“Gallup poll: Americans evenly split on Obama, Ryan budget plans”
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/27/news/la-pn-gallup-poll-deficit-20110428
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Get your facts straight kid...

Bill Hedges of MO 10:40AM April 29, 2011

The true Republican poll. If more people are for Obama's plan in this poll, then that means the vast majority of Americans are for Obama's plan as the Gallup Poll leans very much to the right.
Bill Hedges of MO just can't stand the fact Ryan's plan will add a $34 Trillion bill on seniors over the next 75 years as the government pays less and the seniors, if they can get coverage because Ryan's plan says the insurance companies don't have to offer seniors or people with pre-existing conditions a plan, have to pay more. You see, Bill has his Medicare and SS and he says to hell with everyone else because unlike other people, he paid into these programs for 40 years. Well, Bill I have paid into the same programs for 40 years and I am no where near retirement; so, with Ryan's plan I am just SOL even though by the time I can retire I will have paid into the system for 55 years. Thanks for voting against everyone's best economic interest Bill.

Tree Hugger of CO 9:57AM April 29, 2011

Man “who broke Bank of England ” Bets on Wall Street that $$$ is going down.
Now I’m paid a $$$ zillion a week to discredit your sort. Talk about easy pickings. You left out racist...

Bill Hedges of MO 8:42PM April 28, 2011