Official: Obama to call for 5-year spending freeze

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: MSNBC

A White House official says President Barack Obama will call for a five-year freeze in non-security, discretionary spending during his State of the Union address.

The official says the proposal will be part of the president's plans to reduce the deficit that he will outline in Tuesday's primetime address. The official says Obama will also call for lawmakers to back a five-year plan put forth by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to save $78 billion in defense spending.

"In areas outside the freeze, we also will be looking for cuts and efficiencies," a senior White House official told NBC News.

Obama is under pressure from the public and lawmakers to cut spending. Several Republican lawmakers have proposed cutting $100 billion from Obama's budget for the current year.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41255084/ns/politics-white_house

[mike_c]

1. end the damned wars and cut the military budget by 80 percent....

Instant budget relief and a windfall for domestic programs. And the only folks who'll be chronically unemployed will be people we're better off without, e.g. ex-generals.

edit: on second thought, most will probably just find employers somewhere else, killing someone else's enemies. Win-win all around.

[CountAllVotes]

3. I couldn't agree more

END THE DAMN WARS is right!

ENOUGH ALREADY MR. PRESIDENT.

If they "cut" what very little might be left they'll find nothing as we are already there.

Don't be fooled by that pumped up Wall Street B.S. These "wars" have been going on for too many years. Time to toss the towel in and take care of the war here at home.

That war is: THE WAR ON POVERTY.

:dem:

[bossy22]

7. completely unrealistic

[mike_c]

11. no, it just won't ever happen while greed for profit and power is more important...

...than creating a happy and democratic society in the U.S. It's only unrealistic because of the amount of power that has accumulated in the Pentagon and the military industrial complex. But mark my words, the MIC will destroy the U.S., not save it. The only "security" it provides is security for its own profits and power.

[Cal Carpenter]

2. NON-SECURITY.

:shrug:


:wtf:

The poor get poorer and the MIC gets richer.

[CountAllVotes]

4. this is very non-specific

Think what you first thought it meant and think no further ...

Imagine ...

[Freddie Stubbs]

13. Most Americans don't want cuts in military funding

[BlueJazz]

5. "we also will be looking for cuts and efficiencies" R-i-g-h-t, We know what that means...

"Fuck the Poor"

[alp227]

6. and you thought Obama must know the plights of poor Americans

given he was a community organizer in South Side Chicago before entering the Illinois State Senate.

[northernlights]

10. my guess is that what he learned as a community organizer

was that he wasn't going to be a sucker like the rest of us. Nice notch for his resume. Nothing more.

[sam sarrha]

8. how about repealing all Welfare to the rich.. ?? good place to start

top 1% richest hold 42% of America's financial wealth, 6 times what the bottom 80% hold at 7%.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html



...and warren buffet pays less taxes than his secretary or house keeper, Bill Gates pays same taxes as a family making $80,000 a year..!!

I've paid Social security all my life working at a poverty level, and I'm getting robbed by the richist people in the world getting richer on F'n Welfare,!!!???

[Fuddnik]

9. "Obama is under pressure from the public".

Just ignorant tea-baggers and faux snooze viewers.

Anything to keep from raising taxes on the rich or hedge fund managers.

[Skittles]

12. FUDDNIK NAILS IT

Obama is acting like a fucking coward