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Jay Carney: Spending Cuts Are Deeply Irresponsible, or Something

Rick676 Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 1:53 PM

So, trying to reign is spending, which then Senator Obama said was necessary for W to do, and that raising to debt ceiling to $10trillion was "Un American" for W to do, it's all okey dokey for HIM to rack up trillions in debt and have unparalelled spending. And since the Senate hasn't even PROPOSED as budget in 4 years, let alone pass or vote on a House budget bill, it seems that he believes it is the Republican House that is to blame. Maybe if he would share some of his Kool-Ade with me I can see it the way he does.....

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Jay Carney: Spending Cuts Are Deeply Irresponsible, or Something

Shortly before President Obama told Republicans his $1.6 trillion tax increase wasn't "complicated" today at a toy manufacturing plant in Pennsylvania, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters that spending cuts are deeply irresponsible.

Q: One of the things Speaker Boehner said this morning was that any increase in the debt limit would have to be matched by or exceeded by further spending cuts. That's the same kind of rhetoric that we heard in 2011. Are you concerned that that is being used as leverage again in a way that could be damaging to the United...

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