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A trillion here and a trillion there. Pretty soon we are talking big money. How much will it be next year?

spread the word , Obama needs to be voted out, nothin against the man, just believe his policies are wrong....pretty simple

Obama isn't the problem kids. The republicans would probably have the debt limit raised $2.4 Trillion. We are on the slippery slope now. Too late to talk about woulda shoulda coulda's. Nothing left to do but get some gold and wait for the whole thing to play out.

The debt ceiling is for money ALREADY spent. It allows the gov to borrow money to pay the bills for services and goods ALREADY PURCHASED. Congress, including the GOP House passed spending bills for all that money and it is already spent. A president cannot spend money except for expenditures PASSED by Congress.

So your thread starter just shows that you apparently do not understand how the government works. Perhaps if you did you would stop posting these stupid "catcha Obama" threads because the only one "gotten" is you.

That seem to work just fine for the libs when Bush was in office and the Dems had control of everything else, and as for your post above, the point is stop spending now. It may be money already spent, but that does not change the fact that we need to stop spending money like we are.

I agree that we need to cut spending but to blame the president alone, when the specific amounts of money that the gov can spend have to passed in the House and the Senate.

People on here who post as if it is Obama's fault that the debt ceiling keeps going up are just showing their ignorance about how the government works.

I would love to have real discussions on here where partisanship is parked at the door, but in every thread the lemmings have to work in attacks on Obama. Most of those, like this the debt ceiling issue, is done in ignorance.

GMAFB.....WTF???? WHY is this a post on Bucknuts.....I can read all this BS anywhere 24/7. Let's talk about tOSU football people !!!!

They never get it but to be fair it is not his (their) fault. Because this happens all the time I decided to try to figure out why this seems to be happening more and more. This is what I found:

When you get on Bucknuts if you scroll down the comment/posts are introduced as "Latest Topics" and it lists the most recently posted comments WITHOUT IDENTIFICATION OR EXPLANATION OF THE BOARDS. So if a "freshman" clicks on the first item it is the most recent post from any board. Statistically speaking, chances are it will not be from Hot Spot. When it is not the person just jumps in on the conversation. They do this a couple of times and sooner or later they hit a post from Hot Spot, with the board not explained/identified. Then they post WTF is this doing on a football site and then we (Hot Spotters, LOL) take turns schooling them.

Problem is our schooling acts as if they came to Hot Spot and then posted something really dumb. They did not and have no way of knowing what board the post came from.

This is a problem only the Site Gods can fix but they almost certainly won't because it is not a problem for them.

What would be good is if under "Latest Topic" there was a brief description of the various boards and beside each latest post there was an identifier of the board it is from. I think that would be more user friendly and an improvement to the site.

Honestly, I think bucknuts/247 sports could fix this easily. All they need to do is cut out the feed to the 5 changing topics on the landing page. As much as I cringe when I see the "it's a football site" posts, it may lead to having fresh blood infused in the debates. I am sure for every post we read about it being a "football site" there are several more who click, view, and don't comment.

Tim you are partially right, but to say that he doesn't set the tone for what his party does in the house and senate is a little misguided though right?

The healthcare and the "stimulus" were his, under his guidance and urging. He's responsible for what he signs, so he owns it just like Bush owned his, no matter who controls the house/senate.

But you are right, there are serious problems in washington and it's not just Obama, it's a lot of punch drunk senators and house reps left over that just don't understand the budget.

Paul Ryan for President!!

Minster is a douche! Stop the postings please get a life
Im sure you disagree with him killing Bin Laden too, classic Republican idealology

Obama's budget, submitted in Jan. was defeated 97-0 because the dems thought a budget deal was being formulated with the repubs based on changes Obama proposed in April.

"Democratic aides said ahead of the vote that the Democratic caucus would not support the plan because it has been supplanted by the deficit-reduction plan Obama outlined at a speech at George Washington University in April.

No Democratic senator was willing to support it, however, after Obama discussed a more ambitious plan at George Washington University to save $4 trillion over 12 years."
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/163347-senate-votes-unanimously-against-obama-budget

Agree with much of the rest of your post.