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How long will it take?

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  1. Clay Putnam
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    33 posts
    3/4/2013 3:03 PM
    I'm making my prediction now that the sequestration has kicked-in. Somewhere down the road the Obama campaign machine will boisterously announce that the president reduced the budget by $85 billion in 2013.



  2. Trevor Monreal
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    5 posts
    3/6/2013 7:03 AM
    Well...you can't really blame the president.
    Remember when he was campaigning (how can we forget...this campaign has gone on for at least six years now) he said,
    "We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don't need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way."
    Now...it's not his fault the senate hasn't passed a budget. I'm sure as soon as he is presented with one he will get out the sharpie and get to work.
    Until then there isn't a whole lot he can do.
    He asked this question himself on the 1st of March, "What more do you think I should do?"
    MAN...do we need some leadership.
    I just hope the leadership of those that want to harm us is as feckless as ours is right now.



  3. Ashton Alan W
    Ashton Alan W avatar
    3/6/2013 9:03 AM
    Trevor Monreal said:
    He asked this question himself on the 1st of March, "What more do you think I should do?"


    Trevor,

    Did you see the news conference that this came from? Given the context, I saw no problem with his response to the reporter's question... the manner in which you posted it here is quite different, in my opinion.



  4. Melvin Waldron
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    43 posts
    3/6/2013 10:03 AM
    I agree with Alan on his statement.

    As I have said before, (I think I have, any way) Until the republicans can stop worrying about getting primaried from their right, they are going to do as little as possible to work with this president and go toward fixing our problems.

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  5. Trevor Monreal
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    5 posts
    3/6/2013 12:03 PM
    Well...I have a big problem with his response.
    I must expect more from a POTUS.
    Whether in the context I quoted from, whether on the right or on the left, the most powerful person in the world should not be helpless. He/she needs to get the job done.
    But hey, those are my expectations...



  6. Melvin Waldron
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    43 posts
    3/6/2013 1:03 PM
    Trevor Monreal said: Well...I have a big problem with his response.
    I must expect more from a POTUS.
    Whether in the context I quoted from, whether on the right or on the left, the most powerful person in the world should not be helpless. He/she needs to get the job done.
    But hey, those are my expectations...


    Trevor what are your suggestions then? The president because of the importance placed on the 3 branches of government does not have absolute power. Even when he does things to lead because of the stalemate in congress through recess appointments (which President Bush did as well), or executive powers, he gets vilified.

    His first year in office he has other elected officials stating they are wanting to make him a "One Term President" It seems in my opinion it is what the republicans want, if they don't get it they won't support it. Quite honestly he proposes ideas, even ideas that at one time the right supported, and because he proposed them they will not support them? Recently I can see the president seems to have dug his heels in a little more then in the past.

    Hey the democrats haven't been perfect either, so I'm open to the debate, just don't see much of any.

    Mel

    Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO

  7. Jon Gansen
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    1 posts
    3/7/2013 7:03 AM
    My thoughts have been (for a long time) Potus refuses to accept responsibility. There has been a lack of leadership on his part for not taking the time to visit congress and expressing the need for something to get done with the debt and spending. Now the Administration has been caught talking doom and gloom with the sequester and the e-mail saying make it hurt. What is the agenda of the White House.



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