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White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« on: November 12, 2012, 09:17:53 PM »
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White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit


 
Two dozen business, labor and civic leaders, including the chief executives of major U.S. corporations such as Ford, IBM and Wal-Mart, will meet President Barack Obama to discuss how to control the federal deficit, said the White House on Monday.

Obama was scheduled to meet labor and civic leaders on Tuesday, followed by a meeting with business executives on Wednesday. A White House official said the leaders would discuss "the best ways to move our economy forward and find a balanced approach to reduce the deficit."

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Expected at the meeting on Tuesday were four labor leaders - Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees International Union, Lee Saunders of the public employees union AFSCME, Dennis Van Roekel of the National Education Association and Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization for U.S. labor.

Also at the session on Tuesday would be leaders of civic and politically progressive groups. They were John Podesta and Neera Tanden of the Center for American Progress, Robert Greenstein of the think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Laura Burton Capps of Common Purpose Project, Max Richtman of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security, Justin Ruben of MoveOn and Deepak Bhargava of Center for Community Change.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/13/us-usa-fiscal-obama-leaders-idUSBRE8AC03720121113

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021803167

Yay a bunch of moonbats are getting together to figure out how to screw us further.

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1. Progressives have a seat at the table? Really?

 About time!!

Progressives have had the whole table since 2009.

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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2012, 09:25:09 PM »
Gosh...I wonder what they will come up with? ::)
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2012, 09:26:30 PM »
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Expected at the meeting on Tuesday were four labor leaders - Mary Kay Henry of the Service Employees International Union, Lee Saunders of the public employees union AFSCME, Dennis Van Roekel of the National Education Association and Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, the umbrella organization for U.S. labor.

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Business executives invited to meet the president on Wednesday were Mark Bertolini of Aetna Inc, Ursula Burns of Xerox Corp, Kenneth Chenault of American Express Co, David Cote of Honeywell International Inc, Michael Duke of Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric Co, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical Co, Robert McDonald of Procter & Gamble Co, Alan Mulally of Ford Motor Co, Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo Inc, Ginni Rometty of IBM, and John Watson of Chevron Corp.


Obama meets with the union and progressive takers on Tuesday to get his talking points and then meets with the makers on Wednesday.
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2012, 04:20:52 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 12, 2012, 09:26:30 PM
Obama meets with the union and progressive takers on Tuesday to get his talking points and then meets with the makers on Wednesday.

Exactly.  The last ones who should be sitting at that table are the unions.
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2012, 07:19:49 AM »
In other words, Obama isn't the least bit serious about any notion of fiscal restraint.  He intends to push the pedal to the metal on his redistributionist schemes, and will not cut so much as one thin dime in federal outlays.  He is meeting with his war council to get all the talking points together. 

In other words, that $10/pd hamburger meat I warned some Obama voters about will be here even sooner.
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2012, 06:20:08 PM »
What a roster of advisers! 100% communists.

Senator McCarthy was dead on target.
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2012, 07:24:07 PM »
He's meeting with both sides to construct the Grand Bargain.

I know a lot of you are expecting the worse, and if it did happen I wouldn't be surprised, but the numbers Paul Ryan and the Simpson-Bowles Commission came up with are real.  This is not going to go away.  There's going to be a trade between raising rates on the rich and cutting Medicare/welfare/SS.  It'll be designed so that both sides can claim victory.

If I'm wrong I'll eat my words; you won't find me making excuses, I'll own up.  But all signs point in the Grand Bargain direction.

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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2012, 08:00:36 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on November 13, 2012, 07:24:07 PM
He's meeting with both sides to construct the Grand Bargain.

I know a lot of you are expecting the worse, and if it did happen I wouldn't be surprised, but the numbers Paul Ryan and the Simpson-Bowles Commission came up with are real.  This is not going to go away.  There's going to be a trade between raising rates on the rich and cutting Medicare/welfare/SS.  It'll be designed so that both sides can claim victory.

If I'm wrong I'll eat my words; you won't find me making excuses, I'll own up.  But all signs point in the Grand Bargain direction.

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I won't bet against you. I'm not sure I think you are right about the outcome, but I'm also not sure it won't happen.

My guess is, at the last minute the house will agree to raise taxes on the evil rich, and the dems will claim they are cutting spending using their usual accounting tricks.

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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2012, 08:08:39 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on November 13, 2012, 08:00:36 PM
I won't bet against you. I'm not sure I think you are right about the outcome, but I'm also not sure it won't happen.

My guess is, at the last minute the house will agree to raise taxes on the evil rich, and the dems will claim they are cutting spending using their usual accounting tricks.



Isn't that how they got Reagan to increase taxes once?  They promised spending cuts that never materialized.
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
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Quote from: thundley4 on November 13, 2012, 08:08:39 PM
Isn't that how they got Reagan to increase taxes once?  They promised spending cuts that never materialized.

IIRC that is exactly what happened.


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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2012, 08:25:22 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on November 13, 2012, 08:00:36 PM
I won't bet against you. I'm not sure I think you are right about the outcome, but I'm also not sure it won't happen.

My guess is, at the last minute the house will agree to raise taxes on the evil rich, and the dems will claim they are cutting spending using their usual accounting tricks.

Here's one thing that got me considering my current position:

[youtube=425,350]6V_24Ff08bo[/youtube]

That's Clinton making it clear to Paul Ryan he knows the numbers don't work.  I didn't like Clinton either, but the guy's not completely stupid.  Steny Hoyer has said that medicare's on the table.  Biden even was able to get out the words that we gotta talk about big ticket items, meaning medicare.

I think the Dem leadership knows they have to do something or there won't be any country left for them to rule over.  Their problem is their whacko base, but the whacko base has nowhere to go.  So they'll trade raising taxes for cuts.  The primtives will hoot and holler, but they'll pull the D lever when the time comes.

But we'll just have to wait and see.  But right now, this is how it looks to me.

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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #11 on: November 14, 2012, 12:53:19 PM »
AoS has it right:

Obama Campaigning: $3 In Cuts For Every $1 In Taxes
Obama at Debate: $2.5 in Cuts For Every $1 In Taxes
Obama's Actual Plan: $3 In Taxes For Every $1 In Cuts
http://minx.cc/?post=334911

The reality will be $3 In Taxes For Every $5 in federal government growth.
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Re: White House lists two dozen leaders to meet with President Obama on deficit
« Reply #12 on: November 14, 2012, 01:11:12 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 12, 2012, 09:26:30 PM
Obama meets with the union and progressive takers on Tuesday to get his talking points and then meets with the makers on Wednesday.

Weren't they all just at that communist convention, or was it the Marxist one? I forget.... :???:

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