Obama Needs to Call Summit on the Deficit, Top Democrat Says

elraik, please explain to me why I should give up something I have contributed to for 60 years and am still working because I cannot afford to retire??? Let these politicians give up and go without - they certainly had no problems granting themselves a raise while the rest of us got screwed.

Enough photo ops and posturing. DO something that works for a change. Afterall, that's what we were promised, not endless talk.

congress and all federal employees need to earn the national average wage, which is NOT six figures....they need to pay into the wonderful, funded (NOT) social security system for their retirement...and they need to buy their own IRAs (since it's such a great retirement tool) and pay their own health insurance premiums like the rest of us. that's a start! they need to take the lead and show us what they legislate is good for all! starting with themselves!

Fact is, we are all paying the price now for Obama's lack of executive and leadership skills. To be fair, he has done a good job of reading from a teleprompter, playing basketball, finding time to play golf, saluting as he approaches Air Force One, throwing parties, hiding his cigarettes, and vacationing

There is no money folks!!! It's all based on credit. They are buying time with loose lips, hoping that the public doesn't notice the passage of laws which limit one's ability to spend the way they choose, and at the same time increases the politicians ability to spend away future generations worth of credit without choice of representation - i.e. taxation without representation. "...stinks don't it!!!..."

What I think needs to happen is, yes, have the president sit down, but not with democrats and republicans. Throw these party affilated morons out, and find some true Americans, non party affiliated. These two parties have become so "us, us, us" that this country doesn't stand a chance. Throw out their perks, have term limits and require that they have seen service for this country in some way, and not have been "career politicians". Have had a job and know what "real life" is about. THEN, maybe something can be accomplished.

Keep Obama & his czars out of a summit on the deficit. Just like the Stimulus was writtne by the Apollo Alliance, we don't need these socialists involved in solving the problems of this country. They do not appear to have our best interests in mind. George Soros, Andy Sterns, Van Jones, Anita Dunn, and other unelected advisors should not have their fingers in advising Obama--that's why we elected representatives and senators--to represent us.

Overhaul the tax code? Why not do away with it entirely? I know, I know, a big portion of Hussein Obama's jobs he created were agents hired by the IRS to go after legitimate taxpayers and see if they could squeeze any more money out of them. If we did away with the Gestapo IRS you'd lose all those Obamajobs and the rate of unemployment would go even higher. With the census taker Obamajobs gone and the IRS jack-booted thug Obamajobs gone, he would have created zilch jobs.

Why is it every time they come up with a program to cut spending it always comes down to the American people giving in. I have never heard of them state cut all foreign aid. cut all entitlements to illegals cut all pork and earmarks,

2000-2008 tariffs assessed but not collected under free trade agreements $4,319,473,520. - when will our congress see the loss of revenue we USE to get and let the trade deals expire or raise the rates 8% across the board. Even the playing field, keep American jobs in this country.