House Democrats say President Obama should consider invoking a constitutional provision that they say gives him the power to raise the debt ceiling without going through Congress. Your initial reaction?

AS disgusted said elsewhere, bye bye, Yawwnn.

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Yawwnn, and your interest in ND is...

*yawn*

...precisely what?

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Loco...As-salam alayku.....

A good weekend to you also!

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Veritas, I'll admit that some of your posts added to the reasons just why I had to post at 12:21.

If that can somehow be construed as "liking" a post, well, you can just have at it then.

Have a happier weekend, all...

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Henry..You're what I am going to call the new "Intelligence Theft". Put together a few tidbits from the internet combined with your not so unique thinking and "there you are". Similar to Robocalls your message on a pinwheel gets smaller & smaller not unlike a record player with a bad needle. From what I understand the symptoms are increased narrow thinking, blurred rational thought and delusions of grandeur. Also, proving ones ability to walk backward has some special meaning and may be related to cognative memory but this is debative...

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Wow Loco...I really liked your 12:21 pm post and agree 123%..on everything!

Come on admit it..you liked my post too!

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To me, it's a positive disgrace that So Much Money is redistributed from DC in the first place.

Subsidies, grants, welfare, programs, entitlements....arrgghh!

It seems everyone has their hand out for something, and now here's squabbles over what states get more and/or what states pay more.

Unbelieveable!

Ideals like "hard work will pay off" or "there's no such thing as a free lunch" seem absolutely archaic, null and void, when stacked next to this inane bickering.

People like me (hope it's not just me) who take a small break from the rat race to tune in to MDN online, and see this malarkey going back and forth (blue vs. red, rich vs. poor, this vs. that) end up amazed and perplexed. Not to mention a trifle irked.

Guess what? Life ain't fair. No politician can make it fair for you. Ever. Don't believe any campaign promises. Ever. Statistics can be used to state anything. Anything at all.

Sorry to vent, but really, folks. Get a grip.

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hj & Capt.h2c were federal gov't employees. How long did we support you two?

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"Just spent another 12 hour day mopping up after someone who thinks & spells like you Henry!!"

Just another of Veritas' infinite references to how "smarter" Easterners/Westerners are compared to Central US folks, condescendingly gracing the little people with comments/wisdom/viewpoint/etc.

Now how could we live without that?

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According to a pamphlet of North Dakota’s financial facts created by the state Office of Management and Budget for legislators in advance of the upcoming session, in the 2011 – 2013 biennium federal money makes up 33.9% of total state spending:

Since the 2005 – 2007 biennium federal dollars in the state budget have increased 52.7% in relation to an overall increase of 82% in total state spending.

The share of federal spending as a percentage of overall state spending has decreased since the 2005 – 2007 biennium, from over 40% to 34%, but that has more to do with the rapid growth in spending from state revenues which has increased nearly 104% over that time.

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Federal spending in North Dakota has increased dramatically even over just the last few bienniums (my numbers don’t even include federal monies going straight to county/township/municipal governments). Given the relative fiscal health of North Dakota’s budget, and the absolute mess that is the federal government’s fiscal situation, wouldn’t it make sense for North Dakota leaders to begin weening the state off federal spending so that any impending national “fiscal cliffs” in the future put the state at less risk?

That would be the prudent thing to do, but federal money is like cat****to far too many local officials. Too often, they just can’t say no.

Rob Port is the editor of SayAnythingBlog****.

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I would think most on welfare do not belong to any political party-more than likely--they are more sympathetic to the democratic party as opposed to the Spencerian repubs posting on this site.

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Henry...Your, "Who spends more money per capita on welfare?",is a cherry picked stat.

First..You need to look at Census Data as far back as 1980. Both state & federal dispursements (not to include pensions & education)versus revenues.State & fed are broken down into categories having different programs with %'s of contributions. Total $'s received vs. total taxes collected produce total net deficits or surpluses.

The consistent states relying on federal aid thru various programs including disaster relief are predominately Red States. They simply do not produce enough revenue to take care of their socioeconomic demographics to include infrastrucute.

What I rebuked was your statement that 90% on welfare are Democrats.

You want to use the state of New York as an example....The 2010 Census shows 66.4% of the population is white & roughly 3.5 million Republicans...Can you tell me which ones exactly are receiving welfare?

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I think we have two Megalomaniacs (HJ & H2C)! :-)

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How can you spend 3.9 trillion dollars, receive revenues of 1.9 trillion, borrow 2 trillion, pay 250 billion in interest and borrow more to spend more because you are spending more and make any attempt to reduce spending?

You're always spending more, reducing the increased spending and calling it a reduction in spending from the increased amount of spending?

It's looney tunes.

e. other

f. looney tunes

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“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” - Mark Twain

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hj & h4c seem to have all the answers! They should go to DC and and meet with the House majority and get this all settled RIGHT now!

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H4C,You rightwingers had the power for eight years.Bank failures,Housing colapse,Now tell me again who are the ones that are medicated.Cheney use to say If you dont like it tuff.Well hfc, TUFF

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HJ, is ther any cure for Megalomania?

THIS IS A FRIGHTENING STATISTIC: PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST WORRISOME IN RECENT YEARS- - - -

25% of Democrats in this country are on medication for mental illness

That's scary...

It means 75% are running around untreated!!

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Russ98387, the dems just don't recall none of what their party has said or done or voted for. They olso can't stand " "s from their own party. All they do is blame Bush, they also forget of all the mass graves that the UN had found. obama and his flock game plan is to ruin this great United States at all cost. How obserbed to raised debt ceiling without having any cuts in the budget.

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What "da messiah" said when he was a senator. Notice he couldn't be bothered to vote in 2007 & 2008.

Here are Obama’s thoughts on the debt limit in 2006, when he voted against increasing the ceiling:

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. In 2007 and in 2008, when the Senate voted to increase the limit by $850 billion and $800 billion respectively, Obama did not bother to vote. (He did vote fo

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animal if the idiots won the majority that makes the minority party what? MORONS!

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Actully i read on the normal news networks, that obama was the one that said he will not meet anymore. obama stated that Senator Reid was to meeting with Speaker Boehner

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minreader The House Speaker Boehner said that he will no longer talk with the President any longer! Now does that sound like an adult trying to work out this nation's serious issues?

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Leftwing,"the only adult in the room" REALLY!! Tell me then who was it that throws a fit numerous times? obama he leaves the meeting by shoving his chair into the table and slams the door when he gets mad. Then signs a excutive order. WOW who's the adult??

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