Obama to seek freeze on part of budget

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I am sure making token freezing is gonna help his poll numbers. Sure the sheep will be bleating more loud though.

The average Obama supporter doesn't know the difference between million, billion and trillion. So Obama assumes all Americans are that stupid. These are truly token, meaningless cuts.

[NickD 203]

President used to make 250K...Clinton raised it to 400K

Really, the president's salary means nothing. They get free "room and board" hahaha during their time in office. Free flights and transportation, free vacation home, and one heck of a good retirement plan. Plus when they can pull down $100,000 just for giving a speech somewhere after leaving office, let's face it. Money is never the issue behind somebody wanting to run for president. It would be a much easier and certainly less stressful occupation being a lawyer, executive etc.

What a difference a decade makes. In 1999, we had a 1.6 trillion dollar federal budget. And even that seemed ridiculous. I've forgotten how many times the "debt ceiling" has been raised. What's the point of even having it?

I don't know if it's wages or just personal friendliness that affects workers. (re-the Australian style of things). I know here in Texas, that baggers at the grocery store are tremendously upbeat (and sincere, not that fake smile and be happy thing that managers push). I've often wondered why they're so happy. It's a boring job. It pays maybe 7 dollars an hour. Grocery stores in Canada tend to pay higher rates (many of them are unionized) yet I've never found them to be super happy. Don't get me wrong. They're not depressed or anything. It's just different. I'm used to baggers being sedate and quiet.

I bagged groceries for six months, you put the light stuff in the bottom and the real heavy stuff on top. Or was it the other way around? Seemed like an eternity, and had to be a better way. It was good for my step daughter to take a year off between high school and college and only be able to get minimum wage jobs. Times haven't changed much since I was that age, you work for jerks. Her worse job was working for a family owned fast food joint in town where she was the only non-family worker getting stuck with cleaning the bathrooms and all the dirty jobs, that only lasted a month.

She is in college now, working her butt off with a 3.8 GPA, was leaning toward becoming a CPA, but now talking about social services. Just hope there is a job for her when she graduates, or at least meeting a rich kid. See what happens, but we sure don't have the opportunities we once had. One of my nieces her age is becoming a grade school teacher, the other is in political science. Cannot talk none of them to becoming nurses, we have quite a shortage of those right now. But guess they won't like carrying dirty bedpans. Least the pay is good. Terrible when those opportunities no longer exist.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

He should freeze ALL the federal budget except defending our borders and delivering the mail.

[I'm Gone 60]

He should freeze ALL the federal budget except defending our borders and delivering the mail.

I say freeze it all. The Post Office is supposed to be self sufficient and DHS gets plenty of money.