Good.... Time for some of the freeloaders to feel the same pain I am.

My personal family economy is in a depression. I have stopped spending and am saving as much as possible.

Cut the programs.
It is the only way to balance the budget.
There really isn´t any choice when you do the math. If taxes were raised enough to balance the budget then average Americans would not have enough money left to buy food.

I think he´s talking to the wrong "class".

Wait till they figure out that inflation caused by deficits is also a tax.

Let´s start with that 0bamaphone program!

But..but...but...the President said that he would not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000, or was it $200,000. Not one dime in new taxes, I say.

I´m going to be irreverent here and call him a LIAR.

Middle class to Howard Dean "Cut the programs". Simple enough for your elitist mindset?

He is talking to the wrong class - what programs?? I get nothing from the government but I pay out the wazoo and my taxes have gone up. Talk to the free loaders, Dean. Tell them they need to START paying taxes and have their programs cut.

Fine, cut taxes and we get to choose which ´programs´ and departments get eliminated - not just ´cut´, but dismantled and not absorbed into another federal department.

#7 - I could think of lots of things to call him, but I´d get banned from the site.

Dean is right. So is OP.

Speaking of Cuts is a distraction. Spending will get reduced when Washington stops programs and eliminates agencies. They have to learn that some things need not be done at all.

Taxes have already gone up but no programs ended, In fact the biggest peacetime program in history, ACA, is just heginning.

Are they giving us the choice?

Yes, Howie, we know. We´ve been saying "cut the social spending already!" for some time.

Fantastic proposal by Howard Arrrgh! Dean. He is telling Americans that ObamaCare can be cut. Bravo! Will save $2.2 trillion. And we thought he was just a another Democratic loon.

It is also time to tell the 49% that do not pay any taxes it´s time to fork a bit over. You pay nothing, get back thousands on unearned tax credits and you keep wanting more. You are the problem.

Good idea, Dean. Cut all the programs and cut all the taxes. I´ll buy that.

Cut ´em Danno!! Let the takers put some skin in the game. Isn´t that what Obama said should happen, everybody needs skin in the game?

The Republican have been saying that for 4 years. They want to cut spending though, not raise taxes. Where there are 3 government programs doing the same thing, they want to cut 2 of them. When the federal government is capitalizing and subsidizing energy forms that can´t compete on a level playing field, the GOP wants to stop. The GOP want to meet the the air and water standards that were in effect in 2008, not dream up new one that will shutter efficient US facilities while the Chinese crank out pollution at an astounding rate.

Great...CUT PROGRAMS!!!

Um, Howie, the middle class doesn´t receive "programs", they pay for them.

even a broken clock is right twice a day.

the taxes did go up - now make the cuts.

Democrats do not understand that raising taxes retards growth in the economy. They seem to think it has no effect, that is, if they consider it at all. Ultimately, raising taxes hurts the very people they want to help.

That screaming yellow zonker is talking down to the wrong class! Go ahead and make the cuts. We not the parasites jackass! You only threw that reference in there to sound Politically Correct

Cut the programs. Most of them are more trouble than they´re worth.

Alex, I´ll take Cuts for 16 Trillion.

Start Cutting Howie. Dept´s of Energy, Education, HHS, EPA and others can be cut tomorrow and we won´t miss them.

Cut the WASTE, FRAUD, DUPLICATE DEPARTMENTS and general incompetence and inefficiencies FIRST. Then we´ll see where we are.

Please Lord please get rid of the big spenders in Washington. Amen.

On a similar note, did you read about Great Britain and "take the welfare"?

Clearly not enough Socialist votes coming from the middles. Time to redouble the bribes directed toward the welfares and increase spending on voter fraud technologies.

(Yawn) Marxist druids always like to play the "Takers" against the "Makers".

If you launch enough lifeboats, eventually no one knows how to swim.

I think Dean, who quit his church over their refusal to fund a green bike path, should reflect upon why he isn´t relevent anymore.

There he goes again. It´s what statists do.

If only dem pols would be ethical enough to demonstrate frugality, responsibility AND ACCOUNTABILITY with tax payer´s money instead of always diverting it to their favored social experiments, pet projects & political cronies! The PC dem´s priorities have been tragically corrupted somehow & somewhere along the way. mmm mmm mmm

Just like a dam dhim. Put everything on the middle class workers´ (i.e. TAXPAYER) back.

Start cutting.

How many times do we need to tell Howard Dean we want the education, labor, energy departments shut down. Quit paying the Palestinians, Howard, and quit paying the Egyptians, Howard, and quit paying illegal immigrants bills, Howard, quit preschool spending, Howard. Defund PBS and NPR, Howard. Who gives a crumb about funding for the arts, Howard, save that money.

Call his bluff. I´m in!

Cut the programs coming out of Wash DC, Stop the Wash DC spending, Lower my taxes, Leave me alone mostly. Oh and don´t threaten me, I don´t like being threatened.

Well, ok then. Start cutting.

You first.

How about the alternative? Stop feeding the trough-hanging Solyndras and sending stuff to people who hate us?

Wait, I thought liberals were first supposed to threaten that police and teachers will get fired (before they stop funding government funded art, etc).

Go ahead and cut the police force, they are getting to be nothing more lurking parasites who just suck more money out of our wallets. In the near future they´ll be banging on our doors wanting to inspect our homes for weapons. I can live without their "help". And teachers? Don´t even get me started. Cut away Howie!!!! Public servants are people who I pay against my will to make my life miserable.