"Fiscal Cliff" = "Debt Bomb"
Fiscal Cliff not behind us.
Fiscal Cliff is dead ahead.

We either

1) cut spending NOW (have a bad recession),
2) or have a depression, hyperinflation, and probably a war (and not us going "there", rather, them coming "here")

Alex, I´ll take "Cut Spending Now" for a thousand.

I assume Denis Hamill is progeny of earlier left wing loon Pete Hamill.

I guess there was a handful of morons who believed Obama when he said he´d cut throuh the re tape to help hurricane victims.Now te balme is being shifted to congress because they don´t agree with the pork add ons.There´s tons of unspent money in every government account because the estra money wasn´t needed in the last budget the senate passed.But Obama could have shifted funds from other areas to get money to the disaster area.

Obama´s one of the main authors of the additional pork requests,once again pinning the republicans back against the wall. Boehner,for his part should have passed a bill that pertained to the hurricane only.In the meantime you have a fat assed loud mouth governor putting his states needs ahead of the national budget woes.

Peter King is just as bad calling for a boycott on donations to the GOP. Yeah,that will help us long term of being able to push back.Is there another party out there I don´t know about?

When the interest on the national debt exceeds 50% of each year´s budget, perhaps then the idiots in D.C. will at least read it before signing it.

You´ll have to go to the British press to see the Bammy´s on the beach, golf course, fine dining with their entourage and shopping for their Spring duds.

When the interest on the national debt exceeds 50% of each year´s budget, perhaps then the idiots in D.C. will at least read it before voting for its contents.

# Pretty sure Denis is Pete Hamill´s brother.

The politicians in NY and NJ need to prove to the American taxpayers that they need 60 billion dollars. This aid bill is not a clean bill. The Senate Dems loaded this bill up from 8 billion needed for 2013 to 60 billion for all kinds of goodies for special interests around the country.
I am thankful someone has the sense to slow this down to look at the true cost the taxpayers should provide. I am tired of throwing money away under the guise of of "a crisis."

Get all the pork out of it then pass it. Now is always a good time for the GOP to stand up to the spending. A reminder it was Obama who first politicized disaster relief in Texas during the wildfires...

Find out how your member voted on the fiscal cliff: http://www.foramerica.org/2013/01/see-how-your-member-voted-on-fiscal-cliff/#more-3934

All the lavish spending on himself and his family by this POTUS, as listed in this article, is ignored by the Left. What´s worse, Obama & Co. are right in assuming that the low-information voter will never hear about these things and if they do, they think it´s about time one of theirs got reparations.

So, no matter how often Obama et al spend millions of our money on their sybaritic lifestyle, no one cares except those with a sense of honor. It´s useless to complain about it until we win the ideological war on Obama´s socialist agenda -- it´s part of his worldview that he and his family should live lives of rulers rather than governors.

What frightens me is that his followers are okay with this. Because they don´t pay taxes and because they get all that free stuff, the high taxation and regulation will never hit them, only us. So why shouldn´t they enjoy watching O & Co. having a blast on Whitey´s dime?

Good post 10, but I think it is time to stop assuming that those partying are not white, and those paying are ´whitey´. There is, of course, considerable correlation between race, O support and tax payer/entitlement status. A better, less "dog-whistley" way to couch the issue is the Ant and the Grasshopper. O´s supporters want to frolic all summer, but when winter comes, they turn to the hard-working Ant to share what he has laboriously piled up. Ants & Grasshoppers: America at the crossroads.

Though a previous poster pointed out this bill is bursting with pork, IMHO, no one is asking the pertinent question: Why is the federal government paying to rebuild private property?

A few years ago, a wind storm blew half the roof off our house (and many of our neighbors) .... should your tax dollars have paid for my repairs?

It is this mentality that has gotten us into the fiscal disaster we find ourselves. Whenever something goes astray, go, hat in hand, to the government to make it better. Unless that changes, we´ll never recover as a nation!

I´m with you #12. We had homes destroyed and damaged by tornados in our area which were rebuilt without any government aid. Throughout the U.S. homes burn down every day which are rebuilt without FEMA. I do not understand why one should get FEMA assistance for their personal residence just because the threshold of the how widespread the disaster has been met. If only one home is destryoed it is a disaster for that homeowner.

12, 13, it is my understanding that FEMA only offers low interest loans for personal property repairs. They do not pay for repairs.

I think the FEMA money goes to the states to help restore the infrastructure and pay for clean up.

I don´t understand yesterday´s market uptick.

OK, I get that people are happy that the "crisis" is averted, but that´s just temporary, and when the debt ceiling issue comes up and Bernanke and Geithner screw that up again, along with the next "cliff" (in 2 months), our bond rating is going to go down again. Borrowing money (which we are doing at an insane and accelerating rate) is going to be more and more expensive, compounding the problem.

Nothing has been solved, in fact, in typical Dim/Won fashion, things have actually been made much, much worse.

And I´ve had my coffee.

Agree with #12 and 13! I paid flood insurance for 30 years due to living on the Texas gulf coast. I never filed a claim, but would not expect the Feds to cover my losses if I failed to pay for insurance. Responsible citizens carry insurance and take care of their own property.

FEMA does offer low-interest loans. They also hand out money that does not need to be paid back.

I only gave money to help the animals at shelters, damaged homes, etc in NY and NJ. I also recall seeing during the Christmas season just past all these commercials by Red Cross on how they have helped so many people hurt by Sandy.

The massive floods on the Mississippi River in the 1930s - all the aid, repairs, etc was accomplished through private donations.

Romney would have been over there with a chain saw and a shovel, encouraging others to give of themselves. The Obama government thinks every problem needs to be handled with other people´s money.

When New Orleans and the east coast suffered from catastrophic storms, it was up to the government to take care of those who did nothing to take care of themselves. When Mississippi and Alabama flooded from Katrina, church groups mobilized to repair the damage and clean up the mess. The same thing with the Nashville flooding early in Obama´s term. You did not see constant streams of photos and video from those areas, precisely because they weren´t inhabited by lazy welfare recipients who would sit on a bridge until someone put them in a cab or a helicopter to take them to a FEMA trailer.

The $4 million Family Vacation to Hawaii is Obama´s Fair Share.

I heard that half of this bill was pork.

I hit post too soon. If you want to know why the "low information voter" cheers Obama´s lavish lifestyle, rent the movie "Coming to America" with Eddie Murphy. Obama is royalty in their eyes.

Silly people. We all know it was good for sound bites to get him re-elected. Coming from Katrinaville we all knew it wasn´t as simple as Obama and Christy made it sound. But it worked. Republicans in House owe Christy nothing. Tell him to go beg to Obama. And cut the pork out of the bill.

Guess Christie finally learned THE lesson the rest of us have known for decades

"Why is the federal government paying to rebuild private property?"

They prcbably stipulate union labor...

I am repeating 2 axioms:
1.The main character in the 1957 French movie Gates of Paris (Porte de Lilas) repeatedly says: “All people are bastards except for you and I.” (I would say, no exceptions).
2.In some Russian book there was half a joke: What is in abundance in the Universe? Hydrogen and human stupidity.
Now, Bush in 6 years with both repubic chambers of Congress accomplished what, 10% of what obozo accomplished in 4 years with only 2 years of "friendly" Congress.
How about them apples???
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In continuation of #27:
What I think is happening? obozo has mainstream media and money (banks and Wall Street)!
And conservatives will constantly lose and be blamed for whatever is wrong with our country unless we will not get the conservative mainstream media up and running.
Even ann coulter´s darling christie is blaming repubics and there is not one outlet to counter him except for blogs - which are read only by us over and over again. We need a newspapers on every corner with headlines that are not pro-obozo, and we need local tv news without praising this clown for his actions!

#19 I am lost about your reasoning that Romney should be out there helping. Why should he? Americans did not want him to help bring this country out of debt. So, they can go to the WH and scream as much as they want.

FTA: "The American people voted for you, Mr. President, to go to work to put America back to work."

No, the people who voted for Obama voted for him to keep the freebies coming.

Ok, let´s do the math for the next big issue that will interfere with Obie´s golf game:

Obie = golf in Hawaii
Golf in Hawaii = back-room deals
Back-room deals = msm narrative
msm narrative = Obie

Everything seems to add up, no?

I said Romney WOULD have been over there giving of himself, and encouraging others to be charitable. He WOULD have been a great role model, since he already lives that way.

He owes us nothing. It is our loss.