Boehner: War drawdown savings can't go to jobs

[abelenkpe]

Boehner: War drawdown savings can't go to jobs

http://news.yahoo.com/boehner-war-drawdown-savings-cant-jobs-181839154.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a special deficit-reduction supercommittee floundering, the top Republican in Congress warned Thursday that he won't permit savings from winding down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay for President Barack Obama's jobs spending agenda.

Democrats on the deficit panel proposed last week to use war savings to pay for a $300 billion jobs program along the lines President Barack Obama wants, plus take steps to protect the upper middle class from the alternative minimum tax and extend financing for doctors who treat Medicare patients.

"I've made it pretty clear that those savings that are coming to us as a result of the wind down of the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan should be banked, should not be used to offset other spending," said House Speaker John Boehner. But the Ohio Republican did not address whether war savings could be used to extend expiring tax cuts such as popular business tax breaks or Obama's expensive proposal to renew payroll tax cuts that expire at the end of December.

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Typical.

[Denninmi]

1. NOTHING can go to jobs.

Like the bumper sticker says "The Republicans...keeping millions unemployed to put one man out of a job."

[Angry Dragon]

2. Is he going to cry again??

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. Is a 9% approval rating too high for him?

It could go lower, Boner.

"I've made it pretty clear that those savings that are coming to us as a result of the wind down of the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan should be banked..." It's obvious that you heard your bankster lobbyists loud and clear, Mr. 9%.

[Brother Buzz]

11. Come on, he's polling double digits in his district

15 percent is the number I hear bandied about, and that's nothing to sneeze at!

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

4. The savings should be "banked"? Where? For what?

Oh well, I'm confident that our overlords will explain it to us in some incomprehensible fashion palatable to the dimmest bulbs on the neighborhood porches.

[HappyMe]

10. It will be 'banked' in the

Orange Man's spray tan fund.

[librechik]

5. He's made it pretty clear what his goal is--defeat Obama

Jobs? What jobs?

[barbtries]

9. it will boomerang so hard i predict.

2012 a blowout for the dems and obama

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. The war was deficit spending and DU was against it then for being such

You can't say you were going to spend $1,000 you don't have then say you won't make the purchase so you save $1,000 so now you can spend $1,000 on something else you want.

[barbtries]

7. fuck the people!

well fuck you too boehner.
goodgawd i hate republicans. it's like what warms the cockles of their hearts is the suffering of others.

[flakey_foont]

8. what a d*ck!

eom

[sunwyn]

12. He may be polling at 15% in his district, but it won't matter.

His district, the one I live in, is so gerrymandered he has virtually no chance of getting re-elected.

[KamaAina]

13. Can they go to $750 bottles of wine?

:eyes: