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WASHINGTON - President Obama threw down a challenge Monday to Tea Party candidates, demanding to know how they would make all the spending cuts they promise.
"The challenge, I think, for the Tea Party movement is to identify specifically, what would you do? It's not enough just to say 'Get control of spending,'" Obama said at a town hall-style meeting on CNBC.
"I think it's important for you to say, 'You know, I'm willing to cut veterans' benefits,' or, 'I'm willing to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits,' or, 'I'm willing to see these taxes go up,'" Obama added.
The Democrats are taking unified aim at the Tea Party's penchant for complaining without providing solutions to the nation's woes.
Former President Bill Clinton used the same "What would you do?" line a day earlier on Sunday talk shows.
The exchanges between President and audience were mostly pleasant, but there were some awkward moments, like when one questioner cited a Wall Street mogul's remark that Obama's "approach to the financial regulation and taxation is like Hitler invading Poland."
"I don't know where that comes from," Obama said. "If you're making a billion dollars a year after a very bad financial crisis, where 8 million people lost their jobs and small businesses can't get loans, then I think that you shouldn't be feeling put upon."
In another pointed exchange, AMVETS official Velma Hart said: "I voted for a man who said he was going to change things in a meaningful way for the middle class ... And I'm waiting, sir."
"I understand your frustration," Obama responded. "My goal is not to convince you that everything is where it ought to be. It's not."
Source: NY Daily News
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Source: NY Daily News
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By: R. CAMERON on 9/21/2010 3:12PM
Tea Party people are Americans who want to protect"truth,justice,and the American way" just like Superman. Obama wants to turn America into the old Soviet Union.
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By: Joe on 9/21/2010 3:49PM
That Moron Obama can challenge all he wants....hes done and he knows it. All you Idiots who voted for him should be waking up about now...are you better off now after 400 Billion spent ?
With some luck his Nationality will be proven and he'll be impeached
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By: girlking on 9/21/2010 7:01PM
Joe, I guess you flunked social studies in high school. Hawaii is a part of the United States. Once you start naming calling you lose all credibility in an arguement. President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Bush began a string of expensive financial bailouts. President Bush created a Medicare drug entitlement that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office projected the 2009 deficit as $1.2 trillion on January 7, 2009. This was the last estimate they did while Bush was president.
Joe, before you start throwing rocks and name calling, do some research.
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By: byron on 9/22/2010 9:37AM
he will win again TRUST ME! It will be another historic turn out to vote for him again, REASON is YOU ALL WANT HIM TO FAIL!
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By: bestausweh on 9/23/2010 10:54PM
Yes, I am better off.
I am better off than if the cold and wealthy Republicans, despite tax cut would have remained in office.
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By: A. Diaz on 10/05/2010 1:47AM
Yes, I am. I'd rather see 400billion spent on keeping people healthy. Than spend 3trillion on bombing the middle east, like a little kid poking a wasps nest & wondering why it got stung. I hope you get cancer, the slow kind & your insurance drops you, like mine did to me.
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By: LLOYD on 9/21/2010 4:19PM
HEY JOE I THINK YOU ARE A RACIST. HE IS JUST AS MUCH AN AMERICAN AS YOU MAYBE EVEN MORE. I HOPE THE DEMS RETAIN THE MAJORITY IN THE SENATE IF NOT IN THE HOUSE. SEEMS LIKE DEMS ARE ALWAYS CLEANING UP THE REPUBS MESS.
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By: Joe on 9/21/2010 5:32PM
LLoyd, your an Idiot of the first magnitude.
Why am I a Racist ? Because I dont like a Non US born, Socialist, Muslim who is making the USA a 3rd World Country ?
I would dislike him equally if he were Pink, Yellow or Plaid
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By: Bill on 10/01/2010 4:04AM
Joe, it seems you prove that Lloyd is correct. All of your fantasies have already been proven wrong, (because they have despite your wishful thinking) President Obama is none of the things you say; the US is far from third world (except in the ignorance of some of citizens like you), and most importantly your hatred admittedly transcends all colors that are not your own. That would, by your own admission, be racism.
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By: black man on 9/21/2010 5:31PM
TEA PARTY means TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY,people from all races. Democrats, Republicans, whatever!Who wants higher taxes?
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