Obamaâs Own Adviser: This Spending Is 'Cancer' That Will Destroy America The threat of a government shutdown loomed Tuesday as a meeting involving President Barack Obama and congressional leaders fell apart without agreement and the two sides appeared to be further apart than ever. The potential shutdown comes on the heels of a Treasury Department report showing the country is spending at an alarming rate, and Erskine Bowles, the co-chairman of Obamaâs budget committee, describing the nationâs deficit as a âcancerâ that could âdestroy this countryâ if nothing is done. After Tuesdayâs meeting with Obama, House Speaker John Boehner declared that no deal had been reached. He also warned House Republicans âwill not be put in a boxâ by being forced to accept a deal that they do not believe is right for the American people. With Republicans up against their self-imposed, 72-hour advance notice requirement before they will vote on any legislation, the time for a compromise is running short. The current resolution to fund government operations ends Friday. Bowles recently told the Senate Budget Committee that he is âreally concernedâ the nationâs grave fiscal woes are being ignored. One sign of the growing deficit problem: The Treasury Department reported that, in March, the federal government spent eight times the amount of tax revenue it collected. âThis debt and these deficits that we are incurring on an annual basis are like a cancer and they are truly going to destroy this country from within unless we have the common sense to do something about it,â Bowles warned. http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Ers...ohnBoehner-budgetimpasse/2011/04/05/id/391844
Hey Bearice - did you see Obama's new ad for the 2012 election? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIA5aszzA18&feature=player_embedded Yes, this is the real ad.