Are they serious?

And where was their wish to stop gov spending when it was them spending the money? When it was their pres who was doing all the spending? And how does cutting job retraining, asst with new start ups, finding new sources of clean energy (which is clearly upsetting to their biggest supporters the oil industry), and education? How is gutting the future of our country, our children, going to help the economy? It sounds like a good way to make the rich, richer and make it even harder for the American dream to come true for those not born with a silver spoon. And, since they and their families have no need to worry about money as the American public will be paying for them for the rest of their lives, of course they have no problem with cutting aid to those who are getting older and retiring, or are unable to work any longer. These people have been paying in to the system their entire lives, it is the representatives fault that the coffers are now bare and their response to repairing their spending spree over those eight years is to cut how much of that money they can get back? Really?
And their blatant attempt to make this seem like the budget crisis is a problem created by the current sitting president is just ridiculous!
Republicans!!! Quit grandstanding and playing with the future of the citizens of this country who put you in office and for whom you are supposed to be working for!!!

Close the loopholes and stop the exemptions on the rich or as you have decided to start calling them, the job creators and yes lets cut government spending. How about you all take pay cuts and start paying what the rest of America pays for health care for yourselves and your families. Or better yet lets go back to treating it like what it was supposed to be. Businesspeople taking time away from their real jobs and volunteering to do what you are doing today. No pay. I wonder how many of you would be willing to do this job for the sake of America and not for the 'perks' of your jobs ;) ;) you know what I mean 10,000 copies of your book 'purchased' by some corporation just because they love it so much I'm sure.
Although I do agree that the budget should be balanced every year just like everybody else in America already does.

And that's My 25 cents...