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I worked in the federal government as a contractor to both the DoD and DHS for nearly a decade. I saw first hand the fraud, waste, and duplication of effort. I helped develope systems to automate detecting it though it really wasn't a high priority to managers more concerned with perception and making sure to maximize the number of minions they were managing. That said there's a lot of hard working folks in government but there are also lot of folks just filling spots and programs that are absolutely just tech boondoggles which offer little or no value except to boost the resume of the management preparing them for a lucrative post civil service contracting positions in the "private" sector.
If there is any REAL significate pain from these cuts every citizen should know that it is being manufactured for their benefit and manipulation. Its a mind game. The GOP just needs to continue to point out how small these cuts really are and keep the finger on administration officials if they pull crap like Janet Napolitano releasing illegal aliens while keeping stupid programs to simulate zombie outbreaks. I think the GOP realized with this that they have an opportunity in these sequester "cuts". They should get ready to call Obama admin officials before congress over and over again during this process.
I agree with that. Do you all realize the significance of this , that the Republicans stood up to obama and the media, that finally this might be a cut in government ( there has never been one).
My research showed as this article does that many government agencies even the EPA will get 9% cut even before inflation. with inflation that is even a greater cut.
The following is a quote from this Fox news article .
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/01/sequestration-when-will-feel-pain/#ixzz2MKxTcS
Obama formally notifies government agencies that sequestration is in effect.Even if the budget for some of these gov agencies stayed the same that would be a cut because of inflation. see the military will get a 13% cut but those dollars will have even less value because of inflation so then they will be able to buy less tanks etc. because those dollars have less value even if budget stayed the same. . .Sometime today the Office of Management and Budget will order all federal agencies to cut their budgets by around nine percent, except for the Pentagon which needs to cut defense programs by 13 percent.
Once Obama issues the sequestration order, Treasury Department officials will take offline the computers that process payments for school construction and clean energy bonds to reprogram them for reduced rates. Payments will be delayed while they are made manually for the next six weeks.
Employees at the Environmental Protection Agency will get e-mails notifying them that a forced furlough of up to 13 days lies ahead
At the Department of Housing and Urban Development, officials will spend the weekend mailing out letters to governors in all 50 states showing how much their grants will be reduced in the coming days and weeks.
Programs that dole out funding as an intermediary — like public rent assistance, farm loans and food programs — will see immediate cuts
The only thing that concerns me is that this “ends justifies the means” administration will purposely crash the economy with the sole purpose of blaming the GOP.
So Newsmax is now slapping its byline on AP wire editorials, too?
I do believe that this fiscal year’s worth of ‘budget cuts’ were fairy much off-set by the Administration’s issuance of $80 billion worth of Treasurys today...http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-03-01/there-goes-sequester. NOTHING is settled. Taking from one hand, giving it to the other. The deception continues.....
Do my eyes deceive me or did Boner get a transplant of a (very small) pair of balls? It's not much but after going 0 for 25-30, it feels good for right now to savor this smidgeon of courage by Boner & McConnell. Now if they would only keep it up! I'm still very much concerned that they will pull the rug out from underneath us, and cave instantly in order to stay on the Washington DC dipshit cocktail circuit.
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What do I think Obama will cut?
Firing pins for the military M16 rifles.
Triggers for the entire US nuclear arsenal.
Toilet paper in handicap bathroom stalls.
Medicine for babies.
Level 5 maximum security prison guards.
Air traffic controller training.
Tax refund check printers.
Workers doing background checks when someone buys a new firearm.
What I think is going to fail in this effort is the very message the GOP STILL has muddled and fails to articulate.
This was not a cut in current spending, it was a cut in new/projected spending. The government didn't take a paycut, but finally, they didn't get a raise either!
What will happen, and 0bama’s regime has already shown its’ hand on this, is they will order severe cuts that in no way correlate to the amount of the sequester.
The best example so far? DHS release of illegals. The number of illegals ‘ordered’ released equates to 3 times more than the budget cut requires.
Make no mistake my FRiend, while we need budget cuts, 0bama has no intention of doing so to benefit the country or meet his constitutional responsibility. He is going to order the exact opposite and with excessive ‘political terrorism’ in order to destroy all opposition.
So, wait a minute.
If Obama is deciding what to cut that would make him a......
wait for it....
Dictator!
If Congress is responsible for budgets then they would be responsible for cuts as well.
Like most libtards "forced" to cut spending, they will go for maximum inconvience to the general public.
They’ve completely failed to manage cost, and yet expect those who do have to manage their cost to pay for their spending.
Boehner needs to be the one who manages cost, being no one else will. Man up, Speaker.
Another obscurity is the tax revenue to GDP, it’s down to 16% because there is less economic activity, not because Democrats need to raise taxes to increase the tax revenue to GDP ratio, Mr Julian(FOX Business Block), that’s not how Macroeconomics works, your only advocating tax increases that have been shown to decrease total GDP.
Well Obama, if you so regret having to issue these orders, you can always resign the office. Then you need not suffer such anguish.