[SkyPilot]

Yet they’re squealing over 3% or so “cuts”?

You must be listening to Rush too much.

The cuts when compared as a percentage to the entire budget may look small, but 2/3rd of the budget (entitlements) are EXEMPT from sequestration. Of the remaining 1/3rd, Defense takes the biggest hit. On top of that, the total DoD bill for just this year is now projected to be over 13%, and since they can only touch a portion of the budget (military pay for instance is exempt), and they are halfway through the fiscal year, the cuts to the military are huge.

If you had 12 employees, and said you had to make cuts, but you were going to "exempt" 8 of them, and of the 4 remaining only 1 had to take the majority of the paycut, then the one employee takes it the most.

Same principle here, however, the "takers" of society are doing just fine, thank you. Obama and the Democrats fooled the Republicans into signing off on the sequester, and now the military will suffer great harm.

The GOP spin on this is all over the map. Last May, Paul Ryan said these cuts to the military had to be reversed.

Now he is cheerleading them.

Even Byron York is saying Boehner and the Republicans have lost their minds.

The GOP’s astonishingly bad message on sequester cuts

"In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner describes the upcoming sequester as a policy “that threatens U.S. national security, thousands of jobs and more.” Which leads to the question: Why would Republicans support a measure that threatens national security and thousands of jobs? Boehner and the GOP are determined to allow the $1.2 trillion sequester go into effect unless President Obama and Democrats agree to replacement cuts, of an equal amount, that target entitlement spending. If that doesn’t happen — and it seems entirely unlikely — the sequester goes into effect, with the GOP’s blessing. In addition, Boehner calls the cuts “deep,” when most conservatives emphasize that for the next year they amount to about $85 billion out of a $3,600 billion budget. Which leads to another question: Why would Boehner adopt the Democratic description of the cuts as “deep” when they would touch such a relatively small part of federal spending? The effect of Boehner’s argument is to make Obama seem reasonable in comparison.

[1010RD]

Well, you didn’t say that Byron York was against the “sequester”!

[centurion316]

See my post #11 on another thread

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2989749/posts?page=11#11

Many military installations are in solid Red districts. This is going to hurt Conservatives, while the Detroit, LA, D.C. and Boston crowd are going to be dancing in the streets.

[ExTxMarine]

Which leads to another question: Why would Boehner adopt the Democratic description of the cuts as “deep” when they would touch such a relatively small part of federal spending? The effect of Boehner’s argument is to make Obama seem reasonable in comparison.

Because left-leaning, no-backbone, Boehner was trying to convince the ACTUAL conservatives that the BS 2% cuts were really "deep." He was trying to convince his own party, most of whom KNOWS he is almost as full of shit as Obama, that sequestration really was the cut-to-the-bone savings that most of us want to see!

One last thing, you keep saying that MOST of this is coming from the military and that is simply another BS LIE! The cuts are a 50/50 split THIS year, but if ALL of the sequestration actually occurs (which will NEVER happen), the military cuts would total only about 40% of the TOTALS cuts.

You have been blowing BS about the sequester cuts for a few weeks now. Here is a really good question: Do you want the Republicans to agree to TAX increases to limit these cuts? Because that is the ONLY way Obama and the Dems are going to agree to ANYTHING! So, quit blaming the Republicans about not wanting to fix these issues and problems! The Dems will NOT agree to limit these cuts unless Reps agree to tax increases, so it is 100% on the Dems for wanting to replace CUTS with TAX INCREASES, NOT the Reps!

[meyer]

"...The cuts when compared as a percentage to the entire budget may look small, but 2/3rd of the budget (entitlements) are EXEMPT from sequestration...."

Why are entitlements exempt? Who are the idiots that agreed to that? Entitlements is where the cutting needs to take place. Hack the freeloaders, not the earners.

[sauropod]

Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.

The ignorance of some of the Low Information FReepers on this thread and other places is truly stunning.

[Gene Eric]

>> Obama and the Democrats fooled the Republicans into signing off on the sequester, and now the military will suffer great harm.

I thought it was obvious to everyone that Defense was targeted to bear the brunt.

[CharlesWayneCT]

You do realize that Byron’s message is that the sequester is NOT bad, and he doesn’t understand why Boehner is saying it WOULD BE.

In other words, Boehner agrees with your position, and Byron is calling that position nuts.

But nice of you to provide his article here.

[momf]

I think the congresscritters salaries and benefits could easily be cut. AND we, the people need to grow up and unelect many of them. They don't have the sense to limit their terms - look at how old they are when they get carried out, how “entitled” they are. WE need to limit their terms for them. Our founding fathers limited the time they could afford to spend serving the countries needs because their salaries were so low they had to get the countries business done to return home to earn a living!

[maica]

Even Byron York is saying Boehner and the Republicans have lost their minds.

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And Byron York is a reputable authority because......?

He is a younger version of George Will. Made a career of being a token conservative ‘commentator,’ who values his position in DC power circles, more than any actual conservative principles.

[gleeaikin]

They are talking about a 20% cut to civilian employee pay because of the shortened year to absorb this. I imaging a lot of people are thinking oh, goody, this will stick it to those DC bureaucrats. What they don’t realize is that 3/4 of these jobs are outside the DC area. How much will a 20% cut in these workers’ pay affect many local economies? Putting off buying a car, a new refrigerator, buying cheaper food and clothes, etc.