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Sequestration: White House summit begins
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Posted on 03/01/2013 8:14:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver
while Boehner has dismissed any tax hikes out of hand.

WRONG Boehner said revenue had already been address when Sequestration was agreed upon.

21 posted on 03/01/2013 8:32:45 AM PST by the_daug
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To: Sub-Driver

I lay down at night wondering what will happen first the economic collapse or the next world war...It’s a tough call but in the end.... What difference does it make?


22 posted on 03/01/2013 8:33:12 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: Sub-Driver

Shouldn’t they have done this a few weeks ago? I mean, I’m just sayin.......


23 posted on 03/01/2013 8:35:07 AM PST by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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To: napscoordinator
What Tax Loopholes are they talking about and are we for them?

"Limiting deductions and closing loopholes" = tax hikes = more money taken from the private sector and handed over to the Democrats for their use in buying the votes of their government-addicted base of moochers.

So no, we are not "for them".

24 posted on 03/01/2013 8:36:17 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Sub-Driver

Let it hit already. And then when Americans see it is MEANINGLESS, perhaps they will want some MORE cuts! DO. NOT. CAVE!


25 posted on 03/01/2013 8:36:53 AM PST by montag813
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To: Sub-Driver

“They should all be furloughed...... “

Furlough doesn’t solve anything, they should all be FIRED!!!!


26 posted on 03/01/2013 8:37:23 AM PST by dalereed
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To: Sub-Driver

Mentally they have been furloughed for years.


27 posted on 03/01/2013 8:38:42 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: longfellowsmuse
I lay down at night wondering what will happen first the economic collapse or the next world war...It’s a tough call but in the end....

"What difference does it make?"


28 posted on 03/01/2013 8:39:10 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
My bet is that they’ll cave. Not a spine in any GOPe.

Wonder which flavor Boehner's is? McConnell's?


29 posted on 03/01/2013 8:42:40 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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To: napscoordinator

Your post proves you are FOR Obama’s plan , you are for boner to cave in to Obama .

imo you are a democrat/statist


30 posted on 03/01/2013 8:48:44 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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To: Sub-Driver

‘Politico to media:
Obama wants to compromise between the Senate which wants “new revenues” (note: “tax increases” is a forbidden term. Mention of the tax increases Obama just got in the “Fiscal Cliff” deal is also forbidden.) and the House which only wants to make cuts that will hurt everyone- especially the poor and the young and minorities and women and LGBT.
Only a few conservatives in the House refuse to compromise.

Hail Spending!
That is all.’


31 posted on 03/01/2013 8:51:16 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: cuban leaf

boner and mconel still have a few hours to cave in to Obama. I think they will cave . I hope I’m wrong though

At the last minute they will avert the news media’s latest fake “disaster” ( the sequester).

what was it last month the fake fiscal cliff? global warming (another hoax) etc.


32 posted on 03/01/2013 8:53:25 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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...that is the first time that they have EVER cut government EVER.

Sorry, but the big bad sequester isn't going to 'cut' a single dime of federal spending.

This entire ruckus is over a mere 2% reduction in the rate of INCREASE of projected federal spending. No one in the country is going to feel its impact. All this talk of furloughing gov't workers, cutting military spending, catastrophic effects to existing entitlement programs, etcetera, is just a huge stinking pile of obama.

The federal government is going to spend more next year than they did this year - just like every year since Hector was a pup. The poor dears in Washington are only going to get 98% of the raise they were expecting for their departments and agencies.

Oh my! The world will end!!!

33 posted on 03/01/2013 8:55:27 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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are you counting in inflation too, or do you have all the calculations done for all the government too?

to keep the same size government has to increase by the inflation rate. if it doesn’t then it is a cut.

sequester is a good thing. let it happen.

without sequester gov growth will be what 20% next year? yes

so GOP and boner must not cave ( let the cuts happen)

All I hear is government will be cut in a lot of places. If government will be cut ANYWhwere with this sequester then that is the first time and it is the a good thing.


34 posted on 03/01/2013 9:00:14 AM PST by Democrat_media (media makes mass shooters household names to create more & take our guns)
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35 posted on 03/01/2013 9:26:54 AM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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boner and mconel still have a few hours to cave in to Obama. I think they will cave . I hope I’m wrong though


My point is that if they cave, this whole thing is sinister. There is no “in the light of day” reason for them to do so. It means the reasons are nefarious. It means the whole “d’s vs r’s” think is a facade. Our perceptions are completely wrong and the conspiracy theorists are closer to the truth than those that believe in the system. It means the system is a ploy.

If the r’s cave, I will never vote again. It means it is pointless. It is manipulated to benefit those not me. Or you.

If the R’s cave, the mask is finally and completely removed.

If they don’t cave, the more apparently sane explanations are the rule of the day.

We’ll see which it is.


36 posted on 03/01/2013 9:35:47 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Democrat_media

imo you are a democrat/statist

Your opinion means squat.


37 posted on 03/01/2013 9:39:31 AM PST by napscoordinator
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are you counting in inflation too, or do you have all the calculations done for all the government too? to keep the same size government has to increase by the inflation rate. if it doesn’t then it is a cut.

You're buying into the left's definition of a 'cut'. That is precisely the redefinition of language which has given Congress the cover to expand the size of the feral government for generations now. Career leftists like Obama have used this trick for decades to fool the American people into supporting their advance of Socialism.

If you were expecting a dollar an hour pay raise, and you only got a .98 cents an hour raise, it would be the same thing as the so-called sequester. Are you telling me that .16 cents a day is going to be a catastrophic hit to your personal economy? I highly doubt it.

Friend, our government is already vastly overfunded. Congress could freeze funding levels at their current levels and there would be no noticeable effect for years to come, besides the wailing and gnashing of teeth on Capitol Hill and in the media, and perhaps a gradual slimming down of federal departments and agencies.

You cannot have limited government as envisioned by the Framers, with the federal government taking as big a bite out of the GDP as it is today. You do realize the government now takes more out of the GDP than it did during the second world war, do you not? Look it up. That rate of increase has outpaced inflation.

38 posted on 03/01/2013 9:41:11 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: cuban leaf
My point is that if they cave, this whole thing is sinister. It means the whole “d’s vs r’s” think is a facade. It means the system is a ploy.

The last four years have convinced me that your statement is absolute fact. Besides a very few upstanding notables in Congress, the entire federal institution is nothing more than a treasonous cabal, gorging themselves in a depraved orgy of blood sucking at the jugular of the American people.

As far as I'm concerned, talking endlessly of political solutions is a pointless and fruitless exercise in Hope & Change™. The Constitution is just a dusty old relic of ages past, and is no longer considered the Supreme Law of the land by the traitors who infest the halls of power in Washington.

I've just about given up on participating in the rigged game we call national politics. It's a festering sewer of depravity that cannot be defeated or cleaned up by 'working within the system'. The whole thing needs to be emptied out from top to bottom before we'll see any measurable change in the direction of this country. There's only one way that I can see to do that, and I honestly believe it's coming.

39 posted on 03/01/2013 10:10:22 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

The last four years have convinced me that your statement is absolute fact.


I’ve said it is probably true, but if they cave, I will be with you strongly regarding that sentiment.

It will change how I live my life.


40 posted on 03/01/2013 10:15:48 AM PST by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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