Posted on 02/12/2013 11:32:28 AM PST by Starman417
The White House has warned of the devastation that would result from sequestration:
The White House warned Friday that allowing the $85 billion sequester to happen would devastate the economy and disrupt the everyday lives of millions of people.In a move intended to intensify pressure on Congress to prevent looming spending cuts set for March 1, White House officials told reporters the cuts would hamper law enforcement, hurt federal education programs, withhold mental health services and furlough thousands of workers.
One horrible thing after another would come to pass:
In a fact sheet, the administration said some 373,000 “seriously mentally ill adults” and “emotionally disturbed children” would go untreated because of cuts in health care spending. Thousands of fewer food safety inspections would occur, and the FBI would see a workforce reduction of some 1,000 agents.Social safety net programs for the poor would be among the hardest hit by the sequester. More than half a million women and children would be dropped from food assistance programs, and 125,000 low-income families receiving rental assistance would lose their aid. Recipients of long-term unemployment would see benefits decrease by an average of $400, and more than 100,000 formerly homeless people would be removed from their current housing and emergency shelter programs.
Programs for seniors — including federally-assisted programs like Meals on Wheels and offices that process Social Security and Medicare claims — could see stark cutbacks. And while most Americans are unlikely to mourn the cuts to the Internal Revenue Service that would reduce the number of audits performed, the Justice Department would furlough hundreds of federal prosecutors responsible for trying criminal crimes.
Oh the humanity:
The White House also argued that sequestration would lead to the loss of hundreds of thousands of federal and contracting jobs and deal a blow to the overall economy, pointing to recent fourth-quarter gross domestic product projections — dragged down by a slowing of defense spending — as evidence of the danger.
Now for a little history. Barack Obama signed the sequester bill into law on August 2, 2011
This is a law Obama wanted:
(excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
Classrooms are down to 8 kids per teacher...all kinds of advisors. The kids aren't getting their money. Parents have to retake control of the schools....and I don't mean atheists and gays and abortionists.
White House officials told reporters the cuts would hamper law enforcement, hurt federal education programs, withhold mental health services and furlough thousands of workers.
All of that I can live with, just do not cut the military.
Furloughs will be hard on workers, but I doubt they will starve, and How will Obama live without the taxes these furloughed workers would have paid?
It appears the first thing they are going to do is shut down USDA inspections so as to engineer a meat shortage and create public outcry. The same as a petulant Mayor shuttering the Fire Dept. when the voters reject his tax increase.
doesn’t matter he wins either way.
pubs cave, he still gets to blame them and keep spending. 99.99% chance this happens.
pubs don’t cave, he still gets to blame them and keeps spending. he gets to be extra happy the us economy gets hammered more, he wants the economy to tank more, plus it gives him another whipping boy strawman to beat and call republican.
It appears the first thing they are going to do is shut down USDA inspections so as to engineer a meat shortage and create public outcry. The same as a petulant Mayor shuttering the Fire Dept. when the voters reject his tax increase.
Yeah, they will shut down the USDA inspections of food production facilities causing them all to gring to a damn halt....
Of course they will still find a way to continue to harass people selling veggies at farmer’s markets and Amish folk selling raw milk, etc etc.....
Yeah, that loss of 1/2 of 1% of the spending budget will be tremendously destructive. I'm surprised he didn't mention the ambulances. They always have to cut ambulances.
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