The president himself has caused the fears and whining by flying around the country beating the drums of doom.
As long as the low information Obama voter base continues to grow, we are toast as America.
And a day of reckoning is coming.
Obama&Co at it finest.
Can you imagine Reagan doing this?
Aha! So it's NOT a revenue problem.
Somebody should ping Ubama. Somebody's been feeding him false information.
You have to wonder why they use the word, “sequester,” instead of “budget cuts.”
You have to wonder why they use the word, “sequestration,” instead of “budget cuts.”
Imagine what will happen when the time comes (not if, when...) where we are forced into having serious cuts like Greece and all the people receiving welfare, social security, and retired as well as current government employees receive their check and it’s half what it was the month before....
I see more and more people making some type of preparations.
Obama is already trying to walk back the fear mongering from“immediate, painful spending cuts”a week ago because he was trying to scare people into supporting a repeal of sequester and trying to intimidate the Republicans into caving to him once again to “It’s conceivable that in the first week, the first two weeks, the first three weeks, the first month … a lot of people may not notice the full impact of the sequester” when they held firm under the weight of the propaganda war. I don’t know if the GOP could have won political points with a backbone in the past, but this is sure a damn good place to start.
No one seems to want to recognize that we are on the ‘Titanic’ and all this sequestration crap etc. is just chair arranging.
Additional ‘cuts’ that would help: Limit federal worker holidays to 7 each year, cap vacations at 2 weeks per year, cap rollovers of sick days to two weeks, end retirement benefits for any appointed or elected official, end health benefits for any employee, appointed or elected official who earns more than $100k, etc.
But of course, that's not how the ‘cuts’ will go in. They will be targeted to have the maximum impact on the public. Why stop the coffee service at the federal office and replace the $100 a month coffee maker with a $20 Mr. Coffee when you can reduce by 20% the number of TSA agents conducting illegal searches of citizens at the airport?
Always, the onus is on the public to make ‘sacrifices’ upon the altar of federal employee largess.
Yes, I know the biggest cost in the federal budget is ‘entitlements’. But maybe, just maybe, if our elected officials had to pay for that latte instead of thinking THEY were entitled to it, they MIGHT just start thinking like a normal citizen again.
What really spelled doom for the country was the balance-shift of ‘takers’ overwhelming ‘makers.’ That, and America’s continued downward spiral into cultural degeneracy, as symbolized by the push for homo marriage. The country is a pathetic shadow of what it once was. The question for me has gradually been changing from ‘how’ to salvage the country to whether, at this point, there’s anything left of it even worth salvaging.
You keep posting these "happy happy joy joy" threads about the Sequester, when the first line of this drivel sounds like the drumbeat propaganda from Sean Hannity.
He does not seem to able to apply 4th grade math concepts.
It isn't 2.4% across the board - 62% of all mandatory entitlement spending is EXEMPT.
You know this because I have told you so.
It hits the military with a 13% cut in the middle of a fiscal year, and most of that cut has to come from Operations and Maintenance, which will be gutted.
Sequestration only touches 1/3 of our budget, which is discretionary spending.
Do you not fathom these facts, or are you just being disingenuous?
There is enough blame to go around but I believe the group most responsible for allowing us to get into this condition are the members of the news media.
Our founding fathers gave they special protection in the Constitution with the understanding that they would be the last defense against a corrupt government.
However, instead of being watch dogs they have become lap dogs.
They no longer “report” or “investigate” stories, they promote what ever the socialist in government want, and demonize anyone that dares challenge them.
Since socialism can not possibly work, this house of cards they have built will eventually collapse. When that happens there is going to be turmoil and when that happens no will be able to predict the outcome. I somehow do not think they will enjoy this brave new world they have created.
Just wait until real cuts come.
The ones that will not reward you for having unwanted fatherless children, cutting back on foodstamps and medicare and medicaid. When the money runs out to pay unemployment what will people do? There will be cut backs in social security and obama phones will be a thing of the past.
This little cut is nothing.
It’s like I’ve been saying, Obama is just a symptom of the disease. It is the American voter that has gotten us into this predicament.
My opinion is this; they robbed SS for years, opened Pandora's Box when SSI, originally meant for minors robbed of a working parent through death or dismemberment, was degraded to the point where drunks, junkies and fat people with "anxieties" live the life of Riley on the taxpayers back.
W tried getting SS reform on the agenda, but iirc 911 intervened and by the time reform got near the table again the Rats had retrenched.
As for Medicare, imo it should never have come into existance.
I could go on a full blown rant here on GodGov omnicience, prescience and all around general wonderfulness but the preacher/choir thing reins me in.
In their personal lives,every one of those elected officials ( with the exception of Hussein) knows that you start with LUXURIES when cutting back on expenses-not necessities. You don’t tell the kid they can’t have dinner so you can go to the Superbowl. So why aren’t these politicians cutting foreign aid and $ to the United Nations before cutting the pay of Joe Sixpack?? Would they rather enrage millions of American citizens before our enemies( who are perpetually outraged anyway?) If that’s what they want- they’ll get it. They are CHOOSING to hurt those at the bottom-and eventually Les Miserables will rise up.
Let everyone in Congress and the Senate work for a token amount-most are lawyers with lucrative careers anyway. Hell, let’em go on foodstamps, see how it feels! The fact is there is a large percentage of WORKING Americans who already know how to do a lot with very little-and do it every day. They will survive. It’s the instant gratification and government Iphone crowd that will suffer most. They can’t survive on potatoes and eggs, they HAVE to have steak and beer and satellite TV. This can only end one way...the way all totalitarian dictatorships do.