Posted on 03/01/2013 7:51:32 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
This thread is for survivers of the sequester to document the disaster for future generations once civilization is rebuilt.
The sequester will be the happiest day of my life because that is the fist time that they have EVER cut government EVER.do you all understand the significance of that? I toast to the sequester!
I heard that Charles Manson and his Family have been released because the government can no longer afford to keep them in prison. Reportedly, they were driven to a local hardware store and released.
Here in New York somehow the sun managed to rise without federal help. I noticed some green shoots coming up without the Department of Agriculture. I don’t have direct knowledge so I may be wrong but I heard some kid learned something today without the Department of Education. I was sort of hoping the IRS would shut down and I wouldn’t have to report what my fair share is this year. I did see a bunch of people lined up at the Board of Elections in prison blues registering to vote.
And on the other half all the street lights are OFF!!!
Well, everything seems normal here, but around 1:00 this morning my cat puked on the bedroom floor.
I laid in some flat irons, ribs, chicken and frozen veggies to last a few weeks.
I’m going to the post office.
If I don’t return, tell my family I loved them.
IT APPEARS TO BE ERODING!!!
For those unaware, the FDIC pays its bills from the insurance dues charged to banks...i.e. the taxpayers don't pay our expenses.
For the last two years, the FDIC has been rated "Best Agency to Work For" by its employees, 90% of whom are on term contracts.
For me, the work is challenging, and it's a joy to come to work each day.
Deroy Murdock of the National review made an astute observation.
If Obama was really interested in governing and is really concerned for the good of the country, he should know what to cut and what to preserve.
Instead, he is simply interested in playing politics and demonizing Republicans.
This is for all low information voters ....
Senator Marco Rubio and Representative Tom Price (R., Ga.) co-authored the Decrease Spending Now Act. It would shift to debt relief a whopping $45 billion in tax revenues now stalled in dormant federal accounts.
“Hundreds of billions of dollars are borrowed and then left unspent because Congress routinely bites off more than it can chew,” Rubio stated. Added Price: “Leaving billions of taxpayer dollars to gather dust in federal coffers only encourages fiscal irresponsibility. By rescinding this unspent and unobligated money — funds that the government clearly can do without — we can contribute to the larger goal of breaking the government’s habit of borrowing and spending money we cannot afford.”
Senator Rand Paul would cut $85 billion annually by not replacing departed federal employees ($6.5 billion in savings), bringing the $128,226 in average yearly federal civilian compensation closer to the private sector’s $64,560 (reducing $32 billion), curtailing federal travel by 25 percent ($2.25 billion), limiting Pentagon research to military applications ($6 billion), requiring competitive bids on government contracts and paying market wages on federal projects ($19 billion), and halving foreign aid ($20 billion).
The Public Interest Research Group and the National Taxpayers Union jointly identified $1 trillion in ten-year savings through 56 budget cuts that liberals and conservatives should love. These range from killing a $10 million biodiesel-education grant to a $160 billion modernization of federal computer systems. The $77 billion Crop Insurance program should be uprooted. The feds own some 55,500 buildings that are “not utilized or underutilized.” Sell them. Even giving them away would save taxpayers $17 billion in maintenance expenses — on empty buildings!
PIRG and NTU urge Medicare to calibrate excessive labor and office-space outlays with the actual prices that prevail in lower-cost communities. Savings: $47.6 billion.
Rather than spend $179,750 per hour to fly Air Force One from rally to rally to demonize Republicans, Obama should sit still long enough to send Congress a budget request. The federal Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 mandates that the president’s spending plan reach Capitol Hill by the first Monday of February. Obama’s last two budgets arrived late, and this year’s is AWOL. Before Obama barks at Republicans yet again, he should start doing his job.
Obama keeps harping about teachers, police, firefighters not being paid, airplane delays, and the hollowing of our defense when there is so much FAT that can be cut.
I hope it’s still there when I go on vacation in July.
man vanishes after being suckeed into sinkhole
Was it Obama and his minions? Maybe God is answering our prayers
But you, God, will bring down the wicked into the pit of decay; the bloodthirsty and deceitful will not live out half their days.But as for me, I trust in you.
Psalm 55:22-23
Rerpublican rinos?
Matthew 15:14
Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
All was OK until I had to reboot my PC....something about an electrical shortage.
Car still runs although I expect to see gas at $42.50 per gallon when I pass the station this morning.
Didn’t have the normal navy flyover to welcome me this am...what’s up with that?
Wind seems to be blowing a little harder today than normal...all the hot air escaping DC.
I think I’ll go to lunch early today, before all the food shortages hit at Subway.
Alas, they didn’t cut government. Only in the Alice in Wonderland world of Federal baseline budgeting does the sequestration represent a cut to government spending: the 2% doesn’t cancel all of the built in increases to Federal spending produced by the baseline calculation: the Feds will still spend more this year than they did last year.
Just remember: a 2% cut is what all working families got when the payroll tax holiday ended.
Still haven’t gotten any cat litter...drat.
Doubtful.
At this reckless pace of erosion caused by the sequestration, the Grand Canyon will be flatter than Kansas by then.
I'm so sorry.
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