Correction, it is NOT a CUT. It is a reduction in the rate of growth (you remember baseline budgeting). Even after the sequester is fully implemented, we will end up spending more in 2013 than we did in 2012. It is NOT a freaking CUT!!!
Opinion February 20, 2013
Obama Says The Sky Is Falling And It Can’t Get Up
Unless he gets another tax hike—like just happened a month ago—Obama claims we’re all in danger.
Not only does President Obama claim the sky is falling, he also says it can’t get up.
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Unless he gets another tax hike–like just happened a month ago—Obama claims we’re all in danger.
While still pretending that he’s cut federal spending dramatically—which is totally false—Obama says hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose their health care access.
He claims tens of thousands of parents will lose childcare.
He claims FBI agents will be laid off and criminals will be turned loose. And Obama says there’s no escape, because air traffic control will be a mess.
There are better ways to handle scheduled slowdowns in spending—the sequester—Obama ignores them and now he’s trying to make public safety and our military take the hit.
The question is not whether the sky is falling, but whether we are going to fall for Obama’s scare tactics.
From The Heritage Foundation, I’m Ernest Istook.
“Correction, it is NOT a CUT. It is a reduction in the rate of growth (you remember baseline budgeting). Even after the sequester is fully implemented, we will end up spending more in 2013 than we did in 2012. It is NOT a freaking CUT!!!
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With all due respect, people who having been saying this are flat out wrong. DOD has been operating on continuing resolutions for years now. Each of these is 6 months long (2 per fiscal year). For the first half of FY 2013 we have been operating at FY 12 expenditure levels and now are being told that for all FY13 our expenditures must be at 2010 levels. So not only do we have to cut for the second half of FY13, we must make additional cuts to “give back” the 2012 level money that was already spent in the first half of FY13.
This whole “there are no real cuts happening” storyline is pure BS.