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Obama signs order for "sequester" budget cuts (It's now official)
Reuters ^ | 3-1-2013 | Matt Spetainick

Posted on 03/01/2013 6:10:31 PM PST by smoothsailing

March 1, 2013

Obama signs order for "sequester" budget cuts

Matt Spetainick

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday signed an order that starts putting into effect across-the-board budget cuts known as the "sequester" after he and congressional leaders failed to find an alternative budget plan.

The White House released a copy of Obama's directive entitled "Sequestration Order for Fiscal Year 2013." Government agencies will now begin to hack a total of $85 billion from their budgets between Saturday and October 1.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; obamasfault; obamasignssequester; sequester; sequesterday; sequesterimplemented; sequestration
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Obama is a rookie joke.
But we already knew that.
Unbelievable is he. Pathetic.
41 posted on 03/01/2013 9:47:13 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: halo66

It may, but purely due to politics. These “cuts” are decreases in coded-in increased budgets (see baseline budgeting). In other words, sequestration mandates NO actual cuts. However, actual cuts will be made where they do the most damage for purely political reasons.


42 posted on 03/01/2013 10:32:11 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.b)
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To: piytar

Absolutely. It’s unbelievable that “the press” is taking Obama’s side in this. It’s all Obama, and nothing but. This has to shine through, I believe. It’s a total Wizard of Oz situation. At some point he’s going to be standing there at the controls with nowhere to turn ... Let’s hope.


43 posted on 03/01/2013 11:17:05 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Squantos
Not sure how it will wash out. For now, I work to keep my customer happy so my paycheck and that of my co-workers doesn't go away. We have to maintain top quality to ensure winning the re-compete on our contract. I've had many out of town trips that lasted as long as 3 months completely away from home. This one morphed from a 6 week commitment into nearly 4 years with visits home (always at my expense) for holidays. It's just getting old.

Stay safe yourself! Train wrecks are always hard to watch. Even more so when you're compelled to ride the train.

44 posted on 03/02/2013 12:59:39 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: smoothsailing
I never expected to be on the road as much as I haven been. We're coming up on being married 35 years in March. It is a challenging task to keep things going. One day at a time.
45 posted on 03/02/2013 1:03:10 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: smoothsailing
So it's official.

Obama lied to Romney in the third debate when he said that sequestration would never happen.

He knew it would all along.

-PJ

46 posted on 03/02/2013 1:19:08 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: smoothsailing

this is only the rehersal.

March 27 is the expiration of the stop-gap budget, or continuing resolution.

we are in for more of the same from the regime....


47 posted on 03/02/2013 3:27:46 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: nascarnation
MooseChelle’s next vacation will be reduced by 45 minutes....

Since we also pay for her transportation to and from these vacations, I propose we send her 90% of the way to Hawaii.

48 posted on 03/02/2013 3:33:56 AM PST by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: smoothsailing

He had to sign it??

but the MSM kept saying automatic cuts...hmmm so why didnt Dingle Berry just refuse to sign it?? Who could make him?


49 posted on 03/02/2013 5:11:01 AM PST by Gasshog (Welcome to the United States of Stupidos!)
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To: smoothsailing

50 posted on 03/02/2013 6:19:54 AM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: smoothsailing

The sequester law was Obama’s design so let him eat it. Besides, the budget could use a lot of trimming.


51 posted on 03/02/2013 6:42:33 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: smoothsailing
Why the hell isn't this button working?


52 posted on 03/02/2013 9:52:54 AM PST by theDentist (FUBO; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: halo66

I would NEVER get in bed with a federal contract.

Can’t trust any of them. Nothing but thieves and thugs.


53 posted on 03/02/2013 9:55:01 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

That just might happen as the value of the dollar falls. We will have to start producing goods and growing food in the US again. It will be the foreign products that will become unaffordable.

Also in harsh economic times government will have no other choice but to start cutting benefits. There will be fewer divorces and fewer people being rewarded for getting pregnant out of wedlock with children they never wanted. There may be an upside to all of this. (this is my wish anyway)


54 posted on 03/02/2013 9:56:42 AM PST by formosa (consider me galt)
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To: cripplecreek
You've got that right.
The main stream media and this current day CULTure is nothing but a cult and has forsaken God.
55 posted on 03/02/2013 11:21:10 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: smoothsailing
The real shocker to this cult would be that the stock markets and financial markets respond positivly to the budget cuts.
They would be real shocked that the credit rating for the US would improve and respond to America getting it's finaical house in order.
What a shocker.
56 posted on 03/02/2013 11:24:20 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: Political Junkie Too
“Obama lied to Romney in the third debate when he said that sequestration would never happen.”

Yes, I had that in mind also. He actually lied to the American people. Didn't matter to him whether or not the sequester would happen, he simply presented the statement as fact with the full knowledge that the “press” would never call him on it if proved wrong.

57 posted on 03/02/2013 11:29:08 AM PST by MRadtke (Light a candle or curse the darkness?)
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To: Myrddin
You would be better off getting a camper or buy a shipping container and have someone weld a boat trailer to the under side, convert the shipping contianer into a small house and ask your boss if you could live on their parking lot.

58 posted on 03/02/2013 11:30:28 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: Squantos
" run it up on the beach and let it rust out from under em "

The S.S. Minnow.
59 posted on 03/02/2013 11:33:47 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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To: Girlene

Heck I was waiting for green alien hands to come down and take him to the mother ship in space.


60 posted on 03/02/2013 11:38:54 AM PST by American Constitutionalist
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