Posted on 04/24/2013 12:17:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes, you also warned us that we wouldn’t have meat inspections and that children would be denied vaccinations, remember? During Tuesday’s briefing, after the news from the FAA that employee furloughs were starting to cause flight delays (watch the vid at RCP):
I find it fascinating that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republican Party in the Senate, is decrying the sequester that he decried in the past and then supported. This is a result of the sequester being implemented. We made it clear that there would be these kinds of negative effects if Congress failed to take reasonable action to avert the sequester — policy that everyone who was involved in writing it knew at the time and has made clear ever since was never designed to be implemented. It was designed to be bad policy and, therefore, to be avoided. The fact is Congress had an opportunity, but Republicans made a choice. … The President has put forward a comprehensive, balanced approach to deficit reduction that would eliminate the sequester. But this is Congress’s responsibility. It needs to take action.
Uhm, pretty brashly indignant there, considering that your boss also supported and is now decrying the sequester, and then went on to do his absolute best to get the cuts to avoid both flexibility and accountability while striking as much fear as possible into the hearts of all Americans.
As the WSJ points out, these flight delays are just another orchestrated part of the continuing sequestration-scaremongering strategy; kind of odd that the FAA can’t manage its operations with a budget comparative to that of only a few years ago while air-traffic levels have declined, no?
Ponder this logic, if that’s the right word: The sequester cuts about $637 million from the FAA, which is less than 4% of its $15.9 billion 2012 budget, and it limits the agency to what it spent in 2010. The White House decided to translate this 4% cut that it has the legal discretion to avoid into a 10% cut for air traffic controllers. Though controllers will be furloughed for one of every 10 working days, four of every 10 flights won’t arrive on time. …
The White House claims the sequester applies to the budget category known as “projects, programs and activities” and thus it lacks flexibility. Not so: This is a political pose to make the sequester more disruptive. Legally speaking, the sequester applies at a more general level known as “accounts.” The air traffic account includes 15,000 controllers out of 31,000 employees. The White House could keep the controllers on duty simply by allocating more furlough days to these other non-essential workers. …
For more than a decade the FAA has promised to modernize and make the civil aviation system more efficient and reliable, but the only things it has reliably generated are delays or cost overruns or usually both. …
A more sincere administration might use the sequester as a chance for innovation, improvement, and waste-elimination, but not these guys — the Obama White House is all about purposely making sequestration as painful and visible as possible, lest the ultimately pretty tiny sequester cuts mar their case for an ever-growing big government.
Somebody is lyin, cause a reduction in the amount of increase should not have this impact.
As always with leftists in government,
when there are cuts or opposition to spending/taxing increases,
they try to
HURT THE PEOPLE
in ways they’ll feel it most.
Yes, they are evil bastages.
even with sequester, the FAA has more staff and funds than last year and fewer flights
Pat Toomey was on TV this morning and pointed out that Obama’s proposed budget for the Transportation Department provides less funding than what they are getting under sequestration.
Let’s see if we can prioritize the budget to NOT cause any huge disruptions.
Let’s privatize air traffic control. Canada did it, and it works better.
Then privatize Amtrak. Get rid of all subsidies for rail.
That’ll save $12 billion.
The federal government’s collection of unused and vacant properties is killing taxpayers. Watchdog groups say maintenance and bureaucratic red tape related to the U.S. government’s 55,000-to-77,000 vacant properties has cost taxpayers up to $8 billion so far.
An example: The government just sold off one of its buildings this month, for $19.5 million, Breitbart reports. But it took 10 years — 10 years of finding an appropriate seller and cutting through the bureaucratic red tape that winds through such sales. And during that time, taxpayers were responsible for picking up the maintenance and upkeep tab.
See here: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/27/federal-government-spends-8-billion-empty-building/
That’s $20 Billion right there.
Then there are more than 1,300 duplicate programs within the federal government, accounting for at least $364.5 billion in federal spending every year.
Simply cutting duplicate programs would probably save $100 Billion a year.
And while we’re at it — PRIVATIZE NPR.
So, out of the so many SIMPLE things (i.e. WASTE )we can cut, why cut the budget for things that will cause DISRUPTIONS?
This shows that the folks in this administration are so incompetent that they can’t even prioritize.
Thomas Sowell:
Imagine a government agency with only two tasks: (1) building statues of Benedict Arnold and (2) providing life-saving medications to children. If this agency’s budget were cut, what would it do?
The answer, of course, is that it would cut back on the medications for children. Why? Because that would be what was most likely to get the budget cuts restored. If they cut back on building statues of Benedict Arnold, people might ask why they were building statues of Benedict Arnold in the first place.
The DC crowd has given us whiplash:
The Republicans did vote overwhelmingly for the 2011 Budget Contol Act, that contained the Sequester which Obama's OMD Director suggested, and then the Republicans were against the Sequester but voted on legislation to "replace" the Sequester before the campaign which they knew the Senate would never, ever agree to, and Obama seemed to have zero interest in addressing things since the Joint Resolution "Super Committee" failed to address taxes and entitlements which are the real problem, and Congress refuses to address the same problems, so they waited until after the fall election setback, so they negotiated during the Fiscal Cliff and agreed to raise taxes, but didn't want to address the Sequester one iota during negotiations until there were only 2 hours left until the deadline, so they punted and delayed it for 60 days, and the tax revenue for the entire first year went to the Sandy pork bill 2 weeks later to fill the pockets of Christie, Bloomberg, and Cuomo, so they did nothing and Obama did nothing until there were 2 weeks left until the 1 March deadline and the Republicans refused to do anything and this time it was Obama who wanted to stop the Sequester but the Republicans did a 180 and "embraced" the horror and said it would be bad, but it would not be bad, even if it hurt the military, but so what who cares about the military anyway and the Joint Chiefs are lying to us when they said it would hurt the military, and the Republicans said it was all about Easter Egg Rolls and White House tours anyway, and besides, it is just 2% of all spending, but that is not true because 63% of mandatory entitlement spending is completely exempt from Sequestration, so the deadline came and went and both sides pointed fingers and talked right past each other, and now talk radio had fun mocking the Sequester until the economic impacts began to be felt and then it was real again and both sides pointed fingers again, and the Republicans say they don't want to address the Sequester cuts because they are afraid of seniors on Social Security and Medicare.
And that is about it.
Obama’s a mean man. He has very bad karma which I hope does not hurt his children
It gets worse. From 2004-2008 the Federal Budget was between $2.45 and $2.75 Trillion dollars and we were fighting a war and rebuilding our military during that time.
Things ran just fine and we were massively overspending at the time.
The Budget for 2012 was $3.7 Trillion and we had no problems.
The Budget for 2013 is $3.8 Trillion including the Sequester.
We are being had
The way I see it, we are spending less money. Whatever it takes to strangle the binging bastards. I call for another sequester and double-down and this time, we need to specifically call out cuts to DHS, BATF, EPA and IRS... that alone could almost balance the damn budget.
RE: ... that alone could almost balance the damn budget.
“My goal is not to chase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance. My goal is how do we grow the economy, put people back to work, and if we do that we are going to be bringing in more revenue,” President Obama said in an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos.
SEE HERE:
that’s like asking someone to cut off their own foot.
politicians as we all know do not serve the people. They serve to get more votes, nothing else.
Call me racist or whatever, but the forefathers intended only landowners to be able to vote. There was a reason. If you are not vested in the country, you should have no voice. I think it was Jefferson who was fond of referring to the Romans (as was Franklin) (going back to elementary school here), and one of them explained that Rome fell, because the people realized they could vote themselves pay raises, while the politicians realized they could buy off the voters in this way (not a quote, but a general idea here, some Freeper will have the exact quotes and such).
Obama has had the sequester cuts channeled to cause the greatest public disruption; each agency can adjust what and where it needs to and many, like the FAA, are selecting the things that have the most public impact
It’s pretty obvious Obastard is making sure the cuts hurt people, but what do we do to get the low-information voters to wake up? I’m sure they’re blaming the Republicans for the FAA furloughs.
I am looking at work for the government...
just as an example, I need to price brushes and brush holders..
the government demanded brush holders are readily available..
but, the brushes they demand are not, they need to be custom made...
if they made the brushes one half (1/2) of a MILLIMETER wider, the brush holders and brushes would be off the shelf items...
savings, about 177.00 dollars PER FOOT!!!!!!!!
I need over 700 feet...
think about this for a minute, and let it sink in...
then do a very little research on how large a half a millimeter is...
I believe nothing the feds tell me...
This shows that the folks in this administration are so incompetent that they can’t even prioritize.
Evil and incompetent are two different things though not mutually exclusive. This is on purpose FRiend.
I wanted to read all that. If you post it again with paragraphs please ping me. I promise I will return to read it.
The way this PC is set I can't get through that many lines without losing my place.
Yep, it is the computer's fault, not my old eyes, nope.
Wow! His goal is to ask a question. Then what? Go golfing?
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