Posted on 07/17/2013 7:43:33 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz seems to be at odds with her boss about the sequester that is currently cutting the pay of 1000 Florida National Guardsmen by 20 percent, who are tasked to respond to natural disasters...
[According to Politifact], Obama said that the sequester — and the defense cuts that would result from it — was not his proposition. “It is something that Congress has proposed,” he said in the debate. But it was Obama’s negotiating team that came up with the idea for defense cuts in 2011...
(Excerpt) Read more at shark-tank.net ...
The Obama Administration is misleading Congress and the American people when it asserts that it plans to maintain a strong national defense. On February 13, 2012, President Barack Obama unveiled his fiscal year (FY) 2013 defense budget request.[1] The request comes on the heels of the January 5, 2012, release of a new strategic guidance outlining the nation’s defense policy.[2] The numbers in the budget submission reveal that the nation’s defense is the Administration’s lowest budget priority among the major responsibilities of the federal government. The budget submission also reveals that the Administration has proposed defense funding levels that are inadequate to maintaining the U.S. military capabilities described in the defense strategic review. ~ Source Heritage Foundation
Throw spaghetti on the cat, if it sticks it’s done?
Debbie is just putting on a show. She could care less about the Florida National Guard.
Besides, they only get federal money if they’re on Title 10 orders or on full-time orders under Title 32. 1000 is a whole lotta AGRs and ARTs.
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