Posted on 01/14/2014 7:36:16 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON — A House Natural Resources Committee investigation has found that President Obama’s Office of Management and Budget ordered that sequestration cuts be applied retroactively to funding for rural schools over the opposition of the Agriculture Department.
The committee’s report released today, “A Less Secure Future for Rural Schools: An Investigation into the Obama Administration’s Questionable Application of the Sequester to the Secure Rural Schools Program,” detailed how last February the USDA had determined 2013 sequestration wouldn’t apply to 2012 funds that had already been distributed in the program. The White House stepped in and overruled the USDA, though both agencies haven’t turned over numerous subpoenaed documents that could reveal more behind the decision.
The Secure Rural Schools program helps provide rural counties with funds for teachers, schools, police officers, emergency services and infrastructure — “necessary because the federal government had failed to uphold its century-old promise to actively manage our national forest to provide a stable revenue stream for rural counties containing national forest land,” Chairman Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) said in reference to the timber industry link.
The program dates back to a 2000 bill, which was extended in July 2012 for that fiscal year. The $323 million in funds were doled out to 41 states by the USDA in January 2013. But two months later, after sequestration went into effect, the Obama administration announced it wanted $17.9 million back — prompting bipartisan backlash from governors and congressional representatives of the affected states.
“The Obama administration appeared intent on making this sequester as painful and visible as possible, and this was another example. Instead of working with Congress to make responsible cuts and reforms, the administration took the political opportunity to go after funds used to pay teachers and police salaries,” Hastings said at a hearing on the report
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It sure looks to me like a bunch of fig leaves, cherished as they may be. Rednecks get spoiled when subsidized. This could the anodyne that keeps them voting for mushy GOP when they might go for stark bible values candidates otherwise.
It’s all those flyover country bitter clingers on Valjar’s list. Make whitie bleed.
Now.... back to investigating Christie for closing a bridge
Not many of holder’s people in rural schools.
President Obama hates the white middle class, our children and our values.
He’s not even subtle.
Yet so few people realize that we have done a terrible job of messaging.
“..making this sequester as painful and visible as possible..”
sounds like Christie’s bridge debacle! - making things painful for the Mayor.
These are the slimes that want to tar and feather Christie?
If I remember correctly, Obama DID shut down traffic lanes out west to prevent people from being able to pull over and take pictures of Mount Rushmore...
I think there were more instances of things like this (open air parking lots closed) at places like George Washington's Mt. Vernon estate, etc.
And Romney just sat there and let Obama say those things unchallenged?
-PJ
Example of Impact to Siskiyou County, CA, which has a population of only 45,000 with 1361.64 miles of county roads and 175 bridges to maintain over an area Of 6,300 square miles.
Current budget $10,000,000 a year, of which about $2.5 million comes from Secure Rural Schools when Congress authorizes it. (Keep in mind it takes about $1 million a mile to create a road.) About $6 million of this is salary and benefits, leaving about $4 million for equipment and materials. This is WITH SRS payments. Also keep in mind that without SRS payments, the bulk of money for roads comes from gas taxes and a formula for divvying that out across the state. Without SRS payments, it is estimated that half of the road Dept. personnel will need to be laid off.
Even with SRS, you are talking very inadequate funding to the point of threatening public health and safety.
http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/SRSquest.htm
http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/road_dept.htm
With demonizing comments like yours, it is no wonder there is a growing divide between rural and urban, with animosity steadily growing.
“Demonizing” comments? Huh? What bizarro world have I stepped into? If truth demonizes, then you are embracing a demon, friend.
Yeah you’ve demonstrated very well that’s where the racket is! Should there be a racket at all? I think not. We can debate exit strategies but an exit will need to happen if we want to see more overall blessings.
The more crippling factor here, methinks, is the tunnel visioned mind set that comes when looking to Washington for every! single! blessed! thing!
Let the question come before your dazed mind. If Washington stopped this, how else could we raise money to bring blessings to the area?
It might take a while to puzzle through it with unused brain cells.
Well, with cities fully infested with baby-killing, disease-ridden child molesters, packofiles, whores and all the other types of democRATs...why would any self-respecting normal person even consider living there?
Basically, what happened to good ole rural redneck derring do. You’re letting Washington enervate it (to use a city slicker word).
I can not just say I would hope, but I can say God PROMISED it. Let go of the Washington teat — even simply get READY to let go of it — and God Himself will open vistas you never would have dreamed of. God is not telling you to plunge into a blind abyss if your faith is weak. ASK for a sign — as long as you are sincere, you’ll get it.
True, there are worse things than having enemies like that.
Still our stout rednecks shouldn’t be standing in self glorification. They should give glory squarely to God.
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