Posted on 02/26/2013 12:42:12 PM PST by SeekAndFind
When Clinton signed the Republican welfare reform bill in the 90’s, the left said people would be starving in the streets.
Didn’t happen of course, and they weren’t embarrassed. They still use the same language today if you talk about cutting spending.
Here it is used like this: so those miserly rich people better start paying up their even bigger fair share, stat!
Anyone know? Some jargon I'm not familiar with.
RE: What does this term of speech mean: “stat”
Short form for Statim, which is Latin for ‘immediately’.
Meaning: asap, right away, without delay, pronto.
Well, the Democrats will fight sequestration tooth and nail. And there are probably enough Republicans who will fold.
You can’t get any cuts done with Washington the way it is, and I don’t know what can be done.
I predict they will throw up barricades and close down Interstates 80,90, 95 and 75 on Good Friday and blame it on the sequester.
I also suspect a mass outbreak of Blue Flu and Gloslowitis will hit the TSA over Easter Weekend.
Dangerous, violent illegal aliens are not being released. This I know.
From working with the public employee unions in CA during budget crises, cutting the increase in their budgets would mean that their members won’t be able to demand as big as wage increase and they might have to (gasp) contribute a couple of bucks to their healthcare and pensions. They fight for tax increases and campaign that the poor will be cut off, not enough teachers and police, and the budget cuts wouldn’t do that at all if the unions would give a little. They don’t care about the poor at all.
Krauthammer Derangement Syndrome.
A really sad affliction that results in hurling insults at Charles Krauthammer even when the sufferer agrees with him. The only known cure is a weekend in isolation with Candy Crowley and Rachel Maddow.
Such treatment at this time is, unfortunately, not covered under the Affordable Care Act.
The whole thing is a baby step. Most people will never even know it happened.
Forget the media. We need to portray it as such and make fun of them at the same time.
Obama is choosing the harm. If he cannot manage a miniscule two cent cut, let’s get somebody who can.
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