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It blows my mind that Obozo proposed the sequester, threw the dice and lost. I'm glad he could get back from golfing to spend 30 min. with Congress. Now he wants to blame the Republicans. Wow...just wow. He has not taken responsibility for any of his multiple failures as president. Hell, he was even kind enough to give some of his biggest doners from solar energy companies a shitload of our money just to go belly up at our expense. It is no wonder I am on blood pressure medicine. This fraud he and the progressives have pulled on us has been of magnificent proportion.
Ok, rant over. The sequester directly impacts me as I am a civilian technician in the Air National Guard. Hell, maybe I am part of the problem, but somone has to go off to the wars. The unit I am in has been solid deployed for 10 years to the middle east. We only rotate planes and people, but that doesn't take away from the 10 year mark and counting of being in that shithole. I work beside active duty, train them, etc. for a helluva lot less money and will be taking another hit when we get furloughed. I will lose a months pay between April and September. Will it suck, well, how would any of you like to miss a months pay, yes it will suck. That being said, I watch my finances, and will be ok. Something has to be done, but if we cut out all the fraud, waste, and abuse that goes on within the .gov agencies, we would have our money back and then some. Also, lets cut out all the bullshit foreign aid. Really MotherF'rs??????? We don't have the money to pay our own bills, why do we keep giving money and military equipment to these bastards at our expense. At least the head mofo's in the military/industrial complex are getting rich. Nice for them. I am at the point I will be glad when the wheels finally fall off the cart, we reset to 0 and start over after a good house cleaning. Our priorities, our morals and everything else are straight down the shitter. 90 years of the train running down the track the wrong way is catching up with us. Should be an interesting ride. |
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I found out how uninformed people are at work this week. One dude said and I quote, "That's why I just watch sports". F'n idiots and they get to vote. If my wife posts on here when I'm dead, it is because being around and watching idiots destroy this country has made my head explode!!!
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Has a nice ring to it...Obamacare...Barackalypse....
Just announced, he has signed the order ! Announced at 2045L Eastern time 3/1/2013 Watch it the whole way through... Last edited by PortDawg; 03-01-2013 at 9:09pm. Reason: Added a few things |
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Good read yesterday about how little Obozo cares about actually doing anything to minimize the consequences of his latest brilliant idea, as oppopsed to overdramatizing to drive up taxes:
World Does Not End, Obama Hardest Hit Quote:
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While I realize the it is Fox News, the people may not be buying into the sales story.
Obama, his team struggling with accuracy when explaining impact of sequester cuts | Fox News Obama, his team struggling with accuracy when explaining impact of sequester cuts Published March 02, 2013 President Obama and top administration officials are struggling with accuracy in explaining the impact of billions in federal budget cuts known as sequester that kicked in Saturday morning -- even getting called out by a Capitol Hill superintendent about furloughs for support staffers. Carlos Elias, the Capitol Building superintendent, sent out a memo Friday reminding staffers that the current sequestration plan does not include “reductions in force or furloughs” and that “pay and benefit of each of our employees will not be impacted.” Though not directly mentioning Obama by name, Elias also said in the memo that a “high-ranking official said employees that clean and maintain the U.S. Capitol will receive a cut in pay.” Hours before the memo was released, the president, in what appears to be the administration’s attempt to maximize the potential impact of the cuts, said at a press conference: “Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.” The cuts were proposed by the president and agreed upon by Congress in 2011 after Democrats and Republicans failed to agree on a more measured way to reduce the deficit. The $85 billion in cuts in 2013 to the Defense Department and domestic programs will be more like $45 billion when pro-rated this year. Last weekend, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told CBS “there are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can’t come back this fall." However, Duncan appeared to backpedal Wednesday, coming up with just one example, a West Virginia county, and the disclaimer that “whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know.” Officials in the state’s Kanawha County told The Washington Post that “transfer notices” were sent to at least 104 educators and they had more to do with how West Virginia allocates federal dollars designated for poor children. PolitiFact, the Tampa Tribune’s fact-checking operation, has also reviewed officials’ sequester claims, concluding much has been “doomsday” and “worst-case-scenario” rhetoric. The newspaper’s Pulitzer Prize-winning group found that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s recent warning that air travel will be delayed because of Federal Aviation Administration cuts is just mostly true. "Flights to major cities like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco and others could experience delays of up to 90 minutes during peak hours because we have fewer (air traffic) controllers on staff,” LaHood said last week. Thought sequester requires across-the-board cuts with no shifting of money between agency departments, there appears to be some flexibility in make the cuts, including $600 million from the FAA, experts told PolitiFact. Roughly one-third of FAA employees are controllers, so furloughs are possible. But agency Chairman Michael Huerta recently suggested cuts might start on the midnight shifts or at smaller and low-traffic facilities, which would at least in the short term spare the major airports. |
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