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What's next? May the airline slow downs, caused by the sequester, impact only the GOPTPers who headed home rather than stay and solve the problem....and earn their taxpayer-funded salaries.
"Frist" again!
FR: What's Next?
HA HA HA HA
President Barack "Who’s Sane Obama" continues to annihilate the GOP, Tea Suckers, and the press with his bully pulpit.
Our President is doing an excellent job explaining to the flippant White House Press Correspondents why sequestration coming into being is not his fault. He is not a DICTATOR". If Boehnor and the House decides to leave, the President explained, succinctly, he can’t make Secret Service keep them from boarding their planes.
I hope the MSM will carry this message clearly to the public without any distortions; mainly FOX NOISE and the FOX NATIONALIST, who watch Hannity's daily, apocalyptic, scenario about sequestration.
Hopefully, those buying into President Obama is not leading will see the obstructionism of the GOP and those Tea Suckers.
It’s intentionally cruel for the bas-turd republicans to devastate this economy and go home at a time like this when our nation needs them to stay and workout negotiations.
The Chairman of the Fed said cutting a massive amount of money this quickly from our economy:
Will lose cost us jobs (over a million for starters), while keeping deficits LARGER than otherwise.
You need jobs, growth, and Revenues to heal the deficit. But GOP believes in trickle down economics and trickle down austerity cuts. Brainless.
They believe in destroying the livelihoods of millions of Americans while they go home, and continue collecting their not-furloughed taxpayer paychecks.
....and earn their taxpayer-funded salaries.
I couldn't agree more Jody.
Until the time comes when elected officials and D.C. in general have to feel the pain of their actions we have little hope of ever believing that they will have our best interests at heart.
I read a recent article that showed the Pentagon having surplus supplies of more than $740B at the end of 2011 and they were purchasing another $550 million worth to further bloat their surplus.
The country was and is still is in dire straights financially.
But will the cuts effect any of the people who refuse to find a feasible solution? Hardly.
Instead of politicians feeling the pain that every other American feels, they will be working 12 of the next 39 days and all the while banking their full salaries. If the rest of the American working force did the same the country would collapse in ruins.
Pathetic.
Backhouse
OMG Freaking Gawd! Chris Cillizza is talking about Jedi Mind tricks.
Backhouse, that is an example of brainlessness. This is how the media gives rise to nonsense rather than talking about Republican obstructionism on healing the deficit.
Good point Jody, especially as they fly back and forth so much due to their fantastic work schedule: a full week off, then return and 'work' for 3 days or so...............and they get paid for this 'work' by us, with full benefits.
What fools some voters are to put up with these shenanigans, vote them out folks, they are useless.
Congrats on being 'frist'
Feisty ain't here....but her minions are....it's about time we cut some spending....even if its only 44 billion
1% ....we need more....much, much more....
You automatically thought that Feisty would be leading off.....typical
trouble,
The $85 Billion in cuts is 2.4% of the entire budget however since the cuts only apply to 36% of the budget (Defense & Discretionary) the $85 Billion becomes a 6.6% cut to those areas. In addition, just like any company there are fixed costs that cannot be cut. The focus will then be on the labor portion of the budget that will result in layoffs, furloughs and reduced services.
(03/01/13) General Ray Odierno on “Morning Joe” and “CBS This Morning” said for the remainder of FY13
the cuts to the Defense budget are estimated to be between 8% and 10%.
Nomoresameo, as an example of the Pentagon surplus, my town took delivery of two surplus Humvees a couple weeks ago to keep as long as we want. I don't think the 10% cuts to the defense budget would be harmful, it is needed; but the problem with the Sequester is the Pentagon cannot target areas where cuts make sense--it's the same percentage across the board.
Beverly, President Obama used the expression "Jedi mind tricks" when answering a reporter's question regarding why the House doesn't act. It was actually a perfect response to why he can't force John Boehner and republicans to do what is right.
Oblamo was just too stupid to propose equal but less damaging cuts... the only arrow in the Libtard quiver was tax increases... now we get the hysteria from the 'tards and the "squealing like a girl" media....
trouble, "frist" is a poke at folks like you who whine all the time about who's on first! Oh, and it's Feisty "isn't" here, not "ain't.
FedUp, try reading before typing--President Obama's proposal is on the White House web site and has been for weeks.
We can thank the Wonderful Tea Bag Tailban for all of the grid lock.
Jody...
I worked on a number of Defense contracts over the last 20 years and was speaking to someone I know in that sector more than 18 months ago. He said they were preparing for a 15% cut to come sometime around early 2013.
Stop buying into the theatre. They know what they're going to cut and spend years out - that's both Dems and Republicans.
It has been 26 months since the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and we have just experienced our 5th self-inflicted financial crisis and by March 27th we may be facing our 6th as the current Continuing Resolution to fund the Government expires.
And where is our Republican controlled House of Representatives today? In Recess … gone Home!!
And what is their schedule to deal with the expiring Continuing Resolution … Between now and April 8th they are in session just 12 days. They are in session just 12 of the next 39 days … out of town 69% of the time.
And yet to come #7 as the Debt Ceiling will need to be increased sometime in May.
(03/01/13) General Ray Odierno on "Morning Joe" and "CBS This Morning" said that under sequestration he is not allowed to move funds around in FY13 however he will probably be able to in FY14 but only if there is an approved budget. Odierno said that for the remainder of FY13 the cuts to the Defense budget are estimated to be between 8% and 10%. "The money is fenced in" as part of a stopgap spending bill, he said. "What I'm trying to tell people is that we are not training for the rest of the year, except those in Afghanistan." He said that the impact of cutting training for the remainder of FY13 will have a greater impact on FY14 and FY15.
John McCain was on CBS This Morning, also crying about the cuts to Defense, but not upset enoough to urge House Republicans to accept closing a few tax loopholes used by the rich to keep themselves filthy rich, apparently.
300 kids will be cut from Head Start , 40 teaching jobs are in jeopardy here, and 7,000 Navy-related jobs will be impacted in Maine, with a ripple effect to the local economy, we cannot predict.
It has been 26 months since the Republicans took control of the House of Representatives and we have just experienced our 5th self-inflicted financial crisis and by March 27th we may be facing our 6th
You have a Speaker of the House who has a drinking problem as well as a tea party problem. And then you have a Minority Leader, who will probably (most likely) lose his re-election, so he can't appear to work with the president. BUT, he will work with VP Biden.
This is what the country has to put up with. It's disgusting.
Dennis and Pat
I wish the MSM would report that it's Republicans in Congress who blocked a solution to sequester.
Dennis, in all my years, I've never seen such an inept bunch of so-called leaders as currently controls the House; throw in the filibustering GOP Senate in a paperbag, shake it and who knows which dysfunctional yahoo would fall out first.
Glad I missed McCain this morning. He whines about the defense cuts but filibustered a solution yesterday in the Senate! Gawd, these repubs make me tired.
I wish the MSM would report that it's Republicans in Congress who blocked a solution to sequester.
Beverly, there are a lot of news outlets reporting this. You just won't see it on daytime cable programs, if that's what you're looking for. They're just too caught up in the drama to really give a ****.
Also Beverly, the White House press corp are no help whatsoever.
Pat Boston-
Also Beverly, the White House press corp are no help whatsoever.
Exactly,
Also , you're right about the morning news dump not reporting the truth.
Dennis,
The GOP ability to create one crises after another and then decide to only work 12 days between now and April 8 is the height of hubris.
I think every news outlet should have has their first question to any of these guys, "How can you explain to the American voter that you work only 12 days in the next month, and still think you deserve a full time salary?"
When the painful consequences of sequester cuts set in, the citizens will howl and the GOP will then respond with a proposal closer to the Grand Bargain of two summers ago.
So the state of Michigan basically voided the local government of the city of Detroit today, which means that an ever-growing segment of the population of Michigan has no democratic say in their representation in local government at all. Now as much as I speak in theory about the basic uselessness of the democratic process and have a deeply held belief that the greater the amount of complexity is added to a process, the worse the overall process actually works, (which is more or less opposite from the 'two heads are always better than one' mantra), it's interesting to see that those who profess to be ideologically opposed to that admitted proclivity toward tyranny on my part are the very ones who have chosen to basically impose a limited form of tyranny on the citizens of Michigan.
And that around the country, other chest-thumping proponents of 'liberty' are not even batting an eyelash at this.
After all, what is the purer form of representative government exists in this nation other than at the city or county levels? What representatives are closer to their consituents? Basically, by doing this, the state government of Michigan is operating under the assumption that the residents of the state who live EVERYWHERE BUT Detroit are wiser than the people of Detroit in running the city.
Isn't this the very same objection that states rights advocates use against dictations from Washington? Isn't this the rationale used by those who propose to eliminate, say, the Department of Education? So where is the sturm and drang surrounding the overreach by Michigan's governer and statehouse?
Democracy in Michigan, GOP style! At the rate the GOP Governor is going, he should have the entire state rid of democraticially elected officials and replaced with Corporate rulers within a year, maybe two.
Michael,
I read the NYT alert on this story too. The citizens of Detorit will have no representation in their city. The governor will assign a manager in the next month to rule over every aspect of the city government.
WOW!
That should be "democratically elected" in 4.1. Detroit is just one of many where Gov Snyder has ousted the city governments; worse, he replaces them with conservative cronies.
Because the Democrats that have run the city into bankruptcy have done such a good job... no conservatives running Detroit for over 50 yrs... so it should be a Liberal Utopia... ha ha ha ha
The saddest part about the whole thing is that the people got the law on the ballot and voted it out of law by great margins. Then the republicans just put it back in place except with a budget addition that made it so the people couldn't remove the law again.
Yeah and that is what the republicans call freedom.
What is the problem, is the state so gerrymandered that the people can't vote these power crazed republicans out of state office and regain real democracy?
Sequester impact on Iowa. Estimated jobs lost is 3,570. Education: $6.4 million less education dollars, 90 jobs; 7000 fewer students served; $5.8 million in cuts for disabled students, 70 jobs; Head Start and Early Start, 500 fewer kinds; college funding, 1020 work study jobs lost for low-income students; 2370 low-income students lose aid. Enviroment: $2.4 million for clean water, air and pollution prevention; $661,000 cut in grants for fish and wildlife. Military/Police: 2000 civilian DOD jobs furloughed with loss of pay; Army base spending cut $1.5 million; law enforcement grants cuts $135,000. Social: job search help cut $376,000 so 12,680 fewer people will be helped; 300 disadvantaged kids lose child care; vaccines cut $90,000 (320 fewer kids); $670,000 in grants for substance abuse treatment; $298,000 loss for public health upgrades; HIV testing cut $61,000 (1500 tests won't be done); meals for seniors cut $220,000.
This is the impact on Iowa, a relatively small state with a lower population than many. Even if you multiply the Iowa numbers times 50, the loss in jobs and services is a huge blow to the economy....and this is the first year of Austerity. Take that times 10 years.
Common sense should tell Washington DC legislators that losing 750,000 jobs in one year will mean lost wages and lost revenues for government. While we may cut government spending, the result will be higher deficits because the lost jobs decreases the revenues, slows the economy which results in more private sector job loses and more revenue decreases--all of which negates the spending cuts and ultimate adds more to the deficit and the debt. In other words, the sequester is the equivalent of cutting off our noses to spite our face.
Judging from the lack of GOPTP comprehension of the economic facts, the best money government could spend right now is a mandatory Economics class for Congress with Special Education Classes for the Tea Party crowd who clearly need more help with their studies.
Solution. Postpone the biggest share of the cuts for one year; keep the economy growing. Pass a budget, raise the debt ceiling when needed. And sit down together and find the "scalpel" cuts that make sense while closing the tax loopholes. Reform the tax code, solve the problems with a reasonable and balanced approach.
Obviously you're either math challenged or economically incompetent... we're talking $85 Billion of $3.5 Trillion... that's 2%... it's not even a cut... it's a decrease in the increase from last year... it was Oblamo who picked what he thought would be the nastiest places to cut... thinking the House would once again capitulate and let him tax and squander some more.... and even after it was clear the House wasn't going to, he and Harry the Barrier were too incompetent to propose equivalent but less damaging cuts... his mantra was more squandulus... now he's got to live with it...
Oh and if cutting $85 Billion would kill 750,000 jobs, then logic dictates that the $1.2 Trillion we've borrowed and pissed away over each of the last four years SHOULD have created about 10 million jobs... which clearly didn't happen... but go ahead and squeal Chicken Little..... logic doesn't seem to matter to you Libtards
Fed Up,
Then explain my comment at 1.8 and what General Ordierno had to say.
Jody,
I really don't think educating the GOPTP folks will do it.
They know exactly what they are doing.
They are destroying the middle class and they just hope they can blame anyone else while they burn down this country.
True. Their "purist" ideology infringes on their ability to grasp much of anything. The problem is that when people hate government, they simply cannot govern. They run for and accept jobs with the very institution they hate with no intention of making it better but rather to destroy it. That thinking doesn't make them patriots in my view.
"Purist ideology"... like following Keynesian voodoo economics into the same abyss as Europe, and every other place it's failed? We don't hate govt per se, just big, unresponsive, out-of-control, oppressive govt. We don't want to destroy it, just scale it back so that it doesn't interfere with every aspect of our lives. We don't think it's govt's job to raise us, feed us, house us, clothe us, give us jobs, make us appreciate other sexual proclivities, or give us consumer items. We think govt should guarantee our right to pursue happiness... not ensure outcomes no matter how lazy or inept you are, or how many bad decisions you make. You have the freedom succeed or fail. And we absolutely know that the private sector can do nearly everything the govt can do much more efficiently and cheaply. It's capitalism that allows wealth creation to achieve the middle class... all the govt spending in the world can't. The more govt loots to redistribute (and adds on the weight of expensive bureaucracy) the slower the economic engine goes, dragging everyone down. People who thought govt should be small governed just fine for over 200 yrs. It's only been since LBJ and the "war on whatever" social spending explosion have we been disfunctional and departed from common sense. You can't spend more than you take in... now why can't Liberals understand that???
And we are the tax paying middle class you moron... why would we want to destroy ourselves? Pull your head our of you ass and stop parroting the Progressive tripe...
The abyss of Europe was created by the very same austerity policies the republicans are pushing.
Yes, I agree why would the republicans destroy our economy on purpose? We are still recovering from the bush recession and our unemployment is still high but we are growing in the right direction. Unlike Europe which chose the austerity path right off instead of our stimulus and they are on their third recession.
Being we didn't raise taxes to pay for the wars like we sensibly did in the past, we have a revenue problem. We got a small tax revenue increase due to the end of the bush tax cuts. Starving Americans and making the poor and sick suffer to pay for the wars the republicans couldn't bring themselves to be responsible for is not a cure for our economy.
Interesting how the republicans have no problem lying us to war but then want the poor, education, homeless, children, old, and sick to pay for it.
After all we can't have the republicans donor base contribute more, they need all their money to lie and steal elections for the republicans. There is no doubt that those are the only voice they hear.
To a republican it is only fair that the hedge fund manager who is driving up the cost of gas and making millions on you should only pay less than half of the percentage of taxes that you do. They would have you believe that those taking money out of your pocket is somehow job creation.
Republicans still the party of the 1%, for the 1% and by the 1%. Lovingly known as their donor base.
"Well...I am no dictator.....but I do like to golf"
"Holder.....shine my golf shoes and meet me at da plane..I'm goin' to Vegas to play 36 holes with Tiger"
"Oh....and don't forget to wash my balls"
Too funny....he is probably already in the air.....
trouble1954 - see this is the problem with Repubicans. You love fiction and just love to read your own words - like your ignorant post of #7. But, we understand - if you didn't have your little fantasy world when everything the President does is bad - you'd have no life at all!
trouble,
President Obama just completed his 105th round of golf at the start of his 5th year in office.
President Dwight Eisenhower played 100 rounds his first year and over 700 rounds by the end of his presidency.
Ike hadn't racked up $6 Trillion in deficit spending.... Plus, he had one or two accomplishments in his resume before being President... unlike Oblama the Incompetent...
Fed Up - the name calling of the President is so childish. It makes everything you post - well - childish and total nonsense! But, that's all you have so we understand it's all you're capable of posting. So sad.
Ike had net jobs loses for 5 of his 8 years, with a net job loss for his Presidency and a National debt that was 70% of GDP
Fed up...A large portion of that 6 trillion comes from two wars this President didn't start, but is finishing. An unfunded prescription drug benefit that wasn't even included in the Bush administration budgets, and increased social safety spending (unemployment and food stamps) along with decreased revenue from massive job losses prior to his taking office. Do you blame him for these expenses also?
Those two wars that Nancy Pelosi's House voted to fund and Harry Reids Senate voted to fund? Those wars? Get your facts straight and then come back and debate...
And SeekingSanity, after some of the drivel I've seen you post... the President does blame everything on others and he is Incompetent... what did one of you Liberals say, "it's not name-calling if it's the truth"?
Fed Up - keep trying. You can't win because you've got nothing!!!
You ain't seen nothing yet Libtards... wait til the next debt ceiling collision... either agree to real cuts or we refuse to raise the debt ceiling and OMG!!! we go back to 2007 (before the LootandSquandercrats took over Congress) spending levels... after seeing Oblunder's lack of leadership on this one... we're sure to see him threaten not to send SS checks and turn people out of Section 8 housing... so funny having Chicken Little as the POTUS... or is that POS...ha ha ha ha ha
Fed Up - again your post shows the fragile state of your mind. So sad that people like you don't get professional help.
So if we go back to 2007 spending levels does that mean we can take the costs of two wars and a prescription drug benefit out of the budget? The President in 2007 wouldn't even put them in the budget.
And Seeking, if your IQ was four points higher, you'd be a big flat river rock... but you're still above average for a Progressive....
Jay, we're not fighting those two wars anymore.... we're done in Iraq and Obama is pulling out of Afghanistan... so why keep the spending?
The deficit spending for FY2013 is $500 Billion LESS than it was in FY2009 budget passed in 2008.
Fed Up - is that the best you've got? Oh, wait, it IS the best you have. So sad! But, so Republican!
I see its amateur hour at the white house again. Way to go Barry!
..... politics are a fail in the united states... It reminds me of two little kids fighting over a cookie in the sand box.... When did it fail.
At the end of the day,Omama is still Potus.
So all you right wing fak tards stfu,,you lost mitt the loser lost.
Three years ten months. Suckers,,,,,hahahahahahahahahahha
I hope you saved a bullet for yourself.
I've read some good comments on this site concerning the rational reduction of ridiculous federal spending. All the rest is meaningless noise - irrational ranting and raving about destroying our economy by continuing Obama's insane policies and spending.