Where are Obama, Reid and Pelosi with their shreiking about the hellfire and devastation that have been unleashed on the country by the massive 1.5% spending slowdowns from the evil sequestration budget nicks (not cuts)? Are old people dying in the streets? Have airlines had to shut down? Is Iran and North Korea ready to invade our homeland? Have we had to curtail our War on Terror to such an extent that we’ve only murdered 10 Afghan children today? Will we lose the War on Drugs now that a couple paper pushers in DC have to take 7 days off this year?
The liberals and neo-cons have had their bluff called and they look like the lying assholes we all know they are. Sequestration is a fart in a gale force wind of spending. The only thing that stinks is the shit that has been flung by the MSNBC Obama loving douchebags. Chris Matthews and his band of fear mongering libs are nothing but blowhards with an agenda of controlling you and spending your money on shit they like. The Feds were spending $2 trillion of YOUR money in 2000. The Feds were spending $2.7 trillion of your money in 2007. The Feds are spending $3.8 trillion of your money today. Are you getting 90% better service from your government than you did in 2000? Is your life better or worse than it was in 2000? What did we get for an extra $1.8 trillion of government expenditures?
Grownups like Rand Paul could cut $500 billion from the federal budget without hurting your life in any way. Once this Obama clusterfuck implodes, maybe the country will turn to rational, truth telling people like Rand Paul, but I doubt it.
I sure hope I can make it through the day without the sequester nicks resulting in my demise. The horror!!!!
Sequester should chop federal fat, not bone
Sunday, March 3,2013
Imagine that your boss nicked your pay by 2.4 percent. Would you dodge next month’s rent, skip your insulin purchases and unplug your refrigerator to lower your power bill? Most likely, you would cancel your Showtime subscription, repair — not replace — your old shoes and ski Utah in 2014 (maybe).
In his immeasurable brilliance, President Barack Obama would pick premium cable instead of insulin and Park City over paying the landlord.
Similarly, as March 1 triggers the sequester — an automatic spending-cut mechanism that Obama himself initiated in July 2011 — Obama won’t curb Washington’s extravagance to finance this year’s $85 billion sequester. Instead, like a fiscal Stephen King, Obama frightens Americans into embracing Big Government by siphoning Uncle Sam’s bone marrow rather than giving him liposuction.
Fiscal Year 2013’s $3.553 trillion budget will be $15 billon larger than FY 2012’s. Nonetheless, Obama hysterically claims that the sequester’s “cuts” mean:
• Fewer childhood vaccines. Next stop, a measles renaissance?
• Furloughed federal meat inspectors. This would present Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” in IMAX 3-D at your local supermarket.
• “Airport security will see cutbacks,” Obama prophesied. Lines will grow so long that a Transportation Security Administration frisking will come as a relief.
• “Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go,” Obama warned. After all, government’s last priority should be to protect property and prevent homicide.
• “The sequester makes it awfully, awfully tough” to shield America from terrorist attacks, declared Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Why should phantom budget restraint frustrate al-Qaida’s pitch-black ambitions?
It would be bad enough if these really were Washington’s only options. Obviously, they’re not. Washington can and should whack spending without making life easier for rubella, E. coli, militant Islam and other lethal, low-level life forms.
Among many others, these plans could help:
• Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., who co-authored the Decrease Spending Now Act. It would shift to debt relief a whopping $45 billion in tax dollars now stalled in dormant federal accounts.
“Hundreds of billions of dollars are borrowed and then left unspent because Congress routinely bites off more than it can chew,” Rubio stated. Added Price: “Leaving billions of taxpayer dollars to gather dust in federal coffers only encourages fiscal irresponsibility. By rescinding this unspent and unobligated money … we can contribute to the larger goal of breaking the government’s habit of borrowing and spending money we cannot afford.”
• Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., would cut $85 billion annually by not replacing departed federal employees ($6.5 billion in savings), bringing the $128,226 average yearly federal civilian compensation closer to the private sector’s $64,560 (reducing $32 billion), curtailing federal travel by 25 percent ($2.25 billion), limiting Pentagon research to military applications ($6 billion), requiring competitive bids on government contracts, paying market wages on federal projects ($19 billion) and halving foreign aid ($20 billion).
• The Public Interest Research Group and the National Taxpayers Union jointly identified $1 trillion in 10-year savings through 56 budget cuts that liberals and conservatives should love. These range from killing a $10 million biodiesel education grant to a $160 billion modernization of federal computer systems. The $77 billion Crop Insurance program should be uprooted. The feds own some 55,500 buildings that are “not utilized or underutilized.” Sell them. Even giving them away would save taxpayers $17 billion in maintenance expenses — on empty buildings!
The research group and taxpayers union urge Medicare to calibrate excessive labor and office-space outlays with the actual prices that prevail in lower-cost communities. Savings: $47.6 billion.
Rather than spend $179,750 an hour to fly Air Force One from rally to rally to demonize Republicans, Obama should sit still long enough to send Congress a budget request. The federal Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 mandates that the president’s spending plan reach Capitol Hill by the first Monday of February. Obama’s last two budgets arrived late, and this year’s is AWOL.
Before Obama barks at Republicans yet again, he should start doing his job.
Deroy Murdock is a Fox News contributor and a media fellow with Stanford University’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.
DaveL says:
Those sequester predictions are correct. I just got back from my weekly grocery shopping at Walmart. The shelves were almost empty, the cashiers were gone, people with SNAP cards were lying all over the place dying from starvation, I had to ring up my own order and bag it, carts were crashing into one another, cans were exploding, the toilets were backed up, there was no lighting, and the rotisserie chickens were still jumping around. It was a horror show!
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4th March 2013 at 12:40 pm
Thinker says:
Damn, Dave, you crack me up. Every time you post, I picture you this way:
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4th March 2013 at 12:56 pm
ThePessimisticChemist says:
Across the board cuts are just as asinine as no cuts at all.
Our leaders are all fucking idiots.
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4th March 2013 at 1:02 pm
card802 says:
“Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano on Monday cautioned airline passengers to get to the airport extra early because U.S. spending cuts have already led to long lines at some security checkpoints, and said the coming furloughs will only make the situation worse. Napolitano said mandatory spending cuts ordered on Friday by President Barack Obama have led to the elimination of overtime for Transportation Security Administration officers and customs agents.”
What did we do before the TSA nightmare gridlock?
We pay for TSA, we get groped by TSA, TSA has not caught one terrorist, and look out, they will need a bailout because of budget cuts, and they’ll get one.
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4th March 2013 at 1:38 pm
AWD says:
“Imagine that your boss nicked your pay by 2.4 percent.”
Your boss and masters (the IRS) did exactly that. Payroll tax increase. Shitheads. Increased taxes and higher gas prices erased $505 billion of wealth (Ironically, the same amount as the sequester cuts) coincidence? I don’t think so
Americans Suffer Biggest Monthly Income Drop in 20 Years
In January, Americans suffered the biggest plunge in monthly personal income in 20 years, erasing $505.5 billion of wealth from their wallets.
Driving the income nosedive were the 2% payroll tax increase, soaring gas prices, and higher than typical December dividend payments designed to dodge the dividend tax hike from 15% to 20% for higher income Americans.
Personal savings also took a hit. In December, Americans saved an average 6.4% of their disposable income. In January, that figure dropped to just 2.4%, the lowest saving rate since November 2007.
Still, January consumer spending increased for the third month in a row. Analysts say consumer buying behavior lags tax raises and will likely reduce in the months ahead.
“One thing is perfectly clear — most American will remain cautious in their spending habits,” said director of consumer economics at IHS Global Insight Chris Christopher.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/03/02/Americans-Suffer-Biggest-Monthly-Income-Drop-In-20-Years
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4th March 2013 at 2:00 pm
TeresaE says:
Because someone in my home is 100% addicted to MSM (in all its forms), I get to sit through watching all the Sunday morning political theater shows.
I couldn’t sit quietly for more than five minutes yesterday, so I went upstairs to avoid all the “truths” (finger pointing, avoidance and delusion).
The utter bullshit they are spewing should (and probably is, after all government officials LYING should be considered treason) be illegal.
Meanwhile, last month CONgress finally got off their asses and passed a SIXTY BILLION dollar “relief” bill for Sandy, which only covers about $9 billion in actual rebuilding and a whole, whole, whole, bunch of pork – including tax breaks for Puerto Rican businesses (I’ve lost the stated reason, but does it really matter, it is still bullshit).
So, they could “fix” the sequester by going back and defunding the $50 billion in pork and then cutting government salaries back to their 2008 levels – which is only fair because OUR wages sure as hell haven’t gone up.
There, fixed it, with NO dire consequences past some government drone having to consider not stopping and paying $8 for a latte from Starbux.
OMG, the freaking HORROR!
I think I’m just going to start equating any political “solution” talk (about ANYTHING) to a fat lady singing.
Cause she is.
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4th March 2013 at 2:20 pm
anotherjuan says:
if malthus and ricardo are to be believed, the banks are doing God’s work by wringing out excess liquidity from the general population. the american experiment has led to environmental destruction much like they predicted. austerity is good, and war is peace.
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4th March 2013 at 2:31 pm
anotherjuan says:
Anonymous wont understand but i understand me, i look at things from the perspective of my totally non-academic short story, ‘the rich man’.
i had a similar realization of how the world works back in HS, unfortunately, i didn’t write it down.
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4th March 2013 at 2:36 pm
AWD says:
These scumbag criminals never give up. They’re already figuring out ways to piss more money away and void spending cuts.
Republicans unveil government funding measure
Associated Press By Andrew Taylor
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the House are moving to give the Pentagon more money for military readiness. They also want to largely exempt agencies like the FBI and the Border Patrol as well as Western firefighting efforts from the effects of across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.
The effort comes as top Republicans unveil a huge spending measure to fund the government through September.
The broad new measure would leave in place cuts of 5 percent to domestic agencies and 7.8 percent to the Pentagon ordered by President Barack Obama Friday night after months of battling with Republicans over the budget.
But the measure would award the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments their detailed 2013 budgets while other agencies would be frozen at 2012 levels — and then bear the across-the-board cuts
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4th March 2013 at 3:55 pm
TPC says:
Eliminate TSA and DHS.
Eliminate DEA.
Unless someone has a good reason, eliminate ATF as well.
Unless someone has a good reason, eliminate the CIA as well. If certain pieces of what they do are essential, create a more active division in the NSA and call it good.
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4th March 2013 at 4:03 pm
llpoh says:
AWD posts “erased $505 billion of wealth (Ironically, the same amount as the sequester cuts)”.
Umm, sequester is like $85 billion this year. Flyshit on a giant windscreen.
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4th March 2013 at 5:39 pm
AWD says:
oops, the average Joe saw his wealth decrease by $500 billion. The bullshit fake sequesters cuts (which they are busy revising as we speak) were $85 billion. Sounds about right. Thanks Lipoh. Once again, and as always, the average Joe gets fucked by the government.
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4th March 2013 at 7:02 pm
fool on the hill says:
Maybe the budget cuts will eliminate the cheap perfume in public toilets so all can tell what politicians smell like.
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4th March 2013 at 10:14 pm
OF says:
“Sequestration is a fart in a gale force wind of spending.” I shouldn´t have coffee reading TBP…
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