Don't get rid of the excess, overpaid teachers....Naw....UNION
Ever notice how the buffoons on Capitol Hill and in the state run “media” never say, the sequester is going to cause us to shut down Capitol Hill and send all of the politicians home?
Why is anyone to be laid off?
1. Fire and police are not federal employees.
2. More will be spent in 2013 than in 2012 - there are no cuts!
What I want to know is they never lay off “administrators” and office workers.
‘Cause I’m pretty sure we wouldn’t miss most of them.
We could lay off diversity co-ordinators for the Forestry Service.
My amateur analysis is that the administration has overplayed it’s hand.
At this point, it’s in the Republican’s best interest to force the sequester to happen. How many people really noticed when the government “shut down” several years back?
If the sequester happens, it isn’t going to alter most people’s lives in the slightest, and that will take all the air out of Obama’s balloon, at least on this issue.
If they truly wanted to trim fat, they'd look to city hall or where ever the hacks live.
They do it to draw attention away from the truth.
It is a subtle threat to us subjects of the Ruling Class to shut up and fork more over or else there will be “consequences.”
I don’t understand what the federal government has to do with paying the salaries of CITY firemen? Why is Obama always up on stage with firemen and saying the cuts will effect them? Doesn’t city and county pay the salaries of firemen?
government/socialism is the problem
get rid of the EPA, government schools etc.
the only functions of government are military and border control, some local police. what else cannot the free mark do, private roads, private hospitals, private schools etc.
to hell with the oppressive 4 trillion $ per year federal government, and the state and local goveermens too. leave us alone
to hell with these democrat/communist tyrants
My husband is the fire inspector for the city in which we reside. At 10 pm last night, city council decided to lay off five firefighters and close one fire station. My husband has been on the department for 13 years, and in the last 18 months has body bagged more people than he has in the previous years total. Thanks to layoffs or downsizing through attrition, the department is a skeleton crew. It is understandable that belts need tightened and that this concept includes safety forces. What simply amazes me is how city council and all of their support staff/services never have to suck in their guts. Typical politicians.
Wel, they’re not going to scare us if they threaten to lay off bureaucrats, IRS employees, or if they threaten to end lavish travel budgets for government officials.
It’s as if a household discovered that the breadwinner’s wages were going to be cut 2% and deciding “well, I guess we’ll have to guit eating for a year”.
Ideas are like your kids,no mater how bad they are you still love them.
I would venture to say that the deal is worth it, especially when you consider things like the militarization of the police is fueled by federal monies, and things like "Homeland Security" (e.g. TSA) are nothing but a sustained assault (and population-conditioning) on liberties and constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Why does Hussein hate firemen?
I am of the opinion that the only reason the Fed gets involved in paying a few cents on every STATE dollar spent on teachers, firemen, and police - is so they can justify the very very high cost and waste in the FEDERAL budget.
These are NOT Federal responsibilities - and almost all of the spending takes place at the STATE level - but somehow the Federal budget cannot even cut the rate of growth - or firemen, police, and teachers will be CUT CUT CUT!!!
People really ARE that stupid.
They are taking advantage of that fact, and the fact that the compliant media will not call them on it.
When I bother listening to these cretins (and the Cretin in Chief) talk about justification for what they do - it always seems to be “Police, Firemen, Teachers”. I guess that sells better than the actual responsibilities (limited and enumerated) of the Federal Government.
I read a story in the WSJ last year that there are half as many house fires as 30 years ago AND twice as many fire fighters.
Maybe we need to have a discussion about the level of protection that is desirable.