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The Impact of the Sequester on Communities Across America (Bring a crying towel & a bucket)
The Center for American Progress ^
| February 22, 2013
| Anna Chu
Posted on 02/23/2013 4:36:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Six and a half billion dollars in Washington is about six bits to you and me.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The ones laid off are all thinking “We're going to Disney Land!”
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posted on
02/23/2013 4:48:52 PM PST
by
Mark
(For the first time in my life, I'm no longer proud of my country.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
critical grants needed to fund everything from schools to new police officers to parks.
Not the parks! Anything but the parks!
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!!
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posted on
02/23/2013 4:50:55 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: cripplecreek
If it will be anything like the “government shut-down” in the 90s, there will be a booming business at the shopping centers around Washington DC.
This melodrama is pathetic.
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posted on
02/23/2013 4:56:26 PM PST
by
Kanzan
To: Kanzan
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:00:18 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I met my Congressman this week and when he asked about our feelings on the Sequester, I pointed at him and said heck yes. He was not expecting my response.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:01:00 PM PST
by
Dacula
(Obama will send women into combat, but not let his son (if he had one) play football.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:05:42 PM PST
by
upchuck
(nobama fact #69: For each job created by the nobama administration, 75 people went on food stamps.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lay off everbody at EPA and really save us some money.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:12:54 PM PST
by
umgud
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"...and hurting American families by slashing critical investments in job training, public health, and public safety."
AKA programs that are notorious for infiltrating and breaking working class families, and certain anti-family constituent groups are probably exaggerating/lying about the likely effect on federal funding (pork) those anti-social programs. Not enough. Spending needs to be cut far more than that, and will, one way or another (default process).
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:17:07 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Six and a half billion dollars in Washington is about six bits to you and me."
It's worth gobs to the local-yocal employees of federal pork, who are watching their neighbors closely to regulate (see fees, fines, real property thefts, etc.) to prevent any do-it-yourself projects and small, new manufacturing shops, though. They are the link between the federal government and certain busybody neighbors, and they must be paid plenty to keep an eye on you.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:25:29 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: cripplecreek
>>Not the parks! Anything but the parks!
When I was a kid in the 70’s, a “park” was any lot that didn’t have a building on it. Today, those lots are fenced and posted because of liability laws. Enact tort reform so “the chilluns” can play outside again!
We don’t need federal money for parks. We need free range children.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:27:25 PM PST
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: upchuck
Did the democrat senate vote for this plan, or is the author somehow trying to whitewash that little factiod?
Did the democrat president sign it into law, or is that to be whitewasged over, too?
Nah, somehow it was the evil conservatives, I tell you.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:40:43 PM PST
by
patton
(Tinker toys, watches, and shiny things - we all sell rocks for a living.)
To: patton
They ignore the two house bills sitting on dingy harry’s desk. Frankly I really don’t give a damn. Maybe they could be smart and lay off McLame and Schummer. Perhaps lay off 10 a week until they wake up and propose real cuts in spending.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:49:19 PM PST
by
JohnD9207
(Isn't freedom worth fighting for?)
To: familyop
We tried to get my stepson into Job Corps when he was 18 for training in low voltage wiring. He’s 23 now working at Sears for minimum wage. We still haven’t heard a peep from them.
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:49:35 PM PST
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is all cover, for when 0m0slem defunds the EBT cards, and blames whitey.
Like Donkey Kong!
If you haven't stocked up on food and precious metals (Pb) you'd better hurry up!
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posted on
02/23/2013 5:53:44 PM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
To: familyop
If Bronco is gonna talk tough he better be man enough to pull the trigger.
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posted on
02/23/2013 6:03:18 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Kanzan
Yes what a success that Government Shutdown was in the 90’s....the Republicans ended up with a reelected Bill Clinton. Great job Einstein.
To: Bryanw92
Yes not being able to use the parks in the dead of winter is a tragedy beyond comprehension. The last time I heard something this awful was when I heard that poor Sandra Fluke and her boyfriend couldn’t afford a condom with both their life savings combined
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posted on
02/23/2013 6:39:16 PM PST
by
Blackirish
(Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have not been able to grasp what ‘sequestering’ means specifically as to the budget expenditures. I thought at one time I knew what ‘sequestering’ meant but all this talk about budget items has me befuddled. Couldn’t even put the pieces together after checking reference works. I’m guessing the understanding lays in understanding DC political talk.
To: Blackirish
Hehehe. I know, our parks won’t be ready for months - and they are already borderline ready to close forever and ever and ever.
I just watched a local news broadcast where they claimed our miniscule and utterly unimpressive and unimportant county airport would SUFFER from loss of air traffic controllers. And maybe have some delays. Then they HAD to also report that on speaking to some other airport bigwigs at the next over airport, or whatever, they were told that no flights would be canceled and any delays would be slight. Also, they were forced to admit that the airport bigwig said that there would be NO safety issue as a result. They wore sad faces.
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