Posted on 03/01/2013 7:17:13 AM PST by pgkdan
It’s the news media that controls what people talk about and how people talk about it.
contact Republicans in Congress . use Twitter and tell them not to cave on this sequester bs
62% of all Federal entitlement spending is exempt from sequestration.
The Dept of Defense must take a 13% cut alone in this fiscal year.
Do you understand the difference?
Yes it does just about say it all. In the last year of the Clinton Administration, the budget was $1.77 trillion dollars. Now it is $3.8 trillion dollars. Spending more than doubled in a little over 10 years. MORE THAN DOUBLED IN ONE DECADE. Yet we can’t cut 2% to 3% from this amount. Hell, it isn’t even a real cut. Its a cut from what was planned to be spent. We really are doomed if we are this addicted to spending. Its just like a heroin addict. Cut back even a little and they go crazy.
Please note that sequestration doesn't "cut federal spending" by 2.4 percent it merely reduces INCREASES in spendindg by 2.4 percent. If we cant reduce spending increases by 2.4 percent without going into this kind of hysteria then you can multiply every point this article makes X 10.
So what? Ther DOD budget is so fat it should burst. The defense budget has more than doubled since 2001...and the war expenses were off budget. A 13% cut is NOTHING!
Do you understand the reality?
All areas need cuts. We need to start somewhere. Defense isn't where I would like to start, but I want to start somewhere. I support all cuts, in every area. Cut. Cut. Cut. No sacred cows.
Exactly!
Me too. My only aruemnet with the cuts is that too much was taken off the table...the real budget busters, SS, Medicare & Medicaide, Welfare, Food Stamps, Housing Assisitance etc.
2% cut? Fine - every single gov’t expenditure - 2% - that includes Medicare, Medicaid, SS, VA Benefits, every single gov’t employee from the President on down.
share the pain
2% cut? Fine - every single gov’t expenditure - 2% - that includes Medicare, Medicaid, SS, VA Benefits, every single gov’t employee from the President on down.
share the pain
The sequester is a good segue into entitlement cuts and the ho-hum public attitude is actually a very encouraging sign. Republicans will take a lack of significant public anger as a free hand to press Obama for still more concessions on the spending they see as a driver of the debt.
If we can’t even cut federal spending by 2.4 percent without much of the country throwing an absolute hissy fit”
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You have to remember for those that haven’t been or refuse to pay attention, they have been bombarded for the last two weeks, non stop, about all the perils of doing something ‘chicken little himself’ not only invented but pushed and threatened the people that said you can’t do this a year or so ago.
Good example on Chris Plante (WMAL 630AM DC)
Say you made 100,000 last year and your boss told you that you would get a raise to 110,000 on Mar 1.
Mar 1 rolls along and he says, “Sorry, I can only do 108,000 at this time”. While you may not ‘like’ it, in reality you did get an 8 thousand dollar raise, not the 10 you were expecting BUT 8 is nothing to sneeze at.
So “do you panic and sell everything, including your children”?
Obozo took the 85 million (nice round #) and applied (hypothetically) it (THE FULL AMOUNT) to every agency and led his gasping followers to believe the sky was really falling.
Well, we are simply borrowing the money into existence. It will never be paid back, by children or grandchildren or anybody else.
Which means that the value of Social Security, Medicare, and government bonds are all going to zero at some point. If you are counting on any form of government-backed stipend in the future - don't.
Bingo.
However start returning American manufacturing.
That is the reason we are losing everything else, is that we are losing manufacturing.
Now that the GOP lost the presidency, it no longer makes sense to continue this march into a hole.
Brink back American factories and American jobs.
Now.
Seems disproportionate. However, I remember the $100 toilet seat and $200 hammer.
I know, cliches and old news but no doubt, NO DOUBT, there is waste in all government. We’d probably be shocked at the waste and the only way to root out the waste is to force the government because we know for certain that they can’t do it themselves.
You nailed it. We have to be willing (as a nation) to get down to the ZERO INCREASE level before we can even begin to make the necessary cuts. I don’t see us ever getting there in time.
The problem is that they always start cuts with DOD and then the cuts end.....
Yes CUT CUT CUT government!
When have they EVER cut government? NEVER
it’s time. Tell Boner and the GOP not to cave to this sequester bs. Let the stupid sequester come, let the cuts happen , finally we might get a reduction in government for the first time in history. But I doubt it. I bet Boner caves but I hope I’m wrong.
That's correct. The total amount owed if you include the unfunded liabilities are far beyond too large to ever be "paid back." Even if by some miracle the country as a whole became willing to even try to do it at some point.
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