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.
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.
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.
As a people, we have grown weak, and refuse to see what is obvious. We will overcome this profligacy or it will overcome us. I think the latter. It is a slow-motion trainwreck that did not have to happen. Liberal shortsightedness coupled with selfishness and a lack of devotion to the people and the Constitution has brought this ruin. I fear there is no escaping what has to come. Having forgotten self-evident Truths and God we are left to ourselves to escape the ruin, and there will be no escaping ourselves.