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The Pain of 2 Pennies
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| February 24, 2013
| Tim Phillips
Posted on 02/24/2013 4:17:24 AM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:17:32 AM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
I hate to see the military bear the brunt of these cuts, but even deeper cuts are needed, and the last thing we need is amnesty and Obamacare.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:29:20 AM PST
by
Venturer
To: Venturer
Amnesty and obama in one sentence ...
ironic.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:36:46 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: knarf
Amnesty in action;
obama is president .... twice.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:38:40 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Kaslin
...horrendous sequester cuts would mean that our carrier groups would have to stay in port because we would be unable to afford the cost of fuel and food to send them to the Persian Gulf. Yeah, we all know that sailors don't eat when they are in port.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:39:29 AM PST
by
CPOSharky
(zero slogan: Expect less, pay more. (apologies to Target))
To: Kaslin
Here is what is going on, leftists know that 80 Billion is nothing in a multi trillion dollar budget. But if they can get the Republicans to cave in on ONLY 80 Billion then NO spending cuts are ever, can ever, going to happen. I think Obastard and Co. are going in for the kill. Their fear is if the 80 Billion cuts happen and there is little or no pain(which we all know there wont be) they will look like the lying fools that they are. Obastard is playing a high stakes game of poker and placed a big bet.
O'bastard has gone from the chess board to the poker table and the stakes are high indeed. If the Republicans cave then even the primary conservative idea of smaller government has been shown to be a false premise which renders the entire Republican Party obsolete and half the nation completely powerless politically, yes the stakes are high indeed.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:48:16 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: Venturer
The benefits of the sequester outweight any costs. If, for the first time in generations the FedGov can be shrunk it’ll prove that you don’t need all the government we have.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:48:49 AM PST
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: central_va
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:54:13 AM PST
by
1010RD
(First, Do No Harm)
To: Venturer
Because of the way the Pentagon must spend money, many, if not all development programs will be adversely impacted. The short term and long term hit to military preparedness will be heavy, and, at this point, unknowable. The military, which represents 20% of the budget, will bear 50% of the sequestration impact. This was a deliberate attempt by Obama to put the blame on the military disaster he initiated on the Republicans. (See what YOU made me do?) At a time when every enemy we have is emboldened by Obamas lack of leadership and military weakness do we really want to damage the militarys perceived ability to comply with our commitments and to protect America?
Obama has set it up so that in order to fund the military Congress must also fund his spending increases and green madness.
To: Kaslin
Glad you posted this — good read —
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:55:16 AM PST
by
BCW
(http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
To: Kaslin
If the sequester happens, Obama will manage it to cause as much pain and disruption possible. If he can arrange for a little death and destruction as well, he will. The Republicans need to get out front of all of this and scream that the decisions to close airports, put the sick on the street, reduce the food supply through cutting USDA inspectors, etc. are all choices made by Obama, not required by a 2% reduction in program increases.
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posted on
02/24/2013 4:58:36 AM PST
by
Truth29
To: Truth29
Politics has gone from being a game of chess to stud poker, and I don’t think Boehner is “up” to the challenge. Excuse the pun.
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posted on
02/24/2013 5:05:07 AM PST
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: 1010RD
If, for the first time in generations the FedGov can be shrunk itll prove that you dont need all the government we have.Except it's not shrinking, and the welfare state is 100% intact.
To: CPOSharky
Yeah, we all know that sailors don't eat when they are in port. Damn straight! They're in town drinking!
To: Venturer
An ironic part of this is that despite this massive increase in spending under Obama, NASA is a shadow of its former self, there are calls to cut military salaries and benefits, biomedical research funding is at one of the worst points it has ever been (only 6-7% of applications getting funded - favoring the connected, not necessarily the most deserving science), Medicare reimbursements have been and are being cut, the post-office is cutting hours and doing away with Saturday delivery, we aren't securing our borders, parts of our infrastructure are going without repair-renewal, etc. etc.
If we cut had back on all of the above in the context of a concerted effort to cut government spending, at least you could say that we were accomplishing something. That all these things are happening while government spending is at record levels is just pathetic.
To: central_va
Please allow me to clarify your thinking:
Politics, for LIEberals (i.e., Democrats), has ALWAYS been a real life version of “Shootout at the OK Corral.” For them, politics is a deadly serious winner-take-all shootemup.
Politics, for Republicans, has always been nothing more serious than a chess game.
That is why Republicans (and the American people) have been losers for so long — they are playing a “game.”
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posted on
02/24/2013 5:24:42 AM PST
by
Taxman
(So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
To: central_va
You are absolutely accurate in your assessment and predictions of the outcomes of the sequester.
One small question, what is this "if" of which you speak?
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posted on
02/24/2013 5:29:33 AM PST
by
Aevery_Freeman
(They say "Right Wing" but they mean "Wrong Wing"!)
To: central_va
Here is what is going on, leftists know that 80 Billion is nothing in a multi trillion dollar budget. But if they can get the Republicans to cave in on ONLY 80 Billion then NO spending cuts are ever, can ever, going to happen. I think Obastard and Co. are going in for the kill. Their fear is if the 80 Billion cuts happen and there is little or no pain(which we all know there wont be) they will look like the lying fools that they are. Obastard is playing a high stakes game of poker and placed a big bet. EXACTLY right. It's especially dangerous for him, because the we all know what the "emergency healthcare legislation" has delivered.
The Republicans HAVE to call his bluff, and if they do, they will have a shot at the debt ceiling increase.
But I have a bad feeling about this, just as I did before the SCOTUS Obamacare decision.
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Kaslin.
The Obama Tax Hike
to go withThe Obama Recession
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posted on
02/24/2013 5:53:14 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
To: Kaslin
The Department of Transportation also got credit for a cut when it canceled projects that had never existed in the first place, and Congress got credit for not spending money to build the already-built Capitol Visitors Center. That is something you can waste your breath trying to tell a liberal who gets his / her news from the likes of bryan williams. Also, don't try to tell them that a budget growing by at a rate of 1.5% is more money being spent than if the same budget grows at a rate of 3% and not a cut.
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posted on
02/24/2013 6:08:26 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Dims are stupid, period. End of conversation.)
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