Posted on 02/27/2013 4:49:15 AM PST by Kaslin
President Obama's sequester -- he designed it, he demanded it, and it is about to kick in -- will have many consequences, some bad, some very helpful.
On the negative side, Stars & Stripes reports that Department of Defense officials are exploring how to collapse the school week to four days at some schools on military bases that serve the children of our troops. This is an incredible admission of the president's indifference to the troops he leads. As he has played politics for the past four months since his re-election, he has used the military and its personnel and families as hostages to his demands for more and more taxes.
Also on the negative side, the New York Times reported Tuesday that "federal immigration officials have released hundreds of detainees from immigration detention centers around the country, an effort to save money as automatic budget cuts loom."
And most of us have heard the Secretary of Transportation talk darkly about reducing the number of air traffic controllers, thus delaying flights (or worse, hint hint.)
This parade of horribles will in fact come true in some respects -- the cuts to the Department of Defense are deep, and coming after four years of already massive reductions in military spending, the impact on the troops and their families will be severe.
In other areas the alarms are ludicrous, and planes will not be dropping from the sky or even significantly delayed because John Boehner is protecting millionaires.
The good news is that many Americans will be asking the obvious questions in the aftermath of the Obama Sequester.
Why, for instance, are we shuttering military schools a day a week when we have enough money to send it to National Public Radio and PBS?
Why are we turning deportees back on to the street when the Environmental Protection Agency does nothing but turn out mountains of paper designed to kill jobs?
Why is training for troops slashed and the expenditures on their equipment cut when we are spending huge dollars on determining the so-called "critical habitat" of the Gunnison sage grouse?
Everyone in Washington knows what has to be done. Entitlement reform must occur, and the government must prioritize domestic discretionary spending.
At a minimum, the eligibility age for Medicare must rise to match that of Social Security, and the latter must continue its gradual, slow increase to match the great gains in life expectancy and the population's expected extension of years at work.
The cost-of-loving formula must be tweaked. Medicaid must be capped and turned over to the states to manage as best they see fit.
Means-testing of some benefits must be adopted, at least for those younger than 55.
And we must, we must, stop sending money on things we want -- NPR, the endowments for the Arts and Humanities -- as opposed tithe things we must absolutely have, like aircraft carriers on deployment in the Persian Gulf.
President Obama clearly understands that the sequester -- his sequester -- is not working out as he planned. That is because it is bringing clarity in its wake, and voters are seeing what the president's fall campaign was designed to hide: an enormous, wasteful federal government that cannot even take care of its troops even as it spends billions on silly and absurd programs.
1. The sequester was Obie's idea, and
2. Any negative consequences suffered as a result of it are a reflection and result of Obie's priorities.
The examples listed above are window dressing.
Obama is an affirmative action hater. He is getting America back for what he thinks are the wrongs of the country in the past. He does not understand even the simplest of economics such as buy high, sell low. He does not understand payrolls or checkbooks or quarterly reports.
Obama thinks he is Django unchained, he lives in a fantasy Alinsky world that only exists between his ears. He is disjointed from reality and seems mentally unstable.
Obama has never dug a hole, set a brick, signed a lease, paid an employee, given a hand to someone out of his own pockets and the list goes on.
Obama is the wrong man at the wrong time with the wrong ideas and his legacy will be that he had the unique opportunity to heal what little space was between the races when he took office but instead turned the racial clock to the 1950’s. Obama grew hatred with his own as he used the same techniques that slavers and overlords did on the plantation during the time of slavery against people that had nothing to do with slavery.
Obama, simply put, will be seen in the history books as a loser, a failure, petty and mean.
-——Obama is the wrong man at the wrong time-——
Actually, he is the wrong man....... ever
Hussein is out to destroy the military and ultimately the Country. Using Sequester, he has been able to get the morons Boehner and McConnell to help him accomplish this.
Agreed. That's been way out of kilter for a long time.
Sequester Obama, and all his kohorts, in a cold, rat-infested dungeon.
BUMP
That's not really such a bad idea. Making the school day 1 3/4 hours longer and the week one day shorter will save heating, cooling, transportation, etc. money.
If it were a public school system it would also save on cafeteria, bus driver, maintenance, etc., costs.
School districts should actually look into this.
While Obama means it for harm, it could actually be worked into something good.
Karl Rove had a good idea. Congress should give the Cabinet heads the digression to cut non-essential programs out of their departments so they can be held accountable. Congess could then haul them up to Capitol hill to explain themselves. Sounds like like a plan.
What goes around eventually comes around. And I, for one, can't wait until it comes his way.... whatever it may be.
We have a megalomaniac in the Oval Office. He does not know his ass from a hole in the ground, but he is convinced he is Mr Awesome.
Actually, I don’t think 0bama ever intended on negotiating out of the sequester.
In fact, the early release of criminals indicates he is planning to manufacture the crisis, THE crisis, we’ve all been prepping for.
0bama has just shown his hand and the sooner we realize what we have just seen the faster we can act. This is an act of Political Terrorism. We are watching treason taking place right before our very eyes, but we’ve not been able to really ‘name it’ yet.
All the campaign-mode stuff about the horrors of the sequester is meant to gin-up the base. The early release of criminals shows he, 0bama, has no intention of solving anything. Less than 30 days from now we have the threat, yet again, of a government shut-down.
0bama is winning this, but he has just made a dangerous mistake this past week. The question is do we have enough clout to call him on this. He is not only the mastermind of the sequester...he is making, manufacturing the crisis. The early release of crimianls is the gun in our face. He is acting no different than Hamas or the Muslimbrotherhood right now. The 0bama regime is now the political terrorist.
Of all the choices and options a President has in a bloated government...he chooses to cut/sequester the very tools he needs to do the very core functions of his position. Protect and Defend.
You are assuming the Caliphate™ will allow history books...
They do use school buses on military bases to pick up the students from the different housing areas and deliver them to the different schools on the base
My perception is the DHS does nothing and the releasing the illegals was going to happen regardless. So why fund a charade anyway? The who “crises” will be shown as a temper tantrum making 0’bastard look childish. Good.
I was at both Knox and Campbell, the 2 Conus Army installations with their own dependent school systems. Their bus system was not as extensive as the surrounding public schools in either Hardin or Christian counties. Both had a significant piece of the housing areas close to the schools.
In Germany, there were a few buses, but again, large portions of the housing areas were very near the schools.
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