Posted on 08/10/2013 5:23:27 PM PDT by SkyPilot
President Obama took his case for ending the sequester to hundreds of disabled veterans Saturday, saying he protected their benefits from the “reckless” cuts to the federal budget but suggesting next year might be different.
“It’s hurting our military. I made it clear that your veteran’s benefits are exempt from this year’s sequester,” the president said to the applause of hundreds at the Disabled American Veterans' convention in Orlando, Fla. “But I want to tell you going forward the best way to protect the VA care you have earned is to get rid of this sequester altogether.”
The president but the blame squarely on Congress, which returns in about four weeks to work on a new federal budget and increasing the federal debt limit.
“We’ve got these reckless, across-the-board budget cuts called the sequester that are hitting a lot of folks hard,” Obama said. “Congress needs to come together and agree on a responsible plan that reduces our deficit and keeps our promises to our veterans and keeps our promises to future generations.”
The cuts went into effect in March after Congress and the White House failed to agree on a more balanced plan to cut government spending.
Some Republicans have meanwhile said the president shares in the responsibility, considering he signed the 2011 Budget Control Act that raised the debt ceiling and led to sequester.
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Vets, if he takes one dime from you, you should march on the white house with weapons drawn and haul that bastard to justice.
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It is so frustrating. I heard the final house and senate bills proposed only have one difference. 4 billion!!! the sticking point is that house wants a 2 percent raise for military. The senate wants a 1 percent raise. It is insane to stop the first budget in obama’s administration to be signed over this. A 1.5 percent raise never crossed both chambers minds??? Unbelievable!
And he will decide that two wasn’t enough. He’s dirty enough to do it and the Americans are weak enough to let him get away with it.
Barry cannot lead , only go campaigning !
Same thing with Harry Reid
Demorats only know how to get their way by threatening and fear tactics ..have you had enough of both of them ?
Then do something .. anything to get the checks and balances of the Republic back in order !
Light a fire under your Congressman !
Call them , write them , phone them ..--> and tell them to
begin to represent the people ,.. not the special interests!
It was HIS idea.
His, his, his.
This is his baby. 100%.
If creates suffering he should be held accountable.
Someday, and it may not be until I am in heaven, the truth will come out about how that election was rigged and stolen.
Obama is a dirty, rotten little puke! How dare he???? How insulting was that, getting in veterans’ faces and threatening to take away their benefits?
Are there no more honorable congressmen left? Why don’t they rein in this little puke?
I wish I could get a fire lit under the butts of voters to get out there and replace their RNC committeemen. Its easy enough to do in most states. It took less than 1000 votes to put a tea partier on the RNC in Michigan.
Come people, go commando on the GOP power structure itself.
Half of the rhetoric you hear from the House and Senate GOP sounds exactly as anti-military as the Democrats.
GOP members of Congress have allowed the military to be slashed by $330 Billion in 2009, $487 Billion in 2011, and $650 Billion in 2013 with the Sequester. Those were all supposed to be over ten years, but the cuts were real and have now overlapped each other.
I have never been so disgusted with this nation.
i’m sure Obama has great respect for veterans, you know, the ones who served in that homophobic, male dominated, white racist military. yeah, that’s the ticket.
And he still goes on vacation.
If there are, I have heard nothing from any of them regarding homosexual "spouses" getting thousands of dollars in monthly benefits while Hagel's proposes laying off veterans and stealing their pensions.
Congress is on yet another vacation as well. But if they had any sense at all, they would be all over the Sunday talk shows to denounce Obama's latest criminal threat to disabled veterans.
Speaking of terrorists, he just sent $195 million to Syria.
He’s given them a billion dollars over the past two years.
This....is pretty amazing, even by GayMuzzie standards.
WOW.
Point 3 is a little bit over-the-top don’t you think? You need to relax a bit. The other two points are good ones, though.
Agreed. The question is, will anyone even notice or care? Seems like the majority are of the mindset that, as long as it is not them, well, it is too bad, but it is what it is. we have to cut somewhere. Things have changed so much in the last 100 years. smh
As if the sequester wasn’t his idea.
Pray for America to Wake Up
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