Posted on 03/25/2013 1:34:22 PM PDT by Nachum
In its continuing bid to make the automatic sequester cuts as painful to the public as possible, Obama's Pentagon has announced that it is suspending its aerial acrobatic flying teams, like the Air Force's Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angels. With the decision, the Obama Administration is continuing the fiction that the last dollar government spends is on services most valued by the public.
Each branch of the military operates its own aerobatic team. The Navy and Marines have the Blue Angels. The Air Force has the Thunderbirds. The Army has a parachute team called the Golden Knights. These teams are publicly popular features of air shows across the country. After performances this past weekend, the Pentagon will suspend public appearances until at least after September 30th, the last day of the fiscal year subject to sequester cuts.
The decision raises two, almost conflicting, questions. First, is the Pentagon's budget so efficient that cutting the aerobatic teams is a natural place to trim spending? When the government has to shave pennies off every dollar it spends, does it always need to first go to the areas the public most sees? To save $2 million, over a 7 month period, out of the Secret Service budget, Obama chose to cancel self-guided tours of the White House. I appreciate the Obamas' predilection for luxury vacations, but couldn't they have scaled back these, rather than shutter the White House from the public?
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
...and 500 mil for Palis, and 200 mil for Jordan, a bunch of F-16s for Egypt. This administration is a serious cluster****.
Wow, with all the money the govt is saving by cancelling all these shows, along with closure of 150 FAA towers, they’ll have plenty of money to add to their stocks of hollow points, purchase more AR’s, and buy a few more MRAPs.
More “visible pain that is supposed to make us go “AwWWwwww”
What about the freakin U.N.? Did they cut any funding to that?????????
and Sasha and Mahlia are vacationing in the Bahamas....
Obama needs the money to help support his ever growing Brotherhoods.
With all of this push to “save money” someone should point out that waste continues.
Cutting important programs and keeping waste.
BOHICA!!!
All animals are equal, some are more equal than others.
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http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/03/25/Obama-Kids-Enjoy-Third-Luxury-Vacation-in-Past-Month
No, they wouldn't want the public to view it that way. If all of government was basically useless except the last couple of percent (that's the sequester size), why have the big government at all?
They want you do believe something different--that vital services are being cut everywhere, including the obviously small things that are symbolic (like WH tours, the airshows). They still think they can sell the idea that they wouldn't manipulate the cuts for maximum political input because they are honorable public servants. And, as of the last check in November 2012, maybe they're right in their assessment.
It’s okay, they’re black...and more important than you.
No, they wouldn't want the public to view it that way. If all of government was basically useless except the last couple of percent (that's the sequester size), why have the big government at all?
They want you do believe something different--that vital services are being cut everywhere, including the obviously small things that are symbolic (like WH tours, the airshows). They still think they can sell the idea that they wouldn't manipulate the cuts for maximum political input because they are honorable public servants. And, as of the last check in November 2012, maybe they're right in their assessment.
‘It’s okay, they’re black...and more important than you.’
Time always swings the pendulum back in the other direction.
Fine by me.
Get yer azz to work.
Patriotism is on sequester ....
True, especially at only 13% of the population.
Cleveland Labor Day airshow was just canceled for this year.
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/03/cleveland_international_air_sh.html#incart_m-rpt-2
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