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A Further Perspective
Sequester Hysterics
President Obama is playing you again (and defiling his office as he does so).
President Obama told America yesterday morning that if the sequester goes through on March 1,
It will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research…. Emergency responders like the ones who are here today — their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded. Border Patrol agents will see their hours reduced. FBI agents will be furloughed. Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. Air traffic controllers and airport security will see cutbacks, which means more delays at airports across the country. Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off. Tens of thousands of parents will have to scramble to find childcare for their kids. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings…. So these cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy. They will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls. This is not an abstraction — people will lose their jobs. The unemployment rate might tick up again.”
This language is so far from reality that it defiled the White House like it has never been defiled before.
President Obama’s federal government is slated to spend $3.6 trillion this year. That is $3,600,000,000,000. The supposedly draconian sequester will reportedly cut that by $85 billion, which is just 2%. In fact, as Mark Levin pointed out last night, the actual cuts for this year from that level are $44 billion, which is 1% of the budget.
That won’t eviscerate anything. It won’t stop emergency responders from saving victims of disasters, won’t shut down the border patrol, won’t mean longer delays at airports without security or air traffic control, won’t lay off FBI agents, won’t stop criminal prosecutions, won’t terminate thousands of teachers, won’t leave hundreds of thousands of Americans without health care, won’t “add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls.”
All that is paid for with just 2% of federal spending? Even after the fearsome sequester, federal discretionary spending will still be $60 billion more than in 2008. The government’s own Government Accountability Office (GAO) has identified $125 billion in government waste that can be cut without hurting anybody. Just as I said above about the effects of such tiny cuts.
What all the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth means is that Obama and the Democrats think even cutting federal spending by 1% to 2% is the end of the world. But after the sequester goes through, only a few hundred Americans out of 300 million will even notice any effects at all.
And the sequester will help the economy, not hurt it. The sequester means the federal government will not drain another $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years out of the market economy, but leave it in the market to contribute to higher production. How does the federal government borrowing or taxing that money out of production in the private sector and using it to hire more bureaucrats, or to spend on more welfare for people who are not working and not producing, contribute to more jobs, more hiring, more economic growth, and more prosperity? It doesn’t, which is why Keynesian economics never works.
Obama’s retrograde, last century thinking is why the economy still hasn’t recovered from the last recession, almost 4 years after the recession was actually declared over. What we have is the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression, and maybe before. The other ten Presidents who suffered a recession during their terms since the Great Depression saw the economy roaring back within a year or two after the recession. But that was before Obama transformed our formerly world leading, sole superpower country into just another banana republic.
Too bad the sequester is not six times as large, which is the amount of spending cuts Paul Ryan will propose in his budget next month to zero out the deficit and balance the budget entirely in 10 years. Obama came back from his weekend golfing with his buddy Tiger Woods to complain yesterday that Congress hasn’t done its job. But what about Obama doing his job? He was required by law to produce this year’s budget proposal weeks ago. Where is it? Ya think he could have stayed home last weekend and made sure his work was done?
But Obama showed up yesterday complaining about what others haven’t done, saying we were facing that awful sequester because “Unfortunately, Congress didn’t compromise. They haven’t come together and done their jobs, and so as a consequence, we’ve got these automatic, brutal spending cuts that are poised to happen next Friday.”
The Republicans, however, have done their job. The House passed a bill designating $1.2 trillion in rationalized cuts over 10 years to replace the more arbitrary sequester cuts weeks ago. If President Obama and the Democrats disagreed with the Republican cuts, it was their job to pass what they wanted instead through the Senate. Then the two bills would have gone to a Conference Committee, which would have ironed out a compromise between the two bills.
But we got no action at all from the Democrats. Just as the Senate has not produced a budget in several years, it didn’t act on the Republican House bill on the sequester at all. That reflected the failure of leadership by President Obama, who did nothing to specify his own proposals, and push them through the Democrat majority Senate.
But Obama did produce a lot of talk, and badly confused and dishonest rhetoric. Obama said yesterday:
[S]o far at least the ideas that the Republicans have proposed ask nothing of the wealthiest Americans or biggest corporations, so the burden is all on first responders or seniors or middle-class families. [Or the $125 billion in identified government waste.] They double down, in fact, on the harsh, harmful cuts that I’ve outlined. They slash Medicare and investments that create good, middle-class jobs. And so far at least what they’ve expressed is a preference where they’d rather have these cuts go into effect than close a single tax loophole for the wealthiest Americans. Not one.
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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spike59| 2.20.13 @ 6:09AM
Do you really expect anything remotely resembling honesty from this president?
wanna buy a bridge?
Robbins Mitchell| 2.20.13 @ 6:27AM
It doesn't matter whether or not we expect honesty from Barokeydoke...the MSM will carry his water and as long as his own 51% believe it,that's all he cares about
Aristocat| 2.20.13 @ 6:42AM
Note Mr. Ferrara's correct analysis: "President Obama and the Democrats have slashed Medicare, when they passed Obamacare in 2010, which cut trillions actually in future Medicare spending....(will) pay doctors and hospitals.... even less than Medicaid...pays for health care for the poor..."
Obama is destroying Medicare because most seniors voted against him, in favor of Medicaid and Obamacare, which benefit his voters--the government dependents.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 2:11PM
A prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Barack Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House.
“It was preposterous to the people I knew then to think Obama was going to keep his gay life secret,” said Kevin DuJan, who was a gossip columnist in Chicago for various blogs when Obama was living in the city as a community organizer and later a state senator.
“Nobody who knew Obama in the gay bar scene thought he could possibly be president,” said DuJan.
Chicago Tribune.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 2:14PM
A prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims Barack Obama’s participation in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene was so well known that many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when he ran for president and finally won the White House.
“It was preposterous to the people I knew then to think Obama was going to keep his gay life secret,” said Kevin DuJan, who was a gossip columnist in Chicago for various blogs when Obama was living in the city as a community organizer and later a state senator.
“Nobody who knew Obama in the gay bar scene thought he could possibly be president,” said DuJan.
Chicago Tribune.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 2:14PM
Oops.
TLP| 2.20.13 @ 4:06PM
My mistake.
It wasn't the Chicago Tribune.
Google: Barack Obama Gay Bathhouse Story.
GOOGLE IT!
Aristocat| 2.20.13 @ 6:35AM
Republicans are too stupid to see that Obama is cutting the two programs that benefit them---defense and Medicare....He wants to neuter the military and destroy Medicare.
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 7:39AM
So Aristocrat, you actually support Medicare? You mean to say you actually support a social safety net of some sort?
My god, does everyone here know that you are a communist?
chuck| 2.20.13 @ 7:54AM
Listen asshole arnie, people like my mom are stuck with Medicare, whether they like it or not. They have no choice about the matter. So until the time comes when Medicare can be reformed and privatized, we are all stuck with it. And sooner or later, probably sooner, we will run out of money, and it will have to be reformed.
I am much more concerned about my mom, for whom my dad worked all his life and had to pay into this damned system. For the low-life, low-information, Obama voters, I don't give a damn. They can go get a job and pay for their own shit just like the rest of us.
Screw you, arnie.
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 8:14AM
Chuck, if your mother doesn't like it, she can still buy private insurance. Nothing is stopping her from doing that. Or does she not have enough money for that? In that case, she must have been lazy her whole life, and no government program should be taking care of her.
Of course, we could get rid of Medicare and the Affordable Care Act altogether. I'm sure the private insurance companies would love to offer inexpensive coverage to your old mother, and surely they wouldn't deny any payment to her.
(Sorry if you don't like me treating you like a Republican would.)
jothepro| 2.20.13 @ 8:40AM
Hey Arnie, does your excrement stink?
fmm| 2.20.13 @ 8:52AM
If they hadn't had to pay into medicare and SS all their working lives she would have been left with enough money to provide for herself in retirement and not be saddled with these foolish government programs. One can't be faulted for following something they were forced to obey.
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 9:22AM
Or they could earn more from their jobs. Just saying...
Plus, the benefits usually pay out more than you put in for most people. At least for the people that live well beyond 65.
fmm| 2.20.13 @ 10:26AM
Private sector jobs pay what they are worth, set by market economics, not by some pie in the sky government fiat. For equal paying jobs, privatized investments will always beat governmental programs since safe but higher yield securities can be used and the money will not be stolen as has happened with SS.
The forced government program benefit payouts are set by the government not by the people. If the payout is larger than what was put in, this is just another example of failed governmental policies causing higher deficit spending instead of achieving balanced monetary flow.
Government is by nature inefficient and incompetent compared to the private sector where all value is produced.
Just saying.....
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 11:16AM
"Private sector jobs pay what they are worth, set by market economics,"
HA!! ROFL. Oh yes, every single wage and salary that has ever been in the so called "free market" has definitely been fair and equal to the work done. No employer has EVER ripped off an employee, and no corporate officer or owner has boosted his own salary simply because he could. And every farmer has been properly reimbursed for his crops, every doctor and nurse has been properly paid for all the lives they save. Every teacher has been rightfully compensated for all the kids they educated. Every construction worker got his fair pay, and every programmer got his fair share of the wealth made by the software he produced. Yep, in every case of every job, the pay was always equal to the worth of the work. Right. I get it now.
You don't actually believe this garbage you're spouting, do you?
I'm pro-capitalism, but I don't believe in such garbage as THAT!!
George S| 2.20.13 @ 12:19PM
It has nothing to do with the work done but what that worth is to other people.
If it takes me a year (2,000 hours) to carve a tree into a box of toothpicks with a pocket knife, will you at least pay me the minumum wage for that box of toothpicks? That would be $7 x 2,000 = $14,000.
What? You wouldn't pay 14 grand for something that sells for 50 cents? But I did the work!!! Pay me, you economic ignoramus.
Enchanted| 2.21.13 @ 1:29PM
how arrogant. you do not know their situation, their age, where they came from, their education or the opportunities they had. - and who are you to made a judgment on anyone? Only God can do that .
as an aside, how much does the demoncratic (SIC) party pay you to disparage people?
Purp| 2.20.13 @ 10:24AM
Man are you out of touch ... do you even know how little you pay into both programs? Go learn something before spouting off.
Stephie| 2.20.13 @ 1:20PM
arnie, your ignorance of the facts is appalling.
chuck| 2.20.13 @ 8:27PM
Arnie, you friggin' idiot!
When you are 78 years old you can not buy private insurance. All private insurers drop you automatically when you reach the point you are eligible for Medicare.
And listen asshole, my parents were FORCED to pay for Medicare their entire working lives, then forced to join the Medicare system. The paid for the benefits. These lazy shits that Obamacare is going to pay for, at the expense of Medicare, haven't worked or paid for these benefits.
Fuck them, and fuck you, you asshole.
Arnie| 2.21.13 @ 4:37AM
"When you are 78 years old you can not buy private insurance. All private insurers drop you automatically when you reach the point you are eligible for Medicare."
Oh, you mean the PRIVATE SECTOR does not want to cover old people? Why would that be? Is it because covering old people with health insurance is not profitable? Wait, wait. My world is shattering. My faith in the bountiful free market is falling apart.
You mean to say that in the name of profit, old people can't get insurance from the private sector, and assuming they have no family or friends, are just left to die?
What?!?!? OMG! How could they?
Duh. Profit baby. Hooray for that amazing private sector!!!!
Your mom was lazy. You and her are lazy wastoids that are sucking on the government teet.
(Just quoting you Republicans at the right-wing rag called American Spectator.)
chuck| 2.21.13 @ 7:51AM
It's the LAW, you dumb fuck.
And I'd definitely watch how you talk about people's mothers. You can get away with it hiding in your momma's basement, but you're likely to be spitting some teeth if you do it in person.
Arnie| 2.21.13 @ 8:33AM
There's NO law preventing an insurance company from selling insurance to her. IDIOT!!!
So show me the law CHUCKY! You might want to inform Kaiser about this because they're selling it!
Anyway, it just goes to show how many of you 2 bit Republicans bash the government but use it's wonderful services all the time. You're all a bunch of hypocrites.
If you don't want a functioning government, don't use public roads, don't use the electric grid, don't use the public schools, don't use social security, or Medicare, or Medicaid. Don't follow the traffic laws spelled out on traffic signs. Don't recognize the authority of a policeman, or the courts. Tell the fireman to go away when your house is on fire, and that you would rather pay some private company to put the fire out. And don't send your kids to any state universities.
But Chucky, I suggest you get an education somewhere, because you're in need of one bad.
Enchanted| 2.21.13 @ 1:31PM
Chuck. Don't get down in the mud with this guy. He will love it and you will just get dirty.
remember you just can't fix stupid.
chuck| 2.21.13 @ 2:39PM
You're right enchanted, and usually I don't.
Stoopid doesn't realize Medicare Advantage is still Medicare.
lost| 2.20.13 @ 11:51AM
Hey Arnie,
What is the purpose of safety net? They are to prevent people from falling to their demise and then they are to climb off. If no one climbs off the safety net will give way at some point. This is what is happening with social safety nets, people are falling in but not climbing out. At some point it will give way and they will all fall.
Does it not worry you that if the government cuts spending money they do not have it will destroy the middle class? It does me because that means too much of the economy is dependent on the government which is not a good thing.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:49PM
I don't support Medicair or Social Security. The people on it. Fine. Let them live the rest of their lives on it. Stop robbing people to pay for other people. Robbery is robbery even when a government armed thug is holding the gun.
loulou| 2.20.13 @ 11:19AM
Obama's very presence defiles the office.
Stephie| 2.20.13 @ 6:50AM
This has got to be the most frustrating thing I've seen this year. The man is insufferable. The cuts would come from him anyway, not congress.
Hey! Low information voters! Your boy lies!
Von Mises Jr| 2.20.13 @ 9:51AM
The low information voters are in for a surprise in 2014 when the ObamaCare fines starting at 1% and escalating to 2.5% by 2016 as their penalty if their employer drops their plan and they don't buy the ObamaCare Exchange Plan that is about $4K per person and levies fines of about $4-5K for smokers age 55 to 60.
The real frustration is that Medicare/Medicaid is the largest Budget item with some $780B and 21% of the Budget. Fraud and abuse is calculated at 10-15% that is some $75B to almost $120B per year. It is not simply that the communist are re-distributing wealth to voting blocks, but they are stealing it en masse for them. That is why they will not fix the problems.
This is probably why McConnell, Boehner and Rover hate the TEA Party. Their cut may be smaller, but it is still material.
Purp| 2.20.13 @ 10:27AM
Then you might as well give up, your over, there are not enough of you to matter.
Just work hard, pay taxes, so the rest of us can - rest...
Oh, but wait - the Red States take the lion's share of the Federal tax money; they are the sickest, fattest and laziest section of the country. Hmmm, maybe you should be criticizing them, not the President for your tax bill.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 4:42PM
Purpie the Village Idiot posted:
1. "Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
2. purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
3. In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
4. Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born.
5. purpie believes that a 20% cut in the tax rate will INCREASE his 0% rate to 8%.
6. purpie also posted one of the female bloggers here should just lay back and enjoy the rape.
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
SUBVET| 2.20.13 @ 11:08AM
Stephie......they can't hear you......too busy on facebook.
Von Mises Jr| 2.20.13 @ 11:42AM
Stephie and SUBVET......see how I just ignored Caliban?
chuck| 2.20.13 @ 7:47AM
President Asswipe is such a disgusting lying sack of dog squeeze that reading his statements is as painful as listening to the bastard.
Of course, the trolls here will be screaming that the sky is falling, and we're all going to die if these measly ass cuts actually go through. I think they are afraid that the American people may finally figure out that we CAN cut the budget and not have any real effects.
Purp| 2.20.13 @ 10:29AM
No, just YOUR sky... You don't care, so why should I?
Strange how your scare tactics are supposed to be real and work, and the President's are fake and useless.
We'll see in 10 days whether Virginians, where the military is 1/3 of the economy, will care about DaQuestOr...
Sixgun| 2.20.13 @ 10:51AM
Since Virginia went for Obozo in the election... they will get what they deserve, he is their man! It's funny how all these socialists forget that "DaQuestOr' was Obozo's idea.
Arnie| 2.20.13 @ 11:33AM
Not true. The Republicans are lying like always.
The Republicans are the ones that came to Obama wanting cuts, remember?
Anyway. Here's the proof that it was the idea of the Republicans, and believe me, the public will remember this.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....r-all.html
Sixgun| 2.20.13 @ 11:50AM
Try to get your news from a reliable source and not from a left-wing rag that spews out the left-wing talking points for the day. Obama offered up sequester as a compromise to raising the debt ceiling last year and the Republicans jumped on board. This "tragedy" has Obozo written all over it... he owns it.
Stephie| 2.20.13 @ 1:24PM
and we would believe anything from the dailybeast? really? Sequester was obama's idea, go back and hear him talk about it. Recordings abound on Google.
Purp| 2.20.13 @ 2:29PM
Congress passed it - Republicans included... don't try to shirk your responsibilities ... YOU ARE accountable for your actions.
Moe Blotz| 2.20.13 @ 2:53PM
The "sequester" includes no budget cuts, it is merely reduction of the base line budget growth. Skeets wanted the "sequester" before he went out for his shotgun photo op and threatened to veto any bills that tried to cancel the reductions if Republicans tried it. Now the WH bum bandit is trying to make a reduction in spending growth look like draconian budget cuts and vilify the Republicans for sticking to the plan. Barry giveth and Barry taketh away.
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 4:43PM
Purpie the Village Idiot posted:
1. "Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
2. purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
3. In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
4. Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born.
5. purpie believes that a 20% cut in the tax rate will INCREASE his 0% rate to 8%.
6. purpie also posted one of the female bloggers here should just lay back and enjoy the rape.
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:56PM
You do realize Obama has been president for 4 years now? Why do you keep eating the crap he feeds you.
Obama said... "I am willing to cut more spending that we don’t need, get rid of programs that aren’t working. "
He is a lying jerk. He hasn't cut one damned thing and signed off on trillions of new debt.
Who has been president the past 4 years.
What actions does your Fortune 10 company take to lower their tax rates? How about your multi million dollar high tech manufacturing firm?
CJW| 2.20.13 @ 4:42PM
Purpie the Village Idiot posted:
1. "Hurricane Sandy and Chris Christie was the Lord's way of pressing his thumb on the scale to tilt in the direction of President Obama. It was His punishment of Republicans for their lying and trying to cheat (Voter Suppression) their way to political victory, while espousing faith, freedom and constitutional credentials."
2. purpie believes God killed over 100 persons and destroyed millions of dollars of property to help Obama win.
3. In Sept Purpie wrote that Amassador Stevens was at fault and caused his death.
4. Purpie also wrote that the unborn are biological entities not deserving of protection until God allows them to be born.
5. purpie believes that a 20% cut in the tax rate will INCREASE his 0% rate to 8%.
6. purpie also posted one of the female bloggers here should just lay back and enjoy the rape.
Purpie represents the Loon Left that should be mocked and ridiculed, and not engaged in conversation
c. j. acworth| 2.20.13 @ 8:22AM
1. Eliminate the Dept. of Ed. (I managed to get through school without it.)
2. Eliminate the EPA.
3. Eliminate subsidies for "green" energy projects. (And anything else for that matter.)
There's a small start, Mr. President. Your're welcome.
Purp| 2.20.13 @ 10:30AM
Very small ... not worth bothering with
Sixgun| 2.20.13 @ 10:49AM
So why don't you send in the money and pay for these "very small" Federal costs you socialist, communist, Obozo-loving wacko
chuck| 2.20.13 @ 8:31PM
"Very small ... not worth bothering with"
Just like your "manhood", I reckon.
Sixgun| 2.20.13 @ 10:38AM
4. Eliminate the Dept. of Labor
5. Eliminate the FDA
6. Eliminate the FHWA and turn over all interstate highways to the individual states
7. Institute a 6% flat tax with no tax returns needed, eliminate 66% of the IRS
8. Eliminate the Dept. of Health and Human Services
A few more excellent ideas President Obozo.
Butch| 2.20.13 @ 6:09PM
Also the Depts. of Energy and Transportation, Homeland Security, and cut all congressional staffs by two-thirds. Make 'em read the damn bills themselves and there will be a lot fewer of 'em! Let go the newly-hired IRS agents, sell all the Homeland Security ammo at cost to private citizens immediately. Cut the White House staff (cooks, butlers, drivers, etc.) in half. Eliminate the Dept. of Interior after selling all non-improved government land to private citizens, retaining only the National Parks Service. This problem could be solved easily, without touching SSI or Medicare/Medicaid, simply by returning the federal government to its constitutionally-proscribed limits.
chuck| 2.20.13 @ 8:30PM
Sell all Federally owned land except Washington DC.
fmm| 2.20.13 @ 8:56AM
This man truly lives beyond the looking glass.
How come there is no nationally televised response by the GOP, or better yet one of the truly conservative political organizations, to the rantings of this lunatic?
Russel| 2.20.13 @ 9:57AM
We're all exhausted from exhorting the Grand Ol Pussies to punch the little twerp in the mouth and send him home crying . They just don't have any backbone to do that . What is certain is that OBummer's real objective is taking the house back next year , and so his dictatorship would be inevitable . What with the sorrowful performance from the likes of Boner et al . , expect another massive sweep of new conservative members come the election ( ? ) . That does NOT include Rand Paul , who has endorsed McConnell over a great candidate .
GobBluthe| 2.20.13 @ 10:37AM
Obabs is having help from the Neo cons over at Weekky Stsndard who insist liberty will be extinguished should the sequester occur.
Sixgun| 2.20.13 @ 10:43AM
I am sick and tired of the NeoCons and Ivory Tower eastern establishment Republicans who work in lockstep with the Demorats to destroy this nation with massive unneccessary defense spending and welfare spending. The Federal government has two main Constitutional duties, one is to "defend" America from her enemies (not defend everybody else in the world from their enemies) and taxation to support the defense of this nation. Everything else the Feds do is nonsense and not needed. Cut everything else from the Federal Budget.
Pecos Pete| 2.20.13 @ 10:53AM
There will be no real spending cuts. Taxes will be raised. The debt cap will be raised. The annual deficit will continue to be in excess of $1 Trillion. KingOcare will raise health care and insurance costs.
Politicians will continue to get rich on the PEOPLE's money. The Ruling Class ... ummm, Rules. And the Stupid Class will continue to elect themselves into utter chaos.
JimH| 2.20.13 @ 11:26AM
His Hindmost is standing with a bunch of firefighters and police saying that sequester threatens their jobs. And no one thinks to question where in the Constitution does it say what the Federal budget has to do with local police or fire departments. BO’s approach to these negotiations reminds me of the old National Lampoon ad where a dog is pictured with a gun to his head and the ad reads ‘buy the magazine or we shoot the dog’.
Job| 2.20.13 @ 12:42PM
notice how every single one of them is shorter than this Asshat dictator now what are the odds of that in a room full of Firemen and Cops?
Sixgun| 2.21.13 @ 10:39AM
LOL....LOL.... oh boy, that's funny!
1ConservativeUSA| 2.20.13 @ 11:39AM
Tax dollars to leftists like Obama are like blood to a vampire.
When conservatives realize that Obama and the left view tax revenue as their lifeblood and will tenaciously fight for every drop of it, then we will understand the battle we are in.
1ConservativeUSA| 2.20.13 @ 11:45AM
Question for Obama, the liar in chief:
Why did you take tax deductions and claim a foreign tax credit on your 2011 tax return? Don't you know how many government jobs you killed when you did this?
Sixgun| 2.20.13 @ 11:52AM
I don't think I can take 4 more years of this utter and complete nonsense...
Commander Kelly | 2.20.13 @ 1:17PM
Remember also that 'Sequestration" was Obama's own idea. Sequestration amounts to "Sea-Castration" for the US Navy. See my post "If By Sea" only here...http://americanconservativeinlondon.blogspot.co.uk/
Jacob McCandles| 2.20.13 @ 1:28PM
Medicare and Medicaid are disasters, and they are eating up the budget. Mr. Ferrara has advocated block grants for these programs to allow states to do it right. This has happened with other programs with great success. True Federalism allows states the option of customizing programs to benefit their state and it's citizens. Obama and other statists know that federal programs TRAP the people and do not allow options. People will vote with their feet in todays world, moving to states that suit them best. Why not have our state governments competing to please their employers (us)? Tyranny vs. freedom. Central power vs. state/local power.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 1:52PM
Obama is such a fraud. He is running against his last term. "I am willing to cut more spending that we don’t need, get rid of programs that aren’t working."
HEY YOU DISGUSTING LYING JERK!!! YOU'VE BEEN PRESIDENT FOR 4 YEARS.
cicero| 2.20.13 @ 2:25PM
The problem is that you think that the President is serious when he makes these speeches. No one is that stupid. He knows exactly what he is doing, and he probably spends the rest of the day llaughing with his staff, and waiting for the evening news to see how the fools in his press corps will spin it. He has utter contempt for his supporters, and the rest of us in this country. He has contempt for this country. He know that these policies have to damage America, but that is what he planned all along. I do not think that he is anything but the figurehead on the ship, but he follows orders well. The destruction of this country, and all it stands for, is the plan, and it seems to be working well.
It only takes good people doing nothing, or worse, going along with the game, for evil to triumph.
Stan Redmond| 2.20.13 @ 4:40PM
There are two stupid people on this thread who thinks the president is serious. Arnie and purp are prime examples of the willful ignorance required to have any faith in the dangerous fraud in the white house.
Jane Chingo| 2.20.13 @ 5:46PM
You have heard of a little thing called the DoD, right? This is why conservatism is going down the drain -- purblind clinging to whackdoodle phantasms. Here's a lesson in elementary logic -- just because you think that overall government spending is excessive, that doesn't mean that some government spending isn't necessary. I would gladly surrender the TSA, but not the Army. Am I going to fast for you?
vigilant| 2.20.13 @ 7:51PM
Jane, dear, here's a lesson in elementary spelling--it's "too", not "to" fast. Of course, you also display your ignorance in other ways, but thanks for the good laugh.
And Peter, I wish we'd stop whitewashing the excrement that exudes from this administration. Obama's not spreading "fairy tales", but baldfaced lies that he's not even trying to hide anymore. Doesn't have to. The blinders are too firmly in place. The population I've had considerable professional interaction with--and learned a lot from--have a word they learned in jail for people who take it like the current crop of Repubs. We're putting our faith in getting us out of this mess in the wrong ones-it sure ain't gonna be accomplished by politicians.