How sequestration will affect Ga. citizens, businesses
Because of required furloughs and spending reductions for TSA security agents, FAA air traffic controllers, customs agents and other personnel, flight delays of up to four hours are predicted at major airports such as Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
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On Friday, March 1, federal spending cuts forced by sequestration will be implemented. The total amount of spending to be cut — $85 billion — is somewhat small, but its impact is magnified by three specific provisions of the sequestration law:
1.) Major budgetary areas such as Social Security, interest on the debt, the Department of Veterans Affairs and military pay are off-limits to cuts. Cuts in Medicare reimbursement are limited to 2 percent. That concentrates spending reductions to remaining portions of the budget.
2.) By law, federal agencies that do face sequestration do not have the ability to pick and choose which programs will be cut or by how much. All cuts must be across the board, by meat cleaver rather than scalpel.
3.) The law requires savings in the current fiscal year, which began in October 2012. Because the required cuts are not being implemented until March, they must be backloaded into the final months of fiscal 2013, compounding the impact. As a result, non-defense discretionary spending will be cut by 9 percent for the remainder of the fiscal year; defense spending will be cut by 13 percent.
As a result of the provisions outlined above, the consequences of the sequestration are relatively simple to project. Here is a sampling of the impact on Georgia, as outlined by the Office of Management and Budget:
Teachers and Schools: Georgia will lose approximately $28.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 390 teacher and aide jobs at risk. In addition about 54,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 80 fewer schools would receive funding.
– Education for Children with Disabilities: In addition, Georgia will lose approximately $17.5
million in funds for about 210 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
Military Readiness: In Georgia, approximately 37,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, reducing gross pay by around $190.1 million in total.
– Army: Base operation funding would be cut by about $233 million in Georgia.
– Air Force: Funding for Air Force operations in Georgia would be cut by about $5 million.
Vaccines for Children: In Georgia around 4,180 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to reduced funding for vaccinations of about $286,000.
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Aviation is a major industry in Georgia. Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport boasts the busiest airport in the world, and many businesses are located in the metro Atlanta region because of easy access to Hartsfield. However, spending cuts required by sequestration will greatly reduce the efficiency of the national system. As the OMB reports:
Aviation – At the major gateway airports, average wait times could increase by 30-50 percent. At the nation’s busiest airports, like Newark, JFK, LAX, and Chicago O’Hare, peak wait times could grow to over 4 hours or more.
Aviation security – The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) would reduce its front-line workforce, which would substantially increase passenger wait times at airport security checkpoints. TSA would need to initiate a hiring freeze for all transportation security officer positions in March, eliminate overtime and furlough its 50,000 officers for up to seven days.
Aviation safety – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would be forced to undergo a funding cut of more than $600 million. This action would force the FAA to undergo an immediate retrenchment of core functions by reducing operating costs and eliminating or reducing services to various segments of the flying community… The furlough of a large number of air traffic controllers and technicians would require a reduction in air traffic to a level that could be safely managed by the remaining staff, resulting in slower air traffic in major cities, as well as delays and disruptions across the country during the critical summer travel season.
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Other impacts, also as reported by OMB:
Small business assistance – Small Business Administration (SBA) loan guarantees would be cut by up to approximately $900 million, constraining financing needed by small businesses to maintain and expand their operations and create jobs.
Oil and gas permitting – Development of oil and gas on Federal lands and waters would slow down, due to cuts in programs at the Department of the Interior (DOI) and other agencies that plan for new projects, conduct environmental reviews, issue permits and inspect operations. Leasing of new federal lands for future development would also be delayed, with fewer resources available for agencies to prepare for and conduct lease sales.
Veterans services – Although the Department of Veterans Affairs is exempt from sequestration, the Department of Labor’s Veterans Transition Assistance Program, which serves over 150,000 veterans a year, would have to reduce operations – leaving thousands of transitioning veterans unserved as they move from active duty to civilian life. The Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program would also experience cuts, translating into a reduction in the capacity to serve tens of thousands of veterans in their efforts to find civilian employment.
Title I education funds – Title I education funds would be eliminated for more than 2,700 schools, cutting support for nearly 1.2 million disadvantaged students. This funding reduction would put the jobs of approximately 10,000 teachers and aides at risk. Students would lose access to individual instruction, after-school programs, and other interventions that help close achievement gaps.
Senior meals – Federally assisted programs like Meals on Wheels would be able to serve 4 million fewer meals to seniors. These meals contribute to the overall health and well-being of participating seniors, including those with chronic illnesses that are affected by diet, such as diabetes and heart disease, and frail seniors who are homebound. The meals can account for 50 percent or more of daily food for the majority of participants.
Mental health and substance abuse services – Cuts to the Mental Health Block Grant program would result in over 373,000 seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children not receiving needed mental health services. This cut would likely lead to increased hospitalizations, involvement in the criminal justice system, and homelessness for these individuals. In addition, close to 8,900 homeless persons with serious mental illness would not get the vital outreach, treatment, housing, and support they need through the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) program.
FBI and other law enforcement – The FBI and other law enforcement entities would see a reduction in capacity equivalent to more than 1,000 federal agents. This loss of agents would significantly impact our ability to combat violent crime, pursue financial crimes, secure our borders, and protect national security.
Customs and border patrol – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would not be able to maintain current staffing levels of border patrol agents and CBP officers as mandated by Congress. CBP would have to reduce its work hours by the equivalent of over 5,000 border patrol agents and the equivalent of over 2,750 CBP officers.
– Jay Bookman
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Jackie
February 25th, 2013
8:15 pm
@jhunt163
Again, those investments made by the bank belong to the bank.
If anyone parks their money in the bank, the bank is the one that makes enough off the investment for it to be substantial.
You and I make less than 2% on our bank deposits. So, parking our money in the bank is not the prudent thing to do with our investment portfolio.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:16 pm
“My investments have been doing quite satisfactorily…”
You can thank socialism for that but the market will correct pretty soon.
TaxPayer
February 25th, 2013
8:16 pm
So. What are the cons whining about tonight? Are their up and coming cuts too small?
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:17 pm
should have said number of total jobs, not just those of a manufacturing nature
USA Patriot
February 25th, 2013
8:17 pm
Sooth, must be the full moon. And the downside is……what? Thanks!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
8:17 pm
You and I make less than 2% on our bank deposits.
That’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
Soothsayer
February 25th, 2013
8:20 pm
I was “agin” it before, but I’m fer it now.
jhunt163
February 25th, 2013
8:20 pm
However, banks lend money, which is exactly how banks make money. Why do you think Mr. Drysdale was so intent on getting ole Jeb’s black gold.
Soothsayer
February 25th, 2013
8:22 pm
USA Patriot: post a statement that you slipped up and won’t let it happen again. Everything should be fine.
jhunt163
February 25th, 2013
8:23 pm
Okay, I am tired and I am conceding the issue. I just didn’t realize that Apple, Cisco, and Google were hiding their cash is some Jar in a Singapore barn somewhere. Good night all.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:23 pm
The banks took jeb’s money, gambled on the housing scam, lost his money but socialism bailed them out.
USA Patriot
February 25th, 2013
8:23 pm
Jackie – I believe your other headlight went out.
Carry on, keep driving in the dark.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:24 pm
“I’m one of those government employees. My salary there has been frozen at what it was seven years ago.”
josef, that sucks and a lot of us are in the same boat.
I say that, and I will go back and find it if if necessary, but recently a con poster here was degraded and attacked by a band of liberal jackals because he mentioned something about he or his wife not receiving a raise in some time…
They continued to berate him for being a loser and not being a “producer” or whatever while they paraded their huge raises at the same time (government workers).
The economy is not a worker’s market and doesn’t appear to be coming for sometime.
bman.
February 25th, 2013
8:25 pm
” just didn’t realize that Apple, Cisco, and Google were hiding their cash is some Jar in a Singapore barn somewhere.”
They also invest it.
http://www.googleventures.com/companies
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:26 pm
We need jobs that pay enough so consumers can spend to keep our and the global economy going.
We are talking about losing more jobs.
We are off track thanks to the gop.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:27 pm
Jackie,
“Perception is not reality.”
True, but it plays a HUGE role in investment and economy trends, so it cannot be discounted.
bman.
February 25th, 2013
8:28 pm
Betty -
I make less.
USA Patriot
February 25th, 2013
8:28 pm
Sooth, thanks for the advice. To that end:
Jackie, I
td
February 25th, 2013
8:29 pm
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
7:54 pm
td
You did say “exploration” and not extraction, so for that I give you a deserved pass.
But I am sure you know that oil production on government land is higher today than it was under Bush even with decreased permits, right?
And I am sure you would agree that all those permits that the Bush administration issued are coming in now and are the reason for the increased production.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:29 pm
Sooth, 8:10, that was it.
Thanks.
Good visual!
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:31 pm
td
It is higher end of story. Most on the right don’t even know that or admit they know that until shown the numbers.
They go right to the private land issue, but do carry on
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
8:33 pm
…attacked by a band of liberal jackals because he mentioned something about he or his wife not receiving a raise in some time…
I saw that and thought it was shameful, betty.
But you left out a very important part.
That con started the melee by giving the crybaby cry treatment to some poster who mentioned hard time and berated her for, who knows what, probably relying on the government or some other such childish claptrap.
You wanted cook in this kitchen, expect to get burned a few times…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwIgAzdZK5U
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:33 pm
“I make less.”
bman, most small business owners have been (I don’t know that you fall into this category, but I suspect so).
And what have Obama and the Dems done to try to improve the situation?
I
td
February 25th, 2013
8:36 pm
If anyone is interested, here are the number of oil exploration permits issued by the Federal government since 1988 by state.
http://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medialib/blm/wo/MINERALS__REALTY__AND_RESOURCE_PROTECTION_/energy/oil___gas_statistics/data_sets.Par.65795.File.dat/table08.pdf
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:38 pm
“And what have Obama and the Dems done to try to improve the situation?”
Tell us exactly what they were supposed to do. Let me guess, more tax cuts. Those that Obama extended worked so well, huh?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 25th, 2013
8:38 pm
I say that, and I will go back and find it if if necessary, but recently a con poster here was degraded and attacked by a band of liberal jackals because he mentioned something about he or his wife not receiving a raise in some time…
Yes do go back and prove your claim. I doubt your characterization is true that there were a “band” of “liberal jackals”. In the meantime, are you near your fainting couch?
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:39 pm
“You wanted cook in this kitchen, expect to get burned a few times…”
Fine, we will just continue to be a-holes to each other all the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09LTT0xwdfw
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:42 pm
td
I’m sure you know that all permits issued are not utilized right of way. With that said, unless you have some government source to say when each permit was issued and how much oil is currently being extracted from the area(s) approved via each permit, you are doing your usual………….. pissing into a headwind.
The number of permits in itself doesn’t equate to number of barrels being extracted at any given time.
But I am sure you knew that, right?
bman.
February 25th, 2013
8:42 pm
“most small business owners have been (I don’t know that you fall into this category, but I suspect so).”
These days? I’m smaller than small
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:43 pm
Stick to music moonbat.
Politics will get uglier until the gop surrender or be annihilated.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
8:43 pm
In the meantime, are you near your fainting couch?
Faint betty, faint.
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Princess-Fainting-Couch-w-Storage/6337624/product.html?cid=202290&kid=9553000357392&track=pspla&ef_id=wa9QMazA3l0AAEeH:20130226014302:s
josef
February 25th, 2013
8:44 pm
USA
Prego. E ‘una delle mie canzoni preferite, anche!
Oh, e come non si dovrebbe chiamarlo “b-tch, c’è questo bello complimento siciliano “testa di cazzo!”
Soothsayer
February 25th, 2013
8:44 pm
The Man’s Guide to Love and Lasting Relationships
1. Find a woman who makes you laugh.
2. Find a woman who has a job and loves housework.
3. Find a woman who is honest.
4. Find a woman who will wait on you hand and foot.
5. Find a woman who is awesome in the bedroom.
6. Most of all, it is very important that these 5 women never meet!
bman.
February 25th, 2013
8:44 pm
“Let me guess, more tax cuts. Those that Obama extended worked so well, huh?”
I would like the deal Facebook got. BTW FB is spending 1.4 billion on R&D this year. …what the hell are they building over there??
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:47 pm
bman,
They bought Instagram for 1 billion.
bman.
February 25th, 2013
8:48 pm
getalife .. .. I’m in the wrong biz!
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:49 pm
“Lindsey Graham Backs Compromise With New Revenue” HP.
Caved.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:50 pm
“Politics will get uglier until the gop surrender or be annihilated.”
LOL
oooooooooooh, getalife.
SCARE-E!
Like dis?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IPzpaD4UOE
stands for decibels
February 25th, 2013
8:51 pm
The economy is not a worker’s market and doesn’t appear to be coming for sometime.
I will say it again–cutting government spending will only make this worse.
We need to spend money to get people working again. We are being lent money for next to nothing. We are ruled by horrible, horrible people who seem to think that we need to “tighten our belts,” presumably so that wages stay low and people remain basically down and in a world of crap.
that is all anyone needs to know about the latest fake crisis.
/drive-by
getalife
February 25th, 2013
8:51 pm
bman,
They started a new search engine on their site too.
Other than that, not much news on that stock .
josef
February 25th, 2013
8:52 pm
“Unlike may other canine species, jackals tend to hunt alone or in groups of two….. Those jackals who hunt alone do maintain contact, however, by howling to each other mournfully.”
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:53 pm
bman
I was being a smart behind about tax cuts. Some on the right think that tax cuts are the panacea for everything. While you cant tax people into the ground, if they were the panacea as some bill them, we should have been awash in jobs from the time they were enacted until Obama signed in the new law for the top earners.
Right on this blog, people were saying that they rich wont hire and invest…………. How much of that was going on before the highest earners received their tax increases?
As we know, surely not enough.
If there isn’t enough current or projected demand, not many folks & companies are going to do any hiring regardless of their tax bracket
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
8:53 pm
Not that much of Lindsey Graham fan.
But I am of this guy…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSU17vvq-Ts
Doggone/GA
February 25th, 2013
8:54 pm
“The economy is not a worker’s market and doesn’t appear to be coming for sometime.”
Of course not. When it’s a buyers market, the wages can be lower.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:54 pm
bman
And that tax deal that FB received was a slap in the face of all working people. That slap came from any and every Democrat and Republican who voted yes to those type of loopholes that would allow that to be possible.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:54 pm
“These days? I’m smaller than small”
bman, it’s not just small business getting hacked.
The average working schmoe has had their 401K hacked, salaries froze, and PR TAXES RAISED.
And these bloggers here on the government dole (except josef
)(by their own account) are doing better than ever!
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
8:58 pm
moonbat
I don’t work for the government, but outside of josef, the only one I know that works for Uncle Sam is Bro.
Don’t recall him saying he was “doing better than ever”, but maybe he did.
There are people regardless of where they work or what their politics are who are probably seeing a nice increase in certain investments: stocks, 401Ks, IRAs, etc.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
8:59 pm
cry, Kam, cry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBB0bREhjwM
Oh yeah, I forgot, you are laughing cause you are rolling with the 1%ers and racking it up, right?
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
9:00 pm
TBS
Re manufacturing: Not only the points you make with engineering and such, but those jobs were how our upward mobility progressed. With those rungs removed from the ladder, mobility became that much harder to accomplish.
0311/8541/5811/1811/1801
February 25th, 2013
9:01 pm
“The Senate Budget Committee reports that in fiscal year 2011, between food stamps, housing support, child care, Medicaid and other benefits, the average U.S. household below the poverty line received $168.00 a day in government support.
What’s the problem with that much support?
Well, the median household income in America is just over $50,000, which averages out to $137.13 a day. To put it another way, being on welfare now pays the equivalent of $30.00 an hour for a 40-hour week, while the average job pays $25.00 an hour.”
Keep Up--The Progressive Dinner Jackal
February 25th, 2013
9:02 pm
So what you are saying TBS is that when FB pokes you, its fur real?
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
9:03 pm
The Bush leaguers orchestrated the destruction of the American economy. No way are the American people gonna let the neocons right back in power to do it all over again.
The Bush leaguers got thousands of Americans KIA’d needlessly by going all Viet Nam in the Iraqi sand. No way are the American people gonna let the neocons right back in power to do it all over again.
At this rate, they’ll be lucky to get someone in the White House before the 2024 Olympics…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXka8IlUOVs
josef
February 25th, 2013
9:03 pm
“What most people don’t seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.”
–Rhett Butler
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:04 pm
“Don’t recall him saying he was “doing better than ever”, but maybe he did.”
No, Bro man didn’t say that – he isn’t a d-bag.
bman.
February 25th, 2013
9:05 pm
“And that tax deal that FB received was a slap in the face of all working people. That slap came from any and every Democrat and Republican who voted yes to those type of loopholes that would allow that to be possible.”
I agree. If there is one positive out of it, it’s that Facebook is really an aggressive company who has been and will be adding employees and putting people to work. For me, I didn’t receive a bailout a few years ago, or much of any tax break.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
9:05 pm
Bro
Agreed. While we switched to a “service” economy, the number of folks who stagnated or fell behind has certainly been more than have benefited. I have no qualms about those benefiting and thriving, but from a macro level it isn’t outweighing those who are experiencing stagnation and even worse. It certainly hasn’t been the “windfall” for middle America has it was sold starting 30 plus years ago. People can spin it all they like, it is an overall drag on the economy.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
9:07 pm
Don’t recall him saying he was “doing better than ever”, but maybe he did.
I stated as such when td asked me how I was doing since 2006. I don’t know if that’s the conversation that betty’s talking about, but if so, she’s out to lunch on that “band of jackals” crap. If that’s not the conversation that she’s talking about then, I’ll reserve that comment.
That particular conversation had td holding his wife up as some poster child for government workers. Since 2006, I’m doing better by virtue of a job change. My take home pay hasn’t increased much due to ever increasing insurance costs and such, but then again, I have those supposed golden benefits.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
9:08 pm
michaelsavage.com
there’s your sign.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:08 pm
“At this rate, they’ll be lucky to get someone in the White House before the 2024 Olympics…”
Dang, Jamvet, I misjudged you. You either have a great deal more faith in the fascists or you think the pinko commies are going to F it up really soon!
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
9:09 pm
Keep
Don’t do FB because it just isn’t my thing, but when Jay’s article presented those numbers, it was all I needed to know.
I blame Congress more than FB. They are just taking advantage of the millions that big business has plowed into the pansies in Congress over the last umpteen years.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:09 pm
Told ya they will cave.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
9:13 pm
getalife
Did you read where several Republican Governors were talking to their state’s Reps and Senators about not wanting the sequester to go through?
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:15 pm
Bro, I was not referring to you…
Off topic:
When is the so called “switch over” to the new format happening or does anyone actually know?
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:16 pm
Both,
Yes and the neocons want no cuts to defense.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
9:18 pm
Bro, I was not referring to you…
K… Then I fully retract that previous statement. Don’t know when the change is coming, but hopefully it will get rid of the jackassery.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
9:18 pm
moonbat
I don’t think Jay gave a date. It was a heads up to get registered because it is coming “soon”
Federal Worker
February 25th, 2013
9:19 pm
And these bloggers here on the government dole (except josef )(by their own account) are doing better than ever!
Oh, sure. Haven’t had a pay raise in three years. And when we get furloughed, unlike josef we can’t use sick leave to make up the difference, nor can we use annual leave to overcome the difference. In effect, a furlough is a pay cut.
I’m more than willing to let time tell us who is right—those who assert that the sequester will have only minimal effect and those who say it will be devastating. I know I’ll be cheering all you detractors on when you’re blowing it out at both ends by virtue of eating uninspected produce and meat or when you need to get to the airport four hours before your flight to allow time for the screening. Me, I’m at retirement age right now. I might as well get out rather than watch the annual pay used to calculate the retirement benefit decline.
The stonewalling Republicans can’t fall much lower in public opinion, so that they have nothing else to lose by holding fast. Even now, polls show that 51% will blame the Republicans for sequestration and only 31% will blame Obama—check out Politico.com. People tend to get very angry when they see their 401ks start tanking or the services they expect from government decline. Even gerrymandering may not be enough to save the Republicans in 2014 if the effects of sequestration prove negative. Keep it up, Pubs. You’re doing a heckuva job.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:19 pm
moonbat,
Do you have a facebook, google or yahoo account for email?
You can login to the new format using those id’s.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
9:21 pm
Did you read where several Republican Governors were talking to their state’s Reps and Senators about not wanting the sequester to go through?
Obama won reelection, and now those same governors are facing reelection.
The were counting on a
Elmer FuddMitt Romney win.moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:22 pm
getalife,
No, but I already have my ajc account set up with my picture as well.
Go to Galloway’s in a min…
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
9:24 pm
betty, what can I say?
Even more than a few of cons in leadership positions have said if they don’t change their ways and soon, they run the risk of becoming the permanent minority party in this country,
And given their self-inflicted problems with minorities, that strikes me as more than a little ironic!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sea3lnVgyrY
Keep Up--The Progressive Dinner Jackal
February 25th, 2013
9:24 pm
TBS, I am not much for FB myself. The unfortunate truth is that, for the most part, the tax code is written for the rich by the rich. It would be nice to change it but that going to take some major ballz.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:25 pm
moonbat,
I saw it.
Did you google moonbat images?
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:28 pm
“Did you google moonbat images?”
No, that is me.
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
9:30 pm
Moonbat images?
http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk121/TheAmish/special-moonbat.jpg
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:31 pm
“permanent minority party in this country,”
Wasn’t too long ago (2000-2008) the same was said about the dems…
What comes around goes around.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u8teXR8VE4
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
9:35 pm
Keep
More than agreed.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:35 pm
Is that what you plan to use for your avatar, JamVet? j/k
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
9:35 pm
Keep
That change ain’t gonna happen as long as we keep treating our elections as auctions. Until people drop the partisanship and realize the effect that money has on our political system, we’re screwed.
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
9:36 pm
The country lost a great man this week.
RIP, Dr. C. Everett Koop…
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:36 pm
The moonbat is ron paul:
http://seekeronos.blogsome.com/images/RPaulMoonbat.jpg
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:37 pm
getalife, ^^that^^ moonbat is “forbidden”, apparently.
Josef
February 25th, 2013
9:39 pm
Federal Worker
Technically, I can’t use sick time to make it up. It’s just that I’ll take a sick day I wouldn’t have taken otherwise.
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
9:39 pm
Nah, bet, IF I ever picked one it would probably be a picture of a con crusher:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/617615984/High_efficient_mining_equipment_PF_impact.html
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:41 pm
lol, Jam, get,
You libs sure are pretty!
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:42 pm
Try it again monnbat.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:48 pm
Umm, getalife, what kind of shennigans are you trying to pull?
I’m not going to let you steal my identity..
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:49 pm
It worked the second time for me.
Keep Up--The Progressive Dinner Jackal
February 25th, 2013
9:50 pm
Bro, you’ll never hear me argue that we don’t need to get the money out of elections.
Jackie
February 25th, 2013
9:52 pm
Pigs have started to grow wings!
Sen. John Cornyn(R-TX) has stated publicly the sequestration cuts will not affect the Pentagon to the extent the Pentagon reports.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/25/politics/budget-republicans/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:53 pm
Keep up – drop one of the “n”s in “Dinner”.
It sounds cleaner.
~Napster A-hole
getalife
February 25th, 2013
9:53 pm
I don’t think this generation will fix our unlimited bribes.
It will be the next generation that are getting screwed over from this generations failures.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
9:55 pm
td
Interesting info on land leased, permits issued, drilling actually being done or not after a permit has been issued
http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/energy/oil_and_gas/statistics.html
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
9:55 pm
“It will be the next generation that are getting screwed over from this generations failures.”
and by then it will be too late.
The time is now.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
9:57 pm
and by then it will be too late.
The time is now.
We’re f**ked!!
getalife
February 25th, 2013
10:00 pm
“The time is now.”
No, congress is not up to the task because they are bought and paid for.
If our President wants to level the playing field for your kids, he will have to act alone and there is not much he can do alone.
Charles Douglas Edwards
February 25th, 2013
10:01 pm
WE urge the Republican Party and Democratic PARTY to work TOGETHER for the good of the United States of America !!!
TOGETHER WE STAND DIVIDED WE FALL.
President Barack Obama we wish you and Congress good luck in solving this crisis.
moonbat betty
February 25th, 2013
10:08 pm
“We’re f**ked!!”
Bro, it’s never too late…
But as I said earlier, perception is a great motivator/deterrent in economics/investments (contrary to some of my detractors here).
It’s time to stop f’ing around and go to work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4oLG8mWQ-g
getalife
February 25th, 2013
10:09 pm
“The top five banks — JPMorgan, Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Wells Fargo & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. – - account for $64 billion of the total subsidy, an amount roughly equal to their typical annual profits (see tables for data on individual banks). In other words, the banks occupying the commanding heights of the U.S. financial industry — with almost $9 trillion in assets, more than half the size of the U.S. economy — would just about break even in the absence of corporate welfare. In large part, the profits they report are essentially transfers from taxpayers to their shareholders” Bloomberg.
More socialism that should be cut.
Jackie
February 25th, 2013
10:15 pm
Subsidies to the oil companies are just as heinous.
http://priceofoil.org/fossil-fuel-subsidies/