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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Chip Shirley
February 25th, 2013
1:20 pm
Black Reagan, don’t wear a mask,
Black Reagan kickin rightwinger’s ass
Obama's vision is ....
February 25th, 2013
1:20 pm
To hire more cops, more teachers. Yes, hire more just like the recently arrested bad cops and the scum APS teachers and DeKalb teachers and DeKalb Board of Education trash.
THAT is the vision of our empty headed POTUS.
CASE CLOSED.
Oscar
February 25th, 2013
1:21 pm
Marty – we can do with a whole lot less than – less just needs to come to the right places. And some places could use more – think border patrol,
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:24 pm
They will wait until the last minute like last time.
The gop numbers are matherbation again.
The gop will cave again
It is time for the gop to surrender and get out of the way.
Nobama
February 25th, 2013
1:26 pm
Couldnt happen to a nicer group – probably the only way His Highness will cut spending. Nobama was for it before he was against it ! Bite Me Jayboy
Marty Huggins'
February 25th, 2013
1:26 pm
Oscar
February 25th, 2013
1:21 pm
I would like to think so.
But as a guy who before ever getting to the white house was advocating a scalpel approach but has been unable to do so then advocates for amputation maybe just maybe he knows that’s either all that can get done or what is best for the body as a whole.
Steve
February 25th, 2013
1:28 pm
So – the GOP refused to cooperate with the President. The President forces Congress to actually do something by implementing a stop gap measure nobody should resort to. GOP Congress won’t budge and close tax loopholes on the already corporate welfare hungry wealthy, and here we are.
Shame on you, GOP. Americans aren’t that stupid – your days ruling the House are numbered. And polls prove it.
Doggone/GA
February 25th, 2013
1:29 pm
“probably the only way His Highness will cut spending”
It’s always easy to tell who failed Social Studies. What’s so puzzling is why they have to come here in such number to admit it.
Regnad Kcin
February 25th, 2013
1:30 pm
“Groucho Marxism?”
Now that’s the most ridiculous thing i EVER heard (wiggle eyebrows & shake cigar…)
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
1:30 pm
“Bite Me Jayboy”?
Really?
Nero
February 25th, 2013
1:30 pm
Nope
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:30 pm
“Nations imposing harsh austerity suffered deep economic downturns; the harsher the austerity, the deeper the downturn. Indeed, this relationship has been so strong that the International Monetary Fund, in a striking mea culpa, admitted that it had underestimated the damage austerity would inflict.
Meanwhile, austerity hasn’t even achieved the minimal goal of reducing debt burdens. Instead, countries pursuing harsh austerity have seen the ratio of debt to G.D.P. rise, because the shrinkage in their economies has outpaced any reduction in the rate of borrowing. And because austerity policies haven’t been offset by expansionary policies elsewhere, the European economy as a whole — which never had much of a recovery from the slump of 2008-9 — is back in recession, with unemployment marching ever higher. ” Krugman.
So Italy will reelect bung bunga.
See why the Sicilians hate them?
indigo
February 25th, 2013
1:31 pm
Obama’s – 1:20
Here’s a tip – Those who are the most likely to say “case closed” are the least likely to know what the f*ck they are talking about.
Marty Huggins'
February 25th, 2013
1:31 pm
Nobama
February 25th, 2013
1:26 pm
Actually he was against it before he was for it before he was against it.
Kinda sounds like a bad parent:
He makes a threat to the child(congress) and then either he didn’t think through what he was saying or he doesn’t have the pair to follow through on his threat
simple math
February 25th, 2013
1:31 pm
Simply eliminate the TSA who have never caught a single terrorist. If we need more budget cuts eliminate the DEA.
Real Scootter
February 25th, 2013
1:32 pm
Hey y’all,just got back from Galloway’s place to register.It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.I didn’t post a pic though cause I don’t know how to do it yet.
It wouldn’t let me use “Real Scootter” so in the future I will be “SFM_Scotter”
This is a Public Service Announcement!
Steve
February 25th, 2013
1:32 pm
“Meanwhile, austerity hasn’t even achieved the minimal goal of reducing debt burdens. Instead, countries pursuing harsh austerity have seen the ratio of debt to G.D.P. rise, because the shrinkage in their economies has outpaced any reduction in the rate of borrowing.”
Exactly what the wealthy conservatives (who have conned the rednecks into believing anything they say) want to do to our country.
appleseed
February 25th, 2013
1:33 pm
The Repugs goal was to make him a one term president.Working with others don’t mean kissing their a&&.These old white dudes just can’t accept the president.They would rather destroy the country than work with him.Get with it,and folks will remember come election time.
Marty Huggins'
February 25th, 2013
1:33 pm
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:30 pm
Is 2.4% really harsh austerity or severe?
Really 2.4%?
One could say this is limited austerity?
Granny Godzilla
February 25th, 2013
1:33 pm
Regnad Kcin
February 25th, 2013
1:30 pm
“Groucho Marxism?”
Now that’s the most ridiculous thing i EVER heard (wiggle eyebrows & shake cigar…)
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“I never met a man I didn’t like, but in your case I’ll make an exception”
~ Groucho Jefferson
TaxPayer
February 25th, 2013
1:34 pm
It’s always easy to tell who failed Social Studies. What’s so puzzling is why they have to come here in such number to admit it.
It’s certainly not because they intend to impress us with their math and science skills instead.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:35 pm
Steve,
I don’t think our cons understand what austerity did to the EU?
I think it is too complicated for them to research.
Steve
February 25th, 2013
1:36 pm
@getalife
They are absolutely braindead when it comes to common sense and reality, and forums like this actually prove that.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:36 pm
Marty,
I am for job growth for consumers not cuts to make cons feel better.
cuterbation.
stands for decibels
February 25th, 2013
1:37 pm
Really we can’t deal with 2.4% less?
We can, but we don’t have to shoot ourselves in the foot, so it would be stupid to shoot ourselves in the foot just because… well, nobody has actually explained why it is a smart thing to cut spending when you have unemployment close to 8% and a recovery from the worst economic hit this country’s taken in 3/4 of a century still in its infancy. Maybe you can do that. Go ahead, explain why we need to, as “Nero” so artfully puts it, “turn off the credit spigot.”
(Keep in mind we’ve been running some sort of a debt since 1835, by the way.)
That Black Guy
February 25th, 2013
1:39 pm
Steve
February 25th, 2013
1:15 pm
Now back to the REAL WORLD:
“President Barack Obama’s deficit reduction plan, which includes new revenues in addition to spending cuts, would be a “much better course, economically and substantively” than the sequester, Furman said. The president’s proposal would achieve $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction, made up of roughly $1.1 trillion in spending cuts and $680 billion in new revenues drawn from limiting deductions and closing tax loopholes for the wealthiest Americans.
White House senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer said the blame will fall squarely on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) if the sequester kicks in, since they aren’t budging in accepting new revenues that stem from higher taxes on the wealthy.
“Republicans are making a policy choice that these are cuts are better for the economy than closing loopholes that benefit the wealthy,” Pfeiffer said on the same call Sunday. The American people, he said, “overwhelmingly disagree with that choice.””
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Democrats blame Republicians…
I’m
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Scooter
February 25th, 2013
1:39 pm
It is convenient to say The Obama proposed the sequester as a last ditch effort, but I certainly don’t remember a slew of other proposals to reduce spending. It is humorous to listen back on the audio of The Obama saying he would veto any bill aimed at averting his deal. Certainly seems he tried to take the republicrats on a snipe hunt to get his increased revenues with promises of spending cuts later. He proposed the idea and now doesn’t want the responsibility of it… nothing new. Democrats’ soft bigotry of low expectations are on display again.
patacake
February 25th, 2013
1:39 pm
Aren’t all of the people losing jobs eligible to apply for Unemployment Benefits from their state ?
If they are eligible, will Georgia have to try to borrow from the federal government, as they did last year, in order to pay the thousands of new claimants ?
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:40 pm
Steve,
They are intellectually lazy so they believe what uncredible rw media tells them to believe.
I had to work on my tolerance but it is frustrating .
Jefferson
February 25th, 2013
1:41 pm
Judd already has 40% support and is not even running yet, the GOP is scared these days…
Marty Huggins'
February 25th, 2013
1:41 pm
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:36 pm
Well that’s odd you didn’t seem to oppose the cuts as Obama proposed them, your objection only became present of them on this blog once Obama flip flopped and opposed them.
How do tax increases create jobs?
We need tax increases but not because they will create jobs.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
1:42 pm
We can, but we don’t have to shoot ourselves in the foot, so it would be stupid to shoot ourselves in the foot just because
Dude, don’t you hear that Benny Hill chase music every time one of these numpties post some dumb sh*t? We HAVE to shoot our foot off to save our knee, or is it to save us from the knee grow. I get confused.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:43 pm
“Judd already has 40% support and is not even running yet, the GOP is scared these days…”
It makes the turtle cave and she should run.
stands for decibels
February 25th, 2013
1:43 pm
Why should we reduce spending?
Note that I did not say we should reduce actual waste. If we can phase out redundant weapons systems, make American doctors work for some kind of reasonable wage as opposed to what their
unionassociation manages to squeeze out of us, if we can negotiate pharma prices like every other civilized nation already does, etc., then we should do it. Humanely, through legislative negotiation, over a reasonable timespan to lessen the impact to people affected.But to just cut spending because some people, apparently, continue to think the American economy is the same as a household’s? I honestly don’t get that. I honestly don’t understand why sentient adults with IQs >, say, 85 or 90, continue to think that cutting spending is noble.
stands for decibels
February 25th, 2013
1:45 pm
or is it to save us from the knee grow
I’m SO flashing back to Blazing Saddles, and Cleavon Little holding a gun to himself and saying… well, you know.
Granny Godzilla
February 25th, 2013
1:46 pm
Scooter
February 25th, 2013
1:39 pm
It is convenient to say The Obama proposed the sequester as a last ditch effort, but I certainly don’t remember a slew of other proposals to reduce spending
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Improve your news gathering or try Aricept
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:46 pm
“But to just cut spending because some people, apparently, continue to think the American economy is the same as a household’s.”
Household do not pay cash for their houses, cars, college, etc….
They use credit.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
1:46 pm
I honestly don’t understand why sentient adults with IQs >, say, 85 or 90, continue to think that cutting spending is noble.
The economy will return to recession and we will spend the next x months hearing how Obama is turrible for the economy.
guy
February 25th, 2013
1:46 pm
All these back and forths. This country has spent money it didn’t have ,especially on deadbeats and aid to foreign countries. Now some worthy programs will be affected. We will see.
Marty Huggins'
February 25th, 2013
1:48 pm
stands for decibels
February 25th, 2013
1:43 pm
People disagree about what is and what is not waste.
If we expect people to listen to and respect our opinions we have to give legitimacy to and respect the opinions of others.
Your waste is not everyone’s waste nor is my definition of waste the same as everyone’s or yours and there are many others out there who would define waste differing from my version or your version.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 25th, 2013
1:48 pm
These Democrat Neo-cons like Bookman and Eliot Engel are gonna bankrupt us all————————
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“I will be introducing legislation to allow the president to arm the rebels,” Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) said on ABC’s This Week. “I think it’s time to do that. I think the Free Syria Army needs help. We know who they are and I think it’s time we make that move.”
The comments follow revelations that top administration officials – including Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former CIA director David Petraeus and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey – have supported such a move since last year. Officials inside the White House, however, caution that weapons, in particular shoulder-fired missiles, could fall into the hands of Islamist extremists.
Conditions inside Syria have steadily deteriorated over the past 23 months despite the $385 million in U.S humanitarian aid, with at least 70,000 people killed to date. Al Qaeda-linked Islamists have made gains within the rebellion, and the opposition leadership on Saturday announced that it was boycotting a meeting of international leaders – including Secretary of State John Kerry – at a summit of the so-called “Friends of Syria” next week in Rome.
Read more: http://thehill.com/video/sunday-shows/284551-top-democrat
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lol
VinnyD
February 25th, 2013
1:49 pm
Good start. Cut more. If you make $20 a week, you can’t spend $40 every week. Not rocket science. Both sides are too blame, not just dems. When you run up your credit cards, you have to live on rice and beans for a while to get back to even.
Doggone/GA
February 25th, 2013
1:49 pm
“make American doctors work for some kind of reasonable wage as opposed to what their union association manages to squeeze out of us”
I heard a report about just that subject this weekend, discussing allowing more foreign doctors into this country. One thing they made CRYSTAL CLEAR is that one very BIG reason American doctors make so much more money then for foreign counterparts is the size of their student loan debts. In many other countries (the report didn’t specify) doctors get their training at greatly reduced rates, or for free…so they can afford to take lower incomes.
Regnad Kcin
February 25th, 2013
1:50 pm
“I’m SO flashing back to Blazing Saddles, and Cleavon Little holding a gun to himself and saying… well, you know”
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“Won’t somebody help that poor man?”
“That’s a sure way to get him killed!”
middle of the road
February 25th, 2013
1:50 pm
So, Jay, you are saying that a 2% cut in the FFA will shut down some airports AND increase wait times in large airports? I can’t see how that could be – if EVERY bit of savings came from furloughed workers, that would be 1 out of every 50 workers.
Congress needs to pass a quick law (and hopefully Obama would sign it – I voted for him) that says all sequester money must be aligned to create the LEAST disruption. It seems like right now departments are trying to make the cuts where they will do the MOST damage, so they can rail against the cuts. If we cannot cut 2%, even in these times, we are in deep financial trouble.
appleseed
February 25th, 2013
1:50 pm
With the repugs stubornness seems to be a plus quality.Teaquesters will rise and conquer.
Kim
February 25th, 2013
1:52 pm
You all can laugh & point the finger all you want, but as someone who WILL be affected by the sequester (single female, one-income HH), let me assure you it won’t just be those of us immediately impacted. If I am forced to take a day of furlough a week (=20% cut in pay), I will lose my house. Which means it will go into foreclosure affecting all of my neighbors and hopefully some of you hateful Georgia people.
Ivan
February 25th, 2013
1:52 pm
“Just who do you think puts those F-22’s and C-130’s together?”
You’re proving his point that military spending would be cheaper on such projects
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
1:52 pm
dB
I thought about posting that clip too!! Great minds, huh???
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
1:54 pm
Doggone
That was one of my suggestions for reforming our healthcare system. Remove the financial burden of schooling, and the labor costs can be greatly reduced.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 25th, 2013
1:55 pm
The neocon Godfather Bill Kristol… on Obama asking for advice…………….back in 2010—————
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‘He didn’t come to me for help, of course,’ Kristol said. ‘I’m not going to acknowledge that. He came to me to make sure I was supporting his sound policies. Of course, since his sound policies are more like the policies people like me have been advocating for quite a while, I’m happy to support them. He’s a born-again neo-con…. What’s the joke – they told me if I voted for McCain, we’d be going to war in a third Muslim country? I voted for McCain and we’re doing it.”
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Somewhere in the Section 8 WhiteHouse……………Obama and Reggie Luv ……….are laughing.
curious
February 25th, 2013
1:56 pm
For all of you saying 2.4% cut is easy, where were you when SS went back to its original rate?
Paul
February 25th, 2013
1:56 pm
Appleseed
The tone of your post will resonate with those who have fallen off the turnip truck.
Erwin's cat
February 25th, 2013
1:57 pm
For all of you saying 2.4% cut is easy, where were you when SS went back to its original rate?
didn’t even notice
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
1:58 pm
Congress needs to pass a quick law (and hopefully Obama would sign it – I voted for him) that says all sequester money must be aligned to create the LEAST disruption. It seems like right now departments are trying to make the cuts where they will do the MOST damage, so they can rail against the cuts.
The departments currently have NO say in how the cuts fall. Congress determined that in their original legislation so that the idea would be so bad that they would come to some kind of agreement.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 25th, 2013
1:58 pm
Kim
February 25th, 2013
1:52 pm
You all can laugh & point the finger all you want, but as someone who WILL be affected by the sequester (single female, one-income HH), let me assure you it won’t just be those of us immediately impacted. If I am forced to take a day of furlough a week (=20% cut in pay), I will lose my house. Which means it will go into foreclosure affecting all of my neighbors and hopefully some of you hateful Georgia people.
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You Should have voted for Ron Paul.
Uncle Sam makes a TERRIBLE husband.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
1:59 pm
ron paul is gone.
Move on con.
Erwin's cat
February 25th, 2013
1:59 pm
Congress determined that in their original legislation so that the idea would be so bad that they would come to some kind of agreement.
they over-estimated themselves…again
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:00 pm
You’re proving his point that military spending would be cheaper on such projects
That was not his point. He made a statement about not awarding “fact”
contracts to unions. Yet, awarding such contracts to defense contractors does exactly that. Very seldom will you ever hear one of these righties rail against unions AND include those defense contractors that use unionized labor in their rants.
Marty Huggins'
February 25th, 2013
2:00 pm
curious
February 25th, 2013
1:56 pm
I was fine with it. Didn’t really notice.
Did it upset you? Does this 2.4% upset you?
getalife
February 25th, 2013
2:02 pm
The sequester is a attempt for congress to do their job on spending.
The gop refuse to do their job and should be fired.
Granny Godzilla
February 25th, 2013
2:02 pm
Off topic but worth a look…
Mitt Romney Adviser Stuart Stevens: Media Not ‘In The Tank’ For Obama (VIDEO)
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
2:02 pm
How will sequestration effect the SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! ?
Doggone/GA
February 25th, 2013
2:02 pm
“It seems like right now departments are trying to make the cuts where they will do the MOST damage”
No, they aren’t. The law REQUIRES the cuts to be EVERYWHERE, except the entitlements Jay has already noted. They have no choice in where to cut.
Granny Godzilla
February 25th, 2013
2:02 pm
OOps!
here’s the link…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/stuart-stevens-media-obama-mitt-romney_n_2758266.html
jwc
February 25th, 2013
2:03 pm
This and many more “sequestration” (spending reductions) along with tax increases are sure to take place as long as the American people demand taxes to be X and total government services to be X+40%. The math is simple, predictable, and we can blather onward about who pays, who’s to blame and all the rest. But if we are to get a handle on debt, it has to be. There is no magic, no silver bullet, no growth plan that can get around the arithmetic.
Erwin's cat
February 25th, 2013
2:04 pm
Kim – I haven’t heard that there would be 52 days of furlough…I have heard of about 8-15 days
curious
February 25th, 2013
2:04 pm
Marty Huggins’
“I was fine with it. Didn’t really notice.
Did it upset you? Does this 2.4% upset you?”
Me neither, but apparently a lot of folks diagreed.
2.4% isn’t much, on the surface, but when it starts impacting defense contractors, expect some “sky is falling” rhetoric.
TiredOfIt
February 25th, 2013
2:05 pm
That Black Guy
February 25th, 2013
1:08 pm
TiredOfIt
February 25th, 2013
12:32 pm
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And when you, leave grab Ted Cruz while your at it.
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You seem really butthurt over Ted Cruz (a JUNIOR Senator with NO power).
Did he use you and then didn’t call like he promised?
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Come on, he is the new face of the republican party. You know, the one that is changing it’s image. I think old Ted is good representative for GOP.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
2:05 pm
Oops, “affect” not “effect’.
Doggone/GA
February 25th, 2013
2:06 pm
“I will lose my house. Which means it will go into foreclosure affecting all of my neighbors and hopefully some of you hateful Georgia people.”
Kim – contact your mortgage holder NOW and let them know your situation. You may be able to work out a lowering of your payments, temporarily.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 25th, 2013
2:07 pm
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
2:02 pm
How will sequestration effect the SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS! ?
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It will make us stronger…………………….as does any reduction in the wealth stolen by the Federales makes………….decent society stronger.
2 million dollars to assacinate 16 year old American kids……….just…………….doesn’t make sense.
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Forward Decency!
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:08 pm
EC @ 2:04
It differs from agency to agency. I’ve seen where some agencies are thinking one day a week through October, which would be around 25-30 if they count March.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
2:09 pm
Thomas
And don’t forget those folks at that wedding in WI?
Kim
February 25th, 2013
2:09 pm
20 days of furlough over the next 5 months.
Ron Paul? No thank you.
Doggone, thanks, have done that.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:09 pm
RON PAUL ***!!!!!
insert name for female canines @ ***
Sargent Schriver
February 25th, 2013
2:10 pm
“Most media reports omit the fact that sequestration is a reduction in the amount of increase….”
Jay and other BO minion nitwits. You folks make it so easy for the Dem party. It doesn’t even have to make sense or even add up and you just continue to repeat everything Bloated Gibbs,Bloated Maddow,Bloated Ed, and Bloated Mathews say. All their rants and phrases; as the famous Beverly HillsCops line goes: You just have your badges and your guns and you don’t know nothing. I can watch 1 segment of Fat Maddow and know the next day what I’m ging to hear the nitwits yelling on the boards. Bunch of Give Me Something for Nothing Weazles.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 25th, 2013
2:11 pm
Weddings in WI or Pakistan.
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Decenct people do not see a difference when it comes to red-misted women and children.
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Not to mention the first-responders that showed up to care for what was left.
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I’ll never understand the Progressive blood-lust………………………thank God.
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
2:12 pm
He would have been 70 years old today…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6j4TGqVl5g
bman.
February 25th, 2013
2:12 pm
“20 days of furlough over the next 5 months.”
A lot of people would probably like this deal. I would!
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
2:12 pm
It doesn’t even have to make sense or even add up and you just continue to repeat everything Bloated Gibbs,Bloated Maddow,Bloated Ed, and Bloated Mathews say.
Dittoheads say, “What?”
too little time
February 25th, 2013
2:13 pm
You all can laugh & point the finger all you want, but as someone who WILL be affected by the sequester (single female, one-income HH), let me assure you it won’t just be those of us immediately impacted. If I am forced to take a day of furlough a week (=20% cut in pay), I will lose my house. Which means it will go into foreclosure affecting all of my neighbors and hopefully some of you hateful Georgia people
Waa-waa. Sorry, Kim, but I lost my job and took a 30% pay cut in 2009. I came very close to losing my house, too. So what you are experiencing, as a recipient of government money, is what the REST of us in the private (non-military industrial complex) have been dealing with for years.
The fact is, if you are dependent on the government you have a rocky road ahead of you for the forseeable future. The government credit card is getting charged up the the max, and government employees (or private employees dependent on the government for contracts) will be looking at pink slips for years to come.
TBS: Posting on weekends so PD can cry on Monday
February 25th, 2013
2:14 pm
Thomas
What is the latest on Alex Jones and Bloomberg’s henchmen? They still after him? Did Alex have to go into hiding?
middle of the road
February 25th, 2013
2:14 pm
” If I am forced to take a day of furlough a week (=20% cut in pay),”
Why would you be forced to take 1 out of every five days in furlough? Would it not make more sense to RIF i out of every 5 people. Then they would be eligible for unemployment, and if they are going to lose their house, then only 1 in 5 do so.
Welcome to the Occupation
February 25th, 2013
2:17 pm
getalife: “Velshi just called jindal a liar on cnn.
Too funny
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He better watch it, or he’ll end up going the way of Soledad O’Brien, eased out the back door.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
2:17 pm
Waa-waa. Sorry, Kim, but I lost my job and took a 30% pay cut in 2009.
Just 30%?
You were lucky.
I lost 100% and had to walk 15 miles barefoot in the snow – uphill both ways! – to pay 4 years of my future earnings just to have them fire me.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:17 pm
A lot of people would probably like this deal. I would!
You’re likely in a financial situation where you can survive that with no problem. Others might not be so lucky. No two people live in the same exact conditions.
Thomas Heyward Jr
February 25th, 2013
2:17 pm
Brosephus™ – Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:09 pm
RON PAUL ***!!!!!
insert name for female canines @ ***
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Barry Obama++++++++++!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Insert Retarded Barney Fife here@###
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
2:20 pm
…if you are dependent on the government…
This phrase always strike me as being in that category of, “You’re talking but you’re not saying anything.”
F. Sinkwich
February 25th, 2013
2:21 pm
Spending cuts will not be traded for tax increases. Period.
O’bozo got his higher taxes with zero cuts. Now it’s cut time.
JamVet
February 25th, 2013
2:23 pm
“Oh, we used to dream of living in a corridor!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
February 25th, 2013
2:24 pm
O’bozo**
**Witchie-poo spam. All rights reserved.
bman.
February 25th, 2013
2:24 pm
“You’re likely in a financial situation where you can survive that with no problem. Others might not be so lucky. No two people live in the same exact conditions.”
I’m not a financial planner, but there is a way for people to manage the problem. There’s always a way…and in most cases, it doesn’t have to be so painful.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:25 pm
Would it not make more sense to RIF i out of every 5 people. Then they would be eligible for unemployment
Then, you would hear conservatives bitching about unemployment going up. No matter what happens, Obama’s going to be painted as the bad guy.
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Heyward
Awwwwww, did I touch a nerve there? Have you put down your deposit on Glenn Beck’s “Freedom Island” yet?
stands for decibels
February 25th, 2013
2:27 pm
I can watch 1 segment of Fat Maddow
I’ve heard Rachel called a lot of things (mostly inaccurate), but… fat?
RB from Gwinnett
February 25th, 2013
2:28 pm
We all took a 2% cut in pay when our tax burden returned to it’s level of 2 years ago back in January, just as the federal government is required to do under this plan. For most of us, our mortgage/rent is the largest budget item in our homes and is one we cannot touch. Equate that to social security and medicare in the federal example.
What’s left? Can’t short the power bill, gas bill, water bill, garbage service, cable bill, phone bill, internet service, so lump those items in with SS/Medicare.
With those items being probably 90+% of most people’s budget, that 2% reduction in pay has to come from that 10% left over, or a 20% cut in every American’s “discretionary” spending. Yet, how many of them do you see playing this silly BS game like Bookman and the loony left?
And all the while, everybody’s healthcare went up a few percentage points and gas us going through the roof. If every working American has been able to figure this out, so can the dam government. Quit whining and trying to scare people, man up, and do the dam job.
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 25th, 2013
2:28 pm
Despite the $85 billion in cuts that will take place this year, it is entirely possible that sequestration won’t actually lead to substantial shrinking of America’s deficit. There are a number of reasons for that, as Scott Lilly from the Center for American Progress explained in a column today. The primary reason, though, is that fiscal contraction caused by sequestration is likely to slow economic growth, reducing tax revenue and preventing meaningful deficit reduction, as CAP’s Adam Hersh notes
So basically if some economists are correct, sequestration is a failure all around…. but still the GOP blocks any actual agreement and only wants to lay blame.
missmiss
February 25th, 2013
2:31 pm
I wonder how the politicians would have felt if we didn’t vote becasuse we didn’t approve of the nominees?
Keep Up the Good Fight!
February 25th, 2013
2:32 pm
Poor RB, he cannot stand the fact that Obamacare may be working:
In what could be another example that health care reform is actually hitting the targets intended by the controversial Affordable Care Act, government research shows that in the 15 states that publically post their requests for premium rate increases, double digit rate increases have plummeted since passage of Obamacare.
Not going to be happy with his pizza discount.
Brosephus™ - Desktop but still Multitasking
February 25th, 2013
2:32 pm
I’m not a financial planner, but there is a way for people to manage the problem.
If all else fails, one can simply eat lead. Instant problem solver there. Unfortunately, life isn’t always neat and organized. Most people, government workers included, have very little savings to tide them over in cases such as this. They may very well be able to survive the pay cut, but all it takes is a car accident or some other financial issue, and then they’re f**ked with no recourse.
In a country as wealthy as ours, we should not even have these kinds of discussions. The problem arises because, as wealthy as the country is, more and more of it is being controlled by fewer and fewer. Someone making $50,000 in Cottonfield, Alabama could better survive such a cut as opposed to someone making $50,000 in New York City.
That’s why I understand and empathize with those who are worried about these cuts. Some of us, for ethical requirements, can’t simply go out and get a 2nd job to make ends meet. That adds another layer of problems to things. I’ve worked 2 full-time jobs before, putting in right at 80 hours a week, just to keep a roof over my family’s head. If I wasn’t ok, I’d be screwed as I’m restricted on the kind of outside employment that I can take on, plus I’d have to get approval for the job.