Oh, that dreaded, awful sequester
With the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester set to kick in Friday (March 1) unless an alternative deal is reached, be ready to hear about all the terrible, horrible, unfathomable effects of cutting … less than 3 percent of all federal spending.
To put things in perspective, economist Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute (and a double Dawg) prepared this graph from Congressional Budget Office data:
Note that, even after the sequester, spending continues to rise every year — in large part because the sequester doesn’t touch entitlements, which are the fastest-growing part of the budget.
Will there be an effect on some people? Of course: The only way there wouldn’t be is if the feds were simply taking tens of billion dollars a year and lighting them on fire. But as far as a modest measures for beginning to curb runaway spending go — and not even this White House is denying any longer that this country has a spending problem — we will hardly see anything more modest than the sequester. Anyone who says we can’t live with the sequester would probably say the same thing about any spending cuts whatsoever.
– By Kyle Wingfield
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Politico
February 25th, 2013
9:17 pm
Lil Barry
Those Republican Governors crying to their states House member and Senators are “parasite progs”?
bwhahahahahahahahaha
Politico
February 25th, 2013
9:19 pm
Lil Barry
Preach from your step stool little fella, preach it.
Take care little tike. Get them libs, boy
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
9:20 pm
Probably because they know Obozo is going to make cuts that do maximum damage, rather than smart cuts that no one would notice.
Politico
February 25th, 2013
9:22 pm
You mean that “backdoor” Keynesian economics that fuels jobs via military contractors. Even those governors know that and don’t want to feel the pain.
Thought you said you were good with it, now it is about “smart cuts”
Bless your little heart, little guy
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 25th, 2013
9:24 pm
Do maximum damage to the government…….please!
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
9:26 pm
I’m ok with it, proggy, but someone asked a question and I was answering it. Please try to keep up with the adults.
Politico
February 25th, 2013
9:28 pm
And I’m sure you know that some of the very ones complaining are close to election time
Strange coincidence, huh?
bwhahahahahahahaha
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 25th, 2013
9:29 pm
Any other situation, military contractors would be HALIBURTON!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKING WAR PROFITS FROM THE SUFFERING OF INNOCENTS!!!!! but today they are Saints Essential To The Functioning Of Government. Can I get an amen for them? Our new found heroes?
Politico
February 25th, 2013
9:30 pm
But keep flailing and wailing. Just don’t fall of that step stool……. again
hahahahahahaha
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
9:30 pm
Since you Obozo receptacles make up 51% of the population, you can fix the sequester simply by adding 4% to your tax bill for 2012.
Didn’t think so.
Hypocrites.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
9:32 pm
Will the 2% cuts apply to the no-bid contracts Obozo gave to Halliburton?
Politico
February 25th, 2013
9:34 pm
And you don’t have one post stating I was against it………
Just your assertions and typical nothings……… keep flailing and wailing. I can see your little arms just moving around and your chest puffed out
bwhahahahahahahahah
toodles
Real Athens
February 25th, 2013
9:34 pm
“I’ve heard that Oriental women treat their men better than the hillbilly women treat their men.I don’t think the oriental can shoot as good.just saying.”
Genius, oriental is a rug. I’m pretty sure the preferred nomenclature (in the 21st Century) is Asian.
Cherokee
February 25th, 2013
9:41 pm
“make cuts that do maximum damage”
How many times has it been said around here that the cuts are required to be across the board – there is no discretion….
But then I guess Jamie Dupree must be one of those progs you keep talking about, huh….
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 25th, 2013
9:46 pm
How did we inherit jamie dupree?
td
February 25th, 2013
9:55 pm
Lil’ Barry Bailout – OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
9:10 pm
As a con, I’ll proudly take credit for the cuts. You loser parasite progs should be embarrassed for being so frightened, but that’s how your Idiot Messiah wants you, and you’re only too happy to comply.
Only problem is the progressives will layoff every Federal worker and cut defense to zero before they will touch one means tested program.
Splavistic
February 25th, 2013
10:10 pm
Sorry, Kyle, but it will be your gun-lovin’ medicare people and disability-havin’ lazy rednecks (who both vote for GOP) that will be the loudest whiners when the sequester hits. Watch what you wish for. You clownservatives are still in you echo-chamber when it comes to knowing what ‘reality’ really is.
Splavistic
February 25th, 2013
10:12 pm
BTW, you clownservatives STILL need to get a grip. W was the moron who started the ‘giving free phones to the poor’. Can’t blame Obama for that one. (though you will because it makes you feel better)
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 25th, 2013
10:12 pm
I’m actually quite proud that the sodomites disdain me.
Splavistic
February 25th, 2013
10:14 pm
And, PLEASE, stop saying, “Just sayin’”. It is so overdone. We know you are ‘just sayin’” because you JUST said it!
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
10:27 pm
Yeah, it’s kind of sad that the folks whose checks will get cut are the ones who do some nominal amount of work to get them.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
10:29 pm
Spazistic, they’re called “Obamaphones” because that’s what the Obamaphone lady called them.
Just Saying..
February 25th, 2013
10:48 pm
Lil Barry, here’s your very own obamaphone.
Call someone who….
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
10:56 pm
“Obamaphone” it is…
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
10:57 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAOwJvTOio
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:16 pm
Do you care about welfare for the banks ?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-20/why-should-taxpayers-give-big-banks-83-billion-a-year-.html
Socialism for record profits.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:18 pm
How about welfare for big oil and high gas prices.
I wonder what these record profit industies are still getting welfare in a time of cuts.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:20 pm
But you are worried over a phone program w started.
Pitiful and stupid.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
11:22 pm
How about welfare for big oil and high gas prices.
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How about Democrat control of the House, Senate, and White House 2009-2010
Cherokee
February 25th, 2013
11:26 pm
“How did we inherit Jamie dupree?”
Via that flaming bedwetting liberal Boortz. Thought everyone knew that….
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:38 pm
“How about Democrat control of the House, Senate, and White House 2009-2010″
The gop have the house and will block the senate.
If your party wants to cut, start with too big to fail bank and big oil welfare.
They are mooching.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
11:41 pm
My party does want to cut. And they don’t have to do anything to cut 2% at the end of this week.
Your party said they wanted to cut big oil welfare and bank welfare. They just didn’t do it.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:44 pm
The turtle will cave.
graham already did.
Jefferson
February 25th, 2013
11:45 pm
In the end the GOP loses this one again, they bend or break.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
11:47 pm
If the sequester goes through, Americans win.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:50 pm
Just surrender and get out of the way.
We are going to build infrastructure in our country for a change.
You know we need it.
getalife
February 25th, 2013
11:57 pm
“Americans win.”
Self defeatist comment but they lose jobs and services.
That is not winning.
Get a freaking grip on reality con.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 25th, 2013
11:59 pm
Get a freaking grip on reality con.
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Hilarious, coming from someone whose messiah thinks we don’t have a spending problem.
getalife
February 26th, 2013
12:01 am
We got one party fighting for jobs and one party trying to kill jobs.
Dysfunctional living in separate worlds.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 26th, 2013
12:04 am
Keep waiting for Obozo to fix your problems. Sounds like a winning plan.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 26th, 2013
12:07 am
Obozo got his tax increase. Where are the jobs.
Politico
February 26th, 2013
12:10 am
Getalife
At least little b isnt saying President Romney any longer
He left this very blog so fast on election night one would have thought he ran track
Bwhahahahaahah
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 26th, 2013
12:15 am
You must not have been paying attention, Politico. I was on the blog until the networks made their call.
President Romney would have done things to fix the economy, not wreck it on purpose like your Failed Messiah. Parasites decided to take the government check instead.
Politico
February 26th, 2013
12:26 am
If this, if that little b
Maybe in 2020
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 26th, 2013
7:03 am
“There is a responsible way to cut less than 3 percent of the federal budget. It’s time for the president to show leadership,” Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told reporters after a meeting between the president and governors. “The president needs to stop campaigning, stop trying to scare the American people.”
“We heard the president say last week that he was going to be forced because of the sequestration to let criminals loose on the street if he didn’t get another tax hike,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters Monday.
We haven’t had a president for so long that I’ve forgotten what he’s supposed to do.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 26th, 2013
7:12 am
That is not to say the millions of people in government offices do not work hard; all you have to do is to walk into one of their on-site gyms to see them sweating and breathing heavily. Nor should we disparage their work product. My personal favorite is the Manure Management Planner (MMP) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). This is part of the Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plan (CNMP) which is required of farmers with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs.)
In the immortal words of the USDA guidelines:
CNMP planners are strongly encouraged to use Manure Management Planner (MMP) because it was designed to simplify and hasten the CNMP development process. MMP was developed on a state-by-state basis to include each state’s unique data and circumstances…
Jefferson
February 26th, 2013
7:19 am
The GOP continues to suffer from lack of credibility, after years of gut busting spending and running up a huge deficit, now they have changed. You folks got whooped by 2 times and still don’t get the fact more American know you wrecked the country. Revenue increases are on the way, these unfounded cuts you can bet will cost you the house, you already are bleeding seats. GA better wise up or the will continue to lose federal dollars while taxes are sure to rise.
Aesop's Fables and other Lib Economic Theories
February 26th, 2013
7:31 am
Notice how pimp daddy obozo hasn’t threatened to shut down the white house office yet?
TiredOfIt
February 26th, 2013
7:32 am
Ted Cruz for president. He has been invited to CPAC to speak, unlike Christie. Ted Cruz, the new face of the republican party.
Lil' Barry Bailout - OBAMAPHONE!!!
February 26th, 2013
7:37 am
The GOP continues to suffer from lack of credibility, after years of gut busting spending and running up a huge deficit
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And yet they never spent as much as Obozo or ran deficits as unpatriotic as Obozo’s.
Obozo: Inferior to his predecessors.