{"id":34237,"date":"2013-02-20T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T13:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34237"},"modified":"2013-02-20T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T13:02:22","slug":"sequester-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34237","title":{"rendered":"Sequester lies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, the president surrounded himself with first responders while he lectured the American people on the impending spending cuts in the government known as “sequester”. from the Washington Examine<\/a>r;<\/p>\n

“Emergency responders like the ones who are here today — their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded,” he said. “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 child care for their kids. Hundreds of thousands of Americans will lose access to primary care and preventive care like flu vaccinations and cancer screenings.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since when are teachers, child care providers, doctors and nurses, police and fire fighters federal employees? Those services are paid for with local taxes, not federal funds. Of course, that’s the kind of scare tactics to which we’ve become accustomed over the last few decades. I noticed that the President didn’t bother to mention that the whole sequester thing was one of those bright ideas which came out of his White House, yet somehow it’s Congress’ fault.<\/p>\n

The Defense Department is staring down the barrel of 700,000 job losses 495,000 of those jobs are in the DC area, which might be uncomfortable for the White House. The Washington Post<\/a> says that the sequester might result in a quarter-point jump in the unemployment rate. <\/p>\n

Of course, it’s all because the Administration is holding out for higher taxes instead of meaningful spending cuts. And, oh, yeah, they think that they can depend on savings from withdrawal from Afghanistan for spending reductions. You know like that savings we were supposed to have from the withdrawal from Iraq – no one is talking about that magical surplus which never materialized.<\/p>\n

Congress isn’t ready to raise taxes again, so Obama is stuck playing the blame game. From the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

GOP House Speaker John A. Boehner said Tuesday the House has twice passed a plan to replace the so-called sequester with \u201ccommon sense cuts,\u201d but Mr. Obama has so far been unwilling to find enough savings from overhauling Medicare and Social Security. The president, he said, is relying too heavily on plans to increase taxes again.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust last month, the president got his higher taxes on the wealthy, and he\u2019s already back for more,\u201d Ohio\u2019s Mr. Boehner said in a statement. The Democrats\u2019 \u201cnew-found concern about the president\u2019s sequester is appreciated, but words alone won\u2019t avert it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also from the Times<\/a>, sequester is forcing defense contractor to send jobs overseas;<\/p>\n

First Line Technologies of Chantilly, Va., makes cooling vests for troops to wear underneath their body armor and employs about a dozen people. Having experienced rapid growth last year, it was readying to hire about a dozen more workers before the uncertainty over sequestration developed, company President Amit Kapoor said.<\/p>\n

Now, First Line Technologies is looking to market its products overseas and will hire employees abroad. Its strategy is to move quickly into overseas markets to avoid layoffs or having to close.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We still have 47 months of this shit ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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