{"id":34467,"date":"2013-03-08T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34467"},"modified":"2013-03-08T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:02:35","slug":"sequestration-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34467","title":{"rendered":"Sequestration News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a brief look at how sequestration is being implemented:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sequestration cuts to Executive Office of the President Budget:\u00a0 $24,000,000 ($24 million)<\/li>\n<li>Number of civilian employees:\u00a0 approx 2,000<\/li>\n<li>Average cut per employee:\u00a0 $12,000<\/li>\n<li>Announced impact so far:\u00a0 cancellation of White House tours (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-03-08\/obama-s-tour-shutdown-lone-example-of-cuts-in-white-house-budget.html\">will save approx $2,000,000 in overtime<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/noel-sheppard\/2013\/03\/07\/krauthammer-obamas-golf-tiger-travel-expenses-would-pay-year-white-ho#ixzz2Mxb2k17o\">this article<\/a>, the estimated travel cost for the recent POTUS trip to play golf with Tiger Woods would have covered the costs of White House tours for the rest of the year.\u00a0 \u00a0But that\u2019s OK &#8211; playing golf with a famous celebrity like Woods is <i>obviously<\/i> more important than letting the public see the taxpayer-owned White House where the POTUS lives rent-free.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sequestration cuts to Department of Defense Budget:\u00a0 $46,000,000,000 ($46 billion)<\/li>\n<li>Number of civilian employees:\u00a0 approx 800,000<\/li>\n<li>Average cut per employee:\u00a0 $57,500\u00a0 (Military personnel were exempted from sequestration pay cuts by the POTUS.)<\/li>\n<li>Announced impact:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/federal-eye\/wp\/2013\/02\/20\/prepare-to-be-furloughed-panetta-tells-dod-workers\/\">up to 22 unpaid workdays off<\/a> between now and 30 Sep for most DoD civilian employees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, that seems fair.\u00a0 \u00a0It certainly looks like everyone\u2019s doing their part, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s take a brief look at how sequestration is being implemented: Sequestration cuts to Executive Office &hellip; <a title=\"Sequestration News\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34467\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sequestration News<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}