Sequester Cuts
No word if crime will be part of the massive sequestration cuts coming out of Washington DC. You can't even look sideways at a television lately without the giant panic about $85 billion in cuts being the downfall of America. And even though it's an Obama proposal, passed by the dems in the House when they controlled it a few years ago, somehow, it's all the republican's fault if it all goes through tomorrow.
Here's some visual representations though:
Here's some visual representations though:
Doesn't seem that disastrous, does it?
But now you've got Rahm claiming O'Hare airport and food safety will be compromised if the sequestration goes into effect:
But now you've got Rahm claiming O'Hare airport and food safety will be compromised if the sequestration goes into effect:
- The mayor said security screeners will be cut back at O’Hare and other transportation would be effected. People going shopping will feel the effects.
“What is reliability when a mother or a father or somebody else shows up at a grocery store? We all assume food safety. Well, there is an inspector ensuring that food safety. So from O’Hare to our manufacturing in our food area, you are going to find out how important the security and safety comes from the federal government,” said Emanuel.
ICE is releasing hundreds, if not thousands, of illegals aliens detained for crimes:
- The federal government released groups of illegal immigrants from custody across the country Monday at the same time the White House was making its case that impending budget cuts would harm efforts to protect the border and enforce federal immigration laws.
Advocates reported “waves” of illegal immigrants being released from at least three detention centers in Texas, Florida and Louisiana.
These are people being detained for crimes, suddenly being released back into the general population. You think crime isn't going to spike a bit? The White House denies any hand in the decision and blames Homeland Security.
Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and no friend of the republicans, is saying weird stuff:
Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and no friend of the republicans, is saying weird stuff:
- The Washington Post's Bob Woodward ripped into President Barack Obama on "Morning Joe" today, saying he's exhibiting a "kind of madness I haven't seen in a long time" for a decision not to deploy an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf because of budget concerns.
"Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying, 'Oh, by the way, I can't do this because of some budget document?'" Woodward said.
- Woodward's harsh criticism came after he stirred controversy last weekend by calling out Obama for what he said was "moving the goal posts" on the sequester by requesting that revenue be part of a deal to avert it.
If you aren't wondering about all this nonsense coming to a head at the same time, you're aren't paying attention.
Labels: national politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
73 Comments:
They are going to slow up airports, throw a food safety scare, cut back on "McKinney" funds for the homeless and really hurt some of them, let a bunch of illegals loose...but as you can see it's all a gigantic sick joke. "Fiscal Cliff" to "sequestration," can't even call it the same thing twice.
Oh nooooes.
I hope this doesn't effect that $55 million dollar maggie daley park!
We'll still be buying speed trap camera too won't we?
Meanwhile the mighty Groupon corporation. The corporate roll model that was chosen to produce Chicago's "Idea Week" so that university grads should aspire to be like...yeah that Groupon stock crashed today losing over 25% of it's value. Standby for the layoffs with the layoff-ees being told that they have the wrong skill sets.
it's almost as if ex-mayor mumbles is the obamanation's guru.
Not to worry, murders will continue. Chalkie must be funded by some TIF account somewhere.
"Bob Woodward: 'Very Senior' White House Official Told Me I'd 'Regret' Sequester Comments"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/27/bob-woodward-white-house-threatened-sequester_n_2777681.html
Hey SCC,
You forgot to mention the part where a senior official in the White House administration "threatened" Woodward for talking about the sequestration! I wonder how long until he gets executed, just like the gay dude obama had killed...! Down low, down low♫♫♫
What if the sequester happened and nobody noticed ?
Most bull shit requires a certain amount of audience participation.
"But now you've got Rahm claiming O'Hare airport and food safety will be compromised if the sequestration goes into effect"
Better not eat there, then. Wouldn't want to add any tax money to the city's coffers!
Buy weapons if you can still get them, and the same with ammunition. A fight is coming, and it's coming soon. What side will you be on? You might not know what your own family will do, let alone your partner.
Just hope that he or she is an Oath Keeper and not a Rahmulan gun grabbing socialist tool.
I'm pretty sure that Obama wanted another Civil War so that China could invade and take over to put in the communist regime he always wanted.
It may be time for Patriots to band together and uphold the Constitution that gave the world the only free country. These socialist tyrants need to go.
Not news: White House threatens journalist
Two things for you to know: I have been regularly threatened by the White House. That's one. Two: I am not Bob Woodward.
Woodward says that a senior administration official e-mailed me to say he'd "regret" propagating the story that the sequester was President Obama's idea and that more revenues were not part of the original plan. Woodward's contention that Obama "moved the goalposts" has suddenly catalyzed Republicans to try and blame the President for this contraption.
But both Woodward and the White House are correct. The sequester idea came from the White House
http://theweek.com/article/index/240717/not-news-white-house-threatens-journalist
Bringing Down America One Brick at a Time
If U Like this.... Wait till QUINN and IL State go Bankrupt
Let it happen. Fuck obummer. We are spending $1 trillion more than we are taking in, and he wants to raise taxes (again) and not cut spending. Typical democrat.
Gee. Now that it looks like it will happen during his administration, it's not all that bad...
Obama Backs Off Warnings About Sequester
After weeks of outlining the dire consequences of the looming across-the-board spending cuts, President Obama tonight softened his warnings, saying the sequester is "not a cliff, but it is a tumble downward."
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-backs-off-warnings-sequester-031606410--abc-news-politics.html
Too bad his AG doesn't agree...he tacitly calls Obama a liar...
The looming budget sequestration will make Americans less safe, Eric Holder says—and anyone who says otherwise isn't telling the truth.
"This is something that is going to have an impact on the safety of this country," the U.S. attorney general told ABC's Pierre Thomas on Wednesday in a wide-ranging, exclusive interview.
"And anybody that says otherwise is either lying or saying something that runs contrary to the facts," Holder said.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/eric-holder-sounds-sequester-alarm/story?id=18610419
rb
If Rahm really believes food safety exists, then he is really is high and nuts.
We are cutting back on defense, border patrol, food inspections and releasing criminals because of sequestration. We, however, have not heard a worrd about cutting food stamps, unemployment, Obama phones or any other public aid.
Why are we not lining up with the tar and feathers? How is the approval rating for this Administration not in the toilet?
Hollywood and the Media hold this much sway in America? This is trouble. Keep up the cutting!
Sequester hasn't happened yet but illegals are set free from prisons. Of course due to budget cuts. I thought only a judge could do that. The WH claims to not know anything about this.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/27/what-will-the-cost-be-from-the-dhss-decision-to-release-illegal-immigrants-prior-to-sequester/
"If you aren't wondering about all this nonsense coming to a head at the same time, you're aren't paying attention"
I stopped paying attention when the good people of the US elected this Marxist for another four years. We're done for.
I know this is an old video but it does give a reference to some of the cuts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE
Releasing thousands of people being detained for crimes? Big fucking deal. That's been going on here for a long time. Something else we are #1 in.
As long as BayRock can get his golf weekend in with Tiger all is good.
Its just MORE campaigning from the alleged POTUS...
Usual overblown scare tactics from the Left (and the Right).
It's something like 1-1/2 cents cut from each dollar.
And that's from a budget that's been wildly increased since 2009.
Smoke and mirrors again.
Progressives are truly the scum of the earth. I apologize to any scum that may be offended.
I remember back in the ninties when the government was going to "shut down" because Clinton wanted more spending and the Republicans wanted to know where the money for it was coming from. The news showed idiots passing out "welfare applications" to the government workers as they left work. Clinton was so concerned about it that he was having his penis blown by an intern the whole time.
I do not believe the sceaming mimis who are the administration anymore.
The Obama administration is going to send $60 million to Syria in foreign aid. They're talking cuts for us while giving our money away to foreigners.
The degree to which Obama and the Democrats are squealing like stuck pigs over what is a modest decrease in the increase in federal spending and the fact that the Senate has not produced a budget in over four years shows, they are not at all serious about addressing the serious issues that face the USA.
9/11 the whole air network was shut down for what, a week? The world did not come to an end. With a quick search on the net, it appears that cost the airline industry a billion dollars with -- every -- flight grounded. And the Democrats & Obama are crying it's travel armaggedon if major airports cut back on a few flights a week???
To give people like this real power to solve real problems is just insane.
When you have Obama not letting this latest manufactured crisis go to waste by the governments releasing illegal immigrants who were in the pipeline for deportation it is another example of the party in power intentionally laying the seeds for havoc down the road.
When are people going to get fed-up with this obviously very dangerous president???
A poster on a current events web site sums up very well what Woodward is reporting:
"It is not "madness." Obama's actions do not comport with Woodward's assumptions about what Obama and his crew are up to. That does not mean Obama is mad; it means Woodward's assumptions are wrong. Remember, when the facts no longer fit the theroy, change the theroy.
Obama is in effect saying, "Unless you give me the matches I need to burn down your house, I will poision your dog." He is waving your dead cat in front of your face to drive home his point.
And it is going to get worse."
Obama, brought to America by the Illinois Combine, is clearly becomming a Blagoveich on a national level.
G-d help us.
-not a cop
All the armageddon talk is squarely aimed at those that aren't paying attention, which has got to be around 50-60% of the general public. The goal is to scare people into thinking that the smallest cut will mean the end of the world.
Want to save money? Start with laying off 50% of the federal workforce. Those overpaid whiny bitches can all go f themselves.
Illustrating Chicagoland Idiocy, Mayhem and Stupidity at heyjackass.com
Anonymous said...
We are cutting back on defense, border patrol, food inspections and releasing criminals because of sequestration. We, however, have not heard a worrd about cutting food stamps, unemployment, Obama phones or any other public aid.
Why are we not lining up with the tar and feathers? How is the approval rating for this Administration not in the toilet?
Hollywood and the Media hold this much sway in America? This is trouble. Keep up the cutting!
2/28/2013 05:26:00 AM
Communist subversion by the likes of Bill Ayers and the whole ObaMAO crew have crept in while most Americans were asleep. Rahm and his Hollywood brother are just two of the agents of darkness in play here.
Are you not worried that they want thousands of drones flying over the US? That Homeland Security is purchasing millions of rounds of ammunition, assault rifles and armored personnel carriers? You should be. Your liberty is at stake.
Maybe the gun grabbers from VRI can put the boot to Woodward for their socialist masters. They don't mind violating the rights of Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights, so it won't bother them to violate the First Amendment rights either.
And they'll get a few extra bucks in OT, because that's all that matters. That and that sweet pinch to boost your numbers for your masters.
Choose your side, for the fight is coming.
Anonymous said...
Buy weapons if you can still get them, and the same with ammunition. A fight is coming, and it's coming soon. What side will you be on? You might not know what your own family will do, let alone your partner.
Just hope that he or she is an Oath Keeper and not a Rahmulan gun grabbing socialist tool.
2/28/2013 01:16:00 AM
What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
The cuts amount to approximately 5% of a 3.5 TRILLION " budget ".
My question is, if the world ends because of 18 billion dollars, what the f**k are they doing with that 95% ?
But no cuts in White House Airlines. These bozo's bouncing around with their entourage town to town to promote pixie dust programs to the electorate. mmm-mmm-mmm.
Bob Woodward breaking bad on Obama? Robert Redford would refuse to play him now.
The good old United States is facing bankruptcy and the taxpayers gotta suffer but I'd be willing to bet the enemies of the U.S. overseas that Obama supports got their money off the top already. Just askin, who the f*ck side is he on ? Maybe our good friends in China and Saudi Arabia can float us another low interest loan since they are making sinful amounts of money off us.
Obama don't care. He and his family isn't going to
suffer from want. He's got the house, the cars, the aircraft, and protection
paid for at public expense.
Why should he care. And when
his term ends he gets a nice fat pension for the rest of his life. And none dare call it treason. The rest of you, enjoy your pork and beans and weenies, and that little cubbyhole on Clark Street, if you can still afford them.
It's worth noting that the federal judiciary is not excepted from the sequester. This translates into the Northern District of Illinois closing its doors one day a week. This in turn creates havoc with respect to court dockets. Criminal cases and trials will take priority over civil (think "right to an attorney," "right to a speedy trial"). This means that all of the Section 1983 cases against POs slated for trial, or getting close to being ready for trial, will be put on the backburner until they can squeeze it in between criminal trials, if at all. Also, they wont have enough money in the budget to pay for the number of jurors usually slated for duty. So, if there is any money/jurors, it/they will go to criminal juries, not civil. Because the 1983 cases set for trial will essentially hang in limbo, the judges will almost certainly get heat from on high about clearing their dockets, which in turn means the City will be pressured by the judges to settle those cases instead of forcing them to trial, in turn costing the City untold dollars.
Already an unpleasant experience, these lawsuits will become even more daunting for POs and their families as a direct result of the sequester, as these cases (and the punitive damages that come with them) will now hang over their heads indefinitely. To say that there wont be a direct impact felt, or that the effects of the sequester are being blown out of proportion, is a foolhardy and unwise statement.
Article about Chief Judge Holderman's (NDIL) take on the impact of the sequester:
http://public.cq.com/docs/weeklyreport/weeklyreport-000004157322.html
Related articles:
http://www.fedbar.org/Advocacy/Washington-Watch/WW-Archives/2012/March-2012-Automatic-Cuts-Would-Cripple-the-Courts.aspx
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2013/02/27/54926/sequestration-and-the-federal-judiciary/
As all empires do-- debasement of currency, excessive debt and military adventurism will curtail our advancement. The only question is whether the USA has a soft landing like Great Britain or a hard landing like Rome or Greece. Please no comments about USA not being an empire-- troops in over 100 countries, over 30,000 troops in Germany and who knows how many in Africa, etc.
It is just human nature.
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Heaven help this country if we faced a real crisis with our leadership.
Political Theater...
*Curtains roll back to reveal a real Forest Preserve shit-shack on stage*
Plenty of ass-blast, plenty of netherworldly stink, very little substance hitting the bottom.
*Curtains Close... Thunderous Applause*
$85 Billion in the face of nearly $4 Trillion in federal spending?
DAMN!
That's the SAME Axelrodian arithmetic we're seeing here in Chicago!
Cutting the throats of first responders for pennies on the dollar of ACTUAL MONEY flowing through this abjectly corrupt, rotting alive shit-hole of a city!
Sparkle-Farts and the l'il North Shore Shit-Ass are no doubt thankful for the low information, can't count above ten without taking their shoes off electorate.
Sequester is a scare tactic aimed at pushing an agenda...
Let it hap'n cap'n...
Wake us when they decide to stem the flow of "other people's money" to the SSI "crazy-check," bullshit Section-8 and LINK grifters...
Sequester THAT shit...
Hire the released illegals as screeners at the airport.
Problem solved......
well for some reason O-Zero decides to release detainees because of "budgetary concerns" a least a 4 days before the cuts take place.
this was done obviously to "dramatize" the cuts. are we to believe that places like statesville
will be next?
BTW? where do the detainees go? back to what they were doing before their arrest? i wonder how many felons that would be running around?
2/28/2013 01:27:00 AM:
Anonymous said...
If U Like this.... Wait till QUINN and IL State go Bankrupt
i thought we already were?like a panhandler living off the good graces of passerby's
reciting the famous "I Owe Ya"!
as they tax and take.
now wonder we are the worse credit rating in the country
i have asked them why are we known as the "DeathSpiralState? but get no reply
Does anybody believe this Hyde Park gang of Communists that are ruining America. Only in the blue states like Illinois which are sinking the fastest.
Around the dial --
* Mrs. Sparklefarts all of s sudden is everywhre you look -- showing off her hair at the Oscars, and now running around doing "high-energy aerobics" for the cameras...
* Toni Preckwinkle insanely repeating that there are "too many minority inmates" locked up, and that this is because of "overly aggressive police tactics." How's her son doing -- the one arrested and charged for beating someone on the street?
How pathetic and so very irresponsible to let illegals out of jail to the general American population. They could have been easi.ly transported by bus across the border where they belong. They will only continue their life of crime here in America . Irresponsible and no concern for the safety of American citizens. This regime in DC is criminal.
The sky-is-falling predictions of what will happen when the sequester kicks in a vastly overblown.
To put it in perspective the $85 billion in cuts is SMALLER than the unfounded liabilities of the State Of Madigsnistan ... Errr .... I mean Illinois.
And anybody that says otherwise is either lying or saying something that runs contrary to the facts," Holder said.
Wow Holder calling someone a liar, That just too damn funny.
The amount of the sequester is like not buying an air freshener for the new Escalade that you MIGHT buy next year!
Sequester cuts will see Illinois lose 146 teaching positions. Less than 2per county. Big Deal!
As all empires do-- debasement of currency, excessive debt and military adventurism will curtail our advancement. The only question is whether the USA has a soft landing like Great Britain or a hard landing like Rome or Greece. Please no comments about USA not being an empire-- troops in over 100 countries, over 30,000 troops in Germany and who knows how many in Africa, etc.
It is just human nature.
2/28/2013 10:56:00 AM
you are truly one dumb assed mofo.
if only we'd actually acted like the 'empires' you gave as examples, conquering and enslaving those we'd 'conquered', there'd have been no need for taxes of any kind, as our plunder would have provided all the income we'd have needed.
but noooooooooo, we were not the conquering empire of anyone.
your asinine comparisons are plain fucking retarded.
now go ahead, and blame your retardation on 'human nature'.
What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
2/28/2013 09:14:00 AM
no beans for you.
What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
2/28/2013 09:14:00 AM
You ask, "What have you been smoking" and you suggest having dehydrated water? You are an idiot of the highest order. You keep your beans and "dehydrated water" and the rest of us will keep weapons around to defend ourselves from the likes of you. Now go report to your socialist masters and get another day of VRI you moron.
Oh, and before I forget. Go and fetch your shine box you democratic voting fool. You are as dumb as they come, Sparky, but I'll bet you can give a hell of a shine. You look like you built up a sweat on that boot. Have a cup of dehydrated water.
What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
2/28/2013 09:14:00 AM
This just has to be a boss. Or somebody that wants to be.
Hey, boss. How about a nice refreshing drink of dehydrated water. You just add water and it's water. I got it real cheap and can pass on the savings to you if you buy it by the case, plus the 10 cent tax for bottled dehydrated fluids.
What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
2/28/2013 09:14:00 AM
How do you dehydrate water? Just let it sit out?
More importantly, how do re-hydrate your dehydrated water? I gots to know, brutha!
What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
2/28/2013 09:14:00 AM
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt. Or in this case, to type.
To everyone who jumped on the "dehydrated water" comment...thank you. I was going to copy and paste and then post a response, but you guys covered it.
Can I bring some dehydrated water to the beach where it gets too hot near the cool water?
Do you write for the Chicago Socialist Propaganda Ministry?
Meanwhile the mighty Groupon corporation. The corporate roll model that was chosen to produce Chicago's "Idea Week" so that university grads should aspire to be like...yeah that Groupon stock crashed today losing over 25% of it's value.
And Groupon fired the founder today!
Bye bye, Rahm? If only...
"Wow Holder calling someone a liar, That just too damn funny."
It is kind of ironic, isn't it?
Mr. Fast n' Furious himself.
rb
Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready.
I think this poster was joking.
Everybody knows he meant POWDERED WATER.
Hey 2/28 at 9:14am..
Where in the hell have you been? Obviously, you read the socialist oboma-owned newspapers, listen to the oboma-owned TV and radio networks for your daily fill of lies in the disguise of news (socialists lie, just ask Saul Alinsky, and read his book, Rules for Radicals and find out how socialists/communists operate.) Educate yourself by reading the following, and you'll have the answer to you own question:
www.theblaze.com
www.breitbart.com
www.freerepublic.com
www.drudgereport.com
www.oathkeepers.org
In these times, we must always be prepared. Knock off the sarcasm and educate yourself as to all the reasons w-h-y.
You Sir, are the ignorant one. He was not comparing the United States to Ancient Rome or Great Britain in the context of "Conquering"- he was comparing us to Ancient Rome as once great nations that just did not matter anymore. Rome did not fall over night...it just did not happen to be a great power anymore and was eventually sacked. Many of the contributing factors that led to this, i.e. a diminishing middle class, an influx of cheap labor and higher taxes(and other things) led to Romes's downfall. The gist of it is that Rome just ceased to be important anymore. I think in the future that can be the United States.
Definition of hegemonic empire.
"What have you been smoking? You sound like an Idaho survivalist. Have plenty of canned beans and dehydrated water stored up and ready."
2/28/2013 09:14:00 AM
Right. Anyone who is prepared for emergencies is an idiot.
Old, old, but never changes. This slur goes back decades.
I know it may be difficult to understand the concept of an empire but try. I would suggest something completely different: go to the library, obtain a library card. Then ask for help in retrieving a book. The book I would suggest is " Empire of Debt", one of the authors is a man named Bonner.
As for me being a survivalist , no. I retired from the job a while ago. Have served in the military before most of you were born. I consider myself a " true" conservative -- more of the Ron Paul type of conservative.
let them cut defense, free housing free food and free health care. they all wanted president sparkleass and his crew of misfits so let them all starve, these shitheads do not deserve anything let alone police protection
The gist of it is that Rome just ceased to be important anymore. I think in the future that can be the United States.
3/01/2013 08:58:00 AM
Book worm. Wake up. You're arguing about bullshit while the country crumbles around you.
I just peeked out from under my bed. I'm still waiting for the sky to fall.
Gasp! That 1-1/2-2 percent budget will be devastating.
We can only hope for another one next year. Start with the legislators and their offices.
Is the Commie-In-Charge taking a pay cut? Of course not. That's for the peasants.
a made-up word to scare the masses.
Bookworm? What a great comeback.
Perhaps, "most" Americans will wake up now!
Post a Comment
<< Home