Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Email tells feds to make sequester as painful as promised

There is no sense of honor nor conscience in this Obama-led administration, and- as with Bill Clinton- no capacity to feel shame. Moreover those of us who see Obama for what he is and say so are called racists. Shame on those voters who brag about Obama's election victory as if it was of no more consequence than a ball game.

This is how much the Obama Administration gave to Egypt just 48 hours after sequester began:
Washington Times  "“This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain,” said Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas Republican."....
"Ms. Noem told Mr. Vilsack the email made it sound like the administration was sacrificing flexibility in order to justify dire predictions.
“I’m hopeful that isn’t an agenda that’s been put forward,” the South Dakota Republican congresswoman told Mr. Vilsack." Obama's media will help:
 Obama opting to cut where it hurts most   "A 2011 GAO report gave a sampling of the vastness of what could be cut, consolidated and rationalized in Washington: 44 overlapping job training programs, 18 for nutrition assistance, 82 (!) on teacher quality, 56 dealing with financial literacy, more than 20 for homelessness, etc. Total annual cost: $100 billion-$200 billion, about two to five times the entire domestic sequester.
"Are these on the chopping block? No sir. It's firemen first."
....
"But he cannot win if “nothing bad really happens.” Indeed, he'd look both foolish and cynical for having cried wolf. His incentive to deliberately make the most painful and socially disruptive cuts possible (say, oh, releasing imprisoned illegal immigrants from detention) is enormous. And alarming."
(Emphasis mine, just to make sure you all saw it. TD)

The Obama administration wants the sequester to hurt immediately so the public will clamor for its reversal. But will this gambit work? Probably not. "So we have a cock-eyed scenario where the White House may well want to ramp up economy-strangling cuts quickly, in an inversion of the normal order. Unlike the Hippocratic oath, the watchword here is “first, do some harm.”"
 
Memo Proves that Obama Admin Wants to Make the Sequester Cuts Hurt So Bad   "Two of Obama’s major initiatives, his health care law and his EPA regulatory state, were predicted to be job killers. They have proven to be job killers. But Obama is now hoping to use the cover of sequestration to blame his dismal economic record on Republicans. Whatever lie gets him through the day."

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