Wake up in your Right Mind
USDOJ: National Drug Intelligence Center closed for lack of intelligence.
But the real lack of intelligence is displayed by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, which announced in September of 2012 that the National Drug Intelligence Center would suffer budgetary cuts from Sequestration. DUH! Is the government still funding an agency in 2013 which CLOSED in June of 2012???
Obama and cronies invented this sequester, and he threatened to veto any bill which interrupted the automatic reductions in planned spending.
PRESIDENT OBAMA: “Already, some in Congress are trying to undo these automatic spending cuts. My message to them is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one. We need to keep the pressure up to compromise – not turn off the pressure”
Obama signed the Sequester bill on August 2, 2011, and this LAW started cutting in 2012. It scheduled additional reductions (totalling 1.2 trillion) yearly over 10 years, with $85 billion in reduction planned for 2013. The president has a great deal of discretion in determining where the cuts will be.
Now Obama has turned against this plan that he originated way back in 2011, and is blaming it on the Republicans.
Sequestration amounts to about $85 billion reduction in the spending increase slated for this year. One half of that is for the defense dept. It means that spending for the affected areas will only go up about 6-8 percent instead of going up 8-10 percent as baseline budgeting dictates.
To put this 85 billion sequestration for 2013 in perspective:
The government spends $3.5 trillion per year.
The government spent $50 billion on Tropical Storm Sandy relief.
The government spent $30 billion on extension of unemployment.
There is an estimated 44 billion in improper medicare payments yearly.
The federal reserve prints $85 billion per MONTH and props up Wall Street with it.
Bob Woodward, leftie journalist of the Washington Post, in a “random act of Journalism”, has revealed the detailsabout the origin of the ‘sequester‘, which Obama is currently blaming on the Republicans.
Jack Lew and Obama cooked up the ‘sequester‘. It’s automatically triggered reduction in projected spending, which was to prevent Obama from having to negotiate the issue during the campaign.
Do click on the paragraph above. You will find out that Bob Woodward is still a good leftie reporter, working for the Washington Post. Hecouldn’t dance to the media tune, because Obama’s lie contradicted what he had already written in his own book.
Woodward still thinks that Obama is right to insist on more taxes and, most particularly taxing the rich, but he’s not going along with the lie that the Republicans invented the ‘sequester’.
By the way, the sequester is puny, not enough reduction in spending, and will not cause the projected disasters because very little money is involved, as a percentage of total spending. Since the sequester is Obama’s idea, it does contain disproportionate reductions in projected military expenditures, when compared to government dependency programs.
Pelosi opposes the Congressional pay cut which would accompany the relatively minor spending reductions of the ‘sequester’.
“I don’t think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do,” Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. “I think it’s necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded.”
via Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job – The Hill.