considering that nobody in Congress is losing pay or their job, it's a good precedent IMHO
moondog Send a noteboard - 03/04/2013 10:43:45 PM
this is the biggest joke of the sequester: everyone but Congress loses on the government budget cuts. as of now it's a largely symbolic gesture, and i'm sure very shortly we'll hear a republican rep or senator decry this as symbolism. but i highly doubt they will put their own money up even after they complain about the arbitrariness of the cuts on programs they like. it's much easier for them all to sit on the sidelines and cry than to prevent people losing their jobs.
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President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel take pay cuts to lessen impact of sequester
- 03/04/2013 09:47:45 PM
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Well, it's more of a CYA-against-bad-press symbolic gesture than an impressive one.
- 03/04/2013 10:15:40 PM
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considering that nobody in Congress is losing pay or their job, it's a good precedent IMHO
- 03/04/2013 10:43:45 PM
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I don't care about any quantities under a million
- 04/04/2013 03:40:25 AM
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the president can't pass a budget you know.... 
- 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM
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- 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM
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No, but he is required by law to submit one, and he has not.
- 05/04/2013 06:10:24 PM
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good job getting your analysis from right wing media and pushing the lies they tell you
- 05/04/2013 07:04:05 PM
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good job on displaying more of your ignorance or willful blindness
- 06/04/2013 03:34:27 PM
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They need to cut hundreds of billions, not millions; and not over a fake 10 year period either. *NM*
- 05/04/2013 06:13:37 PM
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yes, because everyone knows the way out of recession is to prevent job creation 
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- 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM
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- 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM
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Federal spending can not create real, sustainable, job growth. *NM*
- 06/04/2013 03:39:52 PM
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it doesn't have to, that's why they call it "stimulus" *NM*
- 06/04/2013 04:08:04 PM
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Yeah, and I can call your mama, your daddy, but it don't change who they are. *NM*
- 07/04/2013 01:15:05 AM
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Yes we need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars
- 06/04/2013 03:17:01 AM
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Not really
- 06/04/2013 03:54:56 PM
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as long as debt and/or deficit is less than GDP they are manageable
- 06/04/2013 04:30:42 PM
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You do know why we use 10 year time periods with cbo numbers right? *NM*
- 06/04/2013 03:17:41 AM
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Yeah, so they can claim a dime of imaginary savings is a dollar. *NM*
- 06/04/2013 03:37:39 PM
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No anything past 10 years in projections are a joke.
- 07/04/2013 03:02:32 AM
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Anything past 1 year is a joke/lie becuase the next Congrees will do what it wants regardless. *NM*
- 07/04/2013 03:08:39 PM
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Ya know, semi-tangent but I just had an amusing notion about elected official pay
- 10/04/2013 07:12:56 PM
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it would require a constitutional amendment, but i think we could get it to pass.... *NM*
- 10/04/2013 11:24:26 PM
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