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The US economony only lost 3.1 percent between 2008 to 2009 Roland00 Send a noteboard - 04/04/2013 03:55:05 AM

I mean that is such a small cut in terms of percent, I wonder why everyone's hair is on fire with such a small recession

Some programs need to get cut, some programs do not. The problem with the sequester was that it purposefully cut a straight cut across the board and didn't give any departments flexibility on purpose for the idea of dumb cuts was supposed to spur congress into action in fixing the sequester in the 2 years between 2011 and 2013. Congress failed.

The sequester is currently less bad then it could be for in the last couple of weeks congress realized it has failed in stopping the sequester so it has given the departments legal authority to determine how the cuts are implemented so they are less dumb and more targeted. Thus you can make the cuts less painful.

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Now the congress is continuing to fail for by not passing a budget you can't make the programs that need to grow...grow and the programs that need to be scaled back or eliminated be cut. Instead it is continuing resolutions and continuing resolutions where each bureaucracy gets the same amount of money as the year before with little changes. The bureaucracy is not adapting for congress will not adapt, for by not passing a budget congress is not governing it is mere inertia and the status quo of Washington stays in effect even though the rest of the world is changing.

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President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel take pay cuts to lessen impact of sequester moondog - 03/04/2013 09:47:45 PM 688 Views
Well, it's more of a CYA-against-bad-press symbolic gesture than an impressive one. Burr - 03/04/2013 10:15:40 PM 573 Views
considering that nobody in Congress is losing pay or their job, it's a good precedent IMHO moondog - 03/04/2013 10:43:45 PM 430 Views
The sequester was Obama's idea, so he should CYA. Anonymous2000 - 04/04/2013 12:16:59 AM 496 Views
The US economony only lost 3.1 percent between 2008 to 2009 Roland00 - 04/04/2013 03:55:05 AM 524 Views
We do need to cut, cut, cut... callandor1000 - 10/04/2013 03:38:45 PM 605 Views
I don't care about any quantities under a million Roland00 - 04/04/2013 03:40:25 AM 447 Views
the president can't pass a budget you know.... moondog - 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM 465 Views
No, but he is required by law to submit one, and he has not. HyogaRott - 05/04/2013 06:10:24 PM 488 Views
good job getting your analysis from right wing media and pushing the lies they tell you moondog - 05/04/2013 07:04:05 PM 600 Views
good job on displaying more of your ignorance or willful blindness HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:34:27 PM 474 Views
quoting from the second article you linked..... moondog - 06/04/2013 04:23:48 PM 443 Views
*SIGH* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 12:58:12 AM 524 Views
They need to cut hundreds of billions, not millions; and not over a fake 10 year period either. *NM* HyogaRott - 05/04/2013 06:13:37 PM 233 Views
yes, because everyone knows the way out of recession is to prevent job creation *NM* moondog - 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM 242 Views
Federal spending can not create real, sustainable, job growth. *NM* HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:39:52 PM 271 Views
it doesn't have to, that's why they call it "stimulus" *NM* moondog - 06/04/2013 04:08:04 PM 259 Views
Yeah, and I can call your mama, your daddy, but it don't change who they are. *NM* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 01:15:05 AM 242 Views
Yes we need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars Roland00 - 06/04/2013 03:17:01 AM 450 Views
Not really HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:54:56 PM 448 Views
as long as debt and/or deficit is less than GDP they are manageable moondog - 06/04/2013 04:30:42 PM 570 Views
Deficits HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 01:13:41 AM 445 Views
Deficits are a big deal with times are good Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:40:36 AM 457 Views
Re: Not really Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:29:59 AM 713 Views
You do know why we use 10 year time periods with cbo numbers right? *NM* Roland00 - 06/04/2013 03:17:41 AM 252 Views
Yeah, so they can claim a dime of imaginary savings is a dollar. *NM* HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:37:39 PM 230 Views
No anything past 10 years in projections are a joke. Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:02:32 AM 510 Views
Anything past 1 year is a joke/lie becuase the next Congrees will do what it wants regardless. *NM* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 03:08:39 PM 262 Views
Ya know, semi-tangent but I just had an amusing notion about elected official pay Isaac - 10/04/2013 07:12:56 PM 512 Views
it would require a constitutional amendment, but i think we could get it to pass.... *NM* moondog - 10/04/2013 11:24:26 PM 248 Views
I'm not sure it would, it could be made voluntary too Isaac - 10/04/2013 11:41:54 PM 480 Views
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