Sequestration cuts so bad, they affect organizations from the past.
We are nearing the deadline for those dastardly, DC-killing budget cuts that are threatening to send the American people tumbling backwards through a wormhole to that backwards, underfunded, economically-challenged era of 2007. Things are heating up. People are facing down slashing reserves, storing away what little money the Federal government has for rainy days when the Pentagon really needs a $150 toilet seat. Congressmen are socking away little packets of peanuts and airline miles lest they be required by the new rubric to fly coach.
That’s right, America. The Sequester may force your elected officials to fly commercial on their foreign “fact-finding trips” and Dominican Republic hooker parties. And to make matters worse, the National Scenic Byways Program may have to buy it’s own Legos. And the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose a whopping $2 million out of it’s $20 million dollar budget. And while that sounds drastic, it sounds even worse when you realize the NDIC closed its doors last June, so Obama is going have to go back to the past to save our future.
“The first line item on page 121 of the OMB’s September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that’s slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012–three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress.”
OMB doesn’t get it’s own memos, apparently.
The good news is, the rest of the cuts are so horrendous and devastating that it’s likely their effects won’t be felt for weeks.
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Barack Obama hates Vladimir Putin, doesn’t wear ties now.
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The government hacked into Sharyl Attkisson’s computer, probably.
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I guess funny. I am a Department of Defense employees whose income will be reduced by 20% until the end of the fiscal year. As a single father of 4 young boys, not so funny.
Sorry, Joe, for your situation.
I just hope that you aren’t suggesting we make national policy on the basis of 1 (or a few) personal situations.
Because that would surely result in bad situations for most people in the US.
If we cut back on something–anything–it hurts someone of the 300 million of us. If we cut back by telling congress to skip renovating their offices for 1 year, we hurt the businesses that sell that stuff to congressional offices.
If we cut back the number of people at a local DMV, somebody is out of a job.
When budgets tighten, there will be some people who are worse off for awhile, and a certain amount of re-aligning people and jobs has to take place.
As you are facing the loss of income and still having to pay your bills, so is the nation. None of us can spend more than we make, yet our government is in this situation and has to find a way to balance our national budget and what we take in as a nation.
I hope elected leaders can tighten our national belt decisively and get the momentum going the way of a balanced national budget. Sooner begun, sooner done.