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Fort Hood - where the muslum terror attack occured. Too bad Obama doesn't have the balls to call it what it was.The way I see it, Obama has the best cards and the wingnuts are drawing to an inside straight. Obama is already out there explaining why the inflexible congress will hurt middleclass and poor families if they don't negotiate in good faith. The GOP will take the hit for that. Obama will also have the final say on what agencies have to cut to make the numbers work. Since Defense is our most bloated department, that could be interesting. Let's scale back on some of those Red State shipyards, like in Mississippi, where the military says they don't need new carriers. Scale back Fort Hood.
As for raising taxes, that hurt the most wealthy, all Obama has to do is nothing. He offered to negotiate in good faith, but the right wing scumbags want to stick with Grover Norquest.
No bacon for you, wingnuts.
Would you like to articulate precisely where Obama made a good faith attempt to make any meaningful cuts?
The way I look at it is the republicans have put tax hikes on the most successful ( job creators ) on the table but the Obama socialist will not compromise!
When we go off the cliff, your sacred intitlements will be cut, and you libs will flip out, because it will be your fault, and too fucking late!
"intitlements" will be cut? How so?
"The White House is out with its report detailing how it plans to implement the sequester cuts. You can read all 394-pages here.", or you can check out the simple graph - below.
The sequester cuts in one graph
Sarah Kliff on September 14, 2012
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The big ticket takeaway, however, is that there is huge variation in how the sequester effects different parts of government. Some programs will see their budgets cut by 10 percent, others by just 2 percent. All of these cuts, by the way, do not apply to any program that was specifically exempted from the sequester. Heres the breakdown.
A quick reminder of what each of these categories encompasses:
- Non-exempt defense discretionary funding sees a 9.4 percent spending reduction. This covers things, such as keeping military bases open, paying salaries and research and development.
- Non-exempt mandatory defense spending sees the biggest cut of 10 percent.
- Non-exempt, non-defense discretionary funding gets cut by 8.2 percent. This includes anything that Congress has to authorize each year, so programs like Head Start and AIDS assistance.
- Non-exempt, non-defense mandatory programs see a 7.6 percent reduction. Theres not, however, much left to cut in this category because the large mandatory programs were largely shielded from the cuts. More on that right below.
- Medicare is, well, Medicare the health insurance program for Americas seniors. The sequester specifically limited Medicare cuts to 2 percent of the programs budget.
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