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By: Patricia Campion
March 5, 2013
For perhaps the first time in the history of the United States, The Washington Examiner reported Monday, it is in the political interest of a president to inflict maximum pain on the American people.
Now facing the consequences of the automatic spending cuts his administration's sequester cuts will inflict upon Americans and frustrated by Republican successes in blocking his effort to raise taxes and pass gun-control measures The Washington Post reported Sunday that Obama is now focused on winning back control of the House to forward his agenda, which he and his advisers believe will be crucial to the outcome of his second term and to his legacy as president.
The worst-case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens, The Washington Post quoted Washington health care lobbyist Emily Holubowich saying Feb. 23.
In the meantime, John Kass of The Chicago Tribune wrote last month that the whoppers coming from the Obama administration regarding the effects of the sequester cuts designed by his administration -- are intended to convince Americans that the sky is falling and that Republicans are to blame.
"We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend," Obamas Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Nepalitano told a breakfast event organized by Politico, adding that major airports were already seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect."
"I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform."
But The Daily Telegraph, reported that spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as
There's only so much we can do with personnel, Nepalitano added, and please don't yell at the customs officers, the TSA officers. They aren't responsible for sequester."
A Feb. 27 press release from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta "could not provide information to support claims that the nation may expect 90-minute flight delays due to the sequester cuts or provide data to support the Administrations predictions of furloughs for nearly all of the agencys 47,000 employees.
TSA employees will see their uniform allowances nearly double to $446 per year, the House Transportation Committee noted in a Nov. 9 press release regarding the TSAs new bargaining agreement struck ahead of the sequester deadline. By comparison, a combat Marine Lieutenant receives a one-time uniform allowance of $400. The cost of the increase in TSA uniform allowance is an estimated $9.63 million annually.
On Feb. 21, The Fiscal Times reported that Obamas Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the Pentagon would furlough 800,000 civilian workers.
For the defense department, The Fiscal Times reported Feb. 25 that -- while the furlough could amount to as little as two weeks without pay -- no one will lose their job and none of the jobs for essential security forces will be affected.
The same exaggeration applies to the Pentagons warning of furloughs for about 15,000 military school teachers and staff around the world.
Because the length of the school day cant legally be shortened, CBS reported Monday, the furloughs will amount to teachers and staff taking one unpaid day a week.
As The Washington Post reported March 1, Obamas claim that janitors on Capital Hill would get a pay cut was also incorrect.
So my general view is that if the American people looked at this, Obama said during a July 15, 2011 press conference -- addressing the debt ceiling hike negotiations that led to the Budget Control Act, which contained his sequester trigger -- theyd say, boy, some of these decisions are tough, but they dont require us to gut Medicare or Social Security.
As reported Sunday by The Huffington Post, Obamas Director of The National Economic Committee Gene Sperling told CNN that Obama has resurrected the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts.
They dont require us to stop helping young people go to college, Obama assured at the July press conference.
If the sequester goes into effect, Obama told workers at the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia Feb. 26, more than 2,000 college students would lose their financial aid.
They dont require us to stop helping families who've got a disabled child, Obama assured at the press conference.
Four days before the sequester deadline, the White House warned residents of Oregon that they will lose approximately $6.4 million in funds for about 80 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
Arkansas will lose approximately $5.6 million in funds for about 70 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
As part of its strategy to pressure Republicans into accepting new revenues as part of a deal to prevent the sequester from taking effect, The Huffington Post reported Sunday that the White House released 51 reports that detailed the ugly effects those cuts would have in individual states.
And they dont require job-killing tax cuts, Obama assured at the press conference. They require us to make some modest adjustments to get our house in order, and we should do it now.
All told, Obama warned workers at the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia Feb. 26, the sequester could cost tens of thousands of jobs right here in Virginia.
Across the country, these cuts will force federal prosecutors to close cases and potentially let criminals go, Obama warned further.
On March 1, The Associated Press reported that the Department of Homeland Security released over 2,000 illegal immigrants from its jails ahead of the sequester deadline and plans to release 3,000 more during March.
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Obama using sequester ?to inflict maximum pain? on Americans for political gain - National Government | Examiner.com
March 5, 2013
For perhaps the first time in the history of the United States, The Washington Examiner reported Monday, it is in the political interest of a president to inflict maximum pain on the American people.
Now facing the consequences of the automatic spending cuts his administration's sequester cuts will inflict upon Americans and frustrated by Republican successes in blocking his effort to raise taxes and pass gun-control measures The Washington Post reported Sunday that Obama is now focused on winning back control of the House to forward his agenda, which he and his advisers believe will be crucial to the outcome of his second term and to his legacy as president.
The worst-case scenario for us is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens, The Washington Post quoted Washington health care lobbyist Emily Holubowich saying Feb. 23.
In the meantime, John Kass of The Chicago Tribune wrote last month that the whoppers coming from the Obama administration regarding the effects of the sequester cuts designed by his administration -- are intended to convince Americans that the sky is falling and that Republicans are to blame.
"We're already seeing the effects at some of the ports of entry, the big airports, for example. Some of them had very long lines this weekend," Obamas Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Nepalitano told a breakfast event organized by Politico, adding that major airports were already seeing lines "150 to 200 per cent as long as we would normally expect."
"I don't mean to scare, I mean to inform."
But The Daily Telegraph, reported that spokespeople for both O'Hare and LAX, as well as
There's only so much we can do with personnel, Nepalitano added, and please don't yell at the customs officers, the TSA officers. They aren't responsible for sequester."
A Feb. 27 press release from the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta "could not provide information to support claims that the nation may expect 90-minute flight delays due to the sequester cuts or provide data to support the Administrations predictions of furloughs for nearly all of the agencys 47,000 employees.
TSA employees will see their uniform allowances nearly double to $446 per year, the House Transportation Committee noted in a Nov. 9 press release regarding the TSAs new bargaining agreement struck ahead of the sequester deadline. By comparison, a combat Marine Lieutenant receives a one-time uniform allowance of $400. The cost of the increase in TSA uniform allowance is an estimated $9.63 million annually.
On Feb. 21, The Fiscal Times reported that Obamas Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced that the Pentagon would furlough 800,000 civilian workers.
For the defense department, The Fiscal Times reported Feb. 25 that -- while the furlough could amount to as little as two weeks without pay -- no one will lose their job and none of the jobs for essential security forces will be affected.
The same exaggeration applies to the Pentagons warning of furloughs for about 15,000 military school teachers and staff around the world.
Because the length of the school day cant legally be shortened, CBS reported Monday, the furloughs will amount to teachers and staff taking one unpaid day a week.
As The Washington Post reported March 1, Obamas claim that janitors on Capital Hill would get a pay cut was also incorrect.
So my general view is that if the American people looked at this, Obama said during a July 15, 2011 press conference -- addressing the debt ceiling hike negotiations that led to the Budget Control Act, which contained his sequester trigger -- theyd say, boy, some of these decisions are tough, but they dont require us to gut Medicare or Social Security.
As reported Sunday by The Huffington Post, Obamas Director of The National Economic Committee Gene Sperling told CNN that Obama has resurrected the issue of cutting entitlements such as Medicare and Social Security as a way out of damaging budget cuts.
They dont require us to stop helping young people go to college, Obama assured at the July press conference.
If the sequester goes into effect, Obama told workers at the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia Feb. 26, more than 2,000 college students would lose their financial aid.
They dont require us to stop helping families who've got a disabled child, Obama assured at the press conference.
Four days before the sequester deadline, the White House warned residents of Oregon that they will lose approximately $6.4 million in funds for about 80 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
Arkansas will lose approximately $5.6 million in funds for about 70 teachers, aides, and staff who help children with disabilities.
As part of its strategy to pressure Republicans into accepting new revenues as part of a deal to prevent the sequester from taking effect, The Huffington Post reported Sunday that the White House released 51 reports that detailed the ugly effects those cuts would have in individual states.
And they dont require job-killing tax cuts, Obama assured at the press conference. They require us to make some modest adjustments to get our house in order, and we should do it now.
All told, Obama warned workers at the Newport News Shipyard in Virginia Feb. 26, the sequester could cost tens of thousands of jobs right here in Virginia.
Across the country, these cuts will force federal prosecutors to close cases and potentially let criminals go, Obama warned further.
On March 1, The Associated Press reported that the Department of Homeland Security released over 2,000 illegal immigrants from its jails ahead of the sequester deadline and plans to release 3,000 more during March.
[Excerpt]
Read more:
Obama using sequester ?to inflict maximum pain? on Americans for political gain - National Government | Examiner.com
