I Am So Sick of All the Fear Tactics Surrounding the Stupid Sequester...

Politicians are career criminals...that is why no one should ever get more than two terms in office. They also should have a degree in history so that it does not get repeated so often...

People often forget that they have huge staffs of folks who do the math for them...There is no excuse for screw ups...

I'd be happy if they got a degree in basic math and how not to say stupid stuff. I mean I realize they are human and we all make mistakes but some things are ridiculously stupid. They could also learn to speak with integrity and stop playing the blame game and lying all together but I won't hold my breath on that one.

It was Obama's idea in that he knew it was going to happen and was more than willing to let it. If he would have compromised and worked with Congress, it wouldn't have had to happen. Blaming the Republicans was all part of a plan to discredit them and make the public think it was their fault, along with frightening everyone.

"Actually it wasn't his idea." Yes it was. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-fanciful-claim-that-congress-proposed-the-sequester/2012/10/25/8651dc6a-1eed-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_blog.html http://factcheck.org/2013/02/the-obamaquester/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/24/barack-obama/obama-says-congress-owns-sequestration-cuts/ As all those factchecking sources confirm, the idea came from the White House.

Actually it wasn't his idea. This idea has been thought up and passed before but our congress and senate weren't a bunch of whiny babies and managed to work together. I believe it happened in which they introduce a sequester idea in order to try and make congress work. Back then, it did work, now... not so much. Now he may have re-introduced it, but he couldn't have voted it in. This wasn't an executive ordered sequester. Based on votes it was largely one party's support behind it and since they voted it in and knew what it would do, they are largely to blame as well. Both parties and the WH are to blame for this. I have also come to realize that some programs need reformed by not cut. I think if they are completely cut or even cut down to a larger amount, that we will see an even higher increase in crime rates. Not national sensationalized crimes, but robberies and the like. It truly wasn't his call minus signing it. I am fully happy to blame a president who does something. I don't even blame Bush for all the mess he caused during his terms. Neither of them have really worked in my opinion.... so.... yeah. I do, however, blame our congress and senate. They knew about the sequester. They voted in the sequester and Obama had to sign it as it was considered a budget plan and I think those can't be as easily vetoed since the country needs a budget. So they are to blame for this B.S. Maybe if our congress and senate would pull their heads out of their behinds, we could get real change but until then... no.

The average wage earner in the public sector makes about 15% less than someone working in a similar government job. If you delete bureaucracy, you always come out ahead financially and the job will still get done. There is a reason for the obamderthal's continual campaigning...he is planning on doing it again...just watch...

It did not go far enough and it is a good thing...The only problem is that instead of cutting the garbage out of the bureaucracy, they are cutting things like the Pentagon by 9%...Now that is a very large cut.

If these agencies knew how to budget better, then this sequester would mean nothing. I don't care if they cut one of them by 10%, a good budget would make it so they had excess but no one wants to budget. Everyone, especially our government officials, just expect it to be there. So now that this sequester hit, everyone is like "oh no. what on earth are we going to do?" The answer: Learn how to properly budget with what you have. That is what mostly everyone else in America does. It isn't all his fault. It isn't even his idea just like the whole Obamacare thing wasn't his idea. The sequester idea was mentioned before in the 90s and probably at other points before that because our congress wouldn't work together and pass a budget. At least credit Obama when it's his own idea, don't give him credit for other people's ideas. Personally, I think you have to come up with your own ideas to get credit. The congress and senate voted on it. They should be the ones you target for their stupidity.

The Sequester is supposed to be across the board cuts...That usually means everything...However, the obamderthal will not cut the entitlements, just the stuff we kind of need. If he cut out the dole for folks who are not citizens, stopped creating new gov. agencies, stopped taking vacations on our nickle, fired a few of the "families" hair dressers and secretaries etc, stopped putting the kids on the parole so that they could get extra vacations, there would be no need for budget cuts or tax increases...

I HAVE NEVER CALLED SOCIAL SECURITY AN ENTITLEMENT AND NEVER WILL...Social Security and Medicare are part of our retirement program that we paid for and everyone except us is getting. There used to be places called poor houses and debtors prisons that creatures were sent to when they did not want to work...I see nothing wrong with bringing those back for the able bodied that do not want to work... I also never mentioned a political party at fault...My motto is that all politicians are criminals and should never be allowed more than two terms in office. I was Vice-chair of my county's HUD Public Housing Authority. It was a volunteer position, no pay, no perks. During that time, My eyes were opened...I would say that 70% of the under 65 crowd were scamming the system. 30% were disabled or needed mental health care badly. This is not a poor county and we do not have slums or ghettos...These people lived in style except for one complex and this is where they housed the elderly and the mental patients...They had it bad.

Fair enough. However, what are you referring to as entitlements? Well as for social security (and I apologize I have seen many call it an entitlement), I know they made part of it available to people with disabilities or who have severe mental disorders that need time to be treated before they can safely work with other people. I know some people who would call where they live the "ghetto" and there are some exceptionally bad areas but I don't think those are the majority. With HUD housing, I could see helping out with rent (or helping to find low cost housing) for maybe a small family who ran into bad times with jobs and such, everyone has bad times. I could see elderly. I personally think we need better hospitals for some of our mental health and disabled patients though. Also some seniors and working class society members need supplemental help. My own 85 year old grandfather was on foodstamps because social security wasn't paying enough for him to be able to afford his food and he had medicare copays and more but he worked all his life up until his health got worse. I know families that lost their jobs or only one has found work since the recession and can't make it. I support those people getting foodstamps and medical. He had qualified for some sort of elderly meals on wheels program but I think that was stated as something that the cuts were going to hit. Go figure. I DO NOT SUPPORT... college students claiming homeless to get $400 in food, full medical, and a bunch of other B.S. I don't support perfectly able bodied people with no obligations (no elderly, disabled, or children) on any kind of assistance. I don't support anyone without proper paperwork getting anything and I don't support criminals being able to have better accommodations than poor people considering these criminals are in jail. I am still so mad about taking a tour of a jail and seeing a lounge like area, state of the art fitness centers and flat screen TVs. They are in jail and it should be jail not like a got d--n stay at a 3 or 4 star hotel minus the rooms and showers of course. Sorry... the jail thing is a touchy subject for me. I also don't agree with "too big too fail" businesses not taking much of a hit because they will still somehow manage to get government subsidies. On the last note of you not mentioning a political party, I had only mentioned them because you had talked about the president taking all his vacations on the people's dime which I say needs to be proven and accused all of our politicians of more than likely doing the same if he is - regardless of their political affiliation. They are all criminals with how they seem to only work 100 days a year but get large salaries from being in the House and Senate. I've heard, not sure, that some even get some pay from their state in addition to the federal. Talk about knowing how to cheat or abuse the system.