Getting Defensive

Yesterday, the Defense Department announced it would have to furlough over 600,000 workers come July, claiming it “has no choice” because of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. Yet, other agencies have been able to find ways to make the required spending cuts without furloughing any employees. Did the Pentagon really try “everything they could” to avoid furloughing workers? A recent GAO report showing that millions were wasted on new camouflage patterns i...

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No Smart Way?
Question for the White House

For months the White House has warned of the dire consequences of the sequester, maintained there is “no smart way” to cut spending and even threatened to veto a bill that would give them that flexibility.  They were wrong.  After insisting for months that the only way to deal with a 1.4 percent budget cut in the Department of Transportation was to furlough air traffic controllers and cause massive delays, it took less than a week for Congress to...

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No Smart Way?
Real Men of Genius Edition

Today, we salute you, lawmakers in Washington. No one can knowingly avoid fixing the sequester for two years, then panic when it goes into effect quite like you can. But now, it seems you’ve done the impossible: rather than playing your usual blame-game, you actually put on your thinking caps, took out a red pen, and are figuring out ways to avoid furloughs in some of your departments!

ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS “NO SMART WAY” TO AVOID SEQUESTER

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Spending Daily | April 24, 2013

“Sheriff Joe” Avoids Sequester Furloughs

ABC News reports, “The automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester are forcing thousands of government employees – from air traffic controllers to White House staff – to take unpaid days off. As White House Press Secretary Jay Carney put it, ‘everyone’s affected by this.’ Well, maybe not everyone. One executive branch leader has found a way to make the cuts without forcing people out of ...

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You might even say that insanity is a growth industry.  For example, the liberals are tripping all over themselves to pass new gun control legislation.  To prove how sincere they are, they have put Joe Biden and Dianne Feinstein in charge.  Joe Biden is so dumb that schools have renamed dunce caps in his honor, and Feinstein is such a political hack that even after swearing to get to the bottom of the national security leaks to the NY Times, once she realized the footprints led back to the Ov...

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