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Legal Experts, Airlines, Republicans, & Democrats Agree: FAA’s Hands Not Tied on #ObamaFlightDelays
This week, travelers at airports across the nation are experiencing frustrating flight delays related to the president’s automatic sequestration cuts. And legal experts, airline officials, and members of both political parties all agree: the Obama administration – despite its protests – has options to ease these #ObamaFlightDelays.
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 ...
Gimmick It Up Using Fake Money To Offset Real Cuts
Remember that windfall of cash you got from graduating college and finally being able to do something with that extra tuition money? Or when you hit the real jackpot by staying home that one weekend your friends went out to Vegas? No? You need to check your Overlooked Contingency Fund. That’s where all that real money goes – just waiting to be accessed and spent.
Harry Reid Has Located The Overseas Contingency Fund:
Travelers are experiencing flight delays as a result of Federal Aviation Association (FAA) furloughs on air traffic controllers. Why them? Because according to the White House and the Department of Transportation, there’s no other way to make the cuts required in the sequester. But the Department of Transportation’s $73.2 billion budget was cut by only $1 billion, which is less than 1.4 percent of the total budget. And even with those cuts, their bud...
FAA Furloughs Begin, DOT Website Announces $474M Grant to “Make Communities More Livable and Sustainable”
The Wall Street Journal editorializes, “This week the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began furloughing each of its air-traffic controllers for one day out of every 10 to achieve roughly $600 million in savings this fiscal year. The White House dubiously claims that the furloughs are required by the sequester spending cuts enacted in 2011. … L...
Now we know the Obama administration really meant it when it launched its sequester cut scare campaign back in February.
Starting on Monday, sequester-related furlough of air-traffic controllers caused flight delays of up to four hours.
According to the Washington Post, the worst delays were expected at major hub airports, including three in New York, two in Chicago, and airports serving Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta, ...
Arizona Republicans are opposed to expanding medicaid. The poll clearly reveals that Republicans are not only opposed, but also that Republicans in support of expansion are in jeopardy come election time.
Governor Brewer is in full campaign mode, criss-crossing the state attempting to convince Republicans that implementing Obamacare is the “will” of the voters. It is not.
“[a]mong Republican primary voters in the six legislative districts a majority, or 53% are less likely to r...
Round two of a recent poll is now out and there are some revealing numbers on how Republican primary voters feel about Governor Brewer’s push to expand Medicaid in Arizona Senator Jeff Flake and several legislative districts. Here are those results:
This memorandum is an executive summary of an automated voice recorded survey of 718 likely Republican primary voters in six legislative districts in Arizona. The legislative districts surveyed were 13, 17, 18, 20, 25 and 28. The interviews wer...
Sonoran Alliance has obtained a recent poll that was conducted in Arizona on the latest public policy issue being debated among Arizonans – Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid in Arizona. This poll demonstrates the current attitude toward Governor Brewer, Legislators and the implementation of Obamacare. Magellan Strategies conducted the poll at the end of March. Here are the results of the poll:
ARIZONA MEDICAID EXPANSION SURVEY AMONG REGISTERED VOTERS
The Washington Post editorializes, “When he was asked in 2011 about the possible impact of the sequestration on defense, Chuck Hagel breezily replied that the Pentagon was ‘bloated’ and ‘needs to be pared down.’ In his first major speech as defense secretary on Wednesday, Mr. Hagel’s assessment was considerably more sober. The $41 billion cut the department is taking this year, he said, ‘is already having a disrup...
With the March jobs report showing the smallest gain in 10 months, it’s not a good day for America. While the sequester has become the Obama Administration’s go-to scapegoat for all things bad, it’s not to blame for the disappointing jobs numbers. It’s more likely the “downtick” is a result of the payroll tax hikes in the fiscal cliff deal, a deal that included all tax hikes and no spending cuts because of the White House’s demands for “balance.” TGIF, h...
Who is pushing for Medicaid expansion in Arizona besides Governor Jan Brewer? With the exception of a few token Republicans, her coalition appears to be filled with the support of Democrats and liberal organizations such as Planned Parenthood.
Recently the governor announced that the Gila County Board of Supervisors, the Coconino County Board of Supervisors, and the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors all support her Medicaid expansion proposal. She forgot to mention that with the excepti...
RHETORIC: President Obama: “No Smart Way” To Cut $85 Billion: “The problem is, when you’re cutting $85 billion in seven months … there’s no smart way to do that. There’s no smart way to do that.” (“Obama on Sequester Cuts: ‘There’s No Smart Way To Do That,’” Real Clear Politics, 2/26/13)
REALITY: Stimulus-Funded Condom Study Creates Zero Jobs. The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been rel...
The Weekly Standard reports, “The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website. The study, titled ‘Barriers to Correct Condom Use,’ is now completed, according to the website, and the university received $423,500 of stimulus funds to perform the study. The stimulus project yielded a total of 0.00 jobs created, according...
The Washington Times reports, “President Obama will not propose a balanced budget in the new fiscal 2014 spending plan that he’ll submit to Congress next week, a White House official said Wednesday. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer said the budget will reduce deficits by an unspecified amount, but it won’t achieve balance like the spending plan that has been approved by House Republicans. ‘You don’t want to balanc...
Wind Energy CEO to Washington: Roll Back Misguided Subsidies
Wind energy CEO Patrick Jenevein editorializes in The Wall Street Journal, “The sequester has led to dire warnings from many camps, including advocates of clean energy, who argue that Washington’s modest cuts could derail America’s green future. But from my vantage as a CEO in the wind-power business, the sequester offers Washington a rare opportunity to roll back misguided subsidies and m...
New Federal Department Unveiled Aimed Aimed At Tackling Government Waste Slugline reports, “With the federal debt nearing $17 trillion, the White House will announce today the formation of a new federal agency to deal with the crippling spending and waste in Washington. The new Department of Spending and Management (SPAM) will have the largest combined budget of any federal department in the administration. According to one senior administration official, ...
As sequestration goes into effect, America...
