Sequester hits Head Start (sm)

Came across a very interesting article. Gives some insight. Couldn't quite put my finger on it, but this sums it up. http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2011/08/23/7_reasons_why_liberals_are_incapable_of_understanding_the_world/page/full/ ...

‘Head Start’: The $166 Billion Fed Ed Failure “Head Start,” the flagship pre-kindergarten program introduced in 1965, has been a $166 billion failure. That’s the upshot of a sophisticated multi-year study just released by the Department of Health and Human Services. An earlier iteration of the study, published in 2005, had found a few modest improvements in the language skills of participating students while they were enrolled in the program. But by t ...

will those released illegal immigrant prisoners be rounded up and put back in lockup? ...

and Janet needs hers as well. LOL I know it's old news, but BH never talks like this, and it struck me really funny Link ...

is going to keep Nancy from visiting the troops in Afghanistan this year for Mother's day. Who on earth would want a visit from her on Mother's Day, except maybe her son, if she had one, and even that's kind of iffy. Besides, didn't Obama promise we'd be out of there 5 years ago? What'd I miss? ...

IMF Says Sequester Hurting U.S. Economy, Delaying Recovery As much as half of U.S. economic growth this year has been slashed due to tax increases and indiscriminate federal spending cuts known as sequestration, according to a sobering new forecast by the International Monetary Fund, which urged lawmakers to repeal the cuts. Risks to U.S. growth are "modestly tilted to the downside," the IMF said in its annual report on the nation's economy, as a reduction of $85 billion in government exp ...

It explains the impact of the sequester. If you chose to ignore it then okay...your problem, not mine. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdTr8I2XxK0&feature=youtu.be ...

FOX NEWS INSIDER - President Obama has accused Republicans of blocking efforts to avoid the automatic spending cuts set to go into effect March 1. Fox and Friends asked Judge Andrew Napolitano whether Obama can decide where the cuts should go into effect, since Congress has not passed a budget. Napolitano explained that the sequester is not a reduction in spending, but actually just slowing down the rate of spending increases. He said Obama has an obligation to keep the most critical areas o ...

Despite doomsday warnings from the White House and lawmakers on both sides that hundreds of thousands would lose their jobs as a result of the sequester, it turns out the budget cuts have only led to one job being lost among 23 federal agencies. Now Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is demanding answers as to why the Obama administration repeatedly warned taxpayers that the $85.3 billion in spending cuts, which went into effect in March 2013, would threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs. The findings w ...

By: Jake Sherman and Jonathan AllenFebruary 27, 2013 11:31 PM EST It’s not only the size of the sequester that has House Republicans fretting. It’s not like the GOP expects the stock market to plummet or furloughs across the federal government to drive up unemployment. House Republicans fear the massive spending cuts set to take effect Friday will result in Congress continuing to cede its constitutional power of the purse. Republicans are fretting that the $85 ...

over 92 million Americans remain without unemployed. This hope and change thing isn't working out too well. See CBS-DC ...

(Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, from the NY Times) was a really bad idea. Here’s how it happened: Republicans engaged in unprecedented hostage-taking, threatening to push America into default by refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless President Obama agreed to a grand bargain on their terms. Mr. Obama, alas, didn’t stand firm; instead, he tried to buy time. And, somehow, both sides decided that the way to buy time was to create a fiscal doomsday machine tha ...

From the NY Times regarding targeted smart versus dumb (sequestered-mandated 8% to everything) cuts: "Last week, a group of five former deputy defense secretaries — essentially the Pentagon’s chief operating officers — called for a “bottom up” review that reassesses the need for each major program and weapons system, saying this was an opportunity to accomplish cuts that have long been delayed, after a decade in which the American national security budget has nearl ...

Thank you Mr. President for your steady leadership! We're coming back in spite of the republicans best attempts to hold us down to knock you down and take over the presidency. Might we be seeing same landslide as last election? Yes We Can.!! ...

not surprised. http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_theticket/president-obamas-approval-rating-hits-a-new-low ...

Now if only I had some stocks to sell! I guess now is not the time to "stock up," is it?! ...

Though his injuries are not life-threatening, it appears the transcript showdown with Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah Cummings left him temporarily stunned into silence with a badly bruised ego. Rumor has it he is determined to press forward with his quest to lay the IRS pseudoscandal at the White House threshold, despite having been exposed as a highly selective, info leaking cherry-picker who refused to reveal the full content of an official interview t ...

Are people finally starting to wake up from their Obamacare blunder, oops, I mean slumber? ...

If you go to the link, on the left hand side, maybe halfway down the page, is a video you can play or you can just read the rest of the article. ______________________ U.S. businesses that bought solar panels made in China earlier this year are retroactively being hit with unexpected tax bills, as they find themselves caught in the middle of a trade fight between U.S. and Chinese manufacturers. The unusual bills are the result of action by the U.S. Commerce Department, which slapped pro ...

Just a few short years ago I made $20+ per hour, now I don't even want to know, probably $12-15 if I am lucky. So it's not just minimum wage McDonald's workers, in this article it is bank tellers, rather similar to us. They need better clothes though, but then again we sometimes need equipment and access to high speed internet which eats into pay. I think years ago companies would have been ashamed to have their employees needing assistance. They try to blame this on President Ob ...

nail on the head with regard to the Russia matter and also what is really behind all the Trump bashing. This is an excellent column. ...

grew at the fastest rate in eight years in 2015, driven by the coverage expansion in President Barack Obama’s law and by costly prescription drugs, the government said Friday. The growth of 5.8 percent in 2015 boosted total health care spending to $3.2 trillion. That’s an average of $9,990 per person, although the vast share of that money is spent caring for the sickest patients.... ...

and Wisconsin. Hillary Clinton has found plenty of non-Hillary Clinton things to blame for her 2016 loss, including Russia, James B. Comey, debate moderators and misogyny. But her decision Wednesday to add the Democratic National Committee to that list is predictably proving pretty sensitive inside her own party. […] Andrew Therriault, who served as the DNC’s director of data science and now works for the City of Boston, took exception to Clinton’s criticisms in tweets that have sin ...

This speaks volumes! ...

We know that with the economy weakening, the GOP renegades in the House threaten to depress and destabilize it further by shutting the government down to get attention, and this is really small potatoes compared to that, but still...it's bad. Excerpt from the National Journal, a moderate Washington "insider" journal" "Now consider the National Institutes of Health. Francis Collins, the remarkable scientist heading up the agency, has said that the sequester is devastating medical research: ...

Commentary from the Washington Post: "There’s been a good deal of chatter to the effect that Republicans still retain leverage in the sequester fight, because some of them are willing to let the sequester happen. But Politico reports that GOP resolve is cracking, with GOPers privately conceding that they’d prefer to reach a deal, because the politics of allowing deep spending cuts, a gutting of defense, and a major hit to the economy are too dangerous. Of course, GOP aides ...

and other "threats" are made about closing down this and that. When taxpayers are tightening their belts even further and cutting back on extras...and while Obama tells the American people "we" all have to make sacrifices, while he goes golfing in Florida and his wife goes to Aspen....Biden just cost the taxpayers $1 MILLION for a 2-night stay in Europe....yet no one on this board seems upset about that. He met with heads of state but still....half a million dollars and 136 rooms for one h ...

Sequester hits Head Start (sm)

Head Start is pretty much just a daycare we pay for. (sm) - Freebie

I'd like to see the proof. - Thanks.

I had decided that from now on I wasn't going to (sm) - Head Start fail poster

Thanks! - Proof poster

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