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Sequester = slowing rate of spending increases

Posted: Feb 27, 2013

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 of the government running at full force, and look to apply the cuts elsewhere. “This is almost an impeachable offense. If the president is deciding how to spend money in order to hurt us, rather than in order to provide us with the services for which we have paid and for which we have hired him, he is doing the opposite of what he has taken an oath to do,” Napolitano said. http://nation.foxnews.com/sequester/2013/02/26/judge-napolitano-almost-impeachable-offense-if-obama-s-making-spending-decisions-hurt-us;

Republican Party plan - Fanatical Hypocrite

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Step 1: Complain about spending as soon as Bush is out.
Step 2: Refuse to pass any bill that increases spending even if it's disaster relief, support for the troops or to help 9/11 First Responders.
Step 3: Agree to sequester.
Step 4: Complain about sequester.
Step 5: Demand sequester continue.
Step 6: Complain about sequester related spending cuts.
Step 7A: If sequester helps, take credit for it.
Step 7B: If sequester hurts, blame Obama for it.

I'm getting the impression a lot of Republican politicians and talking heads were confused about what spending cuts meant. There isn't a lot of money that goes nowhere. It goes to services. When you stop sending those services money, you stop getting those services. So, if you want spending cuts, it has to come from either infrastructure, the social safety net, defense, education, scientific innovation, energy subsidies, agricultural subsidies, etc. They all have benefits and consequences. Shame on Obama for not cutting the budget in a way that effects nothing, hurts no one and pleases everyone.

Admittedly, at least the Republic plan is more proactive (if in the wrong direction) than the long-standing Democratic Party plan:
Step 1: Talk big.
Step 2: Do nothing.
Step 3: Capitulate.

Um, you may be losing your hypocrite status - nm - Flaming Liberal

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(it's a ruse) - doe

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Of course it's all Obama's fault. - What isn't?

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Shoe is on the other foot now - and libs don't like it.

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I miss Bush!

You miss unfounded war? - Okay.

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What exactly has Obama done that in any way compares to Bush's pandering to Halliburton? The radioactive nuclear waste we left behind from bunker busters? Iraqi infant birth defects that resulted from OUR depleted uranium? The thousands of US soldiers that came home in caskets?

What has Obama done that compares? Introduce a new healthcare structure?

Yes, it is. - And he doesn't know what to do.

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Except deflect and then head out on the campaign trail again.

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