So the Sequester is just another SCAM too?

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62. The Sequester is not really that simple.

There were a couple of rounds of 3-Card Monty and some Shell Game Misdirection involved.


They rigged this one up, but good.

In the summer of 2011, when Democrats and Republicans couldn’t agree on a way to cut spending in exchange for increasing the federal government’s borrowing limit, legislators settled on the Budget Control Act instead. The law capped federal discretionary spending to save almost $1.2 trillion over a 10-year period, but also mandated that a bipartisan, 12-person congressional committee find at least $1.5 trillion in additional cuts. If the committee failed to come up with a plan, another $1.2 trillion in cuts would occur automatically — half from defense spending and half from discretionary spending on domestic programs — through sequestration.

At the time this was deeply downplayed by the participants in BOTH The Democratic & Republican Parties as something that will NEVER happen. When questioned about the advisability of something this drastic, they haughtily discounted the concerns, and worked together to marginalize anybody who spoke up.
By then it was a Done Deal, but they needed the VideoBytes to Cover their Asses, and to maintain their Plausible Deniability.
"Who could have ever foreseen THIS".
"Its not MY fault!"

Meanwhile, Defense began working on ways to End Run, Trap Door, Scam, and target the Military Social Programs to bear most of the burden of the Sequester Cuts.

The automatic cuts were supposed to take effect in January, but the president and Congress agreed to delay them until March 1 to give themselves more time to work out a deal. Now, as the new deadline for sequestration draws closer, many Republicans blame the president. And though it’s true that the idea of sequestration originated in the White House, there would be no possibility of automatic cuts had members of Congress — both Democrats and Republicans — not gone along with the idea.

http://www.factcheck.org/2013/02/the-obamaquester/

This latest betrayal of the American Working Class & The Poor is a Bi-Partisan piece of work, and it is only going to get WORSE.


[font size=4]Its not MY fault.
The Sequester did it![/font]



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