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Obama Says He’ll Make Sequester Cuts Really Hurt, But They Don’t Need To

September 26, 2018February 28, 2013 Don

How does anyone understand the real impact of the “sequester”? Let’s consider what the “sequester” would mean to your family budget.

If President Obama were in charge of the “sequester” for your family budget, he might tell you that you will have to cut the following: 1 ½ meals a week, turn your thermostat down 5 degrees, cut your electricity use by 100 KwH/month, reduce driving 100 miles per week, and cut half the spending for other really important things in your life, e.g., medicine. It sounds pretty scary!!!

You wouldn’t think it was so bad when you discovered that these cuts were all in President Obama’s greatly inflated budget for your family’s future spending. In that budget President Obama planned that you would add two meals a week, raise your thermostat 6 degrees, increase electricity use by 150 KwH/month, increase driving by 130 miles per week, and triple spending on other important things in your life.

Even if it Causes Americans to Suffer, Defeating Republicans is Obama’s Priority

September 26, 2018February 25, 2013 Don

President Obama and the fawning mainstream media want you to think that the “sequester” and the harsh “sequester” cuts are being forced on him by others. These are deliberate falsehoods.

The “sequester” was President Obama’s idea to pretend concern, in anticipation of his re-election campaign, for our huge deficits by agreeing to future (small, less than 3%) spending cuts.

Are the drastic cuts that President Obama chooses to make today the ones he envisioned when he proposed the “sequester”? Or, when he promised to veto any attempt to avoid it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crt5J3XM_zk)? If yes, then the “sequester” was a bad idea. If he envisioned less severe cuts, he should implement those cuts now.

Every businessman and family can handle a 3 percent budget cut without cutting essential services, why can’t President Obama? Just eliminating the $125 billion that Obama’s GAO says is WASTED annually exceeds the “sequester’s” savings. Or, Obama could reduce the $50 to $100 billion in annual Medicare and Medicaid fraud. He could cut less important services and rein in excessively expensive programs. President Obama refuses to do any of these.

President Obama’s Failing Foreign Policy

September 26, 2018September 24, 2012 Don

Claims that President Obama’s foreign policy is successful can only be explained by pure partisanship or by criteria putting the interests of others ahead of those of our country and our citizens.

We credit President Obama for killing Osama and other al Qaeda leaders. Obama outlawed enhanced interrogations that led to Osama. The attack was delayed almost a year after Osama’s location was known. Obama prepared to blame someone else if the raid failed. Obama’s quick crowing about Osama’s death destroyed the value of the intelligence that the raid gathered. But, Osama is dead. Congratulations.