From Today’s G- File
Anyway, the interesting thing about the sequester is how it exposes the shallowness of his (Obama’s) moral-equivalent-of-war rhetoric (or, if you prefer, his equally ridiculous elision of “community” or “family” with “government”). When military units have a hardship, they make do. When communities come up short of money, everyone pitches in. When families fall on bad times, they make sacrifices. But what none of them do is make things as bad as possible just to prove a point. A commanding officer facing the equivalent of a 2 percent — or 20 percent — budget cut doesn’t go straight to confiscating everyone’s rifles right before a battle. A real community doesn’t close the fire department first. If Lowry finally had his way and cut my pay in half, my first response wouldn’t be to stop buying food for my kid, medicine for my dog, or brown liquor for me.
Obama’s approach to the sequester is the exact opposite of a real moral equivalent of war, where everybody makes necessary sacrifices for the greater good. Obama wants unnecessary sacrifices in order to punish his political enemies, and, in the process, demonize them.
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Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.
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