Staff of the White House was quick to arrange a visit today to the camps of Florida Yankees, Tigers, Red Sox and Orioles, then President Obama - flanked by baseball All-Stars - warn that the budget sequestration give each team loss in the American League record this season.
Well, I did. But only one or two seconds before doing the calculations, I have believed. We are conditioned to think that the president and his staff make such outlandish claims, after weeks of increasingly hysterical reports about what it means to cut $ 85 billion in federal spending by the end of the year on September 30.
Tuesday was the turn of Attorney General Eric Holder. It was before the cameras to say that, as a result of the cuts, which came into effect today, "The American people will be less safe" due to leave the FBI and other forces of the federal order. Prosecutors will have to close the case and let the wicked go free support added. (1) (but do not mention the bankers, from which I conclude that the administration will use its last dollar Justice Department to try to put the bankers in jail.)
Last week, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, warned that the cuts will create more security lines at airports. Airlines had to wait to hold passengers delayed, and the backup drive across the country as they do in all the major summer storms appear above places like Chicago O'Hare and New York LaGuardia, LaHood advised. Of course, the big summer storms are not uncommon event, but the transport secretaries are rarely willing to assign responsibility for the organization and its archaic systems resulting disadvantages.
Obama himself accused police personnel, fire and emergency to report the use of a "meat knife approach" (2) reducing the federal budget will make communities across the country to lose workers in safety critical. Assuming that all politics is local, the White House released a list by state of the misfortunes that could befall the country because of the kidnap.
Management tactics are familiar to anyone who has seen a battle in the city budget. The first thing that meets the mayor or president of the Council warn that if more money is not found soon, the community will have their private libraries, teachers and police dealers sitting behind a desk, because there is no fuel in the patrol cars. The list never seems to start with a search of the City dismissed workers or contracts for friends and supporters of the mayor competitive bids.
So it goes in Washington these days. Neither Democrats nor Republicans as automatic spending cuts that trimmed over $ 43 billion defense budget this year, and a similar amount of discretionary domestic programs. Everyone agrees that there are much smarter ways to get significant control over federal spending - but nothing really involve significant changes in the benefits like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, which are exempt from kidnap and Obama and their fellow Democrats want to save as much as possible. Since the government must also meet interest obligations of its massive debt, leaving only a small portion of federal spending open to change, they should be treated as carefully as possible.
No one claims that the abduction, which was part of the mid-2011, both to raise the federal debt ceiling, reflected. But when House Republicans voted last year - twice - to give the president authority to reorganize the courts, the Senate has not acted. Yesterday, a similar proposal failed in the Senate by a vote of 62-38. Only two senators majority supported Democrats and nine Republicans defected for reasons that would give the president too much power. But enough Republicans are willing to give to the CEO as a leader and organize the budget to his liking, Obama could easily protect some of their priorities.
Obama and the Democrats are not willing to set priorities, or at least not until they are sure they have squeezed every penny possible tax increase on congressional Republicans who oppose them. (Senate Democrats gathered 51 votes yesterday a plan to raise taxes on households with more than $ 5 million in revenue yesterday, but the measure needed 60 votes to pass.) Republicans, now left with U.S. $ 600 000 billion in tax increases through the many fiscal cliff in January, decided to say "no more". Also call the Republican base, the sentence could well catch on Hispanic voters, with the Republicans need all the help they can get.
Financial markets have been very optimistic about the kidnapping. This is good evidence that the promises of the administration of short-term economic damage are exaggerated. The cuts may be stupid, but it is also a debt of million federal 1000000 more each year with no end in sight.
It is likely, at least several weeks of this dispute. The next important date is March 27, when the power of government spending will expire unless Congress acts. Gridlock means a partial government shutdown, focusing on "partial". House Republicans will likely soon move to continue its budget, currently level kidnapped, and to give the president authority to reallocate funds to mitigate the worst effects. Democrats must decide whether they can reject the approach of the Republican Party without too much guilt for what would follow if spending authority expired.
Similarly, the president must decide if you are interested in actually leave security lines at the airport extends pavement removal.
After all, mayors can threaten to turn off all the lights in the street, but rarely move on. They know that their voters blame when it all goes off.
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