Sequester 2013

[SDHornet]

He will henceforth be referred to as Trollbama in all my future posts.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1y3q92sog[/youtube]

More proof that Obama is a lying sack of shvt.

If the netowkrs had any balls, they'd play those videos side by side for the next 72 hours.

Like the sheeple has the mental capacity to figure out what is going on.

[Col Hogan]

More proof that Obama is a lying sack of shvt.

If the netowkrs had any balls, they'd play those videos side by side for the next 72 hours.

Like the sheeple has the mental capacity to figure out what is going on.

[houndawg]

He will henceforth be referred to as Trollbama in all my future posts.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj1y3q92sog[/youtube]

More proof that Obama is a lying sack of shvt.

If the netowkrs had any balls, they'd play those videos side by side for the next 72 hours.

He may be a lying sack of shvt, but he sho is a conk-azz kicking lying sack of shvt.

[BDKJMU]

One thing that pisses me off about all this is that Federal agencies are going to shut down services selectively to cause the most pain, because it will help the political agenda.

For instance, Natty Parks will shut down the Washington Monument because it will be more visible than shutting down some far less visited site elsewhere.

DHS is going to have less lines both for TSA as well as customs, making for longer waits at the airport on both ends, but they won't cut grants to local law enforcement agencies for toys they neither use nor need.

Believe me, the petulant children in this government are going to make things as painful as they possibly can for solely political reasons. Part of this is because the real disaster would be if Americans realize that the sequester wasnt that bad after all.


Sent from the center of the universe.

Its already started several days ahead of sequester.

DHS releasing illegal immigrants before sequester
DHS releases hundreds of illegal immigrants from immigration jails ahead of budget sequester

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A week before mandatory budget cuts go into effect across the government, the Department of Homeland Security has started releasing illegal immigrants being held in immigration jails across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Tuesday.

Gillian Christensen, an ICE spokeswoman, said ICE has reviewed "several hundred cases" of immigrants being held in jails around the country and released them in the last week. They have been "placed on an appropriate, more cost-effective form of supervised release," she said.

Christensen said the agency's "priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety." She did not say how released immigrants were selected or what jails they were released from.

Tuesday's announcement of jail releases is the first tangible impact of the looming budget cuts for DHS.

The Obama administration has been issuing dire warnings about the impact of the sequestration and DHS
Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters at the White House Monday that across-the-board cuts would impact the department's core operations, including border security and airport screening operations.

She also warned that DHS might not be able to afford to keep the 34,000 immigration jail beds mandated by Congress. On average last week, there were 30,773 people being held in ICE jails.

"I don't think we can maintain the same level of security at all places around the country with sequester as without sequester," said Napolitano, adding that the impact would be "'like a rolling ball. It will keep growing."

According to the National Immigration Forum, it costs the government about $164 a day to keep an illegal immigrant facing deportation jailed. In a report on immigration detention costs last year the advocacy group said costs for supervised release can range from about 30 cents to $14 a day.

Republicans lawmakers decried the releases Tuesday.
"It's abhorrent that President (Barack) Obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on sequestration," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte. "By releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets, the Administration is needlessly endangering American lives. It also undermines our efforts to come together with the Administration and reform our nation's immigration laws."

The administration asked for about $1.96 billion for immigration jail operations in the last budget. It amounts to about $5.4 million a day, according to the National Immigration Forum's report.
Christensen said Tuesday that released immigrants will still face deportation proceedings.

[GannonFan]

She also warned that DHS might not be able to afford to keep the 34,000 immigration jail beds mandated by Congress. On average last week, there were 30,773 people being held in ICE jails.

That seems odd. If we aren't at capacity right now (if that capacity is 34k) why wouldn't we just do away with the beds that aren't being used right now first and consolidate who is being held and where, rather than releasing people being held in other beds? Do we need to maintain some open beds in case we need to incarcerate a bunch of people in a short time frame?

[93henfan]

She also warned that DHS might not be able to afford to keep the 34,000 immigration jail beds mandated by Congress. On average last week, there were 30,773 people being held in ICE jails.

That seems odd. If we aren't at capacity right now (if that capacity is 34k) why wouldn't we just do away with the beds that aren't being used right now first and consolidate who is being held and where, rather than releasing people being held in other beds? Do we need to maintain some open beds in case we need to incarcerate a bunch of people in a short time frame?

I checked with expandos and he told me that the beds don't matter because FEMA has tens of millions of body bags and transfer cases stored up for the looming mass extermination that will usher in the....

Dun, da-da DAAAAH...

NEW WORLD ORDER

[expandspanos]

[93henfan]

Are you saying that the well-connected are the ones who get Presidential appointments?

That's crazy!

[kalm]

[JohnStOnge]

I want to see how Obama is going to adjust his recreational activity patterns. Will he stop going out and playing golf at the cost of several million dollars per trip? Vacations?

I thought about that the other day when I heard a pundit talk about how much it costs for the President to go out for recreation like golf. Not a proportionately in the grand scheme of things. But when you're telling some Federal employees that make maybe $100,000 per year that they're going to get a $20,000 annual cut you're saying every little bit is important. So are you going to go out and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars to play golf when some people are having their salaries cut by 20% and some other people are maybe even losing their jobs? Or can you manage to give up recreational activities that are going to require using Air Force One, Secret Service details, and other support while this is going on?

[HI54UNI]

Is everybody alive? I thought for sure a plane would drop out of the sky and land on somebody's house and kill them because the FAA would have to shut down. My kids still have school tomorrow, how about yours? I just saw a cop drive by my house too.

I guess the world didn't end with the sequester.

[93henfan]

Is everybody alive? I thought for sure a plane would drop out of the sky and land on somebody's house and kill them because the FAA would have to shut down. My kids still have school tomorrow, how about yours? I just saw a cop drive by my house too.

I guess the world didn't end with the sequester.

Yeah, Col H and I will only be losing $1,250 per month in take home pay each. No sweat. We're federal employees, so we're subhuman anyway. Fuck us. We deserve it.

Fucking over middle-class families: Tea Party high five!

[DSUrocks07]

Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default.

“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”

http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-blo ... sequester/

Politicians...

[kalm]

Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default.

“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”

http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-blo ... sequester/

Politicians...

You don't think think there's a certain degree of truth to that?

[DSUrocks07]

Is everybody alive? I thought for sure a plane would drop out of the sky and land on somebody's house and kill them because the FAA would have to shut down. My kids still have school tomorrow, how about yours? I just saw a cop drive by my house too.

I guess the world didn't end with the sequester.

Yeah, Col H and I will only be losing $1,250 per month in take home pay each. No sweat. We're federal employees, so we're subhuman anyway. **** us. We deserve it.

**** over middle-class families: Tea Party high five!

You weren't deemed worthy by the Great Mediator. Unless you guys make $52,000 a month (2.4%).

[DSUrocks07]

http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-blo ... sequester/

Politicians...

You don't think think there's a certain degree of truth to that?

Not saying there isn't, but then using that as a basis, what is the point of paying taxes? If spend, spend, spend because "banks and people can't stop loaning us money". Turn the printers on overdrive. Where does "full faith and credit" end?

EDIT: or as some may choose to argue...begin?

[Ivytalk]

Is everybody alive? I thought for sure a plane would drop out of the sky and land on somebody's house and kill them because the FAA would have to shut down. My kids still have school tomorrow, how about yours? I just saw a cop drive by my house too.

I guess the world didn't end with the sequester.

Yeah, Col H and I will only be losing $1,250 per month in take home pay each. No sweat. We're federal employees, so we're subhuman anyway. **** us. We deserve it.

**** over middle-class families: Tea Party high five!

It's only money.

[HI54UNI]

Is everybody alive? I thought for sure a plane would drop out of the sky and land on somebody's house and kill them because the FAA would have to shut down. My kids still have school tomorrow, how about yours? I just saw a cop drive by my house too.

I guess the world didn't end with the sequester.

Yeah, Col H and I will only be losing $1,250 per month in take home pay each. No sweat. We're federal employees, so we're subhuman anyway. Fuck us. We deserve it.

Fucking over middle-class families: Tea Party high five!

I'm sorry Obama is fucking you over. My wife took a 20% pay cut a year ago. You may lose some pay for a period of time but I'm guessing you will go back to your salary when the adults finally take over and settle this. My wife isn't going to get hers back.

[HI54UNI]

Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default.

“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”

http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-blo ... sequester/

Politicians...

Is there anybody else that wishes Bloomberg would shut the fuck up and go away?

[kalm]

http://politicker.com/2013/03/mayor-blo ... sequester/

Politicians...

Is there anybody else that wishes Bloomberg would shut the fuck up and go away?

Yes, he's a politician, and DSU's questions are valid. Still, Bloomberg's remarks remind me a bit of the criticisms regarding the hand wringing over sequester cuts.

We've been deeply in debt before, the rest of the world and our lenders do need us to stay afloat, and government financing is not the same as household financing.

[93henfan]

Yeah, Col H and I will only be losing $1,250 per month in take home pay each. No sweat. We're federal employees, so we're subhuman anyway. **** us. We deserve it.

**** over middle-class families: Tea Party high five!

It's only money.

Yes, please think of the Col and me while sitting in your vacation home and figuring out how to get by on the JD+MD salaries.

Poverty sucks, huh?

[Ivytalk]

It's only money.

Yes, please think of the Col and me while sitting in your vacation home and figuring out how to get by on the JD+MD salaries.

Poverty sucks, huh?

Poverty is a state of mind.

[93henfan]

Thank God I'm a penny-pinching saver [feel free to insert your own substitute adjective ] type who's socked away a nice savings.

I crunched the sequester impact to my paycheck. Right now, after child support (26.6%), the cheap room I rent in VA with utilities incl (13.4%), food at $20/day (10.7%), car (9.2%), loss on upside down pre-divorce home that I rent out at loss (6.0%), fuel to see my sons (4.4%), life insurance (1.9%), and car insurance (1%)...

...I had 26.8% left to do things with my sons, save, invest, support American business, etc.

Sequester will take away 22.0% of my takehome, so I will now have 4.8%.

So there's my personal sequester impact. My takehome after bills is reduced from 26.8% of takehome to 4.8% of takehome. So, essentially, I'm taking an 82.1% cut to my spending money.

Thanks in advance for your sympathy.

[CAA Flagship]

I took a 40% compensation hit three years ago and have only gotten back 5% so far. My 401k match went to 0. My stock distributions went to 0. My bonuses went to 0. And I had a 5% and a 15% cut in salary.

The initial cuts were certainly not Obama's fault. But the lack of any significant bounce back is.

Misery loves company 93. Welcome aboard.

[93henfan]

I took a 40% compensation hit three years ago and have only gotten back 5% so far. My 401k match went to 0. My stock distributions went to 0. My bonuses went to 0. And I had a 5% and a 15% cut in salary.

The initial cuts were certainly not Obama's fault. But the lack of any significant bounce back is.

Misery loves company 93. Welcome aboard.

I could see how you were suffering.