In a startling admission this afternoon, the White House released a statement in which it said that president Obama would veto any bill passed that would allow him to move the cuts of sequestration around to limit any damage that the cuts might do. Such a bill has been proposed by the Republicans in the senate. That bill was unlikely to pass in any event through the Democrat controlled senate, but we need to look at what Obama has just said.
1) For the last three weeks, Obama has told us all that sequestration will be a national disaster. Remember lines at the airports will be long, families will starve, teachers will be fired, police will be off the streets, etc. The litany of disasters is one that you must have heard from Obama by now.
2) Obama claims that he cannot change the impending cuts. According to Obama, these cuts will hit the critical and the less important government functions alike. This is actually not really true; Obama does have some discretion to move the cuts to where they would do the least harm, but Obama denies this.
3) In order to make clear that Obama can make sure that the cuts hit federal activities that are not that important, the GOP in the Senate has proposed a plan that expressly provides that the president is authorized to shift the cuts. The total would stay the same, but the impact would be greatly lessened. This is the bill that Obama now has threatened to veto.
4) Think about this. Is it more important for America to send $1.3 billion of arms to the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt or to use that money to provide food and shelter to the poor? Obama is now choosing the Moslem Brotherhood over America's poor. Is it more important to keep research grants flowing to social scientists looking into the sex lives of coeds at Syracuse University or to keep police on the streets to protect innocent civilians from criminals. Obama is now choosing to pay those researchers rather than to protect innocent civilians. Is it more important to keep air traffic flowing across the USA or to prevent any delay in the construction of a high speed rail line to serve some sparsely populated counties in California? Obama is now choosing to have chaos at the airports. Is it more important to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East to support our troops in Afghanistan and to keep those troops safe or to fund yet another so called green energy initiative run by one of Obama's big contributors. Obama is now choosing to funnel money to his millionaire and billionaire supporters rather than to protect the brave American men and women in harm's way.
The truth is that Obama is intentionally choosing to hurt this country since he did not get his way on the sequestration. Congress has not raised taxes as Obama wanted. So now, like a spoiled child, Obama is throwing a temper tantrum. The problem here, however, is that Obama is not a two year old. The man is president of the United States of America. He has to start acting like a president.
1) For the last three weeks, Obama has told us all that sequestration will be a national disaster. Remember lines at the airports will be long, families will starve, teachers will be fired, police will be off the streets, etc. The litany of disasters is one that you must have heard from Obama by now.
2) Obama claims that he cannot change the impending cuts. According to Obama, these cuts will hit the critical and the less important government functions alike. This is actually not really true; Obama does have some discretion to move the cuts to where they would do the least harm, but Obama denies this.
3) In order to make clear that Obama can make sure that the cuts hit federal activities that are not that important, the GOP in the Senate has proposed a plan that expressly provides that the president is authorized to shift the cuts. The total would stay the same, but the impact would be greatly lessened. This is the bill that Obama now has threatened to veto.
4) Think about this. Is it more important for America to send $1.3 billion of arms to the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt or to use that money to provide food and shelter to the poor? Obama is now choosing the Moslem Brotherhood over America's poor. Is it more important to keep research grants flowing to social scientists looking into the sex lives of coeds at Syracuse University or to keep police on the streets to protect innocent civilians from criminals. Obama is now choosing to pay those researchers rather than to protect innocent civilians. Is it more important to keep air traffic flowing across the USA or to prevent any delay in the construction of a high speed rail line to serve some sparsely populated counties in California? Obama is now choosing to have chaos at the airports. Is it more important to send aircraft carriers to the Middle East to support our troops in Afghanistan and to keep those troops safe or to fund yet another so called green energy initiative run by one of Obama's big contributors. Obama is now choosing to funnel money to his millionaire and billionaire supporters rather than to protect the brave American men and women in harm's way.
The truth is that Obama is intentionally choosing to hurt this country since he did not get his way on the sequestration. Congress has not raised taxes as Obama wanted. So now, like a spoiled child, Obama is throwing a temper tantrum. The problem here, however, is that Obama is not a two year old. The man is president of the United States of America. He has to start acting like a president.
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