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The Obama administration denied an appeal for flexibility in lessening the sequester’s effects, with an email this week appearing to show officials in Washington that because they already had promised the cuts would be devastating, they now have to follow through on that.
In the email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., Mr. Brown asked “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.
He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”
Lawmakers say the email is further evidence that the Obama Administration is seeking to inflict maximum pain for the minimal $85 billion in cuts.
"This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain,” said Rep. Tim Griffin (R-AK).
2nd story and opinion (Breitbart)..
I guess I could just quit working, but, hell no, I actually like being a productive member of society.
Originally posted by xuenchen
reply to post by MessOnTheFED!
I guess I could just quit working, but, hell no, I actually like being a productive member of society.
Hard to be "productive" when we have MeatHeads running things like they are !!
It's a "treading water" affair, but they seem to want us all to sink fast.
I sure hope the Obama supporters are happy now a days !!
What goes around comes around ... --- eventually... maybe.
Originally posted by jibeho
Why are Obama's defenders so quiet on this topic lately??
Bump this bad boy. I'd love to hear what they have to say..
Originally posted by Golf66
Yes, just hear the White House is going to cancel their tours for groups because of "sequestration".
Way to man up Barrack - the little old ladies that do the tours are volunteers other than the security they cost about nothing.
That will show them huh Barry? Use the kids again as a tool. Passive aggressive and irresponsible is what it is. Childish and base.
"We regret having to do this during the busy school tour season" they say.
No they don't they made it a conscious decision so that Ma and Pa America who pay $2300.00 for their kids to go see the Capitol of their Nation and the White House will believe that 2% is some kind of huge issue and vote the big “D”come 2014.
Our POTUS is a spoiled child; a very powerful, mentally unstable, dangerous one.
The more his popularity drops and his BS is questioned the more unstable he will become....
He was caught in a lie and damn it even if he has to punish school kids to do it he will make his point!
Originally posted by rickymouse
There is something wrong with you You aren't supposed to see through their tactics Don't you drink the floridated water and eat the endocrine disruptors and goitinogens in food? Maybe they can give you some antidepressants to help you get back to being blind....Woops I mean normal.
Originally posted by texasgirl
This whole "I'm right, you're wrong" (and blame game) thing is getting ridiculous with our president. So the sequester isn't turning into a catastrophe like he predicted so now he is trying to make it happen? How immature, he sounds just like a child. He is too caught up in his image and saving face to care about us.
Take one on the chin and say "I was wrong" !!