Adagio, President Obama said he would veto any bill that would repeal the sequestration.
The sequestration idea came from the Obama White House.
Obama signed it in to law.
Personally I think it's close to treason using our national defense as a pawn. If the Defense budget is only 20 % of the federal budget, why should the military take 50 % of the cuts if sequestration happens ?
During Obama's first term he had already initiated $500 Billion dollars in defense cuts and he wants more !
As you have pointed out before, G.W. Bush kept the funding to fight a war against terrorist and two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan separate from the normal defense budget.
When Obama became POTUS he combined the cost of fighting the wars in to the defense budget. This should have been done day one on 9-12-01.
That's why when you look at defense spending today it seems on paper that defense spending has increased under Obama but you don't see the huge defense cuts Obama has already made.
I'm one of those conservatives who believed that there should have been a war tax that every American paid and that means every American including the 48 % who pay no individual income taxes at all.
Adagio, President Obama said he would veto any bill that would repeal the sequestration.
Why not call his bluff? It would get the GOP off the hook and put it on him. They'll take the fall for this if it isn't prevented.
The sequestration idea came from the Obama White House. Obama signed it in to law.
The idea came from there that's true. But it is by design, meant to impose something that would be totally rejected by both parties, in order to get them to agree on something. Boehner spelled it out and pushed it through the House. He voted for it. So did the Republicans. He got 98% of what he wanted. And now he says it's a threat to National Security?? A job killer? Adds to unemployment?? Well no ****! But that begs the question....why did you vote for something that was a threat to national security, would kill jobs and add to unemployment??? You knew that's what it was when you voted for it. Even Obama thought you couldn't possibly be so stupid, uncooperative, and irresponsible to not do something to avoid this.
Personally I think it's close to treason using our national defense as a pawn.
There are people willing to allow this to impact the entire country, because they are committed to an ideology of non-compromise. That's not a governing style that works for a democracy.
During Obama's first term he had already initiated $500 Billion dollars in defense cuts and he wants more !
No. But 1.2 Trillion is being cut and Defense is getting hit, and Boehner and the Republicans agreed to this and thought it was a good idea. :shock: I don't know about you, but I remember hearing about this on the night they did it. A committee of 6 Pubs, and 6 Dems were going to come to agreement on something to avoid this thing. I thought it was insane when I heard it. Did you actually think that there would ever be an agreement with Obama on anything? You know...you can come up with an idea...a really crazy idea, that you'd expect rational and sane people to grasp as seriously damaging, and that they'd know the consequences of their inaction would effect everybody. You might even expect them to reject the idea as too crazy. And this idea came about as a way to get Republicans to agree to not default on the debt ceiling. So they would let the country default on it's credit, and damage its rating in the process. Why should we think that you could get an even number of congressmen from both parties to agree to keep the country from falling back into recession. The President won the election. The people overwhelmingly approve of a balanced approach to deficit reduction. You have $2 in revenue for every $3 in spending. It's not going to come in all spending cuts. That's not going to happen. If the Repubs had won the election they might have gotten that. But they didn't. So my advice is to get it done with. And do it now.
When Obama became POTUS he combined the cost of fighting the wars in to the defense budget. This should have been done day one on 9-12-01.
Why?
That's why when you look at defense spending today it seems on paper that defense spending has increased under Obama but you don't see the huge defense cuts Obama has already made.
That makes no sense to me Patch. But whatever...get ready for some REAL cuts. This is so stupid.
I'm one of those conservatives who believed that there should have been a war tax that every American paid and that means every American including the 48 % who pay no individual income taxes at all.
Well, of course there should be a war tax on every American. That's exactly how it should be done. We might be less quick on the trigger if we actually saw that we were paying for it. But the 48% you're talking about do pay taxes. They all pay payroll taxes, and social security taxes, and sales taxes. A lot of people that don't pay taxes don't have jobs. You can't very well pay for something with rocks. But unless you're living in the poverty level, we should all be subject to a war tax. I like it. This would pose a problem for some conservatives committed to never raise taxes, while at the same time generally supporting our miltary efforts. I suppose our war plans might be heavily debated since all of us would face a tax increase. I like that idea though.