Cut Here

The Sequester is supposed to trigger this week and I say bring it on.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

The Ragister, and Daniel Finney, swallowed without question the administrations angle on events.

Iowa's airports face loss of some services

Even though the Federal Aviation Administration annual budget for consultants, travel, and supplies is larger than the sequester cut.

And even if the cuts go into effect, the Department of Transportation will spend more money this year ($73.2 billion) than it spent last year ($72.6 billion).”

They're Washington cuts, paper cuts that don't actually hurt.

If your boss promised you a raise of $100 a month, but only gave you $50 per month, you wouldn't tell people you had to take a pay cut.

Wait, there's more...

How defense spending will grow under sequester cuts

The cuts are only to the rate of growth for the defense budget in coming years.  They are not actual cuts that make spending decline.

The $85 billion so-called spending cut is actually budget authority, not budget outlays.

And please remember that these so-called cuts come off a rising budget baseline in most cases. So the sequester would slow the growth of spending. They're not real cuts in the level of spending.

Cut Here, Cut Now, Cut For Real!

Real Meaning

Compromise is a word coming out of the mouths of the President (Obama Urges Republicans to Compromise) and Iowa Dummycrats (Dems back tax plan, say Branstad must compromise).

They keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

As for the Sequester and federal budget cuts (Cut Here), the Chicken Little's at the White House released, state by state, the impact the cuts would have.

It's rare, and nice, when the media actually do some work instead of report by press release.

Such is the case with the Omaha World-Herald -- Nebraska, Iowa officials still unsure of sequester cuts' effects

The White House being less than transparent?

INCONCEIVABLE!

Read Between The Lies

Giving up her fight to make Iowa an even better place to live, work, and raise a family, Christie Vilsack has gone Washington.

The Ragister wasn't sure how to spin it

Vilsack wins federal job helping kids with reading

or

Christie Vilsack takes federal post in Washington, D.C.

Vilsack started her new gig, with probably a six figure salary, on March 11, ten days after the first official day of sequester.

So much for the harmful automatic budget cuts that threaten hundreds of thousands of jobs.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

SequestHER.

Aside from joining The Pickle in the same city, Vilsack's role will focus on children’s reading skills, workforce development, and equitable access to education in crisis and conflict settings

It's surprising they would hire someone whose writings have been considered racist.

Is learning English a part of those skills?

You can bet that Christie won't be personally teaching any children -- I don’t like little kids rubbing my legs and pulling on my clothes going, ‘Teacher, teacher, teacher.

Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous

Every time CommieTommie Harkin and Nancy Pelosi open their mouths they show their ignorance.

And the scientific community is united in that fact.

Harkin keeps harping, even before the Senate Appropriations Committee, that the federal government doesn't have a spending problem, insisting it's a misallocation of money.

As I noted on Tuesday, The misallocation, is too much of our money going into the hands of the Spendocrats in Washington D.C.

At least Pelosi has moved on from her original comment, It is almost a false argument to say we have a spending problem.

Pelosi is now focused on a cut in congressional pay because of the looming sequester.

"I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do. I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded."

It's more accurate to say their work is do do and is not respected by 89% of the people polled.

Playing The Blame Game

Partaking in the official sport of Washington D.C., Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is blaming Congress for the furloughs of meat inspectors expected later this year.

It is believed about a third of USDA’s 100,000 employees may be affected by the furloughs.

The Pickle claims he has no flexibility and furloughs are the only way I can get to $52 million in savings.

Vilsack doesn't mention that One hundred and fifteen jobs have been posted since sequestration began for the Agriculture Department.

Now that's government efficiency for you and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Iowa's Senior Senator, Chuck Grassley, schooled Vilsack on the facts -- The president proposed the sequester more than 18 months ago. That’s a long time for the executive branch to get its ducks in a row to avoid furloughs that impact life, health or safety

As for the $52 million in savings, it isn't quite the pickle Vilsack thinks, he could root out waste and fraud the Agriculture Department Inspector general recommends and save $5.6 billion.

That's no small ball and paints a pretty picture. 

Not Again

Was the subject line of another annoying correspondence from Staci Appel-sauce for brains --

With Congress set to go on recess for the rest of the year at week’s end, we still do not have a long-term budget deal in place. Iowans can’t afford this do nothing Congress, but Congressman Latham and his allies seem determined to take run out the clock and bring us a step closer to another shutdown.

Actually, we probably can afford a "do nothing Congress" better than a Congress that continually spends more than it takes in and the scientific community is united in that fact.

So far through the first two months of fiscal 2014, the government has spent $612 billion and taken in $380 billion

Thanks in a large part to sequestration,  the federal deficit was down $61 billion, or more than 20 percent in the first two months of fiscal 2014.

Bipartisanship seeks to scuttle that with an agreement that partially repeal the sequester and raise agency spending to roughly $1.015 trillion in fiscal 2014 and 2015.

But the deal would do nothing to trim the debt, which is now larger, as a percentage of the economy, than at any point in U.S. history except during World War II. 

Appel continued her appeal with this paragraph --

Please join me today in demanding that Congress put forward a budget deal before they go home and make sure America doesn’t have to suffer through another shutdown.

Clicking the above link shows, once again, Miss Independent is in cahoots with other Dummycrat, including the Florida Democratic Party.