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Originally Posted by Air&Road
Hmm.... I can't find it. Would you please help me find in what I wrote where I indicated that I did not want them cutting anything that effected me? I'll help YOU. I did NOT in ANY WAY, suggest such a thing.
Yes, I do indeed propose that ALL agencies have their budgets cut by 2 1/2%. It's REALLY difficult to see how anyone could NOT understand what I wrote.
I DO like your eliminating the elephant from the party analogy though. The only problem is that they need to go WAY beyond that in their cuts. They need to eliminate the parties altogether. If folks want to go to the park, spread out their sheets and have a self funded picnic, they can have all the parties they want, but it's insane for the gooberment to fund the parties. The parties to be cut, should ALSO include Barack & Micheles hell for expen$ive golfing and other vacations. If they want to put together a convoy of their SUV's and truck over to the muny for nine holes, NO PROBLEM! Flying Air Force One at $180k per hour? Uh-uh. They and all other politicians regardless of party should be funding their own vacations.
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I have no opinion about the event one way or the other. The interesting part of the sequestor is that rather than cutting the rate of growth across the board, which would have never been noticed, he did all these HIGHLY VISIBLE cuts, so as to punish the American people in a way to draw attention to his political motives.
Shame on him.
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Sorry, I can't buy that. They could cut 2 1/2% from the budget of EVERY gooberment agency, and except for the political squealing, no one would know the difference. What gooberment organization could NOT find a way to operate on 2 1/2 % less? There's so much fat in every one of them, that there would be a way.
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The inference here is that a lot of your usual outage stems from being bothered in the first place, and that you would prefer cuts that in no way are noticable. You have a problem with fleet week being cancelled which will undeniably save money, yet on the same hand, you demand massive cuts to all government organizations.
You should be happy it was cancelled, its gonna save a heck of a lot of money from the Navy's budget now that sequestration has forced an analysis of where money should be spent a little closer. This is money that the Navy will use for some other purpose without asking for more, as dynalow has already pointed out.
If you were going to complain about something, it should be a legitimate complaint, IE, fleet week promotes major tourism in each city it visits, which is an undeniable boom for local economies, and is the money saved by cancelling the tour greater than the money lost by lack of tourist traffic?
instead, as usual, you focus entirely on building a preposterous case against Obama for his choosing public things to cut to humiliate the American people, as if he had direct control over the navy's budgeting decisions during the sequestration. In your zest of playing the blame game, you give the guy way more credit than is due.