Because it will show that we can survive a cut. The next thing you know, the people will want a 5% cut, then 10%, then 25%... Before you know it, the size of government has shrunk to a normal size, the budget is balanced and the debt is paid off.
But, what is most important, is that it will show that the democrat's mantra of every problem can be solved with a tax is now, and always has been, BS.
Is the Sequester a Big Deal?
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2013/02/26 13:00:00
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House Speaker John Boehner said today that the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester could still be averted.
"Hope springs eternal,” he said at an afternoon press conference.
He and other members of House leadership said that there was still time for President Barack Obama to meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Senate Democrats to work out a deal. The sequester is scheduled to begin on Friday.
Boehner repeated a charge by House Republicans that they had already passed two bills to deal with the sequester on which the Senate had not voted.
"We shouldn't have to act a third time before the Senate begins their work,” he said.
The House leaders criticized the president for holding campaign-style events instead of working on solutions in Washington.
Obama is scheduled to travel to Virginia on Tuesday, the latest in a series of events staged by the White House to try to pin the blame for the looming cuts on congressional Republicans.
“This is not time for a road-show President, but this is a time to look for someone who will lead and work with us because we are willing to work with them to solve America’s problems,” House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that the president is falsely portraying the sequester as a choice between letting criminals loose on the street and allowing homeland security to suffer if he doesn’t get his tax increases.
“This is a false choice, Cantor said. “The president has been engaging in this rhetoric of a false choice for weeks now.”
Earlier on Monday, Obama said in remarks before the National Governor’s Association that “These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off at any time with just a little bit of compromise.”
"Hope springs eternal,” he said at an afternoon press conference.
He and other members of House leadership said that there was still time for President Barack Obama to meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Senate Democrats to work out a deal. The sequester is scheduled to begin on Friday.
Boehner repeated a charge by House Republicans that they had already passed two bills to deal with the sequester on which the Senate had not voted.
"We shouldn't have to act a third time before the Senate begins their work,” he said.
The House leaders criticized the president for holding campaign-style events instead of working on solutions in Washington.
Obama is scheduled to travel to Virginia on Tuesday, the latest in a series of events staged by the White House to try to pin the blame for the looming cuts on congressional Republicans.
“This is not time for a road-show President, but this is a time to look for someone who will lead and work with us because we are willing to work with them to solve America’s problems,” House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said that the president is falsely portraying the sequester as a choice between letting criminals loose on the street and allowing homeland security to suffer if he doesn’t get his tax increases.
“This is a false choice, Cantor said. “The president has been engaging in this rhetoric of a false choice for weeks now.”
Earlier on Monday, Obama said in remarks before the National Governor’s Association that “These cuts do not have to happen. Congress can turn them off at any time with just a little bit of compromise.”
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keymanjim 2013/02/26 14:09:27
And, yes as they show what a lack of concern the democrats really have for this country. I hope a lot of voters will wake up and realize that Obama and gang could have prevented this.
It's the first time government will actually CUT SPENDING, not just "limit growth," in forever.
She's filling a cop's position. Top cop, in charge of homeland security. A person who should be taking orders from the White House and congress, not setting policy.
We don't hear the Chief of Naval Operations running at the mouth about the Navy sinking, due to sequestration. We don't hear the chief of the CIA prophesying doom and gloom. The director of the FBI isn't in the headlines, forecasting bank robberies and kidnappings.
But, Napolitano? That mouthy bitch is in the news every day. She has turned a bunch of illegal aliens loose, in a gesture to convince Americans that she doesn't have enough money, and that a cut in funding will make us less secure.
God, I want that bitch RUN OUT OF GOVERNMENT!! She is a loose cannon, with an agenda of her own, that has NOTHING to do with homeland defense!
The debt has been a big deal, all of my lifetime.
This "sequesteration" is his baby anyway. He wants to see the country fail. Anyone who says otherwise, is ignorant (not informed on what is really happening).
One way will finally get them to cut stuff. So yes a big deal.
The amount cut is only 2.5% of the yearly spending, so no not a big deal.
The world is watching us and shaking their heads.
This GOP is ruining our Nation, get rid of them!!!!!!!!
so where is the budget from the dems?
its been over four years and counting since the senate has passed a budget.
Congress does that.
Obama has failed at some things, but you can't lay the lack of a budget at his feet. Everything we see in ragards to the sequester is theater, play acting for the benefit if ignorant voters.
More than 95 percent of top U.S. economists believe growth is "likely to be negatively affected" by the automatic federal spending cuts that are scheduled to kick in Friday, according to the latest survey by the National Association for Business Economics.