Senate SAVES the airports!!!!

SENATE SAVES THE AIRPORTS...
HEAD START, MEALS ON WHEELS, CANCER PATIENTS STILL GROUNDED

Wellll, I don't know about the rest of you, but I am SO relieved that the Senate made sure that THEY weren't inconvenience at the airports. (I guess one of them figured out that Sequestrations have consequences.) Something tells me they'll work out "White House Tours" pretty quickly too.

Of course those things that don't affect them personally--like Head Start programs for children, school-lunch programs to make sure kids don't go hungry, "Meals on Wheels" program to make sure seniors don't go hungry, cancer patient's drug-subsidies, military education vouchers and programs, etc.--Meh... Not so much.

But *I* will sleep better tonight knowing that the Senator's have made sure they won't me inconvenienced at the airports....

(Insert standard "It's Obama's fault" here: ________________________________)

OK... that works for me... the whole sequestration plan came out of Obama's office.

That was easy.

AHEM...my how soon we forget... go back to July of 2011 and review what was happening...I believe you will find it was the R's that proposed the original plan(thinking it would be the "end" of the back and forth negotiating.) MUCH SUPPORT
from the R's.

You people wanting to make it partisan here are missing the big issue. The FAA has had its budget doubled in the past decade updating the system to depend less on humans and actual flight volume is down by 10%. By making furloughs the biggest budget cuts for the FAA, it is trying to make it hurt the worst.

Just grants flexibility, which all departments should have had.

And anyone notice the DC airports were already exempt from the furloughs?

homeagain wrote: AHEM...my how soon we forget... go back to July of 2011 and review what was happening...I believe you will find it was the R's that proposed the original plan(thinking it would be the "end" of the back and forth negotiating.) MUCH SUPPORT
from the R's.

Say that enough times... it's still won't become truth....

Budget sequestration in 2013

"In the United States federal budget, the sequester or sequestration refers to budget cuts to particular categories of federal spending that began on March 1, 2013 as an austerity fiscal policy. The cuts were enacted by the Budget Control Act of 2011..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequester_(2013 )

The Budget Control Act.

"The solution came from White House National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling, who, on July 12, 2011, proposed a compulsory trigger that would go into effect if another agreement was not made on tax increases and/or budget cuts equal to or greater than the debt ceiling increase by a future date." [/b][/i]

"The House passed the Budget Control Act[1] on August 1, 2011 by a vote of 269–161. 174 Republicans and 95 Democrats voted for it, while 66 Republicans and 95 Democrats voted against it.[14]"

"The Senate passed the Act on August 2, 2011 by a vote of 74–26. 6 Democrats and 19 Republicans voted against it.[23]"

President Obama signed the bill shortly after it was passed by the Senate.[14] In doing so, the president said, "Is this the deal I would have preferred? No. But this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need, and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year."[13]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_Control_Act_of_2011

And President Obama said "But this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need..." [/b][/i] The above information seems rather clear to me.

I still support sequestration, but I think the different agencies need more control on what they cut.

Well... put this topic to bed. Obama should be more careful with what his office produces and what he signs. He's not shaking this one off so easily.

Too bad the FAA funds have been siphoned off into the general fund like Social Security

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/hea ... /apl/aatf/

Simple stuff.....all agencies have the flexibility to move funds between accounts.....done ALL the time.....on a rare occassion Congress will specify an amount in a FY to be spent in a specific area......does happen but rare. SO Obama slimes another issue to get on stage.........ALL BS as usual. BUT when the clerks need $$$$ it is typical to threaten the public to gain via press more $$$$$.....sheep seem to be to stupid to "figger" it out.....sheep in the slaughter.

IMHO 20-40 % of ALL federal employees can be terminated with NO impact.....and the trillions spent to militarize the cops should be pulled......we obviously are no safer after 911......donut shops excluded of course......