posted 03-04-2013 05:52 AM                  

Just wanted to let you know - today I received my Sequester
Survival Pack from the White House. It contained a parachute, an 'Obama Hope & Change' bumper sticker, a 'Bush's Fault' poster, a 'Blame Boehner' poster, a "Tax the Rich' poster, an application for unemployment, an application for food stamps, a prayer rug, a letter of assignation of debt to my grandchildren and a machine to blow smoke up my a$$.

All directions were in Spanish.

posted 03-04-2013 01:32 PM                  

I heard one janitor at the Congress building was released from employment,,and two other janitors had their hourly salary reduced.

posted 03-04-2013 02:23 PM                  

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Originally posted by ALLEY CAT:
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I heard one janitor at the Congress building was released from employment,,and two other janitors had their hourly salary reduced.

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Sequester spin: Obama’s false claim of Capitol janitors receiving ‘a pay cut’

http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/201 3/03/04/fact-check-obama-s-claims-about-capitol-s-janitors-security-guards-are-false

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/01/which-claim-from-obamas-friday-press-conference-was-rated-incorrect-by-wapo/[/URL]

http://freebeacon.com/fact-check-ob amas-claims-about-capitols-janitors-security-guards-are-false/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

http://www.politifact.com/curation/national/archive/

posted 03-04-2013 02:28 PM                  

REPORT: Obama's golf weekend with Tiger cost as much as 341 furloughed federal workers...

There is nothing just or virtuous about protecting a stale welfare state that is failing the people it is supposed to help."

1:52 PM, Mar 1, 2013 • By DANIEL HALPER

In a sharply written statement, Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama blasts President Obama for campaigning and not governing. He calls Obama's response to the sequestration "the most cynical behavior I have seen during my time in Washington."

Adds the senator, "Replacing the sequester would require the President to save $85 billion out of a $3,500 billion federal budget. One would think that any President would leap at the opportunity to make government more effective and responsive. But what does the President do instead? He says Republicans are ‘cutting vital services for children’ in order to ‘benefit the well-off and well-connected.’ This has been the strategy now for years: block any attempt to reform the government and then relentlessly attack the reformers. Does any lawmaker, reporter, or citizen believe that the only way to save taxpayer dollars is to hurt children, that every government program is effective and helpful and not one penny is wasted?"

Sessions is the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee.

"While the White House operatives may think this attack is clever, it betrays an astonishing elitism: the federal government is perfect and requires no reform. That is why they have no plan to make our government leaner and more efficient. The President had 18 months to develop reforms to improve the government, but instead he announced furloughs of federal workers as a political cudgel. Yet, his golf weekend at the yacht club with Tiger Woods cost taxpayers over a million dollars—enough money to save 341 federal workers from furlough," Sessions writes.