March 1, 2013
In today’s Morning Bell, Heritage Foundation President-Elect Jim DeMint boils down the complicated issue of sequestration with a simple analogy:
Suppose you desperately needed to lose weight but had a Big Mac with fries and a Coke staring you in the face. You could take your need to diet seriously and say, “No thanks, I’ll have a salad.” Or you could decide to reduce the Big Mac meal by 2 percent—pushing aside a couple French fries and gobbling up the rest.
If you took Option B, how do you think that “diet” would work out for you? Well, that, my friends, is the tale of the sequester that hit us this morning.
Read the whole thing, including DeMint’s call for “a true spending diet.”
Wes - March 1, 2013
Friends, while the threats regarding Second Amendment rights are real there is another, just as real called The Sequester. We are witnessing a massive government sponsored, media driven scare campaign regarding cuts in everything from airports to meals on wheels. Politicians should be ashamed to be a part of the massive scare tactics being used by the government regarding the reduction of spending increases within the so-called Federal “Budget”. So, a reduction of less than 3% in spending Increases means we can’t fund what is already in place? That is impossible to believe. Most people don’t understand the role that government subsidies play in our lives or the extreme difficulty politicians have in reducing them even for the benefit of all.
Our representatives should be ashamed of being part of such a inefficient failing administration of public trust.
Cut the real spending amounts by 1% each year for the next 10 years and people who’s lives are being supported by taxpayer subsidies will adjust and become more self-supporting. Do not increase your “credit limit” on the taxpayer credit card by which my grandchildren will be enslaved.