… that “people will be hurt, jobs will be lost, and government services will be
seriously hampered”! (President Obama)
Did you hear John Boehner on the
airways whining about the cancellation of White House tours due to sequester
cuts? The best punch line Boehner could
offer was - “the Capital will be
open” (!?!?)
DAH!- of course the “Capital will be open” because its Tea
Partied Republican occupants
made sure that sequester cuts will not
affect their job security, their salaries, their staffs, their comprehensive
taxpayer-subsidized comprehensive health care, or their day to day operating budgets. They only care about bucking
the President, promoting their Tea Partied ideological fantasies and
not caring about us!
Tea Partied Republican Lawmakers just don’t
care about cuts and consequences…
CUTS
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CONSEQUENCES
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- more than 2.1 million government workers - teachers, firefighters, police officers, postal workers, and the like may be laid off, required to take furloughs and lose 20% of their pay
- thousands of veterans will not receive job counseling, and cuts affecting Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors will translate into 1,2000 fewer inspections of dangerous work sites.
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- more than 3.8 million people jobless for six months or longer could see their unemployment benefits reduced by as much as 9.4 percent
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- hospitals, doctors and other Medicare providers will see a 2 percent cut in government reimbursements
- automatic cuts will reduce Medicare spending by about $100 billion over a decade
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- Affordable Care Act’s assistance to small businesses will be cut.
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- 70,000 students enrolled in pre-kindergarten Head Start will be cut from the program
- 14,000 teachers will lose their jobs
- cuts will eliminate 7,200 teachers and aides serving students with special needs
- college costs could total $876 a year in new fees
- there will be fewer college work-study hours
- there will be reduced grants for students receiving federal aid
- cuts will impact 29 million student loan borrowers.
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- increased risks to consumers regarding food safety
- 2,100 fewer food safety inspections
- meat inspectors will be furloughed
- 2,100 fewer inspections at domestic and foreign facilities.
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- people arriving on international flights will experience delays at airport customs and immigration booths
- furloughs of air traffic controllers will kick in next month, and the nation’s busiest airports could be forced to close some of their runways.
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- limits on aircraft carriers patrolling the waters
- 15,000 teachers who work at US military dependent schools will be furloughed
- 800,000 defense department civilians will lose a day’s pay each week for more than five months
- the Army will cancel maintenance at depots which will force 5,000 more layoffs.
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- millions of taxpayers may not be able to get responses from IRS call centers and taxpayer assistance centers
- Layoffs and furloughs will result in delayed tax return receipts
- layoffs and furloughs could result in billions of dollars in lost revenue to the government complicating deficit reduction efforts.
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- sequestration cuts will have a disastrous impact on the environment.
- sequestration cuts will adversely impact air, water, energy, fish, wildlife and national parks.
- solar and wind power plants on federal lands could slow down.
- the government’s response to extreme weather events are on the chopping block.
- there will be a 9 percent cut to Hurricane Sandy relief activities.
- cuts will affect states across the country, including funding to ensure clean water and air quality, and funding that prevents pollution from pesticides and hazardous wastes.
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- cleanup of radioactive waste at nuclear sites across the country will be delayed
- cuts will postpone work at the department’s highest-risk sites.
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- fewer park rangers
- visiting hours at 396 national parks are likely to be cut
- thousands of seasonal workers looking for jobs would not be hired; visitors will encounter locked restrooms
- trash cans emptied less frequently.
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GOTTA CONTINUE TO SPEAK UP
WE deserve a vote…
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www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/.../the-sequester_n_2838259.html
2 hours ago – WASHINGTON -- The debate over sequestration this past week
has come down to two questions: Was the administration exaggerating the ...
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Sacramento Observer-3 hours ago
But Obama had put on the table $400
billion in health care cuts, mainly ... The
Education Department is also warning that the cuts will impact up ...
Washington Post (blog)-Feb 25,
2013
Graphic: A state-by-state guide to the sequester ... sheets detailing how the sequester cuts willimpact each state and the District of
Columbia as ...
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PBS NewsHour-Mar 1, 2013
To learn how the sequester
cuts will have impact on both the federal and local
levels, ... to the nitty-gritty of who might lose their job
for how long and what services would be cut. ... Social Security
checks will continue to go out.
A total of 100,000
people are expected to lose their jobs and many thousands more ... Cuts to
environmental funding will have national implications. ... As
reported in Clean Technica, federalbudget sequestration may
stall the ...
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