Comments on: Earth to New York Times: Please Show Us these “Deep Spending Cuts” You Keep Writing About

By: 411mania.com: Default - Newsflash – Politicians Are Lying About Dire Sequestration Consequences

Wed, 01 May 2013 14:45:45 +0000

[...] lower spending increases than originally planned. Here’s another chart on the same theme from Daniel J. Mitchell of the Cato [...]

By: Cut, Tax, and Pray | James Pethokoukis – the Conservative Top 10

Cut, Tax, and Pray | James Pethokoukis – the Conservative Top 10 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:41:25 +0000

[...] Earth to New York Times: Please Show Us these “Deep Spending Cuts” You Keep Writing About | Inte… [...]

By: ’1984′ has come and gone … or has it? « 4TH ST8

’1984′ has come and gone … or has it? « 4TH ST8 — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:43:11 +0000

[...] To Orwell the world of politics was a “sort of subatomic or non-Euclidean world” in which two and two may equal five. (Where a slowdown in the increase in spending is a savage budget cut.) [...]

By: A Change in Tune | lessbull.com

A Change in Tune | lessbull.com — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:29:18 +0000

[...] the sequester’s actual cuts to the U.S. government’s spending aren’t very serious might then explain why the President would appear to be changing his tune. [...]

By: Colorado School Official Courageously Rescues Community from Vicious 7-Year Old Terrorist | International Liberty

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:56:06 +0000

[...] about a bureaucrat who might need to give up doggie day care service for his pet because of make-believe “deep spending cuts,” I mentioned that we need something akin to a medal-of-honor award for bureaucrats who endure untold [...]

By: Top Ten Sequester Lies | Obamanation – Socialist Nation

Top Ten Sequester Lies | Obamanation – Socialist Nation — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:46:10 +0000

[...] sequester will merely slow spending increases. Even with the sequester, the 2013 budget will be larger than in 2012. The sequester will no more cut spending than shooting a bullet through shrubbery will reverse its [...]

By: Let’s Shed a Tear for those Under-Appreciated Bureaucrats Who Get Lavish Pensions and Live in $700K Homes | International Liberty

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:15:12 +0000

[...] I just mocked the New York Times last week for its reporting about supposed “deep spending cuts” and I also nailed the Washington [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:30:47 +0000

jlue – nail, meet hammer! Seriously, I couldn’t have said it any better.

By: Top Ten Sequester Lies

Top Ten Sequester Lies — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:52:41 +0000

By: My Picks |

My Picks | — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:06:13 +0000

[...] After weeks, of blaming Republicans for the sequestration procedure that he, himself crafted, the President and his sidekicks have taken their “chicken little” impressions to increasingly absurd heights. Read more in The White House Court Jesters of Sequester and for more on the “draconian spending cuts” read Earth to New York Times [...]

By: Earth to New York Times: Please Show Us these “Deep Spending Cuts” You Keep Writing About | International Liberty | jamesbbkk

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 05:27:46 +0000

[...] Earth to New York Times: Please Show Us these “Deep Spending Cuts” You Keep Writing About | Inte…. [...]

By: jlue

jlue — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:04:47 +0000

The saddest thing is that many of our younger readers and those who write for them do not even know they have been indoctrinated. They really think they have made their own decisions to be liberal left-wing propaganda machines. These are the ones who join our president in crying out against Fox News and wanting to see it shut down. The principle of a free press is troubling to many because they do not know what to do with an idea that is outside their box. Did you ever think the idea of cutting taxes could be sold to an American public as a “bad idea” and over-spending accepted as the “answer” to our economic problems? It is up-side-down thinking, but it has been sold because the propaganda machines know how to sell it. It is frightening to real economists because it never works, but they are no longer heard. Using phrases such as “balanced approach”, “fair share”, and “seeing that the rich do their part” have been so entrenched into many people’s minds they have forgotten that Congress raised taxes on the “rich” last year and that this did not satisfy the appetite of the left in any way or those who never get enough or spend enough. They need to read the “Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

By: Eric Alan Geller

Eric Alan Geller — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:28:41 +0000

Maybe because you spend your time lecturing propaganda machines instead of journalists?

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:24:51 +0000

You are correct. One needs a thorough understanding of a subject in order to teach. One just needs to read or hand out ditto’s in order to Profess.

I remember saying the US was dumbing down in the early 1990′s. Is this the result?

By: jlue

jlue — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:40:56 +0000

Eric, the most educated are barely literate. That is the problem with liberal government schools of today. Many high school teachers and most college professors are so busy indoctrinating they do not have time to teach.

By: More Obummer Lies: It’s His Sequester Monster | Tarpon's Swamp

More Obummer Lies: It’s His Sequester Monster | Tarpon's Swamp — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:22:26 +0000

[...] But not much, is really cut, as this chart from Dan Mitchell demonstrates: [...]

By: PD Quig

PD Quig — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:19:18 +0000

They should all be tarred and feathered, put in stocks with government-issued cream pies supplied for throwing in their faces.

By: esarsea

esarsea — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:47:19 +0000

Reblogged this on THE BS BLOG.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:13:56 +0000

I never thought I’d see the day when the American populace including it’s most educated would watch and condone while the country’s finances are decimated by $1trillion plus each year.

Folks, 4 years ago a “trillion” was a foreign word except for the derivatives market.

What the heck has happened to everyone?

By: Doom & Gloom Over Washington | AARON HILL’S NOTEBOOK

Doom & Gloom Over Washington | AARON HILL’S NOTEBOOK — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:07:54 +0000

[...] sequester, modest across-the-board cuts to federal government spending, is looming large on the horizon, and I couldn’t be [...]

By: myname ismeh

myname ismeh — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:19:23 +0000

A dollar today is not worth a dollar tomorrow. Accounting for inflation is not a bad thing to do.

By: Anil Petra

Anil Petra — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:07:03 +0000

Republicans should offer to hold spending constant in unadjusted dollars, if Democrats are so concerned about this “cut”.

By: PHA worker bee

PHA worker bee — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:57:48 +0000

Barry: I’m not a government employee so I would assume that the money that flows out of Washington to fund jobs like mine is less important to HUD than the money that stays in Washington to fund their own jobs.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:53:41 +0000

Obviously the laws of mathematics and finance don’t matter when you have an economy as large as the United State’s.

America has achieved what no one thought was possible…. the point where money does grow on trees.

If mathematics and financial laws DO matter then America’s enemy has already invaded her top offices.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:11:23 +0000

Reblogged this on This Got My Attention and commented: Trust but Verify: Show us the big cuts!

By: Dick Richards

Dick Richards — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:43:06 +0000

mike: The catch is that everyone in the Obama Administration and the media will do everything they can do to make sure people notice. They will quietly inform every affected federal worker that the way to handle this is slow-walk everything – make the public feel the pain so they’ll think twice about cutting again.

By: Barry Nobama

Barry Nobama — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:40:48 +0000

Dear PHA Worker:

According to your post, “With sequester, HUD is saying they will be paying out 69% of that rate.”

Why is HUD “saying” that? Could it possibly be that they want to reduce services in as visible and painful a manner as possible, for political purposes?

We know that the sequester involves only smaller increases, not actual cuts, so their budget for next year will actually RISE over the current year. Why, with an increased budget, should they be “forced” to make this kind of reduction? If the current management can’t run the program effectively with an increased budget over last year, let’s can them and get people in there who can do the job.

This is a perfect example of a deliberate attempt to hurt the public with unnecessary cuts in service in order to score political points. It’s reprehensible, and the people involved ought to be fired.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:24:09 +0000

seems to me their shoddy/advocacy reporting actually helps – once the solar system-ending $85b slash and burn has occurred and inevitably no one notices a thing, what low information voter is going to be alarmed the next time cutting budgets comes up?

By: Oh, that dreaded, awful sequester | Kyle Wingfield

Oh, that dreaded, awful sequester | Kyle Wingfield — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:02:26 +0000

[...] things in perspective, economist Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute (and a double Dawg) prepared this graph from Congressional Budget Office [...]

By: Vader

Vader — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 18:02:09 +0000

@hummer53:

“Why can’t some Rep and Conservative( I know) groups pool some money and buy some billboards across the country with just this graph. It basically makes the argument in one picture. Why make the argument so hard?”

Because roughly 47% of the voters aren’t capable of comprehending even this simple a graph?