The Sequester is nothing more than small decrease in the rate of increase in federal spending OVER 10 YEARS. President Obama should be the one to choose where the $85 billion in cuts should come from THIS YEAR since THE SEQUESTER was HIS IDEA TO BEGIN WIT

Observe the "Latest Post" on the right side of the National poltics screen. "By Munster", "By Munster", "By Munster"...ad nauseum. This guy MUST know EVERYTHING there is to know about EVERYTHING.

Lantham started to go that way also, until I suggested that something he posted might result in a visit by the ATF&E. He THEN backed off!

Marietta Times; Take your Munster and stick him. I'm DONE HERE!

That's what I call impeccable leadership....NOT.

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees will get a partial reprieve from the work furloughs imposed by the automatic across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester, with their number of unpaid days off reduced to 14 from 22 between now and October. If they takes these as vacation days they will miss no pay.

Bill signing locks in sequester, freezes federal pay rates

by Josh Hick

"Cracker (pejorative)"

"Cracker is a racist term used to denigrate southern European-Americans."

(Wikipedia)

Polly want a sequester? ABC, CBS and NBC are 'squawking parrots'

By Jennifer Harper

The Washington Times

Sequester Polly !

As sequester furloughs loom, federal workers turn to local union leaders

By Steve Hendrix

The Washington Post

The fact is moderation thinks the sequester will follow a well defined itinerary. Have you shifted your non-support away from the workers freedom to choose whether to participate in a labor organization as a condition of employment?

The fact is,riki, that the sequester will follow a well defined itinerary. Have you shifted your support away from the sequester ?

Golly, moderation, as a union affiliate of 30+ years, you don't even support the workers freedom to choose whether to participate in a labor organization as a condition of employment.

Wonder why?

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(Ohioans for Workplace Freedom)

Golly, riki, you don't even support government worker employement.

MAKING IT HURT: $500M for Palestinians, But Fed Workers Get Furloughs (foxnews)

A reliance on off-shore tax havens. Exploiting global differences in accounting standards. The first principle, which effectively allows companies to off-set profits against previous losses, is well established, says Iain Stewart, a partner with the accountancy firm KPMG.”

How taxpayers have subsidized Murdoch and Fox News Posted on February 14, 2011 by jeffpelline “One of the things that I have been thinking about is that News Corp. (probably) gets far more tax subsidy than NPR through tax writeoffs. If Rupert Murdoch agrees to forgo any tax writeoffs than maybe we can talk about removing public funding from NPR,” as one observer notes.

Throughout the years, The Economist and others “dug deeper” to “out” Murdoch: “A (1999) report in the Economist newspaper offers an intriguing update. It states that in the four years to 30 June last year, Mr. Murdoch’s News Corporation and its subsidiaries paid only A$325m (£128m) in corporate taxes worldwide. That translates as 6% of the A$5.4bn consolidated pre-tax profits for the same period.

“By comparison another multi-national media empire, Disney, paid 31%. … “However, analysts suggest Mr Murdoch’s team broadly employ three strategies:

Tax relief claimed on debt interest repayments. A reliance on o

Cut Big Bird or the F-35 fighter jet, since neither Big Bird or the F-35 appear ready for flight in the near future, I say we go with the failed F-35 program and have fully staffed control towers and Big Bird.

Dream on Munster. Dream on.

BeRight you big meany, Big Bird is for the CHILDREN and its all about the CHILDREN (who we are stealing from). Speaking of which, if we could keep those Obama girls out of the Bahamas, we would have enough to fund the school children to visit the White House. But I digress

If we cut funding for Big Bird, you can keep every control tower in the USA fully staffed. So do you want to keep Big Bird or the Air Traffic Control Towers and airline safety?

If we cut funding for Big Bird, you can keep every control tower in the USA fully staffed. So do you want to keep Big Bird or Air Traffic Control and airline safety?