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the little president who cried wolf..

Steve

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Obama, his team struggling with accuracy when explaining impact of sequester cuts

President Obama and top administration officials are struggling with accuracy in explaining the impact of billions in federal budget cuts known as sequester that kicked in Saturday morning -- even getting called out by a Capitol Hill superintendent about furloughs for support staffers.

Carlos Elias, the Capitol Building superintendent, sent out a memo Friday reminding staffers that the current sequestration plan does not include “reductions in force or furloughs” and that “pay and benefit of each of our employees will not be impacted.”

Hours before the memo was released, the president, in what appears to be the administration’s attempt to maximize the potential impact of the cuts, said at a press conference: “Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.”


Last weekend, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told CBS “there are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can’t come back this fall." However, Duncan appeared to backpedaling Wednesday, coming up with just one example, a West Virginia county, and the disclaimer that “whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know.”

Officials in the state’s Kanawha County told The Washington Post that “transfer notices” were sent to at least 104 educators and they had more to do with how West Virginia allocates federal dollars designated for poor children.

PolitiFact, the Tampa Tribune’s fact-checking operation, has also reviewed officials’ sequester claims, concluding much has been “doomsday” and “worst-case-scenario” rhetoric.

I guess he don't get read the tale of the little boy that cried wolf growing up in Islamic Indonesia?

while it may be way to late,.. maybe someone should read Obama the tale of the boy who cried wolf ,... before Obama makes a complete fool of himself.. :? :???:
 

Steve

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The Sequester, And The Consequence Of Crying Wolf
Shaun Spearmon

Here we go again. Once more, we find ourselves on the eve of another crisis manufactured by our elected leader in Washington, D.C. Only this time, the majority of us aren’t buying it. According to a recent Pew Research poll, 55 percent of Americans either have no opinion on the looming sequester or would rather let automatic spending cuts go into effect.

Translation: After a series of fiscal crises where last-minute “solutions” score political points rather than address long-term challenges, the American people are over it.

Throughout the years, one of Aesop’s most famous fables, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, has taught children the consequence of leadership by manufactured crisis. After urgently responding to a shepherd boy’s numerous unwarranted cries for help, the villagers ignore the legitimate (and ultimately fatal) cry when help is actually needed.

If you weren’t paying attention to the sequestration debacle, never fear, we’ve got at least two more fiscal crises on deck in April and May. That’s two more opportunities to feel the ills of crisis fatigue and the leadership void created by it. We know what ultimately happened to the sheep when the boy cried wolf.



Crying wolf won't resolve sequester situation

Remember the story about the boy who cried wolf? To hear some tell it, that could be the battle cry of the Obama administration as it tries to muster public pressure on Republican members of Congress in the face of the upcoming sequester.

But the plan isn't working. First, the drop-dead date for the sequestration cuts was pushed back a couple of months. Minus a deal, they are supposed to go into effect Friday.

Second, in the absence of a deal, the public just doesn't seem to be riled up about the consequences of the sequester. Apparently, there are only so many end-of-the-world scenarios that will strike a nerve. And we've already gone through this drama several times.

So to squeeze Republican lawmakers, President Barack Obama and his team have been regularly trotting out all of the draconian impacts that will befall Americans should the sequester become reality.

Problem is, the scare tactics aren't necessarily accurate. And it looks like a public — weary of previous wolf calls — is less than impressed.

Crying wolf won't solve the problem. It surely didn't turn out well for the boy in the fable.



The President Who Cried Wolf... on Sequester

Peggy Noonan calls it government by “freakout.” You might consider it brinksmanship. It’s classic Obama; leadership by demagoguery.

By now, we all know the script only too well.

Threaten the populace with a calamity to end all calamities.

Insist that the only way to avert it is to give him what he wants.

Gin up public sentiment against those who would, by denying him what he wants, precipitate Armageddon.

What does Obama want? Jonah Goldberg says that Obama wants more tax increases:

Obama wants more tax hikes and thinks he can convince the country to accept them if the choice is between what he calls reasonable revenue increases and catastrophic cuts that will let people die in the streets, leave children to go hungry and illiterate, and allow poisoned food to sit rancid on supermarket shelves.

I agree, but only up to a point. It is more likely that Obama wants, above all else, to get his way. He wants to assert his authority over the opposition. He does not care to compromise or negotiate, because he does not know how. He wants to impose his will on his opponents because that is the only way he can feel like he is really in charge.

It is a portrait of the modern demagogue. By now, however, Obama’s sounding like the boy who cried wolf… once too often. Even if the looming sequester is a calamity, Obama is no longer a credible Paul Revere.

Jonah Goldberg offers a more biting satire:

We are just days away from a cataclysm of biblical proportions. The cuts foretold in the Budget Control Act of 2011 are young as far as prophecies go, but apparently they are every bit as terrifying as rivers of blood and plagues of locusts. Any day now we can expect White House spokesman Jay Carney to take to the podium and read a prepared statement: “And when he opened the seventh seal, there was a small decrease in the rate of increase in federal spending.”

Bullies and demagogues have this in common. They can never be placated by a single victory. Submit once and they will never let up until you submit again and again.

Obviously, the administration has important cards to play on sequestration. It will cut the services that are most visible and most vital. When something bad happens, as it will be hoping and expecting, it will blame Republicans. Its flunkies in the mainstream media will tar and feather the Republicans for whatever goes wrong, regardless of whether it has anything to do with sequester.


Goldberg summarizes the situation:

If an agency has a billion-dollar budget and someone proposes cutting a dollar from its scheduled increase in funding, that dollar will be the one earmarked for the screw needed to keep a bridge from collapsing on a grade school’s Thanksgiving parade.



a great read.. just to many points to show what a piece of crap Obama is.. http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-president-who-cried-wolf-on.html




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Tam

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I do not understand the US voters. How is sam h*ll can they keep supporting a guy that does not have enough support from his own party to pass a budget? He has no leadership abilities or he would not have to use scare tactics to get everything he wants. Everytime there is a budget deadline approaching he falls back to the same tactic of demonizing the GOP and telling people if he doesn't get what he wants ie TAX HIKES the world will stop existing as we know it.

He just signed the sequestration orders to CUT SPENDING yet he was out announcing he wants to provide FREE government funded preschool for everyone. MORE SPENDING. I heard today the study Obama is using to support his plan for FREE preschool was two studies dealing with less than 150 students that cost around $40,000 per student that proved you will save on the school drop out rate and crime rate if a child starts school at three verses kindergarden at 5. :roll:

It will not matter how much the tax payers are robbed of their wages he will not pay down the debt he will just find another freeby to keep people voting for his friggin entitlement rich party. :mad: The guy is out to bankrupt the US, there is no doubt about it and if he gets his and his big mouth wife's way you will not legally have a gun to stop him and his tax goons from picking your bones to pay for he next family vacation at a over priced holiday resort verses his own frigging Chicago mansion. :mad: :mad:

Just how many teachers could avoid getting a pink slip if the Obama's vacationed in Chicago verses Michelles and Barak's private jet liners flying them to Hawaii and other top rated vacation resorts around the world?
 

Traveler

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I listened to a few minutes of his speech, until I was too nauseated, and then a few questions from his chosen journalism disciples. The relationship going on there was nothing but a propoganda love fest of a "dear leader". If any of the Obammunists on here have a clip of that event proving otherwise, please play it.
 

hypocritexposer

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President Obama and top administration officials are struggling with accuracy in explaining the impact of billions in federal budget cuts known as sequester that kicked in Saturday morning -- even getting called out by a Capitol Hill superintendent about furloughs for support staffers.

Carlos Elias, the Capitol Building superintendent, sent out a memo Friday reminding staffers that the current sequestration plan does not include “reductions in force or furloughs” and that “pay and benefit of each of our employees will not be impacted.”

Though not directly mentioning Obama by name, Elias also said in the memo that a “high-ranking official said employees that clean and maintain the U.S. Capitol will receive a cut in pay.”

Hours before the memo was released, the president, in what appears to be the administration’s attempt to maximize the potential impact of the cuts, said at a press conference: “Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.”

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/02/obama-his-team-struggling-with-accuracy-when-explaining-impact-sequester-cuts/#ixzz2MRAYvSpK
 

gmacbeef

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Steve said:
Obama, his team struggling with accuracy when explaining impact of sequester cuts

President Obama and top administration officials are struggling with accuracy in explaining the impact of billions in federal budget cuts known as sequester that kicked in Saturday morning -- even getting called out by a Capitol Hill superintendent about furloughs for support staffers.

Carlos Elias, the Capitol Building superintendent, sent out a memo Friday reminding staffers that the current sequestration plan does not include “reductions in force or furloughs” and that “pay and benefit of each of our employees will not be impacted.”

Hours before the memo was released, the president, in what appears to be the administration’s attempt to maximize the potential impact of the cuts, said at a press conference: “Starting tomorrow everybody here, all the folks who are cleaning the floors at the Capitol. Now that Congress has left, somebody’s going to be vacuuming and cleaning those floors and throwing out the garbage. They’re going to have less pay. The janitors, the security guards, they just got a pay cut, and they’ve got to figure out how to manage that. That’s real.”


Last weekend, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told CBS “there are literally teachers now who are getting pink slips, who are getting notices that they can’t come back this fall." However, Duncan appeared to backpedaling Wednesday, coming up with just one example, a West Virginia county, and the disclaimer that “whether it’s all sequester-related, I don’t know.”

Officials in the state’s Kanawha County told The Washington Post that “transfer notices” were sent to at least 104 educators and they had more to do with how West Virginia allocates federal dollars designated for poor children.

PolitiFact, the Tampa Tribune’s fact-checking operation, has also reviewed officials’ sequester claims, concluding much has been “doomsday” and “worst-case-scenario” rhetoric.

I guess he don't get read the tale of the little boy that cried wolf growing up in Islamic Indonesia?

while it may be way to late,.. maybe someone should read Obama the tale of the boy who cried wolf ,... before Obama makes a complete fool of himself.. :? :???:

It's waaaaaay to late for that :!:
 
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