Sequester? NO DEAL!

[jslo]

43 million of a 3.6 trillion budget........"draconian"

[Bailey Guns]

43 million of a 3.6 trillion budget........"draconian"

Exactly. That's the equivalent of what the wife and I spend out of our yearly take home pay on a date night. In the grand budget scheme it means dick.

[hatidua]

Now it looks like there isn't going to be a deal, and the cuts are going to take effect...

Good, glad to hear it.

[bellavite1]

I am all for it.
Let's start trimming the fat.
Cut entitlement programs - good
Cut money to teachers brainwashing our kids - even better
Meals on Wheels fundings being cut? I'll send them a monthly check.

[Ronin13]

Okay can someone explain... they're cutting, but how is it 20% pay cut for DOD employees? And is it just DOD civilians, or is it actual troops getting cut as well? I don't understand- I read that 800,000 employees (Civilian) were seeing a 20% pay cut...

[sniper7]

Okay can someone explain... they're cutting, but how is it 20% pay cut for DOD employees? And is it just DOD civilians, or is it actual troops getting cut as well? I don't understand- I read that 800,000 employees (Civilian) were seeing a 20% pay cut...

I believe that to be BS rumors. I have heard non essential jos might see 2 days off a month without pay.

Prat least in the airline world they are talking cuts to small airport towers. Big deal, most of us learned how to fly without a control tower and the smaller cities that have a tower...I would say 9/10 of them have no need for it. There are a ton of ATC controllers that are on break while others are working. I don't know the exact but I think it is something like a half hour or an hour on and then a half hour or so off. Some places getting stressful and require man eyes watching the operation. These are essential ad won't be cut. They will figure it out and the airlines will continue to fly. Most delays you see are caused by the amount of traffic or weather. Doesn't matter how man controllers are on, there are only so many slots available into a certain airport.

The TSA I believe could see a 50% reduction or damn close to it and still function just fine.

I don't know much about the DOD guys or the military guys do I don't have much of an opinion on it. Other than I see a ton of practice flying, practice approaches, practice maneuvers, etc etc. I think that could probably be cut down a percentage (not sure the amount), and things would still be fine. Some essential flying such as what Hoser does shouldn't see a cut. They use that every year, it is essential.

Now the fighter guys practicing air to air combat I think, as badass as it is, could see a cut. I don't see too many air to air combat situations anymore...

Airport grants and federal money need to be scrutinized with a microscope. There is a masssssssssssiiivvveeee fucking waste of tax dollars. Little airports that don't need brand new terminals, giving contracts to the lowest bidder only to have the job done shitty and be done by a good contractor shortly after. This is a problem with both republicans ad democrats trying to eek out money from deals for their local governments or airports to say they are going to draw in business with a multi-million dollar terminal and an extra runway etc etc.

This is just a small piece of the puzzle, but it accounts for a ton of money.

[Teufelhund]

A genius D-Rep. from. . . drumroll please. . . . California (I know, shocker) has this to say about this catastrophic event:

“If sequestration takes place, that’s going to be a great setback. We don’t need to be having something like sequestration that’s going to cause these job losses — over 170 million jobs that could be lost,” Waters said.

From the article at the Blaze:

There’s just one problem with her estimation — and it’s a big one. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are only 134 million people working in the United States. So by Waters’ estimation, the sequester cuts would be so apocalyptic that nearly 40 million people who don’t have jobs would become even more unemployed.