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No, the cuts are a good thing

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BEKennedy

v I'm not sure

The cut back should include entertainment annuities for political figures & their tax payers' paid trips for them & their families & friends to wherever they choose to vacation. The tax payers don't even get that luxury. Pay for your own adventures.

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DrSilicon voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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tortdog

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Only if the President wants them to be bad.

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DanielZ voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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Obsidion voted

v I'm not sure
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May 14
UrbanRepub voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
May 13

MongoAPillager

v I'm not sure

they will only be as bad s obama and the media want them to be

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May 13
LilliB voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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May 13
Fyi1957 endorsed standout

v Yes, as bad or worse
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May 12

URBS

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

First these are not CUTS. They are decreases in added spending. So they are not cuts to anything but the expansion of spending.

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May 11

Goose

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

This man is a bigger liar than Nixon and Clinton combined.

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May 11

rbaker49

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

This has been in the works for quite a while. Hell that's why i live out in the dessert.

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May 11

oldsolder

v Yes, as bad or worse

Hey I am one of those Civil Servants being furloughed, I'm one of the guys that Obama is talking about. I am being furloughed 16 hours per pay period, that's over a thousand dollars a month gone out of my pay check. I still have to pay $480. a month to keep my insurance up for my family. I have cut way back on expenses, I have had to pull my son out of his after school activities and re-budgeted how much we spend on groceries among many other things as well. This is already effecting many local economies, it certainly is around Travis AFB where I work, not to mention it's effecting our ability to do our jobs on the base.

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GunPolitics endorsed Bobolinsky

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 9
cpt_chernobyl voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
May 9

N0rthman

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

However, Obama will make sure it appears to hurt more than it should, and media frenzy will be all over it like flies on cow chips.

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May 8
pmonteen voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 6

JustTheFacts

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It's a damn joke ... $1 trillion in cuts but still spending $3.6 trillion per year :(

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May 5

NoAmnestyEVER

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Once again, the Demoncrats are trying to strike fear into the dumb sheep who blindly drink his Koolaid. He's found all the right cuts to punish the American citizens and drive them into a false sense of fear as he always does. Liberals are despicable people

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May 4
Keystroke voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
May 3

MarkColwell

v Yes, as bad or worse

We have a much greater revenue problem, than we have a spending problem. I'm sure there are some cuts that could be made (like corporate welfare) however the focus should be on increasing government revenue by lowering unemployment, raising taxes on the rich and forcing corporations to pay thier fair share.

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May 2
gherlone voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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May 1
Atcman voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr 30
GvtMule endorsed Bobolinsky

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr 30
PaulBartomioli endorsed S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Apr 30
darkmoonman endorsed WMCOL

v Yes, as bad or worse
Apr 30
LonePalm endorsed VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Apr 30

oldman75

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

If congress excludes the sequestration that the sequester demands then it is bad .If their vacation wasn't scheduled I doubt if they would have exempted ATC's from sequestration. Across the board cuts means what it says.Everybody is subject to furloughs,not just the unpopular federal employees ,.

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Apr 30

Jason2012

v No, the cuts are a good thing

The only reason that the decrease in the proposed increase, aka the cuts, is even noticed, is because Barack is creating another crisis and quite frankly, most people do not care like he is trying to say they do. Its kind of like his magic 90% number of Americans who want more gun control. What are they polling 9 our of 10 democrats and the 10th one is on heavy prescription pain killers. These people need to get real, since when is it patriotic to do all of this spending, didn't BO get onto Bush when he was first running, that this kind of borrowing and spending was unpatriotic. Den of thieves, all of them.

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Apr 30
loganrollo voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Apr 30
engineerdva voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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Apr 29
treedcat25 endorsed ctc

v Yes, as bad or worse
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Apr 29
Big_jeff voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr 29
Sobrefluf endorsed WMCOL

v Yes, as bad or worse
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Apr 28

digitalshaman

v No, the cuts are a good thing

Too bad we're denied a chance to vote on where these cuts are made. They're a start in the right direction, but I disagree with some of the places they've been implemented.

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Apr 28
Mnementh voted

v I'm not sure
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Apr 27
blueberrysyrup voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr 27
toledodude voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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Apr 26
kma367 voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr 25
buckilaked voted

v Yes, as bad or worse
Apr 25
joyshusband voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Apr 25

Canoochee

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

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Apr 22
aladinsane endorsed S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
Apr '13
nomoretaxes voted

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr '13
uratoon endorsed mimi57

v No, it's a manufactured crisis
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Apr '13
jdee516 voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
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Apr '13
woogy1 voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing
Apr '13
BroomeUnder voted

v Yes, as bad or worse
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Apr '13
Bob_in_Rico voted

v I'm not sure
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Apr '13
Cluster0ne voted

v No, the cuts are a good thing

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BEKennedy

v I'm not sure

The cut back should include entertainment annuities for political figures & their tax payers' paid trips for them & their families & friends to wherever they choose to vacation. The tax payers don't even get that luxury. Pay for your own adventures.

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tortdog

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Only if the President wants them to be bad.

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May 13

MongoAPillager

v I'm not sure

they will only be as bad s obama and the media want them to be

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May 12

URBS

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

First these are not CUTS. They are decreases in added spending. So they are not cuts to anything but the expansion of spending.

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May 11

Goose

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

This man is a bigger liar than Nixon and Clinton combined.

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May 11

rbaker49

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

This has been in the works for quite a while. Hell that's why i live out in the dessert.

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May 11

oldsolder

v Yes, as bad or worse

Hey I am one of those Civil Servants being furloughed, I'm one of the guys that Obama is talking about. I am being furloughed 16 hours per pay period, that's over a thousand dollars a month gone out of my pay check. I still have to pay $480. a month to keep my insurance up for my family. I have cut way back on expenses, I have had to pull my son out of his after school activities and re-budgeted how much we spend on groceries among many other things as well. This is already effecting many local economies, it certainly is around Travis AFB where I work, not to mention it's effecting our ability to do our jobs on the base.

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May 11

Goose

Oh, do you mean you are one of those "non-essential government employees" who stays home whenever there's a budget deadlock?

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May 12

Goose

@oldsolder - I served in the USMC three years, including through one government shutdown. We GIs didn't get laid off. We just worked without pay. Does that answer you?

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May 12

oldsolder

@Goose Three years? Wow, my bad, I did twenty-two plus years active duty and retired an E-8 and now work in civil service as a WS-13 step 5. Got news for you, you may have gone through a government shutdown in your long career but you still got paid, so don't try and lead others that may be reading this to think you just simple worked for free because it didn't happen. In three years you would have barely finished your training before you left service which tells me that you were more of a burden to the Corp than an asset, but I bet you got your GI bill didn't you?

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May 12

Goose

@oldsolder - We worked without pay during the shutdown. A lot of us we broke. Yes we got our backpay later. You can say I was a burden, but I was a burden that the "Career Planner" wanted to see reenlist. You asked if I had paid any dues. I was answering. It's too bad you have to get laid off while we find money to give free F-16s to Egypt. That bunch has some strange priorities. Ans that's the problem - their priorities, not a lack of funds.

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N0rthman

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

However, Obama will make sure it appears to hurt more than it should, and media frenzy will be all over it like flies on cow chips.

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May 6

JustTheFacts

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It's a damn joke ... $1 trillion in cuts but still spending $3.6 trillion per year :(

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May 5

NoAmnestyEVER

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Once again, the Demoncrats are trying to strike fear into the dumb sheep who blindly drink his Koolaid. He's found all the right cuts to punish the American citizens and drive them into a false sense of fear as he always does. Liberals are despicable people

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May 3

MarkColwell

v Yes, as bad or worse

We have a much greater revenue problem, than we have a spending problem. I'm sure there are some cuts that could be made (like corporate welfare) however the focus should be on increasing government revenue by lowering unemployment, raising taxes on the rich and forcing corporations to pay thier fair share.

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Apr 30

oldman75

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

If congress excludes the sequestration that the sequester demands then it is bad .If their vacation wasn't scheduled I doubt if they would have exempted ATC's from sequestration. Across the board cuts means what it says.Everybody is subject to furloughs,not just the unpopular federal employees ,.

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Apr 30

Jason2012

v No, the cuts are a good thing

The only reason that the decrease in the proposed increase, aka the cuts, is even noticed, is because Barack is creating another crisis and quite frankly, most people do not care like he is trying to say they do. Its kind of like his magic 90% number of Americans who want more gun control. What are they polling 9 our of 10 democrats and the 10th one is on heavy prescription pain killers. These people need to get real, since when is it patriotic to do all of this spending, didn't BO get onto Bush when he was first running, that this kind of borrowing and spending was unpatriotic. Den of thieves, all of them.

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Apr 28

digitalshaman

v No, the cuts are a good thing

Too bad we're denied a chance to vote on where these cuts are made. They're a start in the right direction, but I disagree with some of the places they've been implemented.

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Apr 25

Canoochee

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

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Mar '13

RETUSAF95

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

It's not a trillion, more like 80 billion.

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Mar '13

Thegrif

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

No, just more scare tactics from OzBama, the wizard of Candy Land.

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Mar '13

neopatriot

v No, the cuts are a good thing

but we need a balanced approach of bigger budget cuts and matching reductions in taxes. Anyone who actually takes the time to look at exactly what they are cutting will be for about 99% of the cuts but cutting any govt spending without reducing taxes during a time of stagnant (at best) economic growth will cause the economy to contract and more jobs will be lost because of it. It is reducing taxes on consumers that will stimulate the economy not trying to balance a budget and pay a national debt that we will never be able to pay with our debt based money system.

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Mar '13

Bgreen4228

v I'm not sure

Obama agreed to them an signed them into law. Now the suequester he says will be doomsday for America. Even with these cuts the politicians are only cutting about ten % of the total budget so instead of a $1.4 Trillon deficit this year we can have a $1.2 Trillon deficit. That's not progress.

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Mar '13

tomincali

with his administration picking where to cut is the problem. they are doing this on the shamnesty with their free ride for illegal aliens and trying to open the border for starters. their own checks will not be cut showing it was their plan all along.

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Sabio

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

"never let a manufactured crisis go to waste" right?

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S-N-A-F-U

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

The Quote of the Decade.....: "The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better." ~ Senator Barack H. O...

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Feb '13

VVP

v No, the cuts are a good thing

The sequester is a good thing. Not for the spending cuts exactly, but the things they cut which were previously thought untouchable along with actual tax increases that are in fact needed. If there is a way out of this, its not going to be through continuing to stone wall with arms akimbo saying "this is off the table"

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Feb '13

PoliticalSpice

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Obama is trying to scare republicans by talking up the impact on military and scare democrats by pointing to cuts in programs like head start, food inspections and funding for national parks. Its just a tactic those in congress to restore money and continue the status quo, especially military spending. The cuts will cause some problems, but are the only way to get any signifigant cuts to military budgets. I support the sequester. The programs people miss the most will be reinstated piece meal by congress. That will force those spending our tax money to be more selective in which programs they re-instate and which they are allowed to die. Not only will it save money, i...

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Feb '13

mimi57

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

I doubt almost everything the man says, all he has done is use scare tactics and 'invent' more ways to distract and confuse the 'masses'. This is just one more tactic, and it's amazing to me that people can't see through him. All he has done is spend our money and he doesn't care that you can't spend your way out of debt, he just keep taxing us and handing out entitlements...he's a failure, and we are sinking like the Titanic.

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Feb '13

WMCOL

v Yes, as bad or worse

Definitely worse for those millions of people who see direct cuts to their pay. That 1% is who Obama is talking about. Ask anyone who sees a cut in their pay and benefits if it is worse. Only a fool would say no. Rush sophistry comes to mind.

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Feb '13

BelinKS

v Yes, the cuts are too sweeping

I again say, don't make cuts to domestic spending before all cuts are made of giving money to other countries. They are not our country's responsibility! The citizens of The United States of America are! We need to be able to take care of our own before even thinking about giving one cent to another country.

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Feb '13

justapirate

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

So, let me get this straight. We're gonna roll back the budget to where it was a couple years ago. That's STILL an ungodly amount the government is going to be spending. Here in my house the budget has shrunk 80% of what it was three years ago and we still buy our groceries, pay our taxes and own our home and the government says it can't run with cuts that are truthfully a drop in the bucket. I call BS.

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Feb '13

Bobolinsky

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

The "$1 Trillion" in spending cuts would only happen over 10 years and only if Congress doesn't pass a budget in the meantime. . The real debate is about $85 Billion in cuts this year. . Now, considering that our federal government spent about $3.5 Trillion last year... . $86B / $3.5T = 2.4% . Never mind that the "spending cuts" are actually just decreases in increases of spending and not actual decreases in spending... . We can't scrimp and save 2.5 cents on the dollar?

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Feb '13

ithink

v No, the cuts are a good thing

Yesterday and again in today's paper, I saw the stories that the cuts won't be noticed by most Americans at least not for a few months. The cuts aren't going to cause the crisis Obama wants. They are going to be implemented and most won't notice.

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Feb '13

AlexMIA

v No, it's a manufactured crisis

Now the sequester is a trillion $? This story changes more than one of my fishing stories!

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