Something uncommon happened yesterday. I saw one of those facebook groups that I really felt a kinship for, one that deserved my time and effort to join. The group is called, “One Million Americans For A Second Sequester.” Since the first Sequester, or, “Nightmare On Sequester Street,” as it’s been called, is really just the first necessary baby step which generally leads the nation to the concept of starting to turn ourselves somewhat towards the right general direction. At the beginning of the video embedded as a part of this post, we’ll see Bill Whittle point to a graph that compares previously projected federal spending with the figures adjusted for the sequester. As Scott Ott, a member of Bill Whittle’s Trifecta team quipped in a previous video utilizing the very same graph, “notice how the two lines very nearly separate.” In fact, the more astute of you will notice that the sequestration line does not in fact decline in its height, but continues to actually show an increase in spending.
We are, at the time that I am writing this essay, two full business weeks into the dreaded sequestration. Nothing in my life has changed. Nothing in the life of anyone I know has changed. The traffic lights continued working this morning, as were the traffic cops still, all of them, on the job. Airplanes are still flying overhead, being controlled by air traffic controllers, and the highways have construction crews still busy with the task of screwing up my morning commute.
Untouched, and by the way not even slightly threatened, our federal programs to teach Chinese Prostitutes how to hold their liquor, and our vital programs teaching the women of Morocco how to make clay pots, will continue to not only be funded in full, but grow every year by the mandated baseline 8%. (I suspect that cowboy poetry will continue with its federal funding as well.)
But wait, There’s more!
You really have to read this. From Hotair, not only is there money enough in that sequestered budget to rehire the disgraced GSA Administrator, fired 11 months ago, for throwing a lavish party at taxpayer expense in the very same Las Vegas that President Obama told the rest of us should be considered off limits, as long as the federal government was having problems meeting its behemoth spending desires with current wealth confiscation capabilities, but it also seems as though the budget can in fact sustain his receiving full back pay for the time he was unemployed, and probably receiving an unemployment benefit.
From the Hotair Article:
Hey, he was only head of a regional office and former head of the entire GSA, an agency tasked with finding and implementing cost-minimizing strategies for the rest of the government. Why should he be responsible for making sure a conference doesn’t flagrantly waste taxpayer money on his watch? It’s like President Obama being responsible for the outcomes of any of his own policies. Preposterous!
Although, I suppose he has a point if he points to the rest of the government and says, “Wasting $800K is actually leading the way in waste-savings over what most of the agencies do every day.” It’s like a “cut” to only waste $800K on champagne and commemorative coins if the agency was planning to waste $1 million.
For those of you who might be interested in joining the group, “One Million Americans For A Second Sequester,” PLEASE CLICK HERE.
