A lot has been written on here about the upcoming sequester deadline but how many know how it will affect you personally? The President did not exaggerate and the republicans need to be thrown out of office. Literally.
If I had a job and that job required a deadline to be met, I think I would not expect to have that job if I went home and came back when I decided KNOWING the deadline hurt the company. Same thing. These people have a job only the private sector would not put up with you or me not meeting a deadline, putting the company at risk and standing in front of every client or customer (taxpayer in this case) when it helped the company. ( the country in this case).
The private sector would not put up with an individual employee or group of employees jumping up and telling lies on the CEO of the company while they were in the middle of a presentation .. (a proposed legislation in this case). They would not put up with standing up and yelling over a product the company was trying to sell. ( a bill in this case).. How long would you expect to hold your jobs if you cost the company millions and millions of jobs and shareholders personal ruin because you didn't get your way?
What would happen if you threw in the trash every piece of work you were supposed to do because you were mad that your buddy was not in charge? YOU WOULD BE FIRED OR HAULED OFF THE PROPERTY BY THE COPS. You would not be paid an increase and probably sued for damages. I just do not see the way the opposition party behaving any other way than this and they are employees of the American people, who are destroying America and not doing their jobs.
Here are some links to individually look up your state and I hope you are angry.
If Florida shows up just go to your state.. I had Florida up. I am not a happy citizen with the antics of the austerity cheering lazy drive by congress.
=Links about sequester and you
Here are a few things that might affect you.
Child Care: Up to 1,600 disadvantaged and vulnerable children could lose access to child care,
which is also essential for working parents to hold down a job.
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Food safety – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could conduct 2,100 fewer inspections at
domestic and foreign facilities that manufacture food products while USDA’s Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) may have to furlough all employees for approximately two weeks. These
reductions could increase the number and severity of safety incidents, and the public could suffer
more foodborne illness.
How about WIC ?
HUD?
Vaccines for Children: In Florida around 7,450 fewer children will receive vaccines for diseases
such as measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, whooping cough, influenza, and Hepatitis B due to
reduced funding for vaccinations of about $509,000
Nutrition Assistance for Seniors: Florida would lose approximately $3.8 million in funds that
provide meals for seniors.
Cuts to mental health: If sequestration takes effect, up to 373,000 seriously mentally ill adults
and seriously emotionally disturbed children could go untreated. This would likely lead to
increased hospitalizations, involvement in the criminal justice system, and homelessness for
these individuals.
Go ahead read how this will affect your state and tell me again it is just about the DOD and the MIC. No it is not !!!!!!
Rental assistance – The Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing
Choice Voucher program, which provides rental assistance to very low-income families, would
face a significant reduction in funding, which would place about 125,000 families at immediate loss of permanent housing