9 Responses to “Day One”

1. Emery Says:
   March 4th, 2013 at 6:49 am

   I think it’s useful to be reminded of why cutting in an abrupt, arbitrary fashion is so much worse than cutting in a planned fashion. Life is about using your time well. Chaos is the enemy.

   What’s interested me most about the sequester is that bipartisan conventional wisdom said that it’s too insanely horrible to even consider. And now the bipartisan conventional wisdom outside the White House is “meh”.

2. Fresch Fisch Says:
   March 4th, 2013 at 7:40 am

   I sure hope the government has the money to keep buying hollow point ammo for their handguns.

3. kel Says:
   March 4th, 2013 at 9:02 am

   not to mention the 2700 MRAPs that DHS is purchasing to “protect” us

   see:
   http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/03/obama-dhs-purchases-2700-light-armored-tanks-to-go-with-their-1-6-billion-bullet-stockpile/

4. swiftee Says:
   March 4th, 2013 at 10:35 am

   Flying into the job site this morning, I was concerned we might be in jepardy due to the thick smoke rising from the ruins of the cities we were flying over. Then I remembered the plane had radar.

   Still, it was quite harrowing.

5. bubbasan Says:
   March 4th, 2013 at 1:27 pm

   Emery, the opinion inside the White House is “meh” as well. Mr. Obama agreed to cuts in 2011; he’s now reneging on that agreement, as well as the one he reached just a month or so ago with John Boehner.

   Lesson: liberals cannot be trusted in positions of power.

6. Scott Hughes Says:
   March 4th, 2013 at 5:11 pm

   Bubbasan, I think itt could be shortened up to simply read “liberals cannot be trusted”.

7. Emery Says:
   March 5th, 2013 at 6:33 am

   One of the last presidents to balance the budget was Republican Herbert Hoover, who was a blamed for deepening the Great Depression.

8. Troy Says:
   March 5th, 2013 at 9:44 am

   Emery is this generations Ralph Wiggum.

9. Emery Says:
   March 5th, 2013 at 9:00 pm

   The Republicans have argued for decades that Keynes was a fraud and that fiscal stimulus has no effect because only private sector jobs are real jobs and only private sector purchases constitute a genuine contribution to the economy. The GOP now has the clean opportunity to demonstrate their economic wisdom. The loss of hundreds of thousands of government sector jobs and the abrupt cessation of billions of dollars in government spending ought to have no adverse effect on the economy, in fact it will unleash the private sector to absorb the slack, if Republican economic ideology is correct and consistently applied. So we have nothing to fear and should expect the US economy to burgeon under the sequester. I mean, what could go wrong with that plan?

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