{"id":34653,"date":"2013-02-27T07:34:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T13:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34653"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:07:22","slug":"open-letter-to-the-entire-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=34653","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To The Entire American People"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Everyone in the USA
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Peasant who’s been through it all before
\nRe: \u00a0“Sequestration”<\/p>\n

Hey, everyone,<\/p>\n

You may not remember this, but we’ve been through all this before. \u00a0Remember the “partial government shutdown”, back in the nineties? \u00a0It was a whole big nothing-burger.<\/p>\n

Oh, the Clinton Administration tried to make sure that the people felt whatever pain was generated – closing parks, cramping down on the voters. \u00a0But as a rule, the whole thing affected nobody.<\/p>\n

And here in Minnesota, we had a “complete” shutdown two years ago (which, again, wasn’t – the courts kept most of the government going as “essential”). \u00a0It lasted a few weeks. \u00a0Then Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton abandoned it, when he realized Minnesotans, for all his efforts to squeeze and scare them – shutting down state parks and highway rest areas, threatening to lay off teachers – barely noticed any difference. \u00a0While the media did its best<\/a> to prop up the Messinger<\/del> Dayton line<\/a>, the people of Minnesota heard the gales of calumny but saw and felt a big fat nada burrito. \u00a0Even Governor Messinger<\/del> Dayton – as cosseted and isolated from reality as his staff keeps him – noticed; on his trip around the state to whip up support for the DFL budget, he saw tepid crowds of union droogs, and\u00a0<\/em>a few professional protesters, and realized he had nothin’ (which may be why Dayton makes so few public appearances these days).<\/p>\n

So it’s time for “sequestration” – the “radical” budget cuts that Obama and the super-di-duper commission agreed to as a stick to lead everyone to the “carrot” of an actual federal budget. \u00a0We’ve been waiting nearly 1,400 days for a budget from the Democrat-addled Senate, so Washington figured a “stick” was needed.<\/p>\n

By the way – how radical and drastic are those cuts?:<\/p>\n

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Yep. They’re not even cuts. \u00a0They’re reductions in the increase<\/em>. \u00a0Indeed, almost completely worthless, if cutting spending is your goal, but really nothing but a fart in the wind; sort of like “dropping HBO” in your family budget, even though your gas bill is rising and your teenage kids are costing more and more.<\/p>\n

Obama will try to make “sequestration” hurt; he’ll slow down the TSA lines, he’ll gundeck some ship overhauls and clamp down some military maintenance budgets, he’ll inveigle some big cities to lay off a few cops and teachers, he’ll shut down Yellowstone as the cameras record photos of crestfallen children. \u00a0Hell, Joe Biden may even personally try to close the gates at Disney World.<\/p>\n

But there is no there, there. \u00a0It’s a scare tactic, engineered by Obama and his compliant media.<\/p>\n

It needs to be ignored.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

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To: \u00a0Everyone in the USA From: Mitch Berg, Peasant who’s been through it all before Re: \u00a0“Sequestration” Hey, everyone, You may not remember this, but we’ve been through all this before. \u00a0Remember the “partial government shutdown”, back in the nineties? \u00a0It was a whole big nothing-burger. Oh, the Clinton Administration tried to make sure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,63,4,234,122,59,64,129,69],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-34653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battle-for-the-language","category-lefty-alt-media","category-media","category-modern-plagues","category-oh-the-humanity","category-pork-patrol","category-president-obama","category-unions","category-socialism","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38764,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34653\/revisions\/38764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}