Obamageddon

Is our "fiscal" sky about to fall? Many Americans are about to feel the bite of President Obama’s sequester. For those of you who have been living in a cave the last three months, the sequester is a law passed last year with across the board budget cuts meant to be so painful that no one in Congress would allow them to take effect. The original cuts were to take effect 1 January. But, as we have learned, time and time again, Washington just kicks the can down the road, as they are too scared of the political ramifications come election time. So, the new deadline became March first. Well, this time, at least the Republicans in the House had the spine to say enough is enough. The sequester went into effect the first of March. So what has the leader of the free world been doing other than playing golf with Tiger Woods (at our expense)? Well, he has been on the campaign trail telling everyone about the evil Republicans in the house, their refusal to cave in to all of his demands to raise taxes on the rich, and due to their evil intent, they sky will fall effective the first of March. The first of March has come and gone and the sky is still up there. The President’s dire predictions of massive layoffs, stock market crashes, long lines at airports, and government shutdown didn’t happen. In short, he looks a good bit like Chicken Little. So, to save face, he and his comrades have been out telling their liberal allies in the press they had to shut down tours at the White House. And as one American who has never taken the White House tour, I can’t say this has been a critical blow to my lifestyle or pocket book. Closing the White House to the average American is both a stupid and pathetic attempt by the President to save face. However, I don’t live in a vacuum either – I know these sequester cuts are coming. Like everything else in Washington, it takes a long time to implement law. Starting sometime in April or May, government employees can expect furloughs (that’s a nice word for layoffs). Probably their work week will be cut to four days a week saving about 20% in government payroll – which equates to 20% less in everyone’s paycheck. Government contractors will feel the pinch too as those companies that build things for Uncle Sam will see their contracts dry up. And when this happens, the ripple effect will hit all Americans. A big chunk of the employed population, and group whose numbers get smaller every day due to Obama economic policies, will tighten their collective economic belts. Think about the effect of one less workday a week: one less Starbucks coffee, one less lunch at Wendy’s, less stops at the gas station, delays or not buying any new clothes, not taking that summer vacation. The folks hit hardest by the Presidents sequester will be group of people who he claims to protect the most – the middle class. And in the end, the President’s sequester will have an effect on the thing he values above all other things – tax revenue. In case he doesn't realize it, less working hours means less income, and therefore less income tax – forcing the Obama administration to borrow more and print more money. Neither of these actions will concern liberals, as Nancy Pelosi said, the Government doesn't have a spending problem. Really Nancy? In the end, it will come out in the lame stream media that those evil Republicans in the house offered the President the authority to transfer where the cuts would be made to minimize the hardships it will inflict on all of us. But, the President refused. Why? Because our President wants to maximize the pain on the American public to help advance his liberal agenda by trying to blame the Republicans – all in an effort to take back the House of Representatives in 2014. Yes, the President is more concerned with playing politics than being a leader to all Americans – and that’s just sad.