Does the sequester impact your life?

[brigond]

What! Another tragedy? The fiscal cliff,before that was the Government shutdown, now the sequester! This sequester is one molecule partical on the entire earth. A few billion dollars next to trillions of dollars are you kidding. Once again the president is going down the list of all the tragedies of the sequester that he himself put into place. Wait until we get the full affects of the health care he put in place. We will look back on this and laugh. I have family in Europe and mom and dad came from that system of health care . Dad always said , If I get sick over there , get me back to the USA as soon as possible. This whole thing is politicians playing politics and creating diversions from all the other things they are screwing up. No this wont affect me.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

OMG (!!!!!!), 170 million people will be getting their pink slips today!!!! 

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/28/maxine-waters-exaggerates-over-170-million-jobs-could-be-lost-due-to-sequestration/#ixzz2MEhAEw73

[oldgold69]

damn the world didn't end  the mayans were wrong

[Tilar]

OMG (!!!!!!), 170 million people will be getting their pink slips today!!!!  

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/28/maxine-waters-exaggerates-over-170-million-jobs-could-be-lost-due-to-sequestration/#ixzz2MEhAEw73

It's hard for me to imagine so many stupid things coming out of the same mouth. She should be in a corner somewhere with her coloring books, of course someone may need to explain what the lines are for.

She reminds me of this guy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg <======= Pay attention kids, This is your mind on drugs!

[PocketThunder]

OMG (!!!!!!), 170 million people will be getting their pink slips today!!!!  

http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/28/maxine-waters-exaggerates-over-170-million-jobs-could-be-lost-due-to-sequestration/#ixzz2MEhAEw73

It's hard for me to imagine so many stupid things coming out of the same mouth. She should be in a corner somewhere with her coloring books, of course someone may need to explain what the lines are for.
She reminds me of this guy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg <======= Pay attention kids, This is your mind on drugs!

"someone may need to explain what the lines are for"         Ok Tilar, I laughed out loud on that one...      

[Old Moparz]

Change CAN happen if people would clean the shit out of their ears so they can hear what goes on & get off their fat lazy asses to actually do something if they aren't happy about things. Self serving politicians are ALL THE SAME. They are looking out for their own interests because they know the system is a joke & that working for a living will get you nowhere by the time you retire. So what do they do? They create a system for themselves that will take care of them & make them untouchable.

Put aside whatever difference of opinion you have on which party is better, they are ALL THE SAME & DON'T CARE.

A good example of people who got fed up with how things were going with the economy, corrupt politicians, criminal bankers & corporations, & actually did something about it was Iceland.

Heard this story on NPR a while back but can only find this similar story online.......

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html

It's too long to copy & paste here, so I only posted portions of it that will get your attention. Please read the whole thing, it's interesting.


Iceland is a small but rugged country far from anywhere that suffered from financial wreckage as severely as any in the developed world after its overstretched banks failed in 2008. In a matter of weeks after the banks' collapse, the unemployment rate jumped to 10 percent, house prices fell, the currency plunged and inflation surged. During the boom years, Iceland became a nation obsessed with banking. The success of the nation's banks, however, was deceptive. The economy was fueled almost entirely by foreign money. Then, as the global financial infrastructure teetered on the verge of collapse, the bonds came due, and Iceland's banks couldn't repay them.
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During the crisis, Iceland did many things differently from its European counterparts. It let its three largest banks fail, instead of bailing them out. It ensured that domestic depositors got their money back and gave debt relief to struggling homeowners and to businesses facing bankruptcy.
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Former Leader Prosecuted Over Financial Crisis

In March 2012, Iceland opened a criminal trial against its former prime minister, Geir H. Haarde, becoming the first country to prosecute one of its leaders over the financial crisis of 2008.

Mr. Haarde was charged, in effect, with doing too little to protect the country against the depredations of its bankers as they pursued wildly expansionary lending that resulted in financial disaster for the country. He was indicted in 2010 by a sharply divided Parliament, charged with violating the laws of ministerial responsibility.

On April 23, Mr. Haarde was found guilty of failing to keep his cabinet informed of major developments during the 2008 financial crisis, but was cleared of three more serious charges of negligence.

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Maybe the way to accomplish things is to convict people & take away their golden parachute. 

[Dino]

Change CAN happen if people would clean the shit out of their ears so they can hear what goes on & get off their fat lazy asses to actually do something if they aren't happy about things. Self serving politicians are ALL THE SAME. They are looking out for their own interests because they know the system is a joke & that working for a living will get you nowhere by the time you retire. So what do they do? They create a system for themselves that will take care of them & make them untouchable.

Put aside whatever difference of opinion you have on which party is better, they are ALL THE SAME & DON'T CARE.

A good example of people who got fed up with how things were going with the economy, corrupt politicians, criminal bankers & corporations, & actually did something about it was Iceland.

Heard this story on NPR a while back but can only find this similar story online.......

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iceland/index.html

It's too long to copy & paste here, so I only posted portions of it that will get your attention. Please read the whole thing, it's interesting.


Iceland is a small but rugged country far from anywhere that suffered from financial wreckage as severely as any in the developed world after its overstretched banks failed in 2008. In a matter of weeks after the banks' collapse, the unemployment rate jumped to 10 percent, house prices fell, the currency plunged and inflation surged. During the boom years, Iceland became a nation obsessed with banking. The success of the nation's banks, however, was deceptive. The economy was fueled almost entirely by foreign money. Then, as the global financial infrastructure teetered on the verge of collapse, the bonds came due, and Iceland's banks couldn't repay them.
___________________________________________________

During the crisis, Iceland did many things differently from its European counterparts. It let its three largest banks fail, instead of bailing them out. It ensured that domestic depositors got their money back and gave debt relief to struggling homeowners and to businesses facing bankruptcy.
___________________________________________________

Former Leader Prosecuted Over Financial Crisis

In March 2012, Iceland opened a criminal trial against its former prime minister, Geir H. Haarde, becoming the first country to prosecute one of its leaders over the financial crisis of 2008.

Mr. Haarde was charged, in effect, with doing too little to protect the country against the depredations of its bankers as they pursued wildly expansionary lending that resulted in financial disaster for the country. He was indicted in 2010 by a sharply divided Parliament, charged with violating the laws of ministerial responsibility.

On April 23, Mr. Haarde was found guilty of failing to keep his cabinet informed of major developments during the 2008 financial crisis, but was cleared of three more serious charges of negligence.

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Maybe the way to accomplish things is to convict people & take away their golden parachute. 

I wish that could happen here, but it never will. 

You are absolutely right though, the country is divided between conservatives and liberals, yet they do not see how alike they really are (not talking about the extremists here).  The bashing of one party and defending of the other is absolutely absurd.  We bend over to whatever ruling party and take it with a smile.  Yeah we can all bitch about how everything is wrong but we don't do anything else do we?

Take care of yourself, don't expect anything out of life but that what you put in it?  Want retirement?  Start saving, don't count on the government for a helping hand.

[Old Moparz]

I forgot to add, yes, there is a chance that the sequester will have an impact for me, but not directly & not as badly as for some people. The company I work for does do work at the West Point Military Academy. If their budget gets cut I wouldn't be surprised if some, or all of that work disappears. We have other work going on & West Point has cut spending before, it comes & goes in cycles.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

This pretty much sums things up.


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/03/01/happy-sequestration-day/

[JB400]

Here's what our celebrity has to say about it.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-discuss-sequestration-11-35-m-163015466--politics.html

Favorite quote "I'm not a dictator, I'm the president."

[Mytur Binsdirti]

"This is not going to be an apocalypse"


Really? That's not the story that's being he & his sycophants have been spinning for months.