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Will the Congress avoid the March 27 shutdown by cutting costs?

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Editor Posted in Barack Obama, Chriss Street, Federal Government, Sequester Leave a comment

When the dreaded sequester took effect on March 1st, the only immediate economic pain federal workers suffered was canceling White House tours eliminated Secret Service over-time. But over the last two weeks, the dirty little secrets about expected higher taxing and higher spending are pouring out of Washington D.C. As the Congress finishes work on the stop-gap budget to avoid a March 27^th shut down and fund the government through September, many federal employees now expect unpaid furloughs of up to 22 days a year. With reality biting hard, Congress, department heads and federal unions seem motivated improve government by cutting frivolous spending. Continue reading→

Detroit gets sequestered

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Editor Posted in Chriss Street Leave a comment

DETROIT GETS SEQUESTERED

WRITTEN BY CHRISS W. STREET

While the national media was busy counting down to the $85 billion automatic federal spending sequestration, Detroit Mayor and basketball legend Dave Bing announced that the State of Michigan will take control of the city on March 1st by appointing an Emergency Financial Manager with the equivalent control of a bankruptcy trustee. Detroit committed municipal suicide through crony capitalism and union feather-bedding. As the city’s population shrank from 1.8 million in 1950 to 714,000, Detroit refused to shrink government spending by the $327 million necessary to balance its budget. Perhaps the example of Detroit’s downfall will prod Congress to get serious about downsizing the federal spending before America meets suffers a similar fate. Continue reading→

Do California’s residents find government waste to be boring?

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Editor Posted in Barack Obama, California, Federal Government, Jerry Brown, Taxes Leave a comment

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The Boredom Factor

By Jon Coupal, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association

Gov. Brown recently stated that he found the scandal involving the state Parks and Recreation Agency concealing millions of taxpayer dollars to be “boring.” Perhaps the governor’s remark explains much more than he intended.

Let’s look to Washington, D.C. for a moment. It seems that every few weeks Americans are warned that we are about to go off the “fiscal cliff” or some other financial crisis is imminent. Ask yourself, until a couple of months ago, had you even heard of the word “sequestration?” Continue reading→

How the federal sequester will impact California

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Editor Posted in Barack Obama, California, Chriss Street, Federal Government, Sequester 1 Comment

IMPACT OF SEQUESTER ON CALIFORNIA

WRITTEN BY CHRISS W. STREET

Over the weekend, the White House released a report detailing some of the programs and services in California that would be impacted beginning Friday, March 1st, by the White House Budget cuts necessary to meet sequestration requirements. The Administration has threatened that the cuts will result in a massive contraction of the national economy. The breakdown of the effects on California was politically structured as an emotional call for Republicans to commit Hari-kari by compromising the demands of their base for fiscal discipline. With sequester only amounting to 2% of spending, the cuts do seem to be as earth shattering as the media has predicted.

Sequester is defined as the act of removing, separating, or seizing anything from the possession of its owner under process of law for the benefit of creditors or the state. The term “budget sequestration” was first used to describe as a section of Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act of 1985 under President Ronal Reagan that set hard caps on spending. The sequestration was abandoned under President H.W. Bush and replaced by a required PAYGO under the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 that lasted until 2002, when President G.W. Bush abandoned budget discipline.

California will suffer the following cuts according to the Obama Administration: Continue reading→