|
|
| |
Topic: Sequester would make our immigration system more dysfunctional |
Sequester would make our immigration system more dysfunctional
Washington Post, by Suzy Khimm
|
|
Original Article
|
|
Posted By:LittleHoodedMonk, 2/24/2013 5:26:54 PM
|
| Our immigration system is already plagued by protracted delays, red tape and limited resources, and sequestration would exacerbate some of those problems. ABC News singles out some of the many ways that the automatic budget cuts would hit our immigration system, affecting everything from visas to deportations. (Snip) There’s already a massive backlog in the country’s immigration courts, requiring an average 550-day wait to get a case resolved. The budget cuts would make those waits even longer, ABC News explains, quoting Attorney General Eric Holder:
|
Comments: The Washington Post is so worried that 0bama will take a major political hit on March 1, that they are trying to "bribe" the GOP with offers to speed up the immigration and deportation system. Like that´s going to happen anytime soon. Pathetic try.
|
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Coy860, 2/24/2013 5:30:03 PM (No. 9193933)
It couldn´t be more dysfunctional than it already is. No we can´t deport 100% of them, but how about 50%?
|
Reply 2 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/24/2013 5:41:59 PM (No. 9193945)
Let´s just admit it. If the sequester goes thru we´re all done for. This is what the Mayans knew. Sequestration Friday, end of the world Saturday.
|
| |
|
Reply 4 - Posted by:
keekng, 2/24/2013 5:43:08 PM (No. 9193948)
"More dysfunctional"? That is difficult to believe.
|
Reply 5 - Posted by:
4Justice, 2/24/2013 5:43:24 PM (No. 9193949)
WaPoo is really despicable trying to add to the hysteria of the sequester. They will say or do anything to try to help their master.
|
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Teleologicus, 2/24/2013 5:47:54 PM (No. 9193953)
Businesses and taxpayers know what it is like to have to tighten the belt.
Government can and should share the pain.
This squawking and shrieking from fans, cronies, and camp-followers of Big Government, Inc. that the sky is falling only confirms what many citizens already suspect.
It is time to cut the fat and stop the bloat - and if the sequester is the only way this can be approached, then sequester it should be.
Who doubts for one instant that a 5 - 10% reduction in force across all government agencies, combined with good management, would not only save money but eliminate bottlenecks and bureaucratic bungling?
Who doubts that a significant portion of the Federal payroll consists of little more than the equivalent of public works programs, make work, budgets endlessly expanding like a cancer - and that elimination of this excess baggage would be a positive good in itself, regardless of cost savings?
Until Federal, state and local employees face the same risk of layoff as workers in private business, government jobs are really just taxpayer subsidized workfare. That, even so, public employees have the effrontery to form unions to conspire against the public interest, is, when one stops to think of it, simply amazing. That the public tolerates this and more is incredible.
|
Reply 7 - Posted by:
kanphil, 2/24/2013 5:48:03 PM (No. 9193954)
And I bet the sun won´t come up in the East either. Anything else we could throw into Obama´s lie, like maybe the kitchen sink? Jeeeze!
|
| |
|
Reply 8 - Posted by:
CleanhouseinDc, 2/24/2013 5:48:17 PM (No. 9193955)
Maybe companies like Microsoft, Google, Accenture and many others will have to stop laying off +40 year olds to replace with 2 or 3 lower paid, immigrants from Asia or Russia.
|
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dante, 2/24/2013 5:48:46 PM (No. 9193956)
Must be the dim´s worst nightmare that he sequester will go through and almost nobody will know the difference. Of course the alphabets already have their tales of horror prepared to air.
|
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Country Boy, 2/24/2013 5:53:18 PM (No. 9193965)
Along with the "Global Warming theory " , we now have the "Anti-Gravity theory"
Folks you haven´t seen in years have been swept up into outer space.
The libs are on the cutting edge. Send your tax dollars ... quick.
|
Reply 11 - Posted by:
noddy, 2/24/2013 6:06:07 PM (No. 9193983)
I don´t think government feels any pain when they tighten their belt. All the pain is passed on to us and we don´t have many notches left.
Spending has to be curbed. There is plenty, more than enough, of wasteful spending to go after. Obama should stop his AF1 trips to campaign. We can´t afford it. Spend a little money for TV instead and leave our plane on the ground.
|
Reply 12 - Posted by:
edgar, 2/24/2013 6:07:29 PM (No. 9193986)
The difference between having a leader in the WH and a community organizer is that a leader seeks to keep things calm and a community organizer is looking to stir the pot with fear.
|
| |
|
Reply 13 - Posted by:
stymie82, 2/24/2013 6:59:54 PM (No. 9194043)
Until the property values in the greater DC area decline by 30-40% like the rest of America and the various alphabet agencies and faceless bureaucrats live in daily fear of layoff-cry me a river you pampered sissies!
|
Reply 14 - Posted by:
reilly, 2/24/2013 7:32:00 PM (No. 9194076)
Washington POS alert.
|
Reply 15 - Posted by:
retiree, 2/24/2013 7:41:10 PM (No. 9194087)
There are no cuts! Only a small percentage of money taken out of what was predicted. When you get a raise of 25 dollars a week and it is changed to 23 dollars a week it is still a raise of 23 dollars, not a cut of 25 dollars. Too bad these ´journalists´ don´t have a little math savvy.
|
Reply 16 - Posted by:
dman, 2/24/2013 10:08:06 PM (No. 9194212)
WaPo .. move along.
|
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Mr. Hanky, 2/25/2013 12:49:01 AM (No. 9194325)
More? More than what? Not enforcing the law at all?
BTW, I calendar that the sequester causes halitosis, athlete´s foot and hives. /s
|
| |
|
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 2/25/2013 1:20:18 AM (No. 9194350)
I guess the WaPo didn´t understand those Border Patrol agents testifying before congress that they are prohibited from doing their job. So what difference does a 2% cut make? Answer: None.
|
Reply 19 - Posted by:
flatwater, 2/25/2013 3:01:52 AM (No. 9194408)
Ice agents have just testified that they are already prohibited from doing their job. Who or what prohibits them from doing their job?
Barack Obama.
It doesn´t get any more dysfuntional than that.
All hail Wise King Barky, yapping lapdog of the Communist Party....
|
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "LittleHoodedMonk"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Most Recent Articles posted by "LittleHoodedMonk"
|
Four key Hillary Clinton staffers from 2008 unlikely to sign on for 2016 bid
|
|
Washington Post, by Jason Horowitz
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 11:06:36 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Howard Wolfson, the 2008 communications director for Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said he will not return for a 2016 presidential campaign. Neither, for that matter, will Neera Tanden, the campaign’s policy director. Ditto for Mark Penn, the chief strategist, and Patti Solis Doyle, the embattled campaign manager. As core members of a dysfunctional “Team of Rivals,” these top advisers were seared, scattered and, to different degrees, forged by the 2008 experience. Haunted by the failures in management and messaging, they have worked hard to get over their shattered White House dreams
|
|
The Issue: The 2013 farm bill
|
|
United Press International, by Marcella S. Kreiter
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 10:58:05 PM
Post Reply
|
|
The biggest issue in the U.S. farm bill has little to do with agriculture and everything to do with partisan politics and the role of government in caring for the poor: food stamps. It has a catchier name now, SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. The mark-up of the $500 billion measure approved 36-10 by the House Agriculture Committee last week cuts $20.5 billion in food assistance over 10 years to rein in SNAP´s growth. The program, which serves 47 million Americans, averages $70 billion a year, about 70 percent of farm bill spending and eclipsing the crop insurance program.
|
| |
|
In Shadow of the Stonewall Inn, a Gay Man Is Killed
|
|
New York Times, by Marc Santora & Joseph Goldstein*
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 9:55:13 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Mark Carson did not hide that he was gay, and when he went out on the town he would often head to Greenwich Village, where years before he was born, much of the struggle for gay liberation unfolded. Yet late Friday night, just blocks from the Stonewall Inn, among the most important landmarks of that struggle, he was confronted with a man screaming antigay slurs, who then stalked him before pulling out a silver revolver and fatally shooting him, the police said. “This clearly looks to be a hate crime,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at a news conference on Saturday.
|
AP CEO calls government seizure of phone records unconstitutional, says chill already felt
|
|
Associated Press, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 9:44:55 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Washington - The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s secret seizure of two months of reporters’ phone records “unconstitutional” and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism. Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit
|
Netanyahu takes aim at weapons leakage in Syria
|
|
Reuters, by Jeffrey Heller
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 4:25:47 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Jerusalem - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held out the prospect on Sunday of further Israeli strikes inside Syria, pledging to act to prevent advanced weapons from reaching Hezbollah and other militant groups. (Snip) In public remarks at the weekly meeting of his cabinet, Netanyahu made no direct mention of those attacks, but said Israel was prepared to take action in the future and was "preparing for every scenario" in the Syrian conflict. Israel had a policy "to prevent, as much as possible, the leakage of advanced weapons to Hezbollah and terror elements", he said.
|
Moon hit by boulder-size meteoroid, causing ´explosion´ visible from earth (+video)
|
|
Christian Science Monitor, by Mark Trumbull
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 4:07:35 PM
Post Reply
|
|
If you had been looking up at the moon at the right moment on March 17, you could have seen an unusual flash of light – a one-second burst of heat caused by the impact of a large meteoroid. No telescope required. “For about one second, the impact site was glowing like a 4th magnitude star,” NASA said in reporting the news Friday. This meteoroid was the size of a small boulder, and was travelling very fast. NASA estimates the size at 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide, and the speed at 56,000 m.p.h. The resulting explosion delivered a force equal to 5 tons of TNT. NASA puts a footnote on the word
|
Washington scandals intrude on Mass. Senate race pitting GOP´s Gomez against Democrat Markey
|
|
Associated Press, by Steve LeBlanc & Bob Salsberg
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: LittleHoodedMonk- 5/19/2013 2:32:38 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Boston - The controversies swirling around the Obama administration — from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year´s terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya — are threatening to engulf Massachusetts´ special U.S. Senate election. The troubles could make it harder for Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez to turn the focus of the race back on jobs, the economy and budget as he tries to tie his rival and longtime Democratic Congressman Edward Markey to the nation´s sluggish recovery. But the episodes could also prove problematic for Markey if the public begins
|
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
|
Analyze this
|
|
Power Line, by Scott Johnson
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: MissMolly- 5/19/2013 11:33:33 AM
Post Reply
|
|
What did President Obama do on the evening of 9/11/12 when our men were under attack in Benghazi? The invaluable Andrew McCarthy reminds us that Obama and Secretary Clinton had a 10:00 p.m. phone call of which many (including, I think, Chris Wallace) have lost sight. This morning when Wallace asked Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer what Obama was up to that evening, Pfeiffer declared the line of inquiry “offensive.” Translation: Obama and his minions would prefer to “move on” and are warning the likes of FNC off:(Snip for video)The Weekly Standard’s Daniel Halper has posted the rush transcript
|
Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By"
|
|
Real Clear Politics, by Staff
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/19/2013 6:55:47 PM
Post Reply
|
|
PRESIDENT OBAMA: You are the mantle of Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington and Ralph Bunche and Langston Hughes and George Washington Carver and Ralph Abernathy and Thurgood Marshall and, yes, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. These men were many things to many people and they knew full well the role that racism played in their life. But when it came to their own accomplishments and sense of purpose, they had no time for excuses. Every one of you has a grandma or an uncle or a parent whose told you at some point in life
|
Evidence emerges that Obama administration official knew of IRS targeting during 2012 campaign
|
|
CBS News, by Margaret Brennan
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: earlybird- 5/18/2013 9:01:39 PM
Post Reply
|
|
WASHINGTON - There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was aware of the IRS´ targeting of conservative groups. Inspector General Russell George said he informed a deputy at the Treasury Department in June of 2012 about the probe into the IRS. The Treasury Department confirmed the timeline but said they did not know the details of the investigation until last week.(Snip)Marcus Owens ran the tax-exempt division at the IRS for 10 years. He said it isn´t difficult to figure out who´s doing what at the agency.
|
Camelot Is Burning
|
|
Breitbart´s Big Government, by Christopher Burton
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: mitzi- 5/18/2013 8:16:11 PM
Post Reply
|
|
It began in earnest last Friday. A flash mob of latte drinking, tofu eating media that has done its best to quell, rather than fan the flames of truth, turned on one of their own. Jay Carney lay bludgeoned at the base of the podium, a victim of friendly fire. Ironically, the attack was reminiscent of the one in Benghazi he has repeatedly denied the Administration he represents bears any responsibility for. “Changed twelve times?!” came the cries. And with good reason. We were misled; no, lied to.
|
Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it’s ´not open to debate´
|
|
The Hill, by Peter Schoeder
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: DW626- 5/18/2013 6:12:33 PM
Post Reply
|
|
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice." "We will not negotiate over the debt limit," Lew wrote. "The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable. The question of whether the country must pay obligations it has already incurred is not open to debate." Lew said that while President Obama is willing to discuss plans to reduce the nation´s deficit with Congress, those talks must be kept separate from any effort to raise the nation´s debt cap.
|
BREAKING: WashPost Reports Obama DOJ Also Spied on James Rosen of Fox News
|
|
Newsbusters, by Tim Graham
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: drive- 5/20/2013 7:29:20 AM
Post Reply
|
|
The Washington Post on Monday reported that Obama’s Department of Justice was investigating journalists before they started wiretapping the Associated Press – for one, Fox News correspondent James Rosen in 2010. Their headline wasn´t "Obama Team Also Spied on Fox News." Fox wasn´t in the headline, on A-1 or on A-12, where the story continued. Newly obtained court documents “reveal how deeply investigators explored the private communications of a working journalist — and raise the question of how often journalists have been investigated as closely as Rosen was in 2010.” Reporter Ann Marimow began:
|
Candy Crowley: Is it Possible This Isn´t Political and IRS Didn´t Intend to Harass the Tea Party?
|
|
Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard
Original Article
|
|
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/19/2013 3:54:02 PM
Post Reply
|
|
"Can you see in your mind´s eye a way that this might not have been political, that this was a misguided stupid way to sort, but that they didn´t intend it to be some kind of political attempt to harass the Tea Party?" So actually asked CNN´s Candy Crowley of her guest Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) concerning the Internal Revenue Service scandal Sunday (video follows with transcript and commentary):CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Moving on to the IRS problem at this moment, which is really sort of in its infancy. There will be lots more hearings coming up this week
|
| | |
|
|