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Bush. His administration never believed it would ever be used. It was the A-bomb that was so drastic it was supposed to be the final political threat.
At the time, both parties agreed things would never go that far. Almost everyone signed on with it.
The House GOP tripped the trigger by failing to pass a budget, and Obama just let them have it their way.
Believe it or not I support this. I have to ask though........why do people write articles that take 5 or 6 paragraphs to get to the topic and then 4-5 more to explain what they are advocating?
I have never argued otherwise. It's one of the few ideas he has had in the last 5 years that I agree with him on. Good for him for coming up with it.
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Also, it was absolutely agreed upon by his R counterparts. Nobody thought that Congress would be stupid enough to make this happen.
The only thing stupid was that it wasn't bigger.
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That said, it's a win either way for all parties. While we all want less deficits, few people are willing to stand up and say how it is to be done or what they are willing to give up for it. Nobody wants to pay more taxes, nobody wants cuts in the few programs that eat up most of the federal budget. Nobody wants to close prisons, reduce school funding, lay off law enforcement, cut seniors healthcare, throw seniors out in to the street, cut the military spending, etc, but we all want to magically have lower taxes and a balanced budget.
This country, all of us, are largely pathetic. We want things to work magically, we don't have any ideas of how to make anything happen, we don't want to pay for things and we don't want to be held accountable for anything ever.
I don't understand......if it was a good thing why would people be described as stupid for allowing it to happen? Should it be that "nobody thought that Congress was smart enough to allow this to actually happen"?
doesnt matter, obama wanted the sequester, in fact he said that ANY attempt to mitigate the sequester would be vetoed by him. that tells me that obama OWNS the sequester, not the republicans. you fail as does the OP.
The US Constitution does not allow the Federal Government to have a police force in the first place.
Some might wonder, Just how many federal police forces do we need?
FBI, ATF, DEA, Secret Service, US Marshalls, Capital Police, I know I missed a bunch.
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