Over 170 Million Jobs Could Be Lost Due To Sequestration !!!

[green73]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u8-d95SO_3g
http://youtu.be/u8-d95SO_3g

Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed today that "over 170 million jobs" could be lost due to sequestration.

http://nation.foxnews.com/jobs/2013/02/28/maxine-waters-over-170-million-jobs-could-be-lost-due-sequestration


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[ZENemy]

Meanwhile,

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/syria-opposition-aid-60-million-88223.html#ixzz2MCfkzUe5


The Obama administration said Thursday that it will provide the Syrian opposition with an additional $60 million in assistance and - in a significant policy shift - will for the first time provide nonlethal aid like food and medical supplies directly to rebels battling to oust President Bashar Assad.

[Lucille]

LOL... Math is hard.

[oyarde]

One beer penalty for photo of Maxine.

[kcchiefs6465]

Lmao. And to think some people eat that shit up.

[luctor-et-emergo]

According to several internet sources (I really did not want to spend time looking for an exact number) there are only about 150 million people working in the US... What happens if you have a negative amount of jobs ?

[Dr.3D]

If those jobs are government jobs, then it won't hurt a thing. Everybody should know government jobs don't provide any benefit to the economy.

[Acala]

170 bazillion jobs could be lost due to this miniscule slow down in the rate of increase of spending.

[FrancisMarion]

I bet every journalist had a hand up after that one. Never seen someone leave the podium so quickly.

170 million. None of the faces even changed expression. Good grief.

[kcchiefs6465]

According to several internet sources (I really did not want to spend time looking for an exact number) there are only about 150 million people working in the US... What happens if you have a negative amount of jobs ?
http://i.imgur.com/j19ZGgL.jpg?1

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[green73]

Politicians are smart


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg

[Thor]

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[FSP-Rebel]

It's people like her and her ilk that I'd really have no problem cutting off entirely. Her insane comments make it easier to justify with all the rabid nonsense. To the libtards in general, saying that cutting a mere $44 bill this year while still spending more than last will cut 100s of thousands of jobs, stfu and gtfo.

[BAllen]

One crises after another. They've cried wolf one too many times. People aren't buying it anymore.

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[Lucille]

One crises after another. They've cried wolf one too many times. People aren't buying it anymore.

Obama is the Drama Queen president. "No Drama Obama" my foot. It's been one crisis, drama, scandal, and appalling criminal act after another with this chick.

[Thor]

One crises after another. They've cried wolf one too many times. People aren't buying it anymore.

http://metsmerizedonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/the-sky-is-falling.jpg

"We must raise the Debt Ceiling or the world will end."

"We must raise the Debt Ceiling again, or the world will end."

"We have an impending Fiscal Cliff. If we don't fix it, the world will end."

"If Sequestration happens, the world will end."

FEED ME! Nom, Nom, Nom.....

[XNavyNuke]

According to several internet sources (I really did not want to spend time looking for an exact number) there are only about 150 million people working in the US... What happens if you have a negative amount of jobs ?

That's because not only will we destroy our economy, but the entire worlds!

XNN

[HOLLYWOOD]

Fucking KABUKI THEATER... these scummy jellyfish politicians are revolting.

Old Leather Face Maxine Waters... where's your annual Jublee Act of giving away BILLIONS in US taxpayers money to Africa politicians that serve the big banks? What about the Billions you gave to Haiti, not only did Maxine Waters pushed her billions to Haiti, she sneaked a rider amendment through that stuck American taxpayers with billions in Haiti outstanding debt (IMF/WB).


Get that Bankster money back, Maxine then you can fund your 'Welfare Nation' aka 'DEMOCRAT VOTES'

[jbauer]

According to several internet sources (I really did not want to spend time looking for an exact number) there are only about 150 million people working in the US... What happens if you have a negative amount of jobs ?

That accounts for all the illegal aliens who have to move back to mexico for better working conditions.

[Humanae Libertas]

Did Maxine Waters finish K-12?

[Todd]

I think she just slipped up and revealed thier economic policy goals.

170 million job losses sounds like a progressive goal. That way everyone's dependant on Uncle Sam :D

[Thor]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/02/28/senate-sequester-cuts-march-obama/1954259/

Susan Davis 3:51p.m. EST February 28, 2013

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate failed to pass both Republican and Democratic alternatives to head off across-the-board spending cuts, further ensuring Washington will blow past a Friday deadline to avoid or replace $85 billion in cuts that threaten economic growth, military readiness and jobs.

The Democratic alternative would have replaced the cuts, known as the sequester, through 2013 with a combination of a minimum 30% tax on millionaires and cuts to defense and farm programs. It failed 51-49.

The Republican alternative would have transferred sweeping authority to President Obama to force him to determine how to implement $85 billion in cuts instead of the across-the-board spending cut affecting most reaches of the federal government. The sequester exempts military personnel accounts and the social safety net including Social Security and Medicare. The GOP measure also failed, 38-62.

Both proposals needed a 60-vote super majority to pass, but either vehicle was dead from the start. The GOP-controlled House opposes the Senate Democrats' proposal because it raises taxes. GOP lawmakers do not support using new taxes to turn off the sequester; rather they are seeking alternative spending cuts and entitlement reforms.

The White House said the president would veto the Senate GOP proposal. "The best way to go about this is to postpone the sequester or agree to a bigger deal that eliminates it entirely in a balanced way," said White House spokesman Jay Carney.

After a two-month sequester delay agreed to in a January tax deal, the cuts are scheduled to start kicking in March 1. There is about $85 billion in cuts scheduled through Sept. 30, the end of the federal fiscal year. In total, the sequester will trim $1.2 trillion in spending across the federal government over the next decade if left untouched.

The cutting mechanism is an unpopular budget tool that was included as a fail-safe in a 2011 budget law that required Congress to find $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction on their own. When they failed to do so in December 2011, they started a one-year countdown to the automatic cuts. In the past year, Congress and the White House have been unable to come up with an alternative to the sequester, or reach a long-term budget deal that would allow them to turn it off.

The president and congressional leaders will make a final attempt at a pre-deadline compromise at a White House meeting Friday morning, but top lawmakers conceded the prospects were dim for a deal in the short-term. "Hopefully, by the end of March, people will see the light and understand that we're not standing for this," said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

[juleswin]

LOL... Math is hard.

LOL more like cocaine is one hell of a drug :)

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

According to several internet sources (I really did not want to spend time looking for an exact number) there are only about 150 million people working in the US... What happens if you have a negative amount of jobs ?
Tragically, that negative surplus would result in 20 million unborn children being aborted into poverty. And how much money is actually 20 million? Well, according to the "Many" based number system, which is a number system which first counts to one, then to two, and, finally, concludes by counting the rest of infinity as "Many," the sum of 20 million would amount to "Many."

[Danan]

If those jobs are government jobs, then it won't hurt a thing. Everybody should know government jobs don't provide any benefit to the economy.

That's exactly right. A job lost due to government "cuts" is probably a job that should have never existed in the first place.

[LibertyEagle]

Oh, you should listen to the callers on Washington Journal in the morning. All the cries about how they (federal employees) are going to get cuts in pay with sequester.

My heart pumps peanut butter. They need to go get productive work in the private sector like everyone else; instead of leeching off of honest hard-working Americans.

[satchelmcqueen]

i forgot how to math.

[seraphson]

All the gains "we" have made will be lost? Oh, like creating a permanent poor underclass? Subsidizing mother and fathers to be failures since your "programs" incentivize such behavior, destroying families in the process? The millions and billions spent on these statistically and empirically failing "programs" no longer necessary?

A blessing it would be. You have made ZERO "gains". Poverty is WORSE than EVER before since the "war on poverty" began. Damn fool.

[devil21]

She's mastered the art of using as many emotional buzzwords as possible while saying nothing of substance. She just missed the whole math part of the curriculum.

WOMEN! FAMILIES! CHILDREN! HOMELESS! JOBS!

[dillo]

so if 1% of the federal budget gets cut then half of the jobs in america will be gone? Seems like an intelligent claim

[RonPaulIsGreat]

She really is stupid, she doesn't understand anything, she makes these "mistakes" all the time. It just proves politics has zero to do with intelligence, wisdom, or any worthwhile attribute, it's all high school shit.

And why do they always point out the effects on women and children. News Flash, there are guys to. You know, I just get tired of it.

I'm starting to agree with those that advocate population reduction.

[GunnyFreedom]

so if 1% of the federal budget gets cut then half of the jobs in america will be gone? Seems like an intelligent claim

Not half. Fully 126% of the jobs in America will be gone.

[DamianTV]

Not half. Fully 126% of the jobs in America will be gone.

That will be the end of the United States. The name may remain the same, but the spirit of this country has been murdered.