@pinkgummybears Said And the budget cuts are only going to be effective if we maintain the levels of spending in other areas, which I am not sure Obama can do.
Obama can't do a thing about it.
Congress makes the budget, and Obama is required by law to spend every last dime that congress appropriates. He can't cut a penny, or add a penny, or move a penny. This falls entirely on congress.
70,000 kids will start going without free breakfast and lunch in the next couple of weeks..
More than a million private sector employees will see their hours (and pay) cut by 20% in the next two weeks. That will trickle down, and absolutely destroy the extremely fragile recovery that we're experiencing.
But no matter.. Democrats in congress will keep pointing at the republicans, and republicans will keep pointing at Obama.. and the idiots outside of the beltway, who don't have a f***ing clue about how our government works will believe which ever side they agree with.
Nothing will change, and the middle class will be f***ed.
And even worse, people will vote the exact same a*****es back into congress in 2014, because it's not "their" guy who's the a*****e, it's everyone elses.
I've already written my (democratic) senators and representative, and told them that if they don't stop the bulls***, and start to work together that I'll vote for anyone who opposes them in the next election. I'd suggest that everyone else in the US does the same.
But it won't happen.