Well. I for one am shocked. I expected another last minute “deal” to delay the deadline by another month to “give negotiators a chance to work things out”. But I suppose a stupidly mismanaged and futile cut is better than no cut at all.
From the inside, nothing has changed. I came to work. So did everyone else. We all went back to work wasting huge gobs of your money. Highly placed people in the Army are still hell-bent on spending billions of dollars as if we have a boatload of federal money anchored out there in the potomac with Army guards on the gang planks.
Since this is the only victory the Republicans have gained in the budget negotiations in five years, I am hoping they keep it in place. And I wonder what they will do to follow it up next time.
BTW, despite the sequestration, the US govt will still be spending billions of dollars more this year than last year and last year was a record.
Traffic was super-light today. I wondered if it was the first furlough day, or all the Feds stayed home demoralized or something.
It was Friday.
Typical Friday.
Tarl,
People stayed home because they were too despondent to go in to work. Something about a notice that Facebook would be shut down Feb 29th, 30th & 31st
I think it is a mistake to conflate debate on the “Sequestration” topic with any real difference between the Democrats and Republicans. This is real money we are talking about here: $Billions.
What I believe we are seeing is the results of both parties agreeing that the recession did not suppress american workers’ wages as far as is necessay to assure big corporations’ profits in the international marketplace. … So, … we need more recession(depression) to further suppress wages. Yes, both parties are complicit.
Do I have any proof? Nope. Just my own conjecture.
What’s facebook?
That’s just stupid. “They” can easily suppress wages by just paying less any time they want.