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toe 2 months, 1 week ago

Reductions are good. Now if we can just get the $750.000 to $7.5 million.

Pepe 2 months, 1 week ago

The military is bearing the biggest brunt of the sequestration cuts.

fred_mertz 2 months, 1 week ago

KSLib - I agree with you. What could we have done for the US with all the billions wasted in Afghanistan and Iraq? Our debt would not be so great if we didn't nation build in those countries.

mikekt 2 months, 1 week ago

They-the republicans-scream about our evolvement in Kosovo's civil genocide war and asked Bill Clinton about his EXIT PLAN ?

Then the republicans turned around under Bush 2 and deliberatly lied us into the longest war, in our countries history, in Iraq !

Go figure !?...........start with how much did that cost not only in cash,..... but also in what goes around, comes around, in one way or the other !

We sure did a good job at getting rid of Iran's' next door neighbor enemy !!!!

Meanwhile, our own country is becoming a wierd version of the gun crazy shoot'em up Middle East where religious nut bags run the whole place .

Liberty275 2 months, 1 week ago

Write a letter to Obama and ask why he doesn't surrender all the wars we are involved with and bring our brave men and women home.

caughtinthemiddle 2 months, 1 week ago

And, in other, more urgent news, the $750,000 is just a drop in the bucket when compared to what Sam and the Gang are costing Kansas.

fred_mertz 2 months, 1 week ago

Congress bears a lot of the blame but so does the president. It was his idea and if he didn't demand tax increases the sequester might have been avoided. Tax increases were just given and were not part of the original sequestration deal so Obama changed the rules and bears as much responsibility for it happening as congress.

just_another_bozo_on_this_bus 2 months, 1 week ago

Sequestration was offered only because Congressional Republicans were threatening to take the entire world economy over the fiscal cliff-- i.e., they were willing to don financial suicide vests in order to get their way.

That said, Obama has played his hand very poorly, and that's why Republicans have got away with the idiocy of triggering the sequestration. That might backfire on them, but they given they are bereft of any workable ideas for anything (well, class warfare has worked out pretty well for their one true plutocratic constituency) they don't have anything to lose.

fred_mertz 2 months, 1 week ago

Why didn't Obama offer up different cuts to avoid the sequestration instead of demanding more tax increases just after taxes were raised? Had he offered up cuts instead of more tax increases maybe sequestration could have been avoided?

I blame Congress and the president for the mess our country is in.

just_another_bozo_on_this_bus 2 months, 1 week ago

"Why didn't Obama offer up different cuts"

You mean cuts in SS, medicare, medicaid and programs such as foodstamps-- pile it on those at the bottom so the wealthy don't have to pay a bit additional in taxes, after which they'd still be wealthy?

fred_mertz 2 months, 1 week ago

Nope not what I meant at all. Meant just what I said, why didn't he offer up a package of cuts - any cuts instead of a tax increase after already getting one.

I know it is hard to admit that Obama might share in any of the blame.

Paul R. Getto 2 months, 1 week ago

That was, I believe the "Grand Bargain" he and speaker Boehner worked out and almost got done before Thelma and Louise, AKA the TP gang threatened to trash the USA's credit and the world economy.

just_another_bozo_on_this_bus 2 months, 1 week ago

"I know it is hard to admit that Obama might share in any of the blame."

I never said he didn't. But the blame lies in his compromising with Republicans upfront, despite their proven track record that if you give them a half mile, they'll want a light-year.

rtwngr 2 months, 1 week ago

Yes, he has played his hand poorly because the general public, meaning the low information voter, is now beginning to catch on that this president is not interested in the greatness of America. He wants to tear it down and make it into a France or Italy where big government is the order of the day. I don't want to be western Europe and neither do most people so except for you.

elliottaw 2 months, 1 week ago

wow you need to turn off fox news and look up some actually facts

just_another_bozo_on_this_bus 2 months, 1 week ago

Courts, schmourts, who needs them? Summary execution is all we really need. If it's good enough for Somalia, it's good enough for the US.

irtnog2001 2 months, 1 week ago

The federal courthouses are palaces fit for kings.

Agnostick 2 months, 1 week ago

Let's stop defending poorly-written, unconstitutional laws by not enacting them in the first place. Besides, don't the Koch lawyers have enough money, already?

Agnostick 2 months, 1 week ago

"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence."

Paul R. Getto 2 months, 1 week ago

Next lawsuits after the school cases get settled? We have a right to access to the courts and a speedy trial.

laredo 2 months, 1 week ago

Congress needs to have their pay cut right along with everything else. I hope they are proud of themselfs.

Thinking_Out_Loud 2 months, 1 week ago

That cannot happen, Laredo. The 27th Amendment prevents any change in Congressional pay (raise or cut) until after the next election for Representatives. Their pay cannot be cut under our Constitution.

Kontum1972 2 months, 1 week ago

so how much do prosecutors make a year....that's the key....!

Kontum1972 2 months, 1 week ago

well i am sure the prosecutors and lawyers do not have to worry about the money....nor the judge's....compared too the rest of us....call me a liar!

voevoda 2 months ago

Well, Kontum1972, you'll need to eat your words. Federal prosecutors' salaries start at $42,000 per year. The sequestration will result in a 20% pay cut. That results in a salary of $33,600 per year. Think about supporting a family and repaying educational loans on that salary, Kontum.

irtnog2001 2 months ago

Average salary might be more indicative.

voevoda 2 months ago

The average salary isn't more indicative for the federal prosecutors who are earning the starting wage.

And overall, government employees get paid less than their equally-educated and equally-employed counterparts in the private sector. Compare the federal prosecutor with the corporate litigator: they start at $50,000.

Kontum1972 2 months, 1 week ago

we are the 47%......

Kontum1972 2 months, 1 week ago

when i was in china ....walking..thru the factory i was going to buy.....none of the workers looked up at me....the reply from the escort.....to Mitt....it is forbidden!.....and you wanted this clown to be President.....? an guy who wears a wingtip hair cut is really not in sync...with it all....47%.....Lincoln is rolling over in his grave...