Republicans - a political party without a vision or a candidate but supporters who don't seem to get the disconnect

Republicans can't explain how their cruel Draconian position on the stupid 2013 budget sequester and ultimate government shutdown can help the economy. 

An example of the impact was reported in MaineBiz, as horrible Republican economics negatively impacted businesses related to Acadia National Park in Maine.

A federal report found communities near Acadia National Park

lost an estimated $16.2 million during the government shutdown last October, the third-largest estimated loss for national parks in the country.

The Portland Press Herald reported the National Park Service said park attendance at Acadia dropped 67% last October, compared with visitor numbers for that month over the past three years. The economic impact loss was estimated for communities within 60 miles of the park and added to a $262,133 revenue loss for the park itself.

The report found that only Great Smoky Mountain National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, at $25.6 million, and Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, at $17 million, had larger estimated losses from the partisan budget impasse that caused the government shutdown.  

Republican speak out of both sides of their mouths. They claim their objective is to improve the economy while, at the same time, obstructing, via sequester and shutdowns, the access people have to jobs they already have!

Moreover, Republicans are a party without a vision for how to restore American jobs, while claiming they want people to achieve the American Dream, via hard work. There's a major disconnect between what Republican say and how they respond to solutions to the problems they're creating by obstructing solutions.

Without a message, Republicans still stir up trouble, because they're somehow able to convince a skeptical electorate not to trust government. Hello? Acadia National Park, the Great Smoky Mountain National Park and the Grand Canyon National Park, among other sites, attract many millions in tourists and money because government invested in these natural treasures. Government created, through amazing conservation efforts, the very economic success so many people enjoy and pay to see in these and other parks.

It's hard to understand the smoke and mirrors Republican use to deceive those who fall into lock step behind their double talking rhetoric. Nevertheless, without a credible leader, they have no one who can communicate a credible vision for America's future.  

Republicans will spend millions of dollars to win political power in 2014, when their party has no vision or candidate to communicate how they intend to fix the problems created with the stupid budget sequester and the avoidable government shutdown. These are problems the GOP created while they're wasting tax payer money obstructing the obvious solutions. 

In fact, 2016 is the time to vote hypocritical Republicans out of office. American simply can't afford to pay for more obstructionist government.

Shutdown: Is Physiology at Fault? House Speaker Boehner and Senator Ted Cruz Need Medical Exams

It's totally incomprehensible for Americans to understand how a majority of "We the People" want the budget sequester repealed and an immediate end to the government shutdown. Moreover, "We the People" also want our government to pay our bills. Therefore, the idea of not raising the nation's debt limit is totally inconceivable, like driving up a bill on a credit card but refusing to pay when the bill is due.

"We the People" live in a democracy where our majority is supposed to rule. Our system of government can't conceive of a majority of people being overridden by a fringe minority of extremists who are upset because democracy didn't happen to win them the Republican 2012 election.  

It makes virtually no sense.

Therefore, from a clinical or scientific perspective, We the People must find the etiology of this strange "minority wants to rule" behavior. It's selfish.  It could also have a physiologic cause.

Let's look at the strange behaviors.  

House Speaker John Boehner won't call for a simple vote on a clean resolution to end this misery. If he did, the outcome of the vote could eliminate the agony all Americans are experiencing. Think about how the sequester would be gone, government would open and the debt ceiling would be lifted.  

Unfortunately, this remedy won't be entertained by Boehner and Republican House leadership.Why?

Should House Speaker John Boehner have a physicial and mental exam to evaluate his critical thinking skills? Think about this for a minute. Republicans want the people who receive Medicaid to have drug testing before they receive benefits. Politicians should do likewise. In my mind. all politicians are like welfare recipients with huge benefits. They are paid with taxpayer money. Likewise, they should also have drug testing.  

Maybe, if we insisted on a physician exam for House Speaker John Boehner, we could determine if his critical thinking skills are competent enough to lead the Congress. 

What's required for Medicaid beneficiaries should be the same for the Congress. Remember, Eric Cantor spoke about eliminating any Obamacare (aka health care reform) subsidy for Congress, thereby preventing differential treatment. 

Good. Let's ask Congressman Cantor to take a physical exam, too.

Now, let's find out what's wrong with the Elmer Gantry of the Senate Ted Cruz.  He also needs to have a physical exam.  

How does a man who's own Republican colleagues hold in disdain continue to control the right wing Congressional representatives in the House? House Speaker John Boehner is allowing the junior senator from Texas to control his caucus.  

This dysfunctional situation is unexplainable. Convoluted thinking like this seems to have a physiologic origin.  

A leader doesn't allow a junior politician from the Senate to speak authoritatively to the Congressional leadership caucus.  

Meanwhile, Senator Cruz has his own critical thinking problems.

Senator Cruz made a judgement on behalf of his constituents that uninsured people in Texas should not have access to affordable health insurance, offered in the Obamacare insurance exchanges. He wants to eliminate Obamacare and thereby prevent his uninsured constituents from buying health insurance.

In other words, Senator Cruz fancifully decided that he has the power to prevent Obamacare from being implemented, shutting down government to make his egotistical point, just because he doesn't want to obey the law.   

Senator Cruz also needs to have a physical exam where his critical thinking skills are evaluated.

Our world is in desperate need of our American  political leadership to be competent enough to make informed and rational decisions. Given the behaviors we've witnessed during this daunting and preventable economic crisis, it's time we see the medical records for Speaker Boehner and Senator Cruz.  

Since taxpayers pay for their medical coverage, seems like we should see what we're paying for. 

Dear President Obama - you obviously won the election but Republicans are winning the public relations contest

Dear President Obama, Middle Class voters waited in long lines to re-elect you last year, but since then, you have not stood up  to defend our best interests.  You must stand up to the right wing obstructionists, bigots and time wasting recalls of Obamacare.
You have nothing to loose.  But, Middle Class citizens are loosing ground in public opinion. As a result, Republicans are holding public relations trump cards, squelching your well intended initiatives. This is evident by observing the following:

1.  Congressional obstructionism continues - Roll back of stupid budget sequester should be a "no brainer".  Instead, the sequester is running roughshod over programs needed by poor people who rely on Meals on Wheels and children who need Head Start education.

Alexandria, VA, June 4, 2013 - New information detailing the devastating impact of the federally mandated budget cuts known as sequester...reveal nearly 70% of Meals on Wheels survey respondents have reduced the number of meals served to the nation's hungry and homebound seniors.
2.  Obamacare is voted on time after time, wasting tax payer money with useless votes to overthrow the health care reform law.  Republicans waste tax payer paid time trying to repeal this important reform, although it's the law of the land. The Congress acts as though they know better than the majority of people who want to protect insurance reform provisions in Obamacare and the U.S. Supreme Court who supported its implementation.  

3.  Republicans continue blocking immigration reform, because President Obama supports a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.  GOP opposition to immigrants achieving U.S. citizenship is the highest form of hypocrisy ever perpetrated on innocent people, because every single Congressman, including Speaker John Boehner, are descendants of immigrants but they won't allow the same privilege to others.  

4.  Supporters of the National Rifle Association continue to override the public opinion in support of increased regulations for gun ownership, especially for weapons intended to murder people.
A CBS-New York Times Poll reports that 51 percent of those polled support stronger gun ownership regulations while only 11 percent oppose it.  Although, Mr. President, you became angry when the U.S. Congress ignored public opinion and did not approve stronger gun regulations, nothing has been done since the failed vote.  

Outside of delivering some inspiring speeches, your leadership has gone underground on issues vitally important to the middle class who voted for you. 

Americans need leadership to stop the relentless votes to override health care reform; we need to know you have our backs when we rely on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment benefits, Military, Veterans and women's health care.  Nevertheless, your recent absentee leadership doesn't seem committed to helping us sustain these vitally important programs. 

We need leadership, advocacy and confidence from you!  
Please help us, like you promised.  We haven't given up on you, Mr. President, so please stand up for us.

Go after the GOP with your own public relations campaign. Speak to Americans and require us to change the concrete mindedness of those in Congress who are ignoring our calls for help.  

You clearly won re-election, but your leadership is waning. Those of us who supported you against formidable opposition are still waiting to see the President we elected.

We want you to win the public relations contest now in the Republican camp, because they are simply biding time until you are out of office. Don't let them get away with it!

Americans like you, President Obama. To use a basketball metaphor, winning a public relations contest should be a slam dunk.
Go to the net and just do it!

As Stupid Sequester Cuts Take Hold - Republicans Wrongly Point to Earned Entitlements to Their Peril

"No one ever says they'll wonder if the US Army will be there when they get old...." James Surowiecki

Social Security and Medicare are earned entitlements, therefore, not responsible for the deficit the US Congress racked up when the Republicans launched two unfunded wars (Iraq and Afghanistan  and the Medicare Part D drug benefit.  

So, when the #stupid_sequester (a Twitter handle) began on March 1st, the same Republicans who dug the deficit hole should raise the revenues to fill it - and keep their hands off of Social Security and Medicare.  

Following is an opinion from The Financial Page of The New Yorker (December 24 and 31, 2012) by James Surowiecki, explaining how Republicans are wrong minded about cuts to Social Security and Medicare:  "In Funds We Trust":

One of the most influential ideas in Washington these days is that Social Security and Medicare are on the verge of going bust. 

Earlier this month, Senator Lindsey Graham warned of the “imminent bankruptcy” of these insurance programs for the elderly, and Republican leaders are citing the threat of insolvency as a reason that entitlement reform must be part of any fiscal-cliff deal. The argument sounds reasonable enough, but it’s really a bid to turn the great political strength of these programs—the fact that they were designed to be self-supporting—into a weakness.

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that’s left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons. When F.D.R. introduced Social Security, he calculated that funding it through a payroll tax rather than out of general tax revenue would make people think of the program not as welfare but as an entitlement—as something that they had paid for and had a right to. Many liberals initially opposed the idea, because payroll tax rates aren’t progressive (everyone pays the same rate) and because they tax only labor income. But the system proved as resilient as F.D.R. had predicted, and when Lyndon Johnson introduced Medicare, in the nineteen-sixties, he adopted it, too. Over the years, Social Security and Medicare taxes have risen sharply, to the point where payroll taxes account for thirty-six per cent of all federal revenue. Today, most American households pay more in payroll taxes than in income tax. Yet there’s little public hostility to these taxes, and the programs they fund remain enormously popular.

But the trust-fund strategy has an Achilles’ heel: funds can run out of money. Projections show that, owing to an aging population and rising health-care costs, the Medicare Trust Fund will become insolvent in 2024 and Social Security in 2033. The image of empty coffers is a powerful one: half of all Americans aged between eighteen and twenty-nine don’t think that Social Security will exist when they retire. That’s a bizarre thing to believe about an important government program. No one ever says, “I don’t think the U.S. Army will be there when I get old” or talks about the Defense Department “going broke.” We assume that there will always be a need for the military, and that we’ll end up paying the taxes that are necessary to fund it. But, because Social Security and Medicare have always been self-supporting, it’s easy to believe that they’ll just vanish if the trust funds dry up. This isn’t the case. Relatively minor tweaks to Social Security will allow it to keep paying full benefits for many decades. And, if we wanted, we could supplement funding for both programs with general government revenue. That’s what most European countries do, and, indeed, parts of Medicare are already paid for out of general revenue. The only way that Social Security and Medicare can go “bankrupt” is if we let them.

So why are politicians obsessed with the question of solvency? Because it makes cutting entitlements seem inevitable, rather than a political choice. After all, if you’re in favor of cutting entitlements, that means you’re in favor of spending less money taking care of old people. That’s a tenable position, but it’s politically dicey—particularly for Republicans, since the elderly are among their biggest supporters. It’s far more palatable to argue that we simply have to cut benefits, because otherwise the programs will go bankrupt. That’s why when, in 2011, Paul Ryan introduced a plan to effectively replace Medicare with a voucher system he said that he was doing so in order to preserve Medicare for future generations. Hand-wringing about Medicare and Social Security going bust allows Republicans, paradoxically, to portray themselves not as opponents of entitlement spending but, rather, as its saviors.

This isn’t just a rhetorical problem. It leads to terrible policy. You can see that in the current debate over the proposal to raise the age of Medicare eligibility from sixty-five to sixty-seven, a proposal that, some have suggested, President Obama may agree to as part of a fiscal-cliff deal. This is not a good idea: though it would save taxpayers close to six billion dollars a year, it would raise over-all health-care spending by more than eleven billion dollars a year, according to an estimate by the Kaiser Family Foundation. (That’s because Medicare is better at holding down costs than private insurance, and because the out-of-pocket costs for ineligible seniors would rise.) Sure, it would extend the life of Medicare, but that’s meaningless on its own: you could extend the life of Medicare indefinitely if you restricted it to people over eighty-five, but that doesn’t mean it’s smart to do so. Only an obsession with the trust fund makes kicking people off Medicare seem like a rational approach to our health-care problems.

There are legitimate reasons to be worried about entitlement spending. But the fundamental question is not how much longer the Social Security and Medicare trust funds are going to be solvent. The question is how much we’re willing to spend to insure that the elderly have affordable access to health care and some financial security. The political virtue of the trust-fund strategy has been to make it seem as if Social Security and Medicare run on autopilot. But it has also meant that we’ve never had an honest debate about the value, and the cost, of social insurance. That’s the argument that politicians should be having, instead of a disingenuous one about solvency. - James Surowiecki is an American journalist. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a regular column on business and finance called "The Financial Page". Wikipedia

It seems to me the Republicans are setting up Democrats by railing on and on about their wrong minded concept of "entitlements".  The GOP desperately wants to trap the Democrats into cutting these important safety net programs so they'll be able to point fingers and thereby stop looking like the "stupid party", a label many of them so rightly deserve.

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has branded the Republican party as "stupid". He ways his GOP must stop being the "stupid party".

“It is no secret we had a number of Republicans damage our brand this year with offensive, bizarre comments -- enough of that,” Jindal told Politico.

Well, in my opinion, Democrats and President Barack Obama, are falling victims to the "stupid party" trap by including cuts to entitlements in the administration's budget, just because Republicans want them curtailed.

"Stupid is as stupid does", said the fictional character Forrest Gump.

If Democrats fall into this Republican trap and follow through with cuts to entitlements, they will have flipped the "stupid" label on themselves. Republicans will point fingers like bully children in a playground. "See, they did it, they did it". And, if this happens, Democrats will cry all the way home.

But, a smart party of Democrats will see this selfish Republican ploy for what it is - as a means of keeping taxes low for rich people, rather than as the way to protect our hard earned entitlements.

So, as the #stupid_sequester takes hold, let the "stupid party" of Republicans figure out how to dig themselves out of the deficit hole they created by raising revenues - through taxation.

New Outbreak of an Old but Deadly Flu Killer - a Strain of Swine Flu May Cause Renewed Pandemic Response

These news stories about swine flu should never be taken lightly. It's another startling example of how this changing virus continues to threaten human life. 

When health officials can't find the source of the flu, as jumping person to person, the risk of the virus jumping from animal to human is very suspect. While American lawmakers are embroiled in a "sequester" political power struggle, the resources needed to combat the threat of another pandemic could be blindsided by wasteful Congressional bickering.  

This report from NBC Nightly News is very current as of March 31, 2013- and it bears close monitoring by World Health experts:

2 in China first known deaths from H7N9 bird flu

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/51385170/ns/health-infectious_diseases/#.UVjJbpPFVfc

BEIJING (China) — Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain, and Chinese authorities said Sunday that it wasn't clear how they were infected, but that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission.

A third person, a woman in the nearby province of Anhui, also contracted the H7N9 strain of bird flu and was in critical condition, China's National Health and Family Planning Commission said in a report on its website.

There was no sign that any of the three, who were infected over the past two months, had contracted the disease from each other, and no sign of infection in the 88 people who had closest contact with them, the medical agency said.

H7N9 bird flu is considered a low pathogenic strain that cannot easily be contracted by humans. The overwhelming majority of human deaths from bird flu have been caused by the more virulent H5N1, which decimated poultry stocks across Asia in 2003.

The World Health Organization is "closely monitoring the situation" in China, regional agency spokesman Timothy O'Leary said in Manila.

"There is apparently no evidence of human-to-human transmission, and transmission of the virus appears to be inefficient, therefore the risk to public health would appear to be low," O'Leary said.

One of the two men from Shanghai, who was 87, became ill on Feb. 19 and died on Feb 27. The other man, 27, became ill on Feb. 27 and died on March 4, the Chinese health commission said. A 35-year-old woman in the Anhui city of Chuzhou became ill on March 9 and is being treated.

The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention conducted tests and confirmed Saturday that all three cases were H7N9, the health commission said.

Scientists have been closely monitoring the H5N1 strain of the virus, fearing that it could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people, potentially sparking a pandemic. So far, most human cases have been connected to contact with infected birds.

Our US Congress must stop bickering about how to prioritize sequester cuts, but, instead, works together, to improve the human condition!  

Tea Leaves- Jobs in Your Stock Portfolio

Although the stock market might look like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow this week, the tricky leprechaun, hidden in a Republican slight of hand, is dancing with lecherous glee, as corporate profits are made off the backs of the unemployed.
Job searches are now as predictable as reading green tea leaves and just as mystifying, while corporate profits grow like weeds.

Reading the New York stock market indicators this week are pretty easy, especially when the graphs track upward. Investors might even welcome mystics to tell us when to buy and sell in this somewhat surprise bull market. Nevertheless,  job seekers need more than mystics to explain where to go for employment.  Among the 7.9 percent stubborn unemployment data are many who are now labeled "long term unemployed" or "extended unemployed",  like they have disabilities that stigmatize them to employers.

Although I'm not an economist, I tend to believe the reason our US Congress didn't act to eliminate the dreaded March 1st sequester cuts is because corporations wanted the curtailment.  In my opinion, corporations that pay lobbyists to prevent such disasters told Republicans about the unexpected bonus the sequester would bring to corporate profits.  In other words, companies could lay off workers by blaming the sequester, while their labor costs would be reduced, driving profit margins. This is what happened after the 2008 Great Recession, when the stock market crashed. Employers used the crash to lay off workers who they knew would never be rehired.  It's the same with the sequester.

So, now the rich  and richer are getting wealthier, because the stock market expects to see higher profit margins. Still, the unemployed are stuck in an economic dark hole.  They have no place to go except to work at low paying jobs, after their unemployment benefits expire. 

This impact isn't just for the here and the now.  As the unemployed take low paying jobs, their Social Security benefits will also be reduced by virtue of their lower income.  

Where are the jobs?  I suspect some employment opportunities will be available in health insurance sales, as 2014 begins the period when Americans will be looking for coverage to comply with the Obamacare regulations.  Likewise, I suspect health insurance carriers are a good place to put some stock dividend money right now.  Those are my tea leaf prognostications.

Those of us living on fixed incomes may justifiably welcome the current bull market as our new best friend.  Nevertheless,  it's a good idea to keep the memory of 2008 brewing in our minds. 

Every good tea leaf reader will tell you that our fortunes change with every fresh cup. 

Yet, if obstructionists Republicans in the US Congress passed President Barack Obama's jobs bill, the stock portfolios would continue to rise, while the unemployed could look at paychecks instead of tea leaves to predict their futures.

Sequester - Time to put Republicans in the Stocks

It was common for colonial onlookers to make the public stocks punishment even worse by throwing rotten food and rocks at the person who was locked in the humiliating contraption. 

Maybe it's high time Americans throw rotten food and rocks at those in the US Congress who left Washington DC today (Friday), rather than vote on any initiative to eliminate the March 1st, punishing fiscal sequester.

Sequester is not necessary and it's wrong!  Even a Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman says the sequester is stupid.

America has a deficit in jobs and infrastructure. This is a winning economic equation.  Work needs doing and people are ready to fix things. So, put the people to work and the deficit will, eventually, take care of itself.  But, Republicans decided to create chaos by refusing to vote away a budget sequester created to cause drastic cuts in government spending.  They don't "get" that their austerity obsession is simply dooming their political agenda.  Statesmen know that when an election is won, the victor crates the agenda.  Statesmen know that the loosing candidate puts the minority agenda aside for another time, when, invariably, the political pendulum shifts again in their direction.  That's politics 101.

Nevertheless, Republicans are still working to discredit President Obama's winning campaign promise to protect middle class safety nets like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  For some reason, they simply don't get that their agenda was rejected by the American voters.

House Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor should be slapped in stocks as punishment for leaving Washington DC, rather than solve the avoidable chaos and stress caused by the sequester.  Boehner should keep Congress working until the sequester is eliminated.  But, instead, he adjourned Congress like a spoiled child who takes his baseball from the team, so they can't play the game anymore.

With the horrible sequester in place, American people will understandably take to the streets. Many will bring public humiliation to the face of those selfish Republicans who care more about their stupid ideology (thank you Governor Jindal and Paul Krugman), than what's in the best interest of the country.

House Speaker John Boehner Writes Op-Ed But Won't Solve Sequester

John Boehner: Wall Street Journal prints whining opinion by John Boehner, includes lies but no leadership nor solutions.

"The President Is Raging Against a Budget Crisis He Created - Obama invented the 'sequester' in the summer of 2011 to avoid facing up to America's spending problem," writes Boehner.

I'm really worried about how Speaker Boehner can fabricate information and get published in the Wall Street Journal.  Obviously, the Wall Street Journal won't publish my blog, because I'm challenging the Speaker's misinformation, but the proverb holds that a lie travels halfway around the world (via the WSJ) before truth can pull its pants on.

Boehner writes, "But President Obama was determined not to face another debt-limit increase before his re-election campaign. Having just blown up one deal, the president scuttled this bipartisan, bicameral agreement. His solution? A sequester."

Poor Pinocchio. He's just a perfect cliche to point out the above false statement.  In fact, Speaker Boehner was thrilled to get the Sequester into the Budget Control Act of 2011 and now he acts like he's "shocked! shocked!" about the President supporting it?  

Pinocchio alert! 

I'm no expert on the Budget Control Act, but I'd be "shocked! shocked!" if the president's position on the fiscal austerity law didn't include revenue.  President Obama is willing to support a balanced approach to reducing the nation's deficit.  Speaker Boehner knows this to be the truth, but refuses to accept the balanced approach as a compromise position and, thereby, avoid the looming March 1st Sequester. 

Truth is this:  Boehner wanted the Sequester in the Budget Control Act. He's telling the Wall Street Journal a lie by claiming this provision was supported by President Obama, when Republicans are preventing revenue from being included in the solution.

It's time to cut House Speaker John Boehner and eliminate the Sequester altogether.  Hopefully, Americans are waking up to the realities of how Republicans want to govern. It's incredible to see how Republican prefer bullying rather than leading and promoting austerity without regard for seeking revenue to balance the budget.

Sequester is unnecessary and so is Speaker Boehner's job.

Somebody Must Cut the Sequester Before Cutting Middle Class Economic Investment

Congressional Republicans show mixed-up priorities as they obsessively look (OMG- again!) to further reduce middle class safety net programs, as the March 1st Sequester looms, causing preventable but serious job killing spending cuts. 

These obsessed fiscal cutters, led by Congressman Eric Cantor and supported by House Speaker John Boehner, tell us they believe the politics of austerity is somehow better for our economy than the return on investment if President Obama's stimulus initiatives (like building roads and bridges) are adopted.

Sequester cuts to defense contracts on March 1st, will be immediate. Consequently, the sequester will negatively impact on middle class jobs, especially in union shops, like Bath Iron Works, in Maine, where defense contracts are awarded to build destroyers.  Republicans are playing political roulette with  our nation's national security by holding firm to their obsession with austerity, just because they can. 

This inaction on the sequester is another slap in the face to the middle class voters who elected President Obama. Republican Congressmen and women who took February vacation this week, rather than working on a solution to the Sequester deadline, are behaving irresponsibly. Rather than cut programs, Americans should cut these Congressional salaries by the amount of tax payer money they each receive, for every hour they aren't working.

Even more common sense would prevail if Congress cut the Sequester entirely. Instead of cutting programs that will damage our nation's economic recovery, like job supporting defense contracts, the Congress should look to fund our national priorities to include (a) jobs related to defense and developing national infrastructure (b) middle class safety net programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and Veterans benefits, and (c) national, and domestic safety and security.


Americans who voted for President Obama must continue to remind Congressional Republicans about the outcome of the 2012 election, by using our right to petition our government. Congress must be told, again, to cut the Sequester and save our nation from yet another - yes, another (!) - manufactured fiscal crises.  

Otherwise, the November 2014 election is a Sequester the Congressional Republicans can really fear.