OBAMA’S MANDATED SEQUESTER
CONTINUES TO WREAK HAVOC ON THE NATIONS MOST VULNERABLE?
4/3/2013,
Jennifer Sorentrue, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer posted a report entitled “Federal
cuts eliminate meals for elderly poor, buses for Head Start”.
Apparently,
Palm Beach Commissioners have voted 5-2 to cut programs in four areas. Ms.
Sorentrue reports that the county receives $36 million per year from the Feds.
But due to the Obama mandated sequester, $2 million must be cut. That leaves a federal payment to Palm Beach
County of over $34 million for 2013. Where is that $34 million being spent by
PBC? As usual the reporters of the Palm Beach Post ask few questions of the
Democrat dominated leadership of Palm Beach County.
Should the elderly poor and our young children be the first
people cut from the $34 million Federal payment, the first
to be thrown under the government bus of waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer
money? Or is this another example of the
Democrat Parties strategy to blame any reduction in government spending on
mean spirited conservatives who desire to starve children, push granny over the
cliff, cause cancer to flourish and pollute the Earths air and water?
I have no doubt
that if a real reporter existed at the Post and conducted an audit of all the expenditures
by Palm Beach County there would be an uprising of the middle class citizens
against local government waste.
We can surmise
what is likely occurring here at home by examine what politicians in
Washington, D.C have done with our tax money.
The following is from Sen. Tom Coburn’s
Wastebook 2012. These examples are only
a few of the eye popping top 100 examples of government waste that totals over $19 BILLION.
Google Coburn’s
Wastebook to see the extraordinary waste that is typical of big government. I
added LOL to my favorites, what moron could even conceive of these programs?
“Examples of wasteful spending highlighted in “Wastebook 2012”
include:
• Tax loopholes for the National Football League (NFL), National
Hockey League (NHL) and Professional Golfers’ Association (PGA) – professional
sports leagues that generate billions of dollars annually in profits ($91
million in taxes)
• Moroccan pottery classes (part of a $27 million grant from
U.S. Agency for International Development)” (LOL)
• “Efforts to promote caviar consumption and production
($300,000)
• Robotic squirrel named “RoboSquirrel” (part of a $325,000
grant from the National Science Foundation)”
(LOL)
• “Promotion of specialty shampoo and other beauty products for
cats and dogs ($505,000)
• Corporate welfare for the world’s largest snack food producer,
PepsiCo Inc. ($1.3 million)
• Government-funded study on how golfers might benefit from
using their imagination, envisioning the hole is bigger than it actually is
($350,000)” (LOL)
• “Prom Week,” a video game that allows taxpayers to relive prom
night ($516,000)” (LOL)
• Oklahoma’s layover boondoggle, a scarcely used airport in
Oklahoma receiving nearly half-a-million in taxpayer dollars only to transfer
funds elsewhere in the state ($450,000)
Bob Woodward has
confirmed that the mandated sequester was devised by President Obama and Jack
Lew. Obama has allowed the doors of the White House to be closed to the public,
blaming his mandated cuts. While
hundreds of kids, including many underprivileged inner city children who saved
money and raised funds to travel by bus to D.C. during Spring break and hoping
to visit the home of our first black president are locked out, the Obama family
concluded their fourth vacation of 2013.
The following is a report from USA Today:
“In the first three months of the
year, members of the first family have been on three vacations, averaging a
vacation a month. And now it's being reported that the first daughters are on a
spring break vacation in the Bahamas.”
It is reported that the Obama’s 2012-2013 Hawaii trip alone cost $7 million.
Today, Newsmax.com reported the following:
“If we assume the estimates are probably quite low,
then it’s likely the bill for the
combined vacations is more than $20 million,’’ said the Dossier’s Keith
Koffler.”
While Obama few to Palm City, Fl. for golf lessons with Tiger Woods, the Michelle and her girls flew north for another snow skiing adventure and then the kids took a jaunt to the Bahamas for Spring break!
To add insult to injury, buffoon vice president Joe Biden cost the taxpayer $500,000 per night by visiting Paris! Surely, Biden has replaced Jerry Lewis as the Francophone's favorite American idiot and clown!
How many elderly poor would all that taxpayer money
feed? How many bus trips for the Head Start kids could be made? How many White
House tours conducted? Apparently, the
Obama family and the media overseers of government are telling the nation; “Let them eat cake!”
Despite Ms. Sorentrue’s report about spending cuts,
don’t count on anybody at “The Palm Beach Post” holding Palm Beach County
Democrats accountable for government waste or fraud.
That’s why the Palm Beach Post
sucks!
Epicurus;
“Nothing is enough to the man for whom enough is to little.”
