The budget sequester has hit the FAA and airport logistics. Still, the spending for the FAA keeps going up and up. There are now reports of delays and canceled flights. Is the Obama Administration delaying and canceling flights just to spite the US? Find out what Trifecta thinks.
Welcome to the post-sequester apocalypse. As much as President Obama will have us believe otherwise, the greatest financial catastrophe in the coming days will not be of Washington’s making at all.
If you’re looking to see what a policy of liberalism can do to a city, look no further then Rock City. Despite one of the most aggressive ECD campaigns featuring celebrities Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Tim Allen, not even Hollywood can save Detroit from going broke. It is on the verge of being taken over by the State of Michigan in hopes of saving the city from bankruptcy.
President Obama on October 13, 2012 stated that he “refused to let Detroit go bankrupt.” Well, Mr. Obama then you better be willing to write a very big personal check.
With over $3.8 billion in federal stimulus funds to the city in 2009, President Obama claimed during his reelection bid to be the city’s savior. On the same day that the world is supposed to end with the much-ballyhooed sequester going into effect, Detroit’s financial woes are the inevitable result of liberal tax and spend policies. These policies have led to an annual budget deficit of $100 million, which includes a total of $14 billion in employee retirement liabilities and unfunded pensions. In order for the City to be in the black again, (something they have not been since 2005), Detroit would need $1.9 Billion over the next five years to pay off other long-term liabilities.
As Bob Woodward has discovered, the paternity of the sequester lies squarely with President Obama. It was devised as a trap for the Republicans. The same can be said about the plan of action in regards to Detroit, which was nothing more then smoke and mirrors just to delay what was predictably going to happen. This result was inevitable considering Detroit has always been a city plagued with liberal policies and run by the labor unions.
This is only the beginning. Cities around the country like Stockton, CA, Jefferson County, Alabama and Harrisburg Pennsylvania are Cities traveling down the same path. These cities all share the common trait of continuously electing Democrat majorities to control their local Government. Like a string of dominoes, they are destined to fall one by one. When the states can no longer bail out the cities, who will be there to bail out the states? For example in California’s case, what happens when a State cannot rescue its own municipalities? Does the Federal Government step in and take over a State or does our Federal Government look to foreign investors to bail those States out?
The good news is, with every major bankruptcy or bad economic news that is announced it seems our stock market usually has an opposite effect and reaches for the sky. Chairman Bernanke and his minions at the Federal Reserve hope that this manipulated surge will continue the charade of growth in today’s economy giving the American people the false sense that our economy was not effected.
How quickly will the tribulations of the March 1st sequester be forgotten, once the upcoming consequences of what raising the debt ceiling on March 27th might yield. However, with the Federal Reserve printing no less then 85 billion dollars per month, this economic fairy tale has no chance for a happy ending for the City of Detroit and I fear the rest of the Country as well.
President Obama spent weeks scaring America into believing that the sequester would destroy the American economy, and result in draconian budget cuts. This has not stopped the President or Vice President from taking lavish vacations, and using government planes to fly short distances. While Obama cancelled White House tours, closed FAA towers, and refused to refuel aircraft carriers, this has not stopped Biden from spending millions on hotels, air travel and more. Hear more on this Trifecta
José López was at the Krome detention center awaiting possible deportation to his native Nicaragua when, on Feb. 26, immigration officials suddenly released him.
Overjoyed, López went home that day to rejoin his family in Miami for the first time since he was first arrested several months ago and deportation proceedings were initiated.
López was one of the 2,228 immigrant detainees recently released nationwide by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, who cited the controversial budgetary sequester.
Among those were 225 foreign nationals freed within the jurisdiction of the ICE Miami deportation unit, which includes Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to ICE spokesman Nestor Yglesias.
A federal official familiar with the issue said that 76 of the 225 had criminal convictions, including two who were considered aggravated felons.
Originally, ICE officials said only a few hundred detained immigrants had been released nationwide. But on March 14, in testimony before a congressional committee in Washington, ICE chief John Morton revealed that the total was higher than had previously been acknowledged.
Morton said the freed detainees included not only undocumented immigrants with no criminal records, but also people convicted of theft, financial crimes and drunk driving.
“In some cases, multiple DUIs,” Morton told a House appropriations subcommittee.
Morton added that at least 10 of the foreign nationals released were deemed to be “Level 1” offenders, the most risky designation. Four were later rearrested, he said. López, was rearrested March 14,
"Obama described the “sequester” that he had come up with as “a really bad idea” and blamed it on Congress. He took credit for the oil production that he had fought every step of the way and blamed Hurricane Sandy on global warming; a claim that even few global warming researchers are willing to make.
There were more calls to fix all those broken bridges, which he had somehow been unable to fix for four years, despite running trillion dollar deficits. And finally a proposal to really help the economy take off by legalizing 11 million illegal aliens and thereby doubling the unemployment rate in a single year."
Daniel Greenfield
Student tours of the White House ($3,858,415 a Year) or the Muslim Brotherhood ($250 Million 2013)?
Bill Whittle thinks that President Obama is trying to deliberately hurt America through the questionable sequester budget cuts. Why would the President of the United States try to punish the nation he has sworn to protect? Find out.
"The President's audio visual department formerly known as the press."
"If they are a little risk non-criminal detainees, why are they in custody in the first place? Where are their lawyers, where are the immigration rights activists - the truth somebody's lying - they wouldn't be in custody if they weren't considered dangerous. They are the a worst of the worst and the Obama administration is letting them walk among us." Judge Jeanine Pirro
We must remember that 'Sequestration' was Barack Obama's idea and Obama signed the 'Sequester' into law. Now Obama is not only lying saying 'Sequester' was Congress's idea, Obama is trying to punish and hurt as Many Americans as possible - including School Children who were scheduled to tour the White House.
FOX News host Judge Jeanine Pirro delivers a powerful message to President Obama on his lack of leadership and blame game tactics in the face of this federal sequestration.
Sequester was Obama's idea and Obama signed it into law.
Asked Friday (3/1/2013) by CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin why President Obama can't simply refuse to let congressional leaders leave a room until they reach a deficit-reduction agreement, the president said he can't "force Congress to do the right thing...Jessica, I am not a dictator, I'm the president," he said
Michelle Obama reminded Oprah that Barack was not a 'Dictator' when her and Barack was interviewed by Oprah.
In ancient Rome during times of great exigency or imminent danger, it was customary for the Romans to appoint what they termed a 'Dictator' for a period of six Months. This 'Dictator' was a supreme executive who was given absolute and unlimited powers to save the state from the threat.
The powers of a Roman 'Dictator' were infinite, but only for six months and under very well defined conditions - not at all like what we call a dictator today.
This is the second time that I can recall that Obama has stated that he is NOT a dictator, which means a 'Dictatorship' is something that is on his mind or is being talked about in his presence.
What Obama and sycophants would like to see is a 'Roman Type Dictatorship' for the period remaining in his Presidency.
Not only has Barack Obama said at least twice that he is NOT a Dictator, he also said at least once that he is NOT Emperor of the United States.
February 14, 2013 (Google Hangout)
"This is something I’ve struggled with throughout my presidency," said Obama. "The problem is that I’m the president of the United States, I’m not the emperor of the United States. My job is to execute laws that are passed."
Barack Obama
We must remember that Obama is a lawyer, which makes him a 'Wordsmith' (One who uses words skillfully.).
Emperor = The sovereign or supreme ruler of an empire: a title of dignity conventionally superior to that of king.
Notice how Obama states that a "Problem" he has "Struggled" with throughout his Presidency - is that he is ONLY the President and NOT the Emperor of the United States.
President Obama, like many leftist constitutional law professors, seems to have studied the Constitution for the same reasons a professional burglar studies locks and safes.
The White House repeatedly asked Ben Carson for his speech before the rising Republican star criticized President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month.
Carson, a prominent neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University, declined to do so, noting that he doesn’t put his speeches down on paper beforehand.
“I told them that I don’t have an advance copy because I don’t write out my speeches and I don’t use teleprompters …they asked more than once ... I gave them the [Biblical] texts around which the remarks would be framed ... I said read those texts, the remarks will be framed around those ... that should have told them something,” Carson said in an interview with The Hill this week.
His speech attracted a lot of media attention, most notably a “Ben Carson for president” piece from The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page. It also landed him on two recent Sunday political shows.
Many on the right championed the address, which appeared to make Obama uncomfortable and has been viewed on YouTube nearly 2.8 million times.
What happens when the clock strikes midnight on March 1, 2013?
• If March 1 arrives without any replacement legislation, as many anticipate, sequestration will begin with an order from President Obama on Friday.
• Under budget law, the president has until 11:59 p.m. that day to issue an order to begin the $85 billion in cuts from the fiscal 2013 budgets of federal agencies.
• The law requires the Office of Management and Budget to transmit a report to Congress at the same time detailing the reductions in each budgetary account.
• The Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier this month that sequestration would reduce defense spending by 7.9 percent and domestic spending by 4.6 percent over the year. The actual calculations are made by OMB and have not been released to the public.
• OMB will have to reapportion federal funding after sequestration, reconfiguring what departments and agencies are allowed to spend under the reductions.
Barack Obama has the capacity to adjust some, although certainly not all, of the ways in which the sequester is applied. That means the president could reduce spending that is nonessential and administrative in nature rather than cutting services or other more significant government functions. Congress has given federal agencies the ability to transfer appropriated money between accounts, which offers the administration yet another way to ensure that cuts are applied more thoughtfully.
Barack Obama will in ALL probability choose to hurt the American Citizenry and cause as much damage as possible. Thousands of illegal immigrants have already been released from jail.
President Obama is taking to the airwaves in an attempt to terrify Americans about budget cuts that he proposed. Is it working, and if so, why can't the GOP fight back against Obama's scare tactics? Find out as Tammy Bruce visits the Trifecta gang.
Kate Obenshain is a conservative political commentator and Vice President of Young America's Foundation. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama brushed off a Republican plan Tuesday (2-26-2013) to give him flexibility to allocate $85 billion in looming spending cuts, wanting no part of a deal that would force him to choose between the bad and the terrible.
"These cuts are wrong. They're not smart, they're not fair. They're a self-inflicted wound that doesn't have to happen," Obama said at Newport News, VA (2/26/13) What he did not say was that 'Sequestration was his idea and was signed and passed into law by him.
President Obama is good at spending money and very adroit at blaming Republicans for the many failures of his presidency. Four years under his belt and another four to go and Obama continues the blame game with gusto. Now Obama is topping his own standard of hypocrisy and blaming the $1.2 trillion sequester on Republicans when the idea was Obama’s in 2011.
“And that’s why it’s so troubling that just 10 days from now, Congress might allow a series of automatic, severe budget cuts to take place that will do the exact opposite,” declared his Royal Highness Obama.
Let’s get this straight, it’s Congress’ fault sequestration, also known as the automatic spending cuts, is about to happen even though it was Obama’s idea? Apparently, Obama also never said in November 2011: “I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts, domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one.”
Oh, well he’s Obama and the media doesn't hold him accountable to a record much less his words. The first round of $85 billion in yearly automatic cuts for the next ten years is set to rip March 1, 2013. In his usual haughty tone of denying culpability, Obama continued:
“So these cuts are not smart. They are not fair. They will hurt our economy. They will add hundreds of thousands of Americans to the unemployment rolls. This is not an abstraction -- people will lose their jobs. The unemployment rate might tick up again."
If the sequester isn't “fair”, why didn't the president get serious about solving the problem of government spending and debt in 2011 during the debt ceiling talks? Instead, Obama proposed the sequester to which Republicans in Congress objected in favor of serious budget belt-tightening?
In the summer of 2011, Obama waged a PR war demanding Republicans in Congress raise the nation’s debt ceiling (its ability to borrow) so Obama could spend more money. Republicans said they would only raise the debt ceiling (now $16.5 trillion) if Obama agreed to cut government spending. When the two sides couldn't agree to significant cuts and Obama rejected House Speaker Boehner’s offer to raise $800 billion in taxes, the White House proposed “sequestration.”
If the sequester, again OBAMA’S IDEA (see page 326, The Price of Politics), isn't “smart” and “will hurt our economy” why didn't Obama deal with it in January 2013 instead of demanding $600 billion in tax increases on higher earners over 10 years. This amounts to $60 billion a year, which will pay down less than 5% of Obama’s $1trillion yearly deficits/over spending habit.
Obama didn't want to deal with the sequester in January so Congress kicked the can down the road until March 1, 2013. Voila, here we are less than 10 days away from sequestration with the Commander in Chief once again demanding action from Congress, as if he is a bystander to government not part of it. Half of the $85 billion in cuts would come from Defense and the other half from discretionary domestic spending, which is only a 5% cut. The Wall Street Journal calls it The Unscary Sequester, reminding readers Hurricane Sandy aid was $60 billion to put things in perspective.
We've seen this act before from Obama: 2012 and 2010 Bush tax cut stand off, 2009 stimulus, Obamacare, Dodd Frank, etc. His script is always the same, “Congress do it, do it now. Republicans you are getting in my way, you are bad. I’m the first black president. I deserve anything I want and will not be held to the same standards of my predecessors.”
This is what Obama is saying and he’s getting away with it. Why? Because Obama enjoys a “fawning media” who perpetuates his preposterous narrative and because Republicans are lousy at PR.
Republicans fail to stay on message. Instead of telling their own story, Republicans always chase Obama’s narrative of himself and the GOP. Over the past four years, particularly during the 2012 presidential race, Obama was deft at changing the subject from his failures to the gender, race and class wars, Bush, Romney’s taxes, etc.
How does the GOP beat a media maverick like Obama? First, Republicans need to let sequestration happen and force Obama to take responsibility for the mess he’s created. Second, House Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell need create a consistent message and tell their team to stick with it!
For example: “This president refuses to get serious about the real issues facing this country and instead wants to play the blame game, passing the buck like he’s not a part of the problem but a bystander to it.”
“The sequester makes no cuts to mandatory or entitlement spending which according to the Congressional Budget Office , are the main drivers of our unsustainable debt for the next 75 years.”
“Since he became president in 2009, Obama has added $6 trillion to our debt, which stands at $16.5 trillion. He has refused to cut government spending even though the Congressional Budget Office warns our debt threatens the country’s future.”
“If unemployment remains above 7.5%, as the Congressional Budget Office projects through 2014, it will be the longest period in 70 years and the sixth straight year under Obama’s presidency the jobless rate has stayed above 7.5%.”
With a lousy record like Obama’s: persistently high unemployment, largest debt since World War II, and a faltering economy, Obama shouldn't have gotten re-elected much less be blaming Republicans for anything. But Obama is better at spinning his version of reality. It’s time for the GOP to step up its game or stay in the corner and get punched.
Barack Obama is the Architect of the Sequestration that he now says is a 'Bad Idea'.
Tuesday morning (2-19-13), President Obama pitched a plea to Congress to avoid sequestration on March 1st. The president said the series of automatic spending cuts “won’t grow the economy, won’t create jobs, and will put hardship on a whole lot of people.”
Then why did Obama devise and implement Sequestration?
Tuesday morning (2-19-13), President Obama pitched a plea to Congress to avoid sequestration on March 1st. The president said the series of automatic spending cuts “won’t grow the economy, won’t create jobs, and will put hardship on a whole lot of people.”
Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin reacted to President Obama calling on Congress to come together against this “meat-cleaver” approach. She said on Your World, “This is the court jester of sequester. I think that this press conference was a national embarrassment.”
"First of all, the sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.
The budget that we are talking about is not reducing our military spending. It is maintaining it."
Barack Obama (Presidential Debate on Foreign Policy)
NOTE:Originally published Friday, October 26, 2012 What is the "Sequester".
Barack Obama wanted the 'Debt Ceiling' raised in 2011 so that he could spend more money. Congress and the White House came to an impasse and the idea of "Sequester" or Sequestration was proposed. The "Sequester" is nothing more than automated spending cuts that begin in January 2013 and is already law.
The end result was a Super Committee composed of members from both sides of the aisle, from both chambers, whose job was to make the tough decisions.
In the end, all the committee voted to do was vote on a package of $1.2 trillion dollars in cuts that would go into effect in 2013 - if Congress didn't agree on deficit-reduction package by Nov. 23 of 2012. (Click HERE for article on Obama wants to spend more Money.)
Who proposed the "Sequester"?
Famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward disputed Obama's statement that the idea was birthed by Republicans in Congress.
"What the president said is not correct," Woodward told Politico. "And it's refuted by the people who work for him."
In his book The Price of Politics, the reporter who gained fame from the Watergate scandal outlined that it was White House Office of Management Director Jack Lew and Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors who took the sequestration proposal to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. They also presented it to House Republicans.
Initially, no one thought a deal could be reached to avert hitting the debt ceiling, but when reality started to unfold, the sequestration was the only option left standing.
"The president tells the American people the sequester proposed by his White House 'will not happen,' but he has never offered a plan to prevent it. The president says he's for helping small businesses, but he's pushing a plan that will raise their taxes. The credibility of anything the president says about 2013 is being demolished by the reality of his actions right now, in 2012."
Kevin Smith, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner.
What is the Result of Sequestration?
The result of the 2011 debt ceiling deal, wast to cut $1 trillion in government spending over the next decade outright and then put responsibility for finding another $1.2 trillion on Congress.
Because Congress failed to agree on the mixture of lower spending and higher taxes to hit that figure, a mechanism in the debt ceiling-raising legislation causes automatic spending decreases to hit the $1.2 trillion figure: about $109 billion in lower government spending every year for the next decade.
Hits to defense programs of either 9.4 percent or 10 percent, depending on how they receive their appropriations from Congress ($55 billion).
Payments to Medicare providers will be reduced by 2 percent ($11 billion).
Cuts to non-defense spending (like elementary and secondary education or rehabilitation services and disability research) will be cut at either 8.2 percent or 7.6 percent (totaling $43 billion).
Barack Obama's long history of accusing others of lying.
Barack Obama has in all probability accused others about lying about his decisions and actions his entire life. Since Barack Obama entered politics most of those are well documented, including his position on the BAIPA (Born Alive Infant Protection Act) which he tried to block in Illinois and then accused others of lying about his actions - Obama later recanted and through a spokesperson admitting his accusers were not lying, his stalwart defense of Partial Birth Abortion etc.
Now Barack Obama is accusing Congress and Republicans for Sequestration, when the idea was proposed by his administration and saying Mitt Romney and others are lying - Mr. President YOU are the one who is lying!
The budget sequester has hit the FAA and airport logistics. Still, the spending for the FAA keeps going up and up. There are now reports of delays and canceled flights. Is the Obama Administration delaying and canceling flights just to spite the US? Find out what Trifecta thinks.
Welcome to the post-sequester apocalypse. As much as President Obama will have us believe otherwise, the greatest financial catastrophe in the coming days will not be of Washington’s making at all. 
President Obama on October 13, 2012 stated that he “refused to let Detroit go bankrupt.” Well, Mr. Obama then you better be willing to write a very big personal check.
This is only the beginning. Cities around the country like Stockton, CA, Jefferson County, Alabama and Harrisburg Pennsylvania are Cities traveling down the same path. These cities all share the common trait of continuously electing Democrat majorities to control their local Government. Like a string of dominoes, they are destined to fall one by one. When the states can no longer bail out the cities, who will be there to bail out the states? For example in California’s case, what happens when a State cannot rescue its own municipalities? Does the Federal Government step in and take over a State or does our Federal Government look to foreign investors to bail those States out?
José López was at the Krome detention center awaiting possible deportation to his native Nicaragua when, on Feb. 26, immigration officials suddenly released him.
"Obama described the “sequester” that he had come up with as “a really bad idea” and blamed it on Congress. He took credit for the oil production that he had fought every step of the way and blamed Hurricane Sandy on global warming; a claim that even few global warming researchers are willing to make.
"If they are a little risk non-criminal detainees, why are they in custody in the first place? Where are their lawyers, where are the immigration rights activists - the truth somebody's lying - they wouldn't be in custody if they weren't considered dangerous. They are the a worst of the worst and the Obama administration is letting them walk among us." Judge Jeanine Pirro
We must remember that 'Sequestration' was Barack Obama's idea and Obama signed the 'Sequester' into law. Now Obama is not only lying saying 'Sequester' was Congress's idea, Obama is trying to punish and hurt as Many Americans as possible - including School Children who were scheduled to tour the White House. 
“… Character means doing what is right when no one is watching…” – Allen West
FOX News host Judge Jeanine Pirro delivers a powerful message to President Obama on his lack of leadership and blame game tactics in the face of this federal sequestration.
Asked Friday (3/1/2013) by CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin why President Obama can't simply refuse to let congressional leaders leave a room until they reach a deficit-reduction agreement, the president said he can't "force Congress to do the right thing...Jessica, I am not a dictator, I'm the president," he said 
The White House repeatedly asked Ben Carson for his speech before the rising Republican star criticized President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month.
What happens when the clock strikes midnight on March 1, 2013?
Barack Obama has the capacity to adjust some, although certainly not all, of the ways in which the sequester is applied. That means the president could reduce spending that is nonessential and administrative in nature rather than cutting services or other more significant government functions. Congress has given federal agencies the ability to transfer appropriated money between accounts, which offers the administration yet another way to ensure that cuts are applied more thoughtfully.
President Obama is taking to the airwaves in an attempt to terrify Americans about budget cuts that he proposed. Is it working, and if so, why can't the GOP fight back against Obama's scare tactics? Find out as Tammy Bruce visits the Trifecta gang.
Kate Obenshain is a conservative political commentator and Vice President of Young America's Foundation.
President Obama is good at spending money and very adroit at blaming Republicans for the many failures of his presidency. Four years under his belt and another four to go and Obama continues the blame game with gusto. Now Obama is topping his own standard of hypocrisy and blaming the $1.2 trillion sequester on Republicans when the idea was Obama’s in 2011.
Barack Obama is the Architect of the Sequestration that he now says is a 'Bad Idea'.
Tuesday morning (2-19-13), President Obama pitched a plea to Congress to avoid sequestration on March 1st. The president said the series of automatic spending cuts “won’t grow the economy, won’t create jobs, and will put hardship on a whole lot of people.”
"First of all, the sequester is not something that I've proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed. It will not happen.
