Am I the only one who finds the sequester situation funny? With all of President Obama’s gloom and doom, the programs scheduled to be cut 2.5 percent have actually increased 17 percent over the past four years. The other funny thing is what’s being cut. We currently spend $130 million a year to study herbs and yoga, and there are thousands of government employees in the Department of Interior assigned to conserving the wilderness — around Washington, D.C. In D.C. alone, there are over 400 programs that are duplicated, wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.
But what gets cut? Our park rangers, national park restrooms, air traffic controllers and other high-profile targets.
Obama spends a lot of time blaming Republicans for everything, but his party has controlled at least two thirds of D.C. since 2006. And why aren't the media asking the president about the budget Harry Reid has never produced? How do we cut a budget that we don’t have?
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Lastly, there are no success stories for where we are headed. Obama’s model of higher taxes, costly green energy and increased regulations perfectly describes California. And we don’t want to be California.
Rich Iezzi • St. Louis
