It appears there is something to the president’s warning that the sky will fall on Friday if sequestration is allowed to kick in. The automatic budget cuts will be so severe that they will even affect government agencies that no longer exist.
Reason.com’s Mike Riggs writes:
If you want a thorough agency-by-agency rundown of the budget cuts sequestration would deliver, the Office of Management and Budget has you covered. In compliance with The Sequestration Transparency Act of 2012, the OMB sent a detailed report to Congress in September 2012. But there’s a small problem with the report: One of the cuts it warns against would affect an agency that no longer exists — and didn’t exist when the OMB sent its report to congress.
The first line item on page 121 of the OMB’s September 2012 report says that under sequestration the National Drug Intelligence Center would lose $2 million of its $20 million budget. While that’s slightly more than 8.2 percent (rounding error or scare tactic?), the bigger problem is that the National Drug Intelligence Center shuttered its doors on June 15, 2012 –three months before the OMB issued its report to Congress.
Riggs asks whether other such errors might be found in the OMB report. A related question is whether the administration is overstating its dire predictions.
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yeah but…
I heard that if I liked cats and they had kittens and one of them climbed into a tree, the kitten rescue response time could be days. The money not spent on the [rare] obsolete department will be spent on new departments to be named later…like the Federal Unified Cat Kitten Mercy Emergency Department.
They might want to modify the name before they print the shirts. I didn’t give it much thought.
I think the acronym works better minus the “Mercy,” but as it is you and I are both coming dangerously close to tripping the profanity filter.
what do you mean Howard? I’m talking about getting cold wet cats out of trees!!! Thus the Mercy thing.
I think you need to be a little less cynical (although I have to say that I have never seen a cat skeleton in a tree but that’s probably only because I never looked for one as I was focused on how to make $$$ without paying my fair share).
But before I go…you guys employ a profanity filter??? Do you need somebody to test it for you?
Nope. It’s a feature of WordPress. And sometimes it gets a little overzealous.
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