WASHINGTON -- Massachusetts will lose more than 60,000 jobs, much of it in the defense industry, and $127 million in federal research funding, harming a critical sector of the state economy, if Congress allows across-the-board spending cuts to go into effect in March, according to a report released Friday by Representative Edward Markey of Malden.
The automatic cuts, known in Beltway parlance as “sequestration,” were scheduled to take place in January under a 2011 budget deal to raise the nation’s debt limit, but the crisis was temporarily averted when Congress struck a last-minute New Year’s Eve bargain.
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Now are you jumping for joy because you voted for Obama and the Left Wing Liberal Democrats!!. What is the next scare threat that our belevalent Government is going to throw at us. How many of these constant scare tactics will you believe that are tossed out to each and every group of Americans as a threat to our core beliefs while hidding the Obama adgenda of usurping the American way of life dictated by our Christian forefathers........ If passed, this will certainly put a DINT in our Governors plans to tax those of us who WORK??????
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The children of the poor are to be left behind in education. The elderly are to freeze in winter at home. The Oba-ma-niacs have decreed that the new program of Obamacare gets the federal dollars, instead of about-to-be downsized home-heating-help and education-assistance-for-the poor programs. Majority rules; so be it. But there are only so many federal dollars to go around, no matter how high taxes are increased. The feds (U.S. Treasury, Fannie Mae, etc.) are trillions and trillions of dollars in debt, and the annual federal budget is now adding $1 trillion a year to those overall amounts. Something's gotta' give. And if defense spending is going to be drastically decreased too, it's time to consider the horror of America being invaded, without a suitably armed civilian militia to assist the regular military, the reservists, and the National Guard. Imagine America as a husband and wife, crying at the kitchen table over unpayable bills; and while this is going on, an armed gang is getting ready to invade their home. So things are bad; but if we stop fooling ourselves and others, and if we rationally prioritize and compromise, America can retain its national security and regain its financial stability.
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"Imagine America as a husband and wife, crying at the kitchen table over unpayable bills; and while this is going on, an armed gang is getting ready to invade their home."
Not to worry, "husband and wife", the NRA has a solution for part of your problem. They will build an army of volunteer gun-toters to protect the homes of the not-so-well-off. Everybody steps up. It takes a village, right?
TAX INCREASES have cost Mass. far more than 60000 jobs. And since when is the Globe which HATES the US military, concerned about defense department jobs? The Globe is the CAUSE of the loss of defense department jobs.
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"MikeR" with his usual komedy komments. Nothing he says in this one has any basis, ANY BASIS, in fact. Hilarious readin', though.
The Globe strongly supports the confirmation of Chuck Hagel and John Brennan. Both of these men, as well as Barack Obama (who is busy campaigning right now and can't be reached), all insist that the US military and defense spending be cut...Therefore the Globe right is complaining about and pretending that it is not reaponsible for, the Globe's own agenda.
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How lucky can the Glob be??!!! Eddy the Mooch Markey grants Globies an interview... When was the last time that happened? The Blob even found a Malden Republican who tries to vouch that Markey actually lives in Malden. Since when did Republicans gain such an aura of truth about them that a Demomob mouthpiece wants to quote one of the GOP's finest as a verificator of claims about a Demomob hack? Oh yeah... one other thing . . . Markey hands out numbers on how much Massachusetts loses due to this expected sequestration. And this guy wants to be a U.S. Senator, junior to Granny, but still able to call himself 'Senator'. Did I miss the Markey genius expressing solutions for the sequestration mess? Or maybe the Glob's reporters just forgot to include it.
Gee, I guess the much-vaunted and beloved capitalist private sector will have to step up and absorb the workers laid off due to government cutbacks that the private sector and its cheerleaders wanted in the first place. Hey, right wing commenters, call up your favorite company CEO and urge him/her to pony up the funding for the research grants and to hire the laid off scientists and military industrial workers. I'm sure the CEOs will do their patriotic duty, right? They'll finally have those tax breaks and smaller government they've wanted for all this time.
Not so pretty when the reality of it all hits, huh?