To me sounds like Obama using scare tactic to get what he wants all I can say is I hope the republicans that have stood against him stand there ground and If we are so hard up for money maybe we should not have sent Egypt 250 mil two days after we announced the cuts or maybe we should not have spent 50 mil on new uniforms for TSA they should have been cut from government not border patrol not like they do much but harass and molest innocence people any way..

Maybe they should start with things like the $830,000.00 dollar GSA conference in Las Vegas, or how about the $535 Million dollars we lost on Solyndra, it costs what $180,000 an hour every time Obama decides to fly somewhere to give a pep rally?

How much did it cost us to Honor, I mean now dishonor, Samira Ibrahim? Wouldn't it be nice if they had vetted her weeks ago instead of being called out on it a day before she was to be Honored by Michele Obama, and Kerry?

Now they're threatening our border to mexico by sending workers home. Of course this means more illegal entrants on our soil and more that will be handed carte blanche treatment to citizenship at taxpayer expense.

Hell, they may as well, it's not as if they are allowing the Border Patrol to do anything other than shine flashlights so the illegals won't stumble over the rocks when they come across.

They will stagger the furloughs...Duh.

It's not like EVERYONE has to take Monday off without pay. Sure, if they were that stupid, then yes, all illegal immigrant infiltration would happen. No, they will stagger who takes off when.

This is just POTUS Barry's way of making the public get scared...He is trying to be a grand schemer; one that thinks he is a puppet master.

Look behind the curtain and you will see the bull@!$%# he is doing; him and his cronies in the Administration...

Not just foreign aid, the RepukliCONS are trying to pass a bill to rescind the defense cuts and screw the rest of the American people with the cuts. As far as BS, the main BS is people like you InspiredByHumanity.

Wow......here we go again folks.

The DHS recently signed a contract for $ 50,000,000 to purchase new TSA uniforms, but yet is telling 60,000 borders agents they may be furloughed due to the "sequester" ?

Putting our American citizens at risk and allowing potential holes in our borders to allow more Illegal Aliens (Immigrants) come over the fence prior to the Big Amnesty Deal.

Time for Mr. Obama to step up to the plate, Man up, and tell his "elite" Progressive Cabinet members to cut their STAFFS instead of cutting things like border security. Wait a minute.....MAYBE that is what he wanted anyway. Oh yeah....blame it on Bush the Republicans. Those dinners and lunches must have been for photo ops.

Obama is telling all of his department and agency heads to make their sequester cuts in away that will be most visible to, and impact the public as much possible. He is playing a childish game designed to try and pressure the Republicans into giving him what he wants by purposely making these cuts as painful to the public as possible. He is hoping that the people are too stupid to realize what he is doing and blame the Republicans for the cuts in services and reduction in the safety of this nation. Obama is not behaving like a president, he is behaving like a spoiled child who is going to hold his breath until the parents give him the cookie he wants. It is utterly disgraceful and just further illustrates why Obama is a complete failure as a president.

Whats the big deal? All the border states ( arizona, texas, new mexico) said months ago they didnt need the feds help. Time to put up or shut up.

Ken Wright-6020193 #1.2

I wonder if this has anything to do on why a video was just released a 1-2 days ago (3/5/13 Today show) about all of the stuff that has been stopped at the airports by the TSA... you know, the stuff a metal detector can pick up as well. I wonder if this is to try to justify the uniforms.

Blutowski

In best interests, simply put.

Best interests of who?

Money means nothing if it means votes...

But Obama needs no more votes.

So why?

This is out-f-ing-rageous! The one thing we need to maintain and enhance is our borders, to prevent the free-flow of ILLEGAL FOREIGN NATIONALS into the U.S., which costs us HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR! Removing the Border Agents is the LAST thing we should be doing, as it will cost us more in the form of ILLEGALS and their impositions upon American taxpayer services.

O is playing a twisted and despicable game with the protections of the rights of American citizens and LEGAL immigrants. Just last week it was discovered that the O Administration released thousands of ILLEGALS from ICE custody. This is positively unacceptable!!!!

A GOVERNMENT WHICH REFUSES TO ENFORCE ITS OWN LAWS IS INTOLERABLE!

Angelica: 'O is playing a twisted and despicable game with the protections of the rights of American citizens '....

OH really? Last I checked, it was the F'ing Republicans who were playing the games: the debt ceiling, the grand 4 Trillion budget cut over 10 years, the sequester set up.... Yeah, they got ' "98%" ' of what THEY wanted according to their headmaster. WhO has been playing the games here?

Angelica darling: IF, indeed, you are as put out as you claim, then take your incensed arse to the polls and vote the R's OUT in 2014 to end the obstruction: its a NO bRain R....

- and - would you provide the 'source' for the ICE claim (besides Faux News, Savage & Rush)

obama wants to let ALL those future democratic voters in. free citizenship, food stamps, welfare checks, hud, medical, college educations, etc. just remember it was democrats who helped you, so vote for us.

Hey Alex (#1.18). YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT! First of all, your premise is ALL WRONG. I am a registered Democrat, but I sure don't possess the mind-numbing partisan allegiance that you do. I did not vote for O in '12 because of his pledge for rewards and special treatment for immigration lawbreaking and his devotion to the subversion of our immigration laws! And, frankly, I think leaders in both parties are full of sh1+!

Second, as reported on NBC.com a few days ago on March 2, 2013:

WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than 2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The Associated Press has learned.

The newly disclosed figures, cited in internal budget documents reviewed by the AP, are significantly higher than the "few hundred" illegal immigrants the Obama administration acknowledged this week had been released under the budget-savings process.

The government documents show that Immigrations and Customs Enforcement released roughly 1,000 illegal immigrants from its jails around the U.S. each week since at least Feb. 15. The agency's field offices have reported more than 2,000 immigrants released before intense criticism this week led to a temporary shutdown of the plan, according to the documents.

The states where immigrants were released include Arizona, California, Georgia and Texas. . .

So, as you can see--- NOT ONLY DID THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION RELEASE THOUSANDS OF ILLEGALS (not sure why you would have questioned their agenda in this regard), but they lied and told the public that it was a few hundred!!!!!!

You should really keep more up to date on actual important news events and try to unhinge your face from the asses of the so-called leaders to whom you pledge your blind and unending support.

Sequester is a good thing. Too many tax dollars are wasted on a daily basis. If the bleeding heart Democrats want to save the US, then they will stop spending millions and billions overseas in aid to failing countries like Egypt and Syria.

Some of these Dimwhitcrap posts are almost funny if it wasn't for the fact that it's not comedy but an opioion based only on biast. No sound thinking person would cheer our failure in chief for the idiot job he does. He already is allowing unlimited flow of illegals with his blessing. He doesn't want the border patrol to do anything. If they did they would investigate fully the illegal sale of guns obama and holder are conducting.

And lastly, Alex the blunder, you are a total arse as you put it. Who told you what your opinion should be? Probably a 4 or 5 year old cause at 6 they're not that ignorant!

How is this saving us money when illegal immigrants cost American taxpayers billions of dollars every year? This is another attack on the middle class by the Obama administration.

OBAMA: The United States of America is unconditionally surrendering to Mexico.

More of Obama manipulating Americans to get his way in DC.

Perhaps the clown should look into saving some money here:

The Government Accounting Office comes out with lists every year describing government waste, inefficiency, overlap and duplication of programs. If all of this government mismanagement were cleaned up, it would cover far more than the approximately $85 billion in long-term cuts required by Obama's sequester. However, that would take change and moving forward. But what we have is politics as usual in DC. Hope all you want, but nothing has changed and we are not moving forward.

GAO High Risk List

Every two years at the start of a new Congress, GAO calls attention to agencies and program areas that are high risk due to their vulnerabilities to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement, or are most in need of transformation.

http://www.gao.gov/highrisk#t=0

Obama is USING Americans safety as a PAWN in a political battle. Just like he USED the deaths of innocent children at the hands of the mentally ill as PAWNS to try and take away our human right to self defense. Just like he USED natural disaster victims of Sandy as PAWNS to gain vote. (He had practice for that one, as he USED natural disaster victims of Katrina as PAWNS for political gain.

Do you see the trend? Obama USING people as PAWNS in his petty political games. That's all we are to him, PAWNS in a game of political chess.

It's very simple....Obama is intentionally trying to punish Americans for trying to curtail out of control spending. There is hundreds of billions that could be cut that could be cut that only Obama or Rep special interest groups would feel and in no way would hurt America at all. There are several websites that lists the govts wasteful spending.

Like a bully in the school yard, this is strictly designed to be like the Govt putting your arm behind your backs and make you scream "uncle".

Carbonite - Thank God. Its about time we see what smaller government looks like. Here's a suggestion though. Instead of purposefully finding cuts Obama knows will scare or piss off the people why doesn't he issue a statement that says...

"In order to do our Constitutionally required duty and be to better stewards of the people's money, we will first eliminate 14 layers of useless Undersecretaries and Assistant Directors who add nothing of value to the people's work. We will ruthlessly cut bureaucracy from YOUR government in order to streamline YOUR interactions with YOUR government while saving YOU billions of dollars without hurting anything. We will then require that all management staff take all of their furloughs before requiring a single front line worker from doing so. After all, that's what I care about most, working folks, isn't it?"

Has anyone noticed a trend here? Americans are being punished for having the audacity to demand that our government reign in its out of control spending.

How are we "being punished?" We asked for discretionary spending cuts, we're getting them.

Furloughs, unfulfilled contracts, job losses, and harsh choices are what come along with that. Don't fret, THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED!

If the bleeding heart Democrats want to save the US, then they will stop spending millions and billions overseas in aid to failing countries like Egypt and Syria.

I agree foreign aid should be cut if we're cutting agencies at home, but don't try and pretend like foreign aid is a remnant of "Democratic bleeding heart liberalism." The Republicans love them some foreign aid just as much as the D's, if not more so (at least when in power).

1.
$11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare
to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify
at: http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

2.
$22 Billion dollars a year is spent on food
assistance programs such as food stamps,
WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify
at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

3.
$2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on
Medicaid for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

4.
$12 Billion dollars a year is spent on
primary and secondary school education
for children here illegally and they
cannot speak a word of English!
Verify
at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0.HTML

5.
$17 Billion dollars a year is spent for
education for the American-born
children of illegal aliens, known as
anchor babies.
Verify
at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

6.
$3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to
incarcerate illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

7.
30% percent of all Federal Prison
inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://transcripts.CNN..com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

8.
$90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on
illegal aliens for Welfare & social
services by the American taxpayers.
Verify
at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML

9.
$200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed
American wages are caused by the illegal
aliens.
Verify
at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRI

10.
In 2006, illegal aliens sent home
$45 BILLION in remittances to their
countries of origin.
Verify
at: . < http://www/.. rense.com/general75/niht.htm>
11.

The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration:
Nearly One million sex crimes committed
by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .
Verify
at: http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping
$ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE LIKE ME,
HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING
THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS
$ 338,300,000,000.00 WHICH
WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE
THE ECONOMY FOR THE CITIZENS OF
THIS COUNTRY.

Are we THAT Stupid?
YES, FOR ALLOWING THOSE
IN THE U.S. CONGRESS
TO GET AWAY WITH DOING THIS YEAR AFTER
YEAR!!!!!

@OurDoc-

Keep drinking the cool-aid, dude. You want to call it bull@!$%#? Be my guest...PROVE ME WRONG.

Otherwise, you are part of the problem and would rather spend your children's children's future down the @!$%#ter.

Future generations deserve better from our elected officials.
Uninformed people make it blatantly obvious from their posts.
Can you see what I am trying to tell you?
Keywords are somewhat difficult to determine the intent.

Over time you should be able to figure it out.
Forever and a day if necessary, but always remember:
Future generation deserve better from our elected officials.

Fearless men have stepped up to the 25- and 5-meter readyline to defend this country's freedom.
And people like you would rather spit on their graves.
Generations of men and women did what they did to allow you to write the @!$%# you write.
Go ahead and prove me wrong.
Otherwise you are part of the problem.
Tell everyone I am wrong but make sure you can back it up with the truth; meaning source your claims.

Wouldn't it be more cost effective to build a towering wall in Sonora Arizona instead of having that piddly fence manned by border patrol agents? Janet Napolitano has a large budget and she can just as well cut clerical workers instead of forcing furloughs on the border patrol agents.She's crying about the furloughs for TSA'a when before September 11th we didn't have the need for them.The american taxpayer is being scammed and it's time that our government learned to live within our means.

During the furloughs, perhaps La Raza would volunteer to police the southern border. I am sure they would recognize the illegal entrants. That way, DHS 'Czar' will save all kinds of money during that time frame.

Revenues will be $2.7T but spending will be $3.7T. The sky is falling!

I'm with you David, the population can do with less money but the end of the world is coming if the Feds are asked to do with less. I sure don't see many in government trying to reduce waste to minimize the impact. I also find it ironic that the feds step in when border states try to tackle the illegal immigration issue but apparently the feds can't handle the job. Sheeze....

No David.

ICE is part of DHS.

CBP is part of DHS.

But ICE and CBP are two different agencies. And CBP employees are not currently part of the ICE agents' lawsuit.

However, the furloughs at CBP are another result of unintended consequences of a seemingly 'good idea.' On paper, a small cut in funding should just mean fewer paperclips, in reality, it actually results in a weakness. And in the long run, this weakness will cost much more than we will save.

Obrudda...it's $85 billion cut in spending increases. Not a cut in current spending. This country has over $80 trillion, not billion, TRILLION in unfunded liabilities. Significant spending must be cut, otherwise our children and grand children are going to end up like Greece.

Do you remember who said this:

“The fact that we're here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. Leadership means 'The buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit.”

“And the cost of our debt is one of the fastest growing expenses in the Federal budget. This rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy, robbing our cities and States of critical investments in infrastructure like bridges, ports, and levees; robbing our families and our children of critical investments in education and health care reform; robbing our seniors of the retirement and health security they have counted on.

Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar that is not going to investment in America’s priorities.”

It was Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill, in a Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt, March 16, 2006

HS,

Agreed. It is a cut in spending increases. That said, government agencies have been operating under continuing resolutions for half a fiscal year. Notification requirements necessitate additional delays before furloughs and other cuts can occur. So the decreased funding cannot be planned/allocated properly and will have to be accomplished in what amounts to less than five months in the fiscal year. Whose fault is that? Who cares. The result is a total cluster. Are there areas to cut? Absolutely. Will this allow these cuts to be done wisely? Of course not. It will be slash and burn with the line employees suffering the brunt. Not the right way to make cuts.

Remember you are talking about republicans. They dont understand words, just connect the dots. Every other word out of their mouths is "budget cuts" well here you go!

Shouldn't all of Obama's stimulus spending have been temporary?

You know the $800 billion in 2009, the constant extensions of unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc.?

Why is it Obama can come out and say that everyone is going to have to give a little to get us out of this mess, everyone will have to feel a little pain, but as soon as its suggested the government will have to spend a little less to get us out of this mess, OMG the world is going to come to an end...

I forgot to mention how my health insurance premiums have gone up by 20% in the last four years.

Thank you for Obamacare and what a great job its doing bending the health care cost curve up.

Blue cross of california just announced an unprecedented rate hike today of 12-20%, this is on top of the rate hikes that have already been levied in anticipation of obamacare

Obamacare was written by Pelosi, Reid and health insurance and medical industry lobbyist. (Obama merely did the marketing.)

You were expecting something besides an increase in cost to the nation?

Remember you are talking about democrats. They dont understand words, just connect the dots. Every other word out of their mouths is "spend" well here you go!

hs321-

Pelosi and Reid had NOTHING to do with the writing of that bill. It was forged by her underlings and the health insurance industry reps and they just put their chop on the bill when it came time to introduce it to the House floor. That old whore couldn't even tell you what was in it and even told reporters "you will have a chance to see what's in it after we pass it." THAT is NOT how it's supposed to work. Pelosi was either taking care of some old debts she owed to the healthcare industry or she got a kickback after she signed the bill.

But everything you said about the democRATS I concur with. The don't understand words, just connect the dots.

Clearly they failed home economics about how to balance a checkbook back in high school. Oh that's right; the liberal/progressive school boards removed that course from the high school curriculum or made it an elective instead of mandatory education...No wonder we are in the @!$%# storm that we are in.

Democrats...SMH

:-\

Obama has his girly lace panties all in a wad and is throwing a tantrum because he didn't get his way and the Republicans are holding him to his word AND the deal he made on Sequestration. It BELONGS to OBAMA Eat it you democraps

A friend of a friend told me that Ferris was donating his eyes to Stevie Wonder ...

He is more for Ahmadine"job" and the "middle" east

and if you believe all that crap, I got a mirage in the desert to sell you!

you do know that Bill Clinton caused the housing bubble and our recession by signing the "Affordable Homes for Every American Regardless of Income or Credit Act". Don't you?

Fox news? who the heck is talking about them?

The truth hurts doesn't it?