Look Who’s Singing the Sequestration Blues
For a moment just imagine that American public schools received 80% of their operating budgets from the federal government, and in an attempt to control that budget and lower the national debt, Congress voted to cut the next year’s appropriations by at least 7%.
The only way to prevent it would be for Congress to pass legislation undoing sequestration and for President Obama to sign it, something the Chicken Littles are pressuring the Democrats to do before the Nov. 6 election.
“This jobs thing has got the Democrats thoroughly panicked, and so it’s fairly hard to predict,” whether that will happen, said Winslow Wheeler, who runs the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information, in a recent interview with
Antiwar.com.
Read the full article at "Look Who's Singing the Sequestration Blues," By Kelley B. Vlahos, AntiWar.com, July 20, 2012.
