The amount of money spent on sending a President here and there is classified for security reasons. It makes no difference who the President is. Since you have attempted to politicize this tradegy with nothing you can’t verify, I will go you one better and give verifiable facts. The deficit in 2008 was a little over 10% of GDP. This year’s deficit has been reduced to a little over 4% of GDP. It’s gone down every year since 2008. It’s sustainable now, genius. So, why do we need a sequester and risk the lives of fire fighters doing somethign extremely important? If you want to blame Presidents, start with Bush who let the surplus he inherited balloon into an unssustainable deficit. Now blame Obama for cowtowing the the Tea Party/Republican’s and let this rediculous sequester happen. The deaths of those firefighters could very well indeed be a direct result of politics. But, the blame goes all over Washington.
“Neither Dougan nor other experts consulted by Reuters would connect Sunday’s Arizona tragedy with budget cuts.”
So why is the headline “U.S. Fights Growing Wildfire Threat with Shrinking Budget,” and why does the entire story insinuate that budget cuts killed these men? This stenographer for the government might as well have written, “OK you tightwad taxpayers: pay up before you kill more of our heroes!”
I told a friend yesterday that the state-worshipping mainstream press will blame the fire on climate change and the firefighters’ deaths on the sequester. Bingo.
Imagine the difference if these had been 19 miners killed in a privately-owned mine. The talking heads would be screaming about how the greedy company put its workers in danger, and they would be digging up stats about how many OSHA violations it has had. So why is the government that employed the firefighters given a complete pass?
“shrinking budget” but yet we spend $100 mil to fly the Prez and his minions to Africa. Yeah I know, the dead fire fighters are Bush’s fault.
The amount of money spent on sending a President here and there is classified for security reasons. It makes no difference who the President is. Since you have attempted to politicize this tradegy with nothing you can’t verify, I will go you one better and give verifiable facts. The deficit in 2008 was a little over 10% of GDP. This year’s deficit has been reduced to a little over 4% of GDP. It’s gone down every year since 2008. It’s sustainable now, genius. So, why do we need a sequester and risk the lives of fire fighters doing somethign extremely important? If you want to blame Presidents, start with Bush who let the surplus he inherited balloon into an unssustainable deficit. Now blame Obama for cowtowing the the Tea Party/Republican’s and let this rediculous sequester happen. The deaths of those firefighters could very well indeed be a direct result of politics. But, the blame goes all over Washington.
“Neither Dougan nor other experts consulted by Reuters would connect Sunday’s Arizona tragedy with budget cuts.”
So why is the headline “U.S. Fights Growing Wildfire Threat with Shrinking Budget,” and why does the entire story insinuate that budget cuts killed these men? This stenographer for the government might as well have written, “OK you tightwad taxpayers: pay up before you kill more of our heroes!”
I told a friend yesterday that the state-worshipping mainstream press will blame the fire on climate change and the firefighters’ deaths on the sequester. Bingo.
Imagine the difference if these had been 19 miners killed in a privately-owned mine. The talking heads would be screaming about how the greedy company put its workers in danger, and they would be digging up stats about how many OSHA violations it has had. So why is the government that employed the firefighters given a complete pass?