A BIT OF THIS…AND A BIT OF THAT

A BIT OF THIS…                 

That funny word, sequester is going to haunt us more and more and come back to haunt politicians of both parties more and more.

A few examples...AP stories about  Meals on Wheels and Head Start being cut back in various towns, and just when they are most needed.  It wasn’t all the military being cut; as critics pointed out, there is some real damage to be done by the sequester approach, and as predicted, on those of us least able to afford the cuts.  Whatever happened to the government’s responsibility of providing a “safety net” for these people? 

And BTW, wasn’t the ‘safety net” something the Great Spirit of the modern Republican Party came up with…I mean… Ronald Reagan? Not that today’s House Republicans seem to remember who started the shift to their control in Washington,

And out west, as fires rage in one of  the worst burning seasons on record, federal officials have pointed out, thanks to sequester, they are 500 fire fighters and 50 planes shy this year, compared to the forces they had to fight fires last year…and the flames roar on…

AND A BIT OF THAT…

Writing in the New York Daily News last week, Richard Clarke, a respected counter-terrorism expert, who served under 3 presidents of both parties, had this comment:

“The argument that this sweeping search (PRISM and NSA eavesdropping) must be kept secret from the terrorists is laughable. Terrorists already assume this sort of thing is being done. Only law-abiding American citizens were blissfully ignorant of what their government was doing.”

I'm just sayin'...