Progressive States Network has posted links to White House
and other state-by-state estimates of the impact of the sequester that starts
on Friday. The Washington Post has also
posted information on how the sequester will impact teachers and schools,
work-study jobs, military readiness, law enforcement, public health and other
policy areas. The impacts are broken
down by state.
Check out the links below to see how the sequester will
impact your state.
As you do, keep in
mind who is responsible. It is not Obama
and it is not the Democratic Party. These
cuts are occurring almost totally because a small number of Tea Party nuts in
the House are gleefully trying to do as much damage to our country they
can. These nuts are not concerned about
how the indiscriminate cuts that kick in Friday will affect millions of
Americans. However, they do have the
financial backing of a few ultra-conservative billionaires and Fox News. That’s enough to scare more reasonable
members of the Republican Party, including Speaker John Boehner from behaving responsibly. Understand that if Boehner had more guts
and/or the Tea Party nuts had not been elected in gerrymandered safe districts,
then Congress would have already passed deficit reduction legislation that
would include a combination of revenue enhancement and targeted spending
cuts. It would be deficit reduction without
the horrible pain many Americans will suffer.
The sequester is mean. It is
heartless. It is wrong. And, Republicans are responsible.
Show the information from the sites below to your Republican friends. Ask them how they can be a member of a party that would willing do this kind of harm to our country. At long last, have they no shame.
Please visit the following sites to learn more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/sequestration-state-impact/
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