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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Well, this should be interesting...
http://www.marchforinnovation.com/
Tech leaders plan ‘virtual march’ to push lawmakers on comprehensive immigration overhaul.
Are you kidding? How many lawmakers even comprehend the Internet as more than "a series of tubes" inhabited by basement-dwelling video gamers, spambots, and IP thieves?
Note bold emphasis above.
edited 25th Feb '13 12:34:51 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"So, Canadian analysts predict that the sequester will screw up trade and tourism between Canada and the US, because the budget cuts include slashing the funds for border control and security. The bridges at Niagara Falls already have absurdly long waits (4 hours once) and this would only increase them.
Also, Parliament is trying to make a plan with the American government, but there is no communication on the issue. The American government isn't responding.
I don't know why this is happening, but ignoring your immediate neighbor in something that could hurt them isn't the greatest idea.
Communication between Parliament Hill and the Beltway usually entails that one side does most of the talking and the other side does most of the listening. I'm sure you can guess which side is which.
EDIT: Gah, just realized this sounded unnecessarily combative. Sorry, this thread started with the mental image of the hard-on Harper had for the F-35 program, and it put me in a bad mood. Rephrasing.
edited 25th Feb '13 2:05:04 PM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.![]()
I would be more surprised if there was comunication. What could the President say/do at this point? It is not like he can really promise anything with the way Congress is right now.
edited 25th Feb '13 2:09:18 PM by Belian
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Governor Chris Christie not invited to CPAC
C. Everett Koop, Surgeon General Who Took on Tobacco and AIDS, Dies at 96
I admire that man's beard.
edited 25th Feb '13 4:49:41 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016Koop was always a good guy. He will be missed.
His thoughts on the necessity of Health Care reform prior to the 2008 elections.
My dad claims that the sequester is a non-problem.
He explains it with this hypothetical: The government budget is 100 billion * This year, it received a planned increase of 5 billion, so it's now 105 billion.
But then Congress decides to cut .005 billion of the 5 billion increase.
So it's not an actual budget cut, but rather a really small decrease of a planned budget increase. Or something like that.
But basically, he says it's a whole deal over nothing.
From CBS, this seemed relevant.
In states like California, Texas, New York, and Florida, those cuts look particularly dramatic:
California would lose $87.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education, as well as $62.9 million in funding for education with disabilities. The number of students who would no longer be served is 187,000; meanwhile, 1,210 teacher and aide jobs would be at risk and 320 schools would lose funding. The White House also says 8,200 children would lose access to Head Start and 9,600 low-income students would lose access to work-study aid. Texas would lose $67.8 million worth of funding for primary and secondary education; 172,000 fewer students would be served. The state would also lose $51 million in funding for teachers, aides and staff who help children with disabilities. Florida would lose $54.5 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting 750 teacher and aide jobs at risk. New York would see cuts of $42.7 million to primary and secondary education, and 4,300 kids would lose access to early education.
- In Virginia, 90,000 Defense Department employees would be furloughed, far and away the most in the country, and gross military pay would be reduced by $648.4 million overall. The army would lose $146 million in funding, the air force would lose $8 million, and a number of naval projects could be canceled or delayed.
California would see 64,000 defense jobs furloughed, and it would lose $15 million worth of air force funding. In Texas, Army funding would be reduced by $233 million and Air Force funding would be reduced by $27 million. Gross military pay in the state would be cut by $274.8 million. Maryland, too, would see big cuts in gross military pay, with a $353.7 million dollar reduction. Hawaii's Army operation funding, meanwhile, would be cut by about $106 million.
The White House has also warned that up to 2,100 fewer food inspections could occur under the sequestration, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) might have to furlough all its employees for up to two weeks. Not only would this pose public health risks, the administration argues, it would also potentially add costs in lost food production. Plus, a number of states would see losses in public health funding and access to funding for the treatment and prevention for substance abuse and HIV.
New York would see $2.7 million in cuts to the department of public health. California would lose $2.6 million in funds for public health threat responses, another $12.4 million worth of grants to prevent and treat substance abuse. In Florida, funding providing meals for seniors would be slashed by $3.8 million. Funding for vaccines would be cut by $1.1 million in California, which would eliminate free vaccinations for 15,810 kids.
A number of social programs would also be hit by sequester cuts: The administration says about 600,000 women and children would be dropped from the Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program from March through September, resulting in 1,600 job losses. And more than 100,000 formerly homeless people would be kicked out of housing and shelter programs, according to a White House fact sheet.
There are also implications for job training, child care, and victim protection:
Ohio would lose out on $1.8 million worth of funds toward helping people find jobs; according to the White House, that means 57,100 people will lose out on that assistance. In Texas, 2,300 children would lose access to child care. Illinois would lose $274,000 worth of funding provided by the Violence Against Women Act, impacting 1,000 victims.
I know one can argue philosophically about government waste versus efficiently-distributed or specific-goal-oriented spending, but what calls out to me about all that is that I see a lot of lost jobs in an economy where we already have way too many applicants for every job opening available - including ones that people are vastly overqualified for.
edited 25th Feb '13 6:13:50 PM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.@Chihuahua: For once, your dad is actually correct, though for the wrong reasons. The sequester is a whole lot of hoopla over nothing, though obviously it'll be fixed sometime in March.
What's actually going to be a problem is on March 27, when the last continuing resolution runs out.
edited 25th Feb '13 6:26:16 PM by Ramidel
Probably the same for communication between Westminster and the Beltway, I suspect.
I never figured the Canadians or Brits for big talkers....
edited 25th Feb '13 6:48:32 PM by TheStarshipMaxima
It was an honor
Ooooooh, boy... Take a look at some of these records
... That 6-hour speech on law reform must've been a riveter... <winces> But, hey: at least the guy was consistent...
edited 25th Feb '13 6:59:18 PM by Euodiachloris
Imagine this horrific scenario: it keeps being kicked down the road forever, and this becomes the new business as usual in Washington.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Governor Jindal to Obama: ‘Stop Scaring the American People’
Navy warns sequester cuts will put off repairs to a dozen warships

I thought Stephen Harper had a raging hard-on for it.
gah why did this have to be the pagetopper
edited 25th Feb '13 12:04:48 PM by pagad
With cannon shot and gun blast smash the alien. With laser beam and searing plasma scatter the alien to the stars.