Mns wrote:
Jubbergun wrote:
b) he was part of the decision-making process that led to the sequester.
Wasn't the sequester a bunch of bad stuff that happened because Republicans tried to hold the entire world hostage with the debt ceiling and then they couldn't come to a consensus about what to cut, so they tried to pin the sequester on Obama with a hashtag?
If so, I guess with that logic we should thank the president of China for all asians being really good at math.
On August 2, 2011, President Obama signed the Budget Control Act of 2011 as part of an agreement with Congress to resolve the debt-ceiling crisis. The Act provided for a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (the "super committee") to produce legislation by late November that would decrease the deficit by $1.2 trillion over ten years. When the super committee failed to act,[8] another part of the BCA went into effect. This directed automatic across-the-board cuts (known as "sequestrations") split evenly between defense and domestic spending, beginning on January 2, 2013.
Not only was the President Obama part of the process, he's the one that signed the bill (the buck stops here, a president once said) into law. It wasn't just republicans that couldn't come to a decision on what to cut since the "super committee" was bipartisan and made up of an equal number of democrats and republicans--and shocker the committee couldn't agree on cuts. The hashtag, as I recall, was was used in twitter feeds identifying wasteful government programs, not to "blame" the president, but to highlight how easy it should be to remove a small percentage of spending by cutting unnecessary expenditures. Now that something good is coming out of it, I'd think you'd be happy that the president gets a little credit, but if you want to say it's all because of the republicans I'm sure they'll be happy to hear you sing their praises.
Your Pal,
Jubber
