The Sequester Strikes its First Victims!

[IamSam]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I say claims because these cuts allow some wiggle room for the department heads as how to apply them. It's politics and I'd bet a lot that these predictions are worst case scenarios.

I doubt anyone in congress will be suffering very much from these cuts. I got an email from my Republican Senator citing several items the government pays for which would make most taxpayers roll their eyes, unfortunately I didn't save it.

Congress suffering from the cuts? BWAH HA HA HA!

It was mentioned in another thread here that it is actually illegal to change the amount of compensation that Congress receives until the NEXT congress gets convened. So our representatives will continue to get their salaries, plus all the bennies like government paid health care (which tea party members are happy to avail themselves of).

Even if Congress was dropped from the government payroll, they wouldn't even notice since the real compensation for Congressional members comes from payments by the "too big to fail outfits" and other well funded special interest groups.

Government of, by and for the people? Yeah, right.

@Griff Nice link. Thanks for posting it.