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Why I'm rooting FOR the sequestration crisis

BY Dori Monson  on February 26, 2013 @ 12:29 am (Updated: 5:59 am - 2/26/13 )

Dori writes...

Every few weeks, we have a manufactured federal government crisis. Last month it was fiscal cliff. This month it's sequestration. Both sides tell us it's going to be quite the disaster.

In fact, the White House tells us the sequestration cuts will impact us in these areas JUST IN WASHINGTON STATE ALONE. OMG!

We're going to lose $11 million in school funding! $3 million in clean air and clear water protection! $271,000 for law enforcement! $661,000 for job searching!$642,000 for public health! And on and on it goes.

So, if this happens on Friday, we're going to become a bunch of uneducated, polluted, lawless, unemployed losers!

Funny, while the federal government is threatening all of those things that are important to people, they haven't threatened to cut funding for any of these programs that they spent money on last year:

#1 The U.S. government is spending $750,000 on a new soccer field for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.

#2 The Obama administration plans to spend between $16 and $20 million helping students from Indonesia get master's degrees.

#3 If you can believe it, the U.S. government has spent $175,587 "to determine if cocaine makes Japanese quail engage in sexually risky behavior."

#4 The U.S. government spent $200,000 on "a tattoo removal program" in Mission Hills, California.

#5 The federal government has shelled out $3 million to researchers at the University of California at Irvine to fund their research on video games such as World of Warcraft. Wouldn't we all love to have a "research job" like that?

#6 The Department of Health and Human Services plans to spend $500 million on a program that will, among other things, seek to solve the problem of 5-year-old children that "can't sit still" in a kindergarten classroom.

#7 Fannie Mae is about to ask the federal government for another $4.6 billion bailout, and it will almost certainly get it.

#8 The federal government once spent 30 million dollars on a program that was designed to help Pakistani farmers produce more mangos.

#9 The U.S. Department of Agriculture once gave researchers at the University of New Hampshire $700,000 to study methane gas emissions from dairy cows.

#10 According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies "fund 209 different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs - and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program."

There are 20 more items for this list in the above link. Funny they don't threaten to cut any of those items. No, instead they threaten vaccinations for children.

Here's the truth of the sequestration cuts. Our federal government is at least triple the size of what it needs to be. It's about 100 times the size of what the founding fathers envisioned as the role of the federal government.

With the exception of the people who would have their bloated government jobs eliminated or cut back, a 2 percent budget cut on Friday would have zero impact on the life of almost every other American. While the politicians are predicting gloom and doom, you would see that it has no negative effect.

So let all the doomsayers predict calamity. I'm rooting FOR sequestration.

Dori Monson, KIRO Radio Talk Show Host
Dori Monson is host of The Dori Monson Show on KIRO Radio (weekdays Noon-3) and the pre-game and post-game host for the Seattle Seahawks Radio Network. There are three words that Dori thinks best describe him - competitive, competitive and competitive.
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  • HLC wrote...
    All it would take to fix this is a leader.
    February 26, 2013 11:07 am
    It wouldn't even have to be a Reagon, just someone with some leadership ability. This fool has none, never has and never will. It's all about Letterman, the view, SNL. What a total joke and an embarressment to the office. You just can't fix stupid. We just have to survive until 2016 or sombody pops the fool. The next one won't take three years to come up with a birth certificate or hide their college transcripts I'll bet.
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    HLC - you're completely ignoring the other half of the equation
    February 26, 2013 11:42 am
    as much as you'd love to claim that it's all Obama's fault, you have to realize that the Republicans in Congress are JUST as much to blame, there's two sides in this, both have to come together to agree, it doesn't matter if you're the greatest leader on Earth, if another side Absolutely opposes you NO MATTER WHAT, you won't win, you can't win, and no budget will get passed... Just because you are a believer in one side or the other you shouldn't be blind to the fact that both sides have to compromise or nothing will get done.
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    Not just ignoring part of the problem...
    February 26, 2013 1:35 pm
    But perpetuating it. The stalemate the Republicans have forced onto the country could almost be considered treasonous to some level. The childish act of the right is a great distraction from the inactivity of the left, but both sides are to blame... Just seems that one of them has to be much more ruthless and petty about the whole thing. Case in point, HLC.
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  • Keitho wrote...
    CBREW
    February 26, 2013 3:44 pm
    But we just caved and gave Obama his tax increases last month. That with no cuts. Now he is still harping on this balanced approach thing like taxes did not just get raised. Seems to me one side already bent over and grabbed the ankles. Now its the presidents turn to do some bowing.
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  • Bowlman wrote...
    Dori...
    February 26, 2013 11:58 am
    Tell that to all my fellow workers at PSFS Naval shipyard. We are looking at a 20% decrease in our paychecks, due to furlough. Some of these people will be kicked out of the shipyard, because they can't meet their bills. Unemployment is going to go up in Bremerton. Spending will go down. This is not a good thing. I wish you could come And work for the shipyard. A 20% cut in our pay is an awful thing to look at. I suggest you stop flapping your gums.
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  • circuitfr wrote...
    bolwman
    February 26, 2013 12:29 pm
    millions of other private employees have lost everything including their house, jobs, livelyhoods, etc... due to the government wanting more money, due to the government (fannie and freddie mac) destroying the housing market, due to the government bailing out PRIVATE banks when they should of failed, due to the government declaring winners and losers by lobbyist. When millions have lost everything through criminal government and criminal private industry that was NOT prosecuted, then I don't think you have much room to complain about 20% decrease from furloughs. I understand why you wouldn't want it because it supports you, but that doesn't mean its right. The government is stealing all that we earn and work for. How is it I write 10,000 dollars in federal and state taxes while my deadbeat relatives get 6,000 dollars back for making poor decisions in life? I'm not rich, I work my butt off for everything I have. The government is telling us that decrease next years spending by 2% will be the end of the world. This is not a budget cut. The government will still spend billions more next year than it did this year. It's simply decreasing the INCREASE in spending. 16 trillion in debt....70 + trillion in unfunded liabilities. It has to stop. If they can't even cut 80 billion, we are screwed. That is the equivelent to losing a penny out of your pocket. We need to cut spending by several HUNDRED billion dollars per year.
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  • Keitho wrote...
    Bowlman
    February 26, 2013 3:45 pm
    I feel for ya but we do not have the money. Right now, the interest we pay the Chinese on our debt is funding their military. We are shooting ourselves
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  • Cbrew wrote...
    Hey Dori
    February 26, 2013 1:10 pm
    Why don't you ever answer for your idiotic comments? I know you're completely stupid and off base but you refuse to respond to my comments or the comments of other individuals that understand you're a windbag with no clue. You post idiotic musings online and then act like you have no respondibility for the ignorance you put out there, you are no better than a lying politician with an angle, get the fack off the air if you had any sense of integrity you would answer for the crap you spew instead you hide like a coward when challenged.
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    Agree/Disagree
    February 26, 2013 2:29 pm
    I agree: Dori Monson is a windbag. Easily my least favorite KIRO personality, although I respect his career... I find it funny that a decade ago he was the same sort of voice for the liberal cause. However, I disagree: That Dori should accept this "challenge" of yours based on how you've approached him. Just sayin', you catch more flies with honey. If you just hurl insults at someone in Dori's position, they'll write you off rather than pay you any mind.
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  • hpitantso wrote...
    Because you root for a congress
    February 27, 2013 4:50 am
    who roots for a two time elected President to fail.While it may not have anything to do with the fact that he won or the color of his skin or the fact it's the closes thing to a coup(take over by force)I'm rooting for the Seahawks replacing a phony who has nothing in common with most of the players on the team.
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