Thursday, April 4, 2013

Sequestration Austerity Hits 'Ultra-Conservative Utopia'

Mackie Bazen
"Hopefully there will be a swell of people against what's happening in Topeka -- an uprising, hopefully by 2014," Schodorf said. "People know we have to do something. They just don't know what to do."
Sequestration Austerity Hits 'Ultra-Conservative Utopia'
www.huffingtonpost.com
WASHINGTON -- As across-the-board federal budget cuts ripple across the country, local officials in Kansas have been left scrambling to fund air traffic control towers and educational programs that affect students from kindergarten through community college. The state is hardly unique.
 
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"the fragile recovery is threatened by obsessive concern with cutting deficits that has infected both parties." U.S. economy is still "marked by mass unemployment, rising poverty, and declining wages." And they are warning that big spending cuts aimed at reducing deficits could throw the economy back into recession.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/03/cancer-clinics-are-turning-away-thousands-of-medicare-patients-blame-the-sequester/
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