Well, Congress is up in arms over cuts to arms. They want to know what cuts will be necessary to the defense budget to comply to the sequester. Congress is not happy about any cuts to the military and especially this sequester thing. and make no mistake, Congress is just the arm of government to stop it from happening. Just look at the air traffic controller cuts. As soon as Congress found out they might be delayed from getting home for the break, the problem went away with a near unanimous vote to refund that portion of the Transportation Safety Board's budget.
That's right, Congress will brook no interference with it's travel plans when it comes to getting home for vacation. Nor will they stand for any threat to our defense contractors or even our military itself. When it comes to sequestration, a funds saving measure Congress arranged for, there's no funding cuts they'll approve. Well except for useless waste like Meals on Wheels to feed elderly shut-ins or preschool for needy children, you know, things like that.
You haven't heard anyone in Congress demanding reports on how these sequester cuts will affect their poor mother-in-law living in a fourth floor walk-up who's confined to a wheelchair now do ya? If there's no money in the budget to feed her, then she can eat cake, I suppose. And let's not waste our time worrying about young children not even in school yet. Why should they be given a Head Start. Let them start at the same time as everybody else.
I feel as though I should applaud our Congress on it's multitude of success stories on such things as blocking nearly every bill except for naming post offices. It takes a fine government to thwart any attempt to improve the lives of it's citizens. And if Congress spends more time seeing to the needs and demands of corporate America, we must remember that corporations are people too. Corporations have feelings and we don't want our Congress going around hurting our corporations' feelings, now do we?
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