A disaster of gargantuan proportions is unfolding before our eyes as the effects of the so-called budget “sequester” ripple across America.
The damage from indiscriminate budget cuts is widespread and obvious.
If you look no further, check the editorial in Monday’s editions of The New York Times: Federal Courts in Crisis
The Editorial Board begins with this stunning revelation:
“Observers of the federal court system cannot recall the last time such a thing has happened, if it ever has. Chief judges in 86 of the 94 Federal District Courts around the country– more than half of them Republican appointees – have now joined to sound an alarm about the grave damage to the nation’s justice system caused by years of flat financing followed by Washington’s lunatic across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration.”
We blogged about it in great detail this morning in
‘Sequester’ disaster arrives – just as predicted
Lunatic is precisely the correct word to describe the unfolding misery nationwide.
It need never have happened. Its madness. Crazy.
The lunatics responsible are the Republican members of both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
Republicans keep denying the sequester is damaging the economy and every American.
From reporting Aug. 12 at Media Matters in Devastating Sequestration Cuts Are A "Success" Free Of "Negative Consequences"
we learn the views of Rupert Murdoch’s surrogate.
“The Wall Street Journal editorial board's Stephen Moore falsely claimed that the drastic budget cuts known as sequestration have had “none of the anticipated negative consequences,” when in reality economists have explained that the cuts have had devastating effects on economic growth, jobs, and programs for low-income Americans.
There are none so blind as those who will not see
The numbskulls in Congress that allowed the sequester to happen, and keep doing nothing about it must be as blind as bats.