Planes won’t fly, the prisons will empty, 170 quadrillion people will be laid-off, Schools will close, the fireman will be fired, police will stop working, satellites will be dropping out of orbit, polar ice-caps will melt and vacation resorts will start kicking people out of hotel rooms.   But that’s not all…. now we find out men will randomly begin beating their wives because they can get away with it.    Who knew?

WASHINGTON DC – Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Md.) said that if the sequester goes into effect, women who are victims of domestic violence will be “forced to stay in their homes with their abuser” at the “hands of the GOP.”

The automatic across-the-board cuts, known as the sequester, are set to take effect on Friday – a 1.2% reduction in increased federal spending in 2013, or about $44 billion out of $3.6 trillion.

“The harm is real,” Edwards said.  “230,000 victims will be calling crisis hotlines and those calls will go unanswered.  230,000 calls to crisis hotlines around the country.”

“So can you imagine that in the middle of the night a woman is being battered, she has her two children, she wants to get to safety, she places a phone call to a hotline and that line goes unanswered,” she said.  “That’s what sequestration means to victims of domestic violence.”   (read more)