The impacts are real…. swear. Parents and babies are dying…. school children are crying every morning…. dogs and cats are howling daily…. the animal kingdom is crying out for more government – more government…. people are really suffering because the government cannot spend more next year than this…. or something.
WASHINGTON DC – White House spokesman Jay Carney lamented during a press conference Tuesday that the media are not covering the sequester’s “impacts on real people.”
“The impacts are real,” Carney insisted during an exchange with Fox News’ Ed Henry, “and they effect real people. And I know that there hasn’t been a lot of coverage of the impacts on real people.”
Henry was pressing Carney on why the Obama administration had originally told reporters that the sequester would pull 5,000 border patrol agents off the border, only to announce Monday that the agency had reconsidered the decision for the short-term. (more)
Meanwhile the legally required Presidential Budget Proposal that is required to be delivered to congress by the first Monday in FEBRUARY is………
