The scumbag in chief lies about everything, but he got caught by Bob Woodward this time :
“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed,” Obama said. “It is something that Congress has proposed.”
The White House chief of staff at the time, Jack Lew, who had been budget director during the negotiations that set up the sequester in 2011, backed up the president two days later.
“There was an insistence on the part of Republicans in Congress for there to be some automatic trigger,” Lew said while campaigning in Florida. It “was very much rooted in the Republican congressional insistence that there be an automatic measure.”
The president and Lew had this wrong. My extensive reporting for my book “The Price of Politics” shows that the automatic spending cuts were initiated by the White House and were the brainchild of Lew and White House congressional relations chief Rob Nabors — probably the foremost experts on budget issues in the senior ranks of the federal government.
Obama personally approved of the plan for Lew and Nabors to propose the sequester to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). They did so at 2:30 p.m. July 27, 2011, according to interviews with two senior White House aides who were directly involved.
Bob Woodward: Obama’s sequester deal-changer – The Washington Post
Thanks for this information, Steven. Bob Woodward helped expose one of the scoundrels that helped undermine our government in the 1970s.
However the current demise of our government began much earlier, in 1945: http://tinyurl.com/aynmbpv
In 1946 George Orwell and Fred Hoyle fortunately worked together to:
_ a.) Warn the public of an impending tyrannical government
_ b.) Leave a trail of evidence for future generations to see
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Proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
2013 Update Revision
Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited minutes, free Internet, cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, Medicaid, ninety-nine weeks of unemployment, free medicine, and he will vote Democrat the rest of his life — even after he’s dead.
How about we have monthly sequesters until a balanced budget is reached. It works for everyone else.