This is just rich.
Barack Obama won’t use the phrase “War on Terror.” He no longer wants to do an annual memorial for September 11th. He does not think we are, in any way, at “war.” But faced with a $9 trillion deficit of his creation, a stimulus that has not worked, the buyout of General Motors, a $2 billion over budget Cash for Clunkers program, and a healthcare plan that will add another $2 trillion to the national debt, Barack Obama is finally declaring that there is a national emergency.
Why?
Well, under Title 5 of the United States Code, the President of the United States can reduce the percentage of pay raises due to federal employees during a national emergency.
President Bush did this after September 11, 2001.
Now, faced with his own out of control government spending, Barack Obama has decided to shaft one of his most natural constituencies — unionized federal workers.
From CQ Politics:
“Title 5, United States Code, authorizes me to implement an alternative pay plan if I view the adjustments that would otherwise take effect as inappropriate due to ‘national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,’ Obama wrote in Monday’s letter. ‘A national emergency, within the meaning of chapter 53 of title 5, has existed since September 11, 2001. Likewise, with unemployment at 9.5 percent in June to cite just one economic indicator, few would disagree that our country is facing serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare.”
Don’t get me wrong. I have no problems cutting pay for federal bureaucrats. But either there is a national emergency on or not. Barack Obama has done nothing until today to recognize such an emergency and he is only now recognizing it to redirect federal payroll into his spending programs.
Steve Maley
KnightsofMalta
Obama just has a natural born(wherever) gift
Tbone (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 8:09PM EST (link)for pissing people off.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
I love this.
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 8:23PM EST (link)Like Moe often says,
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Wow. Did he come in contact
rec0n Monday, August 31st at 8:27PM EST (link)with some actual math by accident? Massive govt. expansion, shrinking tax revenues – wait a minute, somethin’s not right here…
Holy Crap Batman, hold the phone! Gothams in TROUBLE!
What??? Wait.....
marshmom (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 8:31PM EST (link)I thought we were on the rebound??? Isn’t that what Bernanke and Larry Summers said???
Which is it Obama?
Like we didn't know
Scope (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 8:34PM EST (link)that everything is in the compost pile. While I like every bit of bad news coming out for this administration, to declare a “National Emergency” worries me that he is now going to use that status to empower himself with much more than cutting Fed. workers pay. Hasn’t a bill surfaced recently that gives him the power to control the internet in cases of “National Emergencies”? As to the Federal Worker unions pay, I doubt they will starve, but, it is still another major voter base group that will be PO’d, because he has a terrible problem with throwing one group after the other under the bus. The good news- 42% approval, and dropping like a rocket.
Haven't we run out of buses yet?
bk (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 10:14AM EST (link)National emergency?
rcov092 (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 8:52PM EST (link)I thought we were now in an enhanced probability of the possibility of the potential for a “Man Made Disaster” by downtrodden, misunderstood, oppressed, deprived angry mamma’s boys of olive toned skin who’s mentors were made to cry by the terrible, possibly criminal (in Eric Holders mind) CIA Interrogators.
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rcov092 (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 8:53PM EST (link)right wind extremists.
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Yes, we are in a national emergency
izoneguy (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 9:04PM EST (link)A marxist is occuping the WhiteHouse and draining our national bank accounts. He is allowing our national defense and national security to crumble.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
5 izone nt
mom2oneson (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 2:16PM EST (link)If, in fact, he declares a "National Emergency" which
mbecker908 (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 9:41PM EST (link)I would assume carries some specific definition in law, what else can he do?
That's my concern as well nt
aesthete (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 12:32AM EST (link)The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
He's going to use it to freeze military pay first
Raven (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 11:43PM EST (link)After all, they already vote Republican.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
One nit, tho' it's only a reduction in the rate of increase. nt
redneck_hippie (Diary) Monday, August 31st at 11:53PM EST (link)Smaller raises for Federal employees,
whimsley (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 9:49AM EST (link)no raises for Social Security recipients, non-union workers and contractors effectively cut off from gov’t construction projects over $25M (Executive Order 13502), unbridled deficit spending (with MUCH more to come), S-510 giving the inept FDA complete control of all farming (including home gardens according to the definitions), proposed federal ban on raw milk, making people pay an annual $50 fee for each fireaarm they own (via the IRS), mandatory swine flu vaccinations, taking over the Internet in event of a national emergency (they already have TV and radio), forming a Homeland Security force (army style) here (anyone thinking Hitler’s SS?)…and those are only the ones I know about. It is abundantly clear that he is working toward having the gov’t control every aspect of our lives.
I wonder if this is the kind of change all of the ignorant fools who voted for him wanted.
Well, bless his heart...
LDahl752 (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 11:54AM EST (link)for reducing the percentage of pay raises. Do we know how much? Is it lowering the raise from 5% to 4.9%? That would qualify for a lower rate. Worse, though, is the actual declaration of a National Emergency. I just know there’s a whole lot more to come. Just wait.
Linda D, Henderson NV
Less people less problems
willowhawk Tuesday, September 1st at 2:15PM EST (link)One way to bring about stability is to have less people to take care of , grandma and grandpa are next to go under the buss, those that can’t take care of themselves and the very young are expendable. Anyone thinking Jim Jones here?
Don’t drink the Koolaid!!
Oh, Cool!
Ron Robinson (Diary) Tuesday, September 1st at 4:38PM EST (link)With a secret national emergency going on, I wonder if he is going to cancel the 1020 elections? That would solve a LOT of his problems.
Maybe martial law? With a national civilian defense force making sure we observe the curfew?
Maybe double-secret probation?
Lessee, what did the polls say today? This will help?
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