Congress to Fairfax Station and Virginia: 'Drop Dead'?
President Obama spoke in Virginia today, and targeted Congress for putting "games" over the jobs of tens of thousands of Virginians, and asked for help to prevent sequestration. Here's how to contact your congressman.
President Obama dropped by Virginia on Tuesday, railed against Congress for yet another "manufactured crisis" -- this time sequestration 2013 -- and asked for help pressuring lawmakers to solve the budget impasse that could cost the state more than 200,000 jobs. "If you agree with me, I need you to make sure your voices are heard," Obama told employees and television cameras at Newport News Shipbuilding. "Let your leaders know what you expect of them. Let them know what you believe." The company receives Defense Department funding that's being threatened by drastic, mostly indiscriminate cuts that begin March 1 if no agreement is reached on debt reduction. Virginia Sen. Mark Warner has already warned that sequestration will be "worse than …
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Bill Sweet
7:05 pm on Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Johnny one note.....tax the rich (he has done that) pay there fair share (there are millions who scam the system and pay nothing, Thank You President Johnson) Obama set up the sequestration, and threaten to veto any legislation that tried to change it. This will not be anywhere near as bad as he is trying to make it out to be. All of those government workers who have to take a few days off ...… more ›