The Washington Times reports:

In the email sent Monday by Charles Brown, an official with the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service office in Raleigh, N.C., Mr. Brown asked “if there was any latitude” in how to spread the sequester cuts across the region to lessen the impacts on fish inspections.
He said he was discouraged by officials in Washington, who gave him this reply: “We have gone on record with a notification to Congress and whoever else that ‘APHIS would eliminate assistance to producers in 24 states in managing wildlife damage to the aquaculture industry, unless they provide funding to cover the costs.’ So it is our opinion that however you manage that reduction, you need to make sure you are not contradicting what we said the impact would be.”
“This email confirms what many Americans have suspected: The Obama administration is doing everything they can to make sure their worst predictions come true and to maximize the pain of the Sequester cuts for political gain,” said Rep. Tim Griffin, Arkansas Republican.[...]
The administration earlier had warned that supplies of beef, pork and poultry could drop this year because slaughterhouse inspectors will have to be furloughed, and under federal law meat can’t be processed without inspectors present.

Looks like they're continuing the lies.

Oh, good. So the prices on meat products will continue to go up as well. "Gas prices will necessarily have to double" check. "When you spread the wealth" check. "We can't drive our SUV's and eat as much as we want" check.

Love the tyranny of the left.

Quote:We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama

hahahahahahaha. Another promise kept, right?

Here's another example of the administration making cuts more painful than they have to be.

Quote:“Dr. Frieden, I have a great deal of concern about a document that my office got from the White House that talked about the cuts that were going to occur due to Republicans, affecting children… It says in Maryland about 2,050 fewer children will receive vaccines due to reduced funding for vaccinations of about $140,000. Did the CDC assist the White House in preparing that estimate?”

The exchange occurs between a MD Congressman (Harris) and the director of the CDC (Frieden). In short, the director of the CDC said he didn't know if the CDC assisted the WH in preparing the document.
The really good part comes next....

Quote:“And what did the president’s budget do to [program] 317, the president’s prospective budget?” Harris inquires. ”Does [a] $58 million cut sound familiar?”

Frieden says yes, before Harris proceeds: “And what [did] the sequester cut?…Does $30 million sound familiar?”

Receiving positive acknowledgement, Harris continues: “So actually, the president cut the program twice as much in his budget. Can I assume that the president’s proposed [cut] would have reduced funding to 4,400 children in Maryland?”

The CDC director says that even though the president's budget would have cut twice as much, vaccines wouldn't be reduced under those circumstances!

Quote:“Let me get it straight…Is it your testimony that under the president’s proposed cut of $58 million in his budget to the 317 program, you could have avoided cuts to vaccines to children in Maryland?” Harris asks.

“We believe that we could have maintained vaccination levels, yes,” the CDC director responds.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/...-straight/

Basically caught red-handed exaggerating the effects of the sequestor at the direction of the administration. At very best, the CDC director is lying when he says that they could provide the vaccines under Obama's proposed budget.

The US Army statement:

To the Soldiers, Civilians and Leaders of the U.S. Army,

As you are aware, sequestration went into effect on Friday, March 1st.

Over the past several years, we have faced a lack of predictability and flexibility in our budget cycle and a series of cuts. This fiscal year alone, we face the potential of at least an $18 billion dollar shortfall in our Operations and Maintenance accounts, due to the combined impacts of sequestration, the continuing resolution and contingency funding. These are the funds that allow us to support operations, maintain readiness and pay our civilian workforce.

While our attention here in Washington is on the fiscal situation and the difficult decisions that will shape our force into the future, we need you to remain focused on the fundamentals: develop your Soldiers, Civilians and our future Army leaders; conduct tough, realistic mission-focused training; maintain and account for your equipment; be good stewards of your resources; and sustain the high level of esprit de corps in your organization. Our top priority is to ensure that our forces defending the homeland, those in Afghanistan and Korea, and those next to deploy and rotate into theater, have the resources required to execute their missions. We also recognize that along with risks to readiness, sequestration will also bring particular hardship to our Civilian workforce.

We will share information through official Army channels on the impacts of sequestration as soon as it becomes available. You can also expect your Army leadership to visit major installations in the months ahead to facilitate a dialogue and listen to your concerns and those of your Family members.

Our current fiscal situation is challenging, but we must approach this as an opportunity to demonstrate, once again, our commitment to selfless service and our profession. Our Army will always remain, in every respect, the Strength of the Nation. Army Strong!


//Original Signed//
Raymond F. Chandler III
Sergeant Major of the Army

//Original Signed//
Raymond T. Odierno
General, United States Army
Chief of Staff

//Original Signed//
John M. McHugh
Secretary of the Army

This can be found online at: http://www.army.mil/article/97660

I got that e-mail Monday through AKO.

$67B in cuts (conservatively figured) sitting on the shelf.

Quote:Since President Obama took office in 2009, money-saving ideas have continued to sit on a shelf, collecting dust. Four years ago, there were 10,894 recommended reductions, compared with 16,900 reductions, worth an additional $30 billion, awaiting action today. Since those “figures reflect the most conservative possible accounting” of the number of recommendations, their value is likely to be “significantly higher,” the committee explains.

http://nation.foxnews.com/white-house-to...ples-house