Sequester Apocalypse, everything shuts down friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hugo Drax]

The world ends friday because of a measly 85 billion dollars.

http://articles.marketwatch.com/201...-congressional-republicans-cuts-flight-delays

According to the press the world ends in 24 hours. Trains will fail and derail spilling toxic chemicals killing people, Airplanes will crash into each other as Traffic controllers will be out of work, Old people will starve to death because they will not get government cheeze.

School children will be walking the streets like Zombies with nothing to do, due to school shutdowns thanks to lack of federal funds.

Our Military will be on hold because we cannot have our soldiers fighting wars naked with nothing but a loin cloth and a bayonet.

No cops, due to lack of federal aid. Streets throughout the US will look like Detroit did in Robocop movies.

Zombies will rise from the dead as coroner offices shut down and the pile up of the dead will somehow reanimate themselves.

America is Doomed.










*Prediction, nothing will happen, all this is just media propaganda, Goebbels would be proud.

 

[Kadarin]

Maybe that's the day that we'll find out what the DHS is going to do with all those bullets and APCs they purchased recently.

 

[Jaskalas]

We're going to increase spending LESS than intended, DOOM!!!!!

 

[MiniDoom]

so after the cuts we will be spending more than we did last year. how is this a cut again?

 

[CPA]

Good. I can't wait. We're talking $85B of a $3.8T budget and we're freaking out! It's f'in hilarious. However, it sickens me that our economy relies on government spending to the extent it does.

 

[highland145]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1umrxqCB-w&feature=player_detailpage#t=74s

 

[Hugo Drax]

so after the cuts we will be spending more than we did last year. how is this a cut again?

Don't ask me. Somehow America gets a margin call friday and everything is shut down for a measly 85 billion bucks.

 

[zsdersw]

The sequester is making baby Jesus cry.

 

[Texashiker]

Airplanes will crash into each other as Traffic controllers will be out of work,

Airports need to pay for their own traffic controllers.

Why should the government subsidize an industry that can pay for itself.

 

[MiniDoom]

Don't ask me. Somehow America gets a margin call friday and everything is shut down for a measly 85 billion bucks.

how did we ever make it through 2012?

 

[MiniDoom]

Airports need to pay for their own traffic controllers.

Why should the government subsidize an industry that can pay for itself.

and you'll need to wait in line an extra 30 minutes for your airport groping.

 

[Texashiker]

and you'll need to wait in line an extra 30 minutes for your airport groping.

Airports can pay for their own security as well.

What other industry does the fed support like it does the airports? Maybe the banks?

 

[CrackRabbit]

I imagine this will probably end up like the government "shutdowns" of the late 90's.

 

[PokerGuy]

We're going to increase spending LESS than intended, DOOM!!!!!

LOL, exactly!

<liberal media>
Aaaargh, you mean we have to increase our spending by less than planned? Oh, the humanity! The world will come to an end.
</liberal media>

 

[Darwin333]

The world ends friday because of a measly 85 billion dollars.

http://articles.marketwatch.com/201...-congressional-republicans-cuts-flight-delays

According to the press the world ends in 24 hours. Trains will fail and derail spilling toxic chemicals killing people, Airplanes will crash into each other as Traffic controllers will be out of work, Old people will starve to death because they will not get government cheeze.

School children will be walking the streets like Zombies with nothing to do, due to school shutdowns thanks to lack of federal funds.

Our Military will be on hold because we cannot have our soldiers fighting wars naked with nothing but a loin cloth and a bayonet.

No cops, due to lack of federal aid. Streets throughout the US will look like Detroit did in Robocop movies.

Zombies will rise from the dead as coroner offices shut down and the pile up of the dead will somehow reanimate themselves.

America is Doomed.










*Prediction, nothing will happen, all this is just media propaganda, Goebbels would be proud.

Measly 85 billion dollars? Ok, count to 1 billion, one number at a time, starting at one and without skipping any numbers. Let me know when you are finished.

 

[K1052]

so after the cuts we will be spending more than we did last year. how is this a cut again?

There seems to be some erroneous assumption that it should cost the same amount of money (in total $ amounts) year after year and somehow aren't susceptible to any outside influences like inflation or rising costs.

 

[highland145]

Measly 85 billion dollars? Ok, count to 1 billion, one number at a time, starting at one and without skipping any numbers. Let me know when you are finished.

Just use this.

 

[Darwin333]

Airports can pay for their own security as well.

What other industry does the fed support like it does the airports? Maybe the banks?

psst, one of the biggest points of TSA (at least when it was implemented) was to remove liability from the airlines. Just don't tell anyone ok, its a secret.

 

[MiniDoom]

There seems to be some erroneous assumption that it should cost the same amount of money (in total $ amounts) year after year and somehow aren't susceptible to any outside influences like inflation or rising costs.

That's what my manager tells me when business is struggling and they cannot give me a raise this year.

 

[Darwin333]

Just use this.

I think you missed my point. I was trying to point out how large of a number a "measly" 85 billion is. If you were somehow able to start counting at birth you could not reach even close to 85 billion by death. There is nothing measly about it.

Sigh, I remember not long ago when a billion was a huge number even when it was the .gov spending it. Now people just shrug it off like its a rounding error.

 

[nehalem256]

Airports need to pay for their own traffic controllers.

Why should the government subsidize an industry that can pay for itself.

Is that why airlines have a long history of going bankrupt?

 

[Texashiker]

Is that why airlines have a long history of going bankrupt?

Kinda like GM and the banks?

They go bankrupt because they know the government will bail them out.

 

[highland145]

I think you missed my point. I was trying to point out how large of a number a "measly" 85 billion is. If you were somehow able to start counting at birth you could not reach even close to 85 billion by death. There is nothing measly about it.

Sigh, I remember not long ago when a billion was a huge number even when it was the .gov spending it. Now people just shrug it off like its a rounding error.

No, I got it. It's a huge #. Worse by a huge factor, the total debt.

For the bolded, we're hosed.

 

[Darwin333]

There seems to be some erroneous assumption that it should cost the same amount of money (in total $ amounts) year after year and somehow aren't susceptible to any outside influences like inflation or rising costs.

That doesn't really invalidate his point, the average person considers a cut to mean less than. If they cut their own budge it means they spend less actual dollars than before but the government gets away with saying they cut spending while still spending more money. Furthermore, the .gov keeps saying that inflation is very low and frankly they are the cause of inflation.

 

[K1052]

That's what my manager tells me when business is struggling and they cannot give me a raise this year.

Fed pay has already been frozen since what, 2010?