"Warren said she hopes congressional leaders will pick up on the president's offer to cut spending 50 percent by closing corporate loopholes, and 50 percent by making targeted cuts, including in agricultural subsidies and military spending."
Elizabeth Warren called the Sequester cuts just plain dumb. (photo: AP)
Elizabeth Warren: Sequester Cuts Are "Just Plain Dumb"
26 February 13
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en. Elizabeth Warren called the automatic cuts in federal spending slated to take effect Friday "just plain dumb," but the Bay State's newly minted, but still senior, senator said it's largely up to congressional leaders to reach a compromise.
"The sequester negotiations are mostly with the leadership," she told reporters this morning before addressing the New England Council. "We all talk, but it's not happening with every Republican reaching out to every Democrat. Right now, the White House, the leaders in the Senate and the House of Representatives are in negotiations."
Warren called the $85 billion in automatic cuts set to kick in Friday a "blunt instrument."
"We're out there trying to make clear this means children kicked out of Head Start programs. This means teachers that are potentially laid off. This means fewer air traffic controllers," she said. "It means here in Massachusetts fewer dollars going into research. That may sound way off and not really important, but that means jobs right here in Massachusetts. It means cuts in the defense industry, not smart cuts, cuts we ought to be making, getting rid of fat," she said. "It just means blunt, across-the-board cuts. It's just an irresponsible way."
Warren said she hopes congressional leaders will pick up on the president's offer to cut spending 50 percent by closing corporate loopholes, and 50 percent by making targeted cuts, including in agricultural subsidies and military spending.
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It destroys bodies and souls. It is a powerful recruiting tool for the enemies of the U.S. It extracts false information. It was someone being tortured who said that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. That's what the torturers wanted to hear, so that's what the torturee told them. (If Saddam Hussein had had WMDs, don't you think he would have used them?)
Also relevant to right now is operatino Glaudio, the CIA's covert op to rig elections in Europe from the late 1940s up through the 80s. The CIA got so good at election rigging that it began doing the same thing in the US. Now we have the CIA's meddling in the Trump campaign and its use of Stefan Halper, a long time election rigger, to develop plans to overthrow Trump. The war is coming home, but it has always been at home.
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Now we have officers of the federal government, no less, who have used torture as a means to reveal what passes for "truth".
Anyone comfortable with this situation must be totally lacking in empathy and ignorant of testimony that those under torture tend to tell the torturer what they think the torturer wants to hear, not necessarily the truth.
I take personal offense in having my government employing such grossly unethical, inefficient, and unreliable means to gather information.
Brainwashing in the United States of Amnesia [Gore Vidal's felicitous expression] is alive and well. I don't think any other country on Earth combines such a supercilious and arrogant attitude among the educated with such abysmal ignorance of what is really going on. We swim like fish in a propaganda ocean, all unawares of the sewage that makes up our _gestalt_.
Which station (channel?) in Los Angeles, please?
Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page.
I really pity people who listen to NPR or watch MSNBC or CNN or Fox. They don't know what they are missing. It is also very ironic that it takes a Russian owned station to do this. Sputnik offers OK salaries, healthcare, retirement, and other benefits -- not things that small media outlets often do.
He says he has never been told what he can or can't cover while working at RT.
http://www.johnkiriakou.com/books/the-reluctant-spy/
The American Deep State hates Sputnik and RT because they often have very good programs, something totally absent from US TV and Radio.
I have no doubt that the CIA planted this story in the New Republic. They do this in very many media outlets. This is part of how the American oligarchs rule. They can plant fake news anywhere they like, though they seem to prefer the NYT or Wapo, but any publication from New York works just fine.